The Disruptors

Ben Hammersley (@benhammersley) is a technologist, futurist author and Editor-at-Large of UK’s WIRED magazine.

Ben explores the effects of the internet and the digital network on the world’s business, political and social atmospheres. His latest book, 64 Things You Need to Know Now For Then gives us the essential guide to the things we need to know for life in the 21st century. He's the writer, host, and narrator of Netflix and BBC television series Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley that was shot in over six countries across the globe. As the first specialist correspondent on the internet for The Times and The Guardian, he became the inventor of the popular term, ‘podcast.’

Ben's been called upon to advise three governments and countless tech organizations, including a seat on the European Commission High-Level Group on Media Freedom of the European Union. He has a private pilot’s license, is a Rescue Diver, and is a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician in the USA, with an additional wilderness medicine diploma, and he holds qualifications in genomic science, disaster response, and advanced cardiac life support

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How societal norms and social media breakdown without problem guidance

* The future of publishing and media in an age of outreach

* Why Ben thinks we can change politics and we're both excited about the future for Millenials

* What it's like as a futurist and why most companies are living in the past

* The effect of GDPR and Europe's rules and regulations

* Why internet censorship is important and key to democracy

* Is democracy or authoritarianism a better model going forward

* Why Ben isn't worried about AI and thinks blockchain is overrated

* What happens when China becomes THE economic powerhouse of the world

* How Ben accidentally invented the term podcast and why it's haunted him ever since

* What it's like working with Netflix and the future of solo-media companies

* Why Ben believes digital advertising is an enormous bubble

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Karen Dillon (@kardillon) is the former editor of Harvard Business Review magazine and co-author of the three books with Clayton Christensen, including the forthcoming The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty and bestsellers Competing Against Luck: the Story of Innovation and Customer Choice and How Will You Measure Your Life?  She is also the author of The Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics. Karen previously served as deputy editor of Inc magazine and was editor and publisher of the critically-acclaimed American Lawyer magazine and London-based Legal Business and was named by Ashoka as one of the world's most influential and inspiring women. She is currently a contributing editor to Harvard Business Review and Editorial Director of BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How innovation and entrepreneurship both alleviate and income inequality and abject poverty

* The three types of innovation and how they impact our economy and world

* Why we're not living in a new age of robber barons

* The reason Karen thinks today's top tech giants will ultimately be disrupted

* How to combat the growing education crisis

* The dangers of increasing isolationism and why sometimes it is actually beneficial.

* Why individuals need to be thinking about their goals and futures now more than ever

* What's the real future of publishing and media

* Why Karen thinks we'll all be working more, not less, in 20 years time

 

 

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Nikolas Badminton (@nikolasfuturist) is a world-respected futurist speaker, author, and researcher. He wows audiences with keynote speeches on the impact of exponential technologies including: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality; Work Productivity; The Sharing Economy; Autonomous Transportation; Smart Cities; Education; The Future of AI integrated with Life and Business; and Predictions for humanity from 2017 to 2030, and beyond. Nikolas regularly appears on the BBC, CBC, CTV, Global News, Fast Company, VICE, and writes for the Techcrunch, Huffington Post, Forbes, Venturebeat, Betakit, TechVibes, Business.com, and other media. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590582" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube

You can listen right here on iTunes In today's episode we discuss:

* The reason the world's most valuable company has yet to be created

* Why we need to start taking climate change seriously and saying screw you to lobbyists

* The biggest problems with the traditional education and a few creative ways to solve them

* Why China is making such fast technological and economic progress and what it means for the future of the West

* The future of energy and why it is renewables all the way

* What Amazon Alexa and voice assistants mean for the future of work and parenting

* How agritech and AI will change the future of cities and supply chains

* Why the singularity is and isn't almost here

* The reason some companies and kids dominate the world while others die out

* Why genetic engineering and CRISPR based designer babies aren't something that worries Nikolas

