Futurology

The future never arrives all at once. It ripples through society long before we know what to call it.


At the Berggruen Institute, we know that we need more than prediction to name what’s next; we need invention. Each week, Institute President Dawn Nakagawa introduces us to scientists and philosophers recalibrating our cosmologies, technologists coming to terms with alien intelligence, and policymakers scrambling to design systems for a world in flux. 


Join thinkers and doers from the Berggruen-verse as we imagine a future that we can accomplish together, instead of one that we’re all working to prevent.

Society & Culture
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The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Amin...
41 min
27
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and N...
59 min
28
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (wi...
91 min
29
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with ...
44 min
30
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas B...
65 min
31
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan G...
58 min
32
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with...
80 min
33
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana ...
83 min
34
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thom...
57 min
35
The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff ...
95 min
36
Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (wit...
56 min
37
What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen ...
77 min
38
Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-...
58 min
39
Inhabiting Artificial Minds... On Mars and Beyo...
70 min
40
After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (w...
55 min
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Welcome to Futurology | Podcast Trailer
1 min