Discourse ZA

In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to futurist Manish Bahl about the daily deluge of information and the impact it has on society. They speak about information overload, the difference between misinformation and disinformation, and what steps governments, tech companies, and individuals can take to curb the spread of “fake news”. Should we regulate or educate? Who watches the watchdogs? It is a wide-ranging conversation that also delves into the tension between the wisdom and the madness of crowds, the myth of privacy, and the AI arms race to win the information wars.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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Manish Bahl is a futurist, keynote speaker, and head of the Center for the Future of Work. He advises industry leaders on the future of their business in response to not only the emergence of new technologies, but also the evolution of our society as a whole. His views on emerging technologies and the future of work are regularly featured in leading publications (WSJ, Economic Times, Business Times, among others).

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'Who am I?' is one of the most fundamental questions of all. But it is becoming increasingly difficult to answer as technology enables us to negotiate and create many different versions of ourselves.

In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to fellow futurist Tracey Follows about her book “The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology?” Together they discuss the tension between the collective and the individual, and how our personal freedoms and potential will be transformed over the coming decades. In our digital, data-driven world, Facebook gets a say in verifying who we are, science can alter our biology, and advances in AI are revolutionizing not only how we interact online but with the physical world around us. From health passports and increased surveillance to bio-hacking and relationships with machines, we need to understand these vital issues today so that we might design the future of our identity tomorrow.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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Tracey Follows is a professional futurist and author of “The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st-Century Technology?” She writes and speaks on Futures, appearing in a global list of 50 female futurists in Forbes. She has spoken at UN HQ, the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, and at events such as Think With Google. She has appeared on BBC Business Matters, is a go-to futurist for many national press titles, and is a contributor columnist in Forbes. She was an Adage 'Woman to Watch' 2017, Women in Marketing Award Winner for Outstanding Contribution to Marketing 2016, and Inaugural Creative Strategy Jury President at Cannes Lions 2019. In 2018, she was listed by Business Cloud as a Trailblazing Woman in Tech. She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, World Futures Studies Federation, and a Fellow of the RSA.

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Why do property rights matter anyway? Is the South African expropriation bill really that big of a deal? And what do the proposed constitutional amendments really mean for ordinary citizens?

In the episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to CEO of the Center for Risk Analysis, Frans Cronje, about the current — and future — state of South Africa. It is a wide-ranging conversation that covers the highs of the Mbeki era, the psychology behind rejecting unpleasant information, South Africa’s debt crisis, the looming expropriation bill, and the ANC’s prospects for the 2024 elections.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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Website: https://whatthefuturenow.com/

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Frans Cronje is an analyst. He was educated at St John's College in Houghton and holds a PhD in scenario planning. He has published three books on South Africa's future and authored scores of policy assessments, briefings, reports, and forecasts on the country. He directs the Centre for Risk Analysis - a Johannesburg based strategic intelligence think-tank that has advised a great number of corporations and government agencies around the world on South Africa's long term economic, social, political, and policy. He teaches scenario based strategy at a South African business school.

Website: https://frans-cronje.com/

Books:  https://frans-cronje.com/the-books

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In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to Dr Beth Singler, the Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Together they explore the social, ethical, philosophical and religious implications of advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics. Do we put too much faith in algorithms? How do different cultures respond to rapid technological change? They look at the dangers of AI entrenching inequality instead of alleviating it, the religious elements in the transhumanist movement, and the slight weirdness of the effective altruism community.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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Dr Beth Singler is the Junior Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Prior to this, she was the post-doctoral Research Associate on the “Human Identity in an age of Nearly-Human Machines” project at the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. She has been an associate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence since 2016. Beth is an experienced social and digital anthropologist, and her first academic book is a groundbreaking in-depth ethnography of the ‘Indigo Children’ – a New Age re-conception of both children and adults which uses the language of science, evolution, and spirituality.

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As the world keeps a close eye on the threat of climate change, the world’s superpowers are positioning themselves to take advantage of the new opportunities that will emerge from an ice-free Arctic — newly accessible trade routes, oil reserves, shifting fisheries, and strategic military positions. In this episode of The Small Print, Brownyn speaks to fellow futurist Tyler Mongan about how the great game of geopolitics may reach the arctic circle in the not so distant future. It is a wide-ranging conversation that also delves into the relationship between economic growth and sustainability, the role of individual responsibility in reducing our global carbon footprint, and the differences between trust and control-based systems.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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Website: https://whatthefuturenow.com/

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Tyler Mongan is the president and co-founder of HA:KU Global. He works with executive leadership and organizations globally to help them develop and scale future intelligence so they can successfully navigate a complex, uncertain, and exponentially changing world. Tyler is also a member of the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and host of the Future Intelligence Leadership Podcast. His professional focus is on developing the practical application of neuroscience-based strategic foresight and future intelligence.