* How to address the issues social media

* Why the future is never really knowable and rarely predictable

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Dr. Ayesha Khanna (@ayeshakhanna1) is Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm and incubator that was named one of 4 top AI companies in Asia. She has been a strategic advisor on artificial intelligence, smart cities, and fintech to leading corporations and governments and serves on the Board of Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), the Singapore government's agency that develops its world-class technology sector to drive the country's digital economy and power its Smart Nation vision. Her clients have included SMRT, Singapore's largest public transport company; Singtel, Singapore's largest telco; SOMPO, Japan's largest insurance firm; Habib Bank, Pakistan's largest bank; and Smart Dubai, the government agency tasked to transform Dubai into a leading smart city. Prior to founding ADDO AI, Ayesha spent more than a decade on Wall Street developing large scale trading, risk management, and data analytics systems and was the co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research advisory group established to analyze the social and economic impact of accelerating technologies. Ayesha is the co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization. She has been published or quoted in most major publications and presented at major financial, technology and other industry conferences, provided high-level government briefings, chaired symposiums such as AI Asia and spoken at TEDx events. Ayesha is also the Founder of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and on the Board of Advisors for Humanity+ and directed the Future Cities Group at the London School of Economics, and has been a Faculty Advisor at Singularity University. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590584" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Singapore's government operates like a startup to promote innovation

* What the future of smart cities holds and why it should be citizen-centric

* Why data privacy and governmental policies are so important to the future of all of us

* The ways changing transportation systems will affect our physical cities, beyond what's normally discussed

* How to design the cities, city-states and nations of the future

* The reason Ayesha is working to overhaul education and how we should structure it instead

* Why the future will increasingly be defined by the East

* What the jobs of the future look like and how governments can cope

* Why Ayesha is optimist and a little worried about AI and society

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Douglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff) is an author, teacher, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. He has been named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT.

Douglas' work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.

Douglas is the author twenty books including bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus and is releasing his new book Team Human based off his podcast.

He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media.

Douglas is also a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen. Douglas also served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reason billionaires are planning for the "inevitable" apocalypse and why that's a big problem

* How broken the US political system is and how we can fix it

* The big issue with the stock market and venture capital and how we can reinvent business for the 21st century

* Why our future is in our hands and what we can do about it

* Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign

* The problems with social media and plans to fight back

* How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed

* Why people are pushing back against tech and how it impacts our world

* What Google's walkout means for the future of tech

* Why Douglas thinks companies are the key to changing our world

* The reason Douglas is very worried about growing inequality

* Why capital is the only thing that counts today

* How to redesign our education system for the modern era

Kevin Surace (@kevinsurace) is a futurist and disruptive innovation speaker, creator of the first smartphone and digital assistant and innovator of the decade. Surace has disrupted every industry he has entered from communications to A.I. to clean energy, been named Inc. Magazine’s 2009 Entrepreneur of the Year, CNBC’s Innovator of the Decade, and inducted into RIT’s Innovation Hall of Fame. 

He helped develop soundproof drywall with lower carbon footprints and more energy-efficient windows to completely retrofit the Empire State Building and NYSE in record time and under budget, was the co-inventor of multivariate reverse auctions and has now turned his attention back to AI As CEO of Appvance.ai, Surace’s company is now disrupting the software testing industry by eliminating the need for human testers.

He has a life outside technology as well and in his latest project “Big, Bold, and, Brassy,” Surace serves as conductor for a 28-piece orchestra featuring international jazz star Nicole Henry where they play selections of broadway and pop tunes for corporate events.