Website: https://www.hakuglobal.com/

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Formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, yet rampant inequality remains a salient feature of South African society. Poor leadership, corruption, and cadre deployment are often cited as the reasons for the ANC’s failure to make progress in that regard. While one can acknowledge these factors, one legacy of apartheid that is often overlooked is its spatial legacy. Civil engineering may be value-neutral in theory, but those who design the plans are rarely free from ideology. In this episode of The TK Show, civil engineer and former public servant, Gundo Maswime, joins TK to discuss the lasting effects of infrastructure designed by the previous regime, the need to get more civil engineers to join the public sector, and the importance of preparing the next generation of civil engineers to understand the socio-political context in which they operate.

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TK Pooe (PhD) is a senior lecturer at the Witwatersrand School of Governance; his main fields of research are Public Policy themes such as Local Economic Development, Law and Development, Scenario Planning and Thinking, and Failure Analysis. Over the last ten years, he has lectured and consulted for various institutions like the North-West University’s Government Studies Programme, the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria) and the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute. Before joining academia, he worked in various government institutions as a Public Policy research consultant.

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Gundo Vhusani Maswime graduated with a B.Sc. Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Social Science Honours in Public Policy before completing an MPA (Public Infrastructure Management) with the University of Pretoria. He worked as a consulting engineer designing and supervising building and civil projects. He completed a diploma in Project Management, and a certificate in public procurement before joining the public sector. After 10 years in the public sector, he left an executive director position to commence his PhD in Civil Engineering with the University of Cape Town. He was recently appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Civil engineering where he is also conducting research in public infrastructure policy framework focusing on planning, procurement, contract management, program management and maintenance management.

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Whether it's losing a loved one or stubbing a toe, suffering is an inescapable part of life. But does it have to be? In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to philosopher and transhumanist David Pearce, who posits the radical idea that all forms of suffering should be abolished from every living creature on earth — and explains how genetic engineering and nanotechnology can make this ambitious project a reality.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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David Pearce is a British philosopher of the negative utilitarian school of ethics. He believes and promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life. His book-length internet manifesto "The Hedonistic Imperative" details how he believes the abolition of suffering can be accomplished through "paradise engineering". A transhumanist and a vegan, Pearce also calls for the elimination of cruelty to animals. 

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Have you heard of cultivated meat? Produced through cellular agriculture, cultivated meat is meat — grown directly from cells without the need to slaughter animals. What is the process behind it? Why would people want to eat it? Is it healthy? Who is working on it? In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to Brett Thompson, CEO of Mzansi Meat Co., Africa's first cultivated meat company. They have a wide-ranging conversation about what motivated him to start Mzansi Meat Co; the impact cultivated meat will have on our health, our society and our environment; the regulatory challenges of working in this new industry; and their quest to make burgers from President Ramaphosa’s Ankole cattle.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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Brett Thompson is the co-creator of Discourse ZA, the co-founder of Credence Institute, and CEO of Mzansi Meat Co., Africa’s first cultivated meat company. Brett studied finance and economics at the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He has worked in alternative protein and animal advocacy for more than a decade in South Africa and Germany. He is constantly interested in the way we eat and how we can use innovation to drive better food systems.

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Website: https://www.mzansimeat.co/

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In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to the transhumanist Zoltan Istvan. They talk about his goal of ending ageing, and ultimately death; his 2016 presidential campaign and what it was like to advocate for transhumanism in the bible belt; the tension between individual and collective interests in the transhumanist movement; and why religion poses a major obstacle on the quest to cheat death.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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Zoltan Istvan is an American transhumanist, journalist, entrepreneur, and political candidate. Formerly a reporter for the National Geographic Channel, Istvan now writes futurist, transhumanist, secular and political-themed articles for major media, including The New York Times, Vice's Motherboard, Wired, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Newsweek. He is widely perceived as one of the world's most influential transhumanists and believes transhumanism will grow into a mainstream social movement in the next decade. In late 2014, Istvan announced he was running for President of the United States in the 2016 election. He ran for his own Transhumanist Party to raise awareness for transhumanist politics issues.

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South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing similarities persist. In this episode of The Small Print, Bronwyn speaks to Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh about his latest book, “The New Apartheid”, in which he explores the edifice of systemic racial oppression that continues to thrive, despite or even because of our democratic system.

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Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams.

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Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is an author, recording artist, and scholar. He received a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford in 2020. His debut book, “Democracy and Delusion: 10 Myths in South African Politics”, won the City Press Tafelberg Nonfiction Award. Sizwe is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and founder of youth current affairs show, the Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh Xperience (SMWX).

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Website: https://sizwempofuwalsh.com/

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