Surace’s work has been featured in Businessweek, Time, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, and FOX News. He has keynoted hundreds of events, from INC5000 to 15 TED Talks to the US Congress and even been awarded 28 patents.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How artificial intelligence will actually impact work

* The earliest forms of digital assistants and why they weren't entirely successful

* Why Kevin is passionate about reducing construction emissions, and why it is literally 1/2 the problem

* Where we are headed with respect to climate change

* The reason we're both worried about social media and political polarization

* What is the future of work and will we have jobs

* How to think about tariffs and trade

* Who owns the autonomous vehicles of the future

* Which companies win the autonomous vehicle race

* Why AI will actually make our lives awesome

* Why you may soon have a robotic chef in your kitchen

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PZ Myers (@pzmyers) is a well-known atheist blogger, science popularizer and an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris.

His primary blog, Pharyngula went on to be acquired by National Geographic and he currently blogs at FreeThoughtBlogs.com where he criticizes creationism, supports feminism and writes about topics and trends important to the future of all of us.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The problem with religion and creationism clouding public discord

* Why evolution is so important to understand and how conservatives have created fake doubt

* How embryos evolve and why understanding the stages is actually quite important

* Why PZ's more than a little worried about CRISPR and genetic engineering

* The truth about Gattica and designer babies

* Why Buddhism's not much better than other religions in PZ's book

* How religion came to be and why we're still a long way off from eradicating it

* Why fake news mirrors religious beliefs and is caused by many of the same human flaws

* What scientists should learn from preachers and priests

* How to think about education and reforming communities

* Why the world is so divided and what we can do about it

* The science of gene testing and why we know a lot less than we think we do

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Rebecca D Costa (@rebeccacosta) is an American sociobiologist and futurist and a recipient of the prestigious Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Award. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, and other leading publications and here weekly column, THE FIX, is presently featured on Newsmax and on her site: rebeccacosta.com

Costa was the founder and CEO of one of the largest technology marketing firms in California, where she developed an extensive track record of introducing disruptive, bleeding edge technologies for industry leaders like HP, Apple Computer, Oracle, Siebel Systems, General Electric, 3M, and others.

Rebecca spent six years researching and writing the international bestseller The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse and her follow-on book On the Verge shot to the top of Amazon's #1 New Business Releases. The success of The Watchman's Rattle led to a popular weekly news program called The Costa Report which was syndicated throughout the United States until 2018.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How AI and predictive analytics shifts the balance of power

* Why the future is becoming increasingly knowable

* The truth about complexity and what it means for all of us

* How evolution has primed people to fail today's challenges

* The big problems facing society and how to solve them

* Why terrorism inevitably leads to Minority Report

* The effect of CRISPR on human nature

* How nano-bots will impact the future of healthcare and pharma

* The reason Rebecca isn't that worried about the existential risk

* How to think about the future of politics and governments

* Why we basically bonobos monkeys with better tech

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Charles Eisenstein (@ceisenstein) is an author, podcaster and public speaker focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His online writings have built a tremendous following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. He has been called “one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time” in Ode magazine’s “25 Intelligent Optimists” issue. He is the author of several books including:

* The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self

* Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

* The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

* Climate Change: A New Story

On his podcast: A New and Ancient Story, Charles interviews a series of extraordinary guests: activists and healers, scientists and spiritual teachers, artists and entrepreneurs, indigenous people and those from the elite. Topics revolve around concepts of interbeing and “technologies of reunion” [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590586" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The myth of separation and of self

* Why our existing stories are destroying our planet

* How consciousness and Eastern medicine can teach us about the nature of reality

* Which technologies Charles is most worried about

* The problem with the stories society tells itself

* Why past technologies and practices are needed for future progress

* How psychedelics can shift the human consciousness forward

* Why we are likely headed to a new structure for civilization

* How to make miracles happen

* Why Charles is worried about soil health and the future of our planet

* The reason science is sometimes wrong and often late

* Why we need to reimagine climate change now

* The power of individual actions

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Daniel Burrus (@danielburrus) is considered one of the world’s leading futurist speakers on global trends and innovation and The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker. Daniel is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, GE, American Express, Google, Deloitte, Procter & Gamble, Honda, and IBM etc..., helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight, as well as the international best-seller Technotrends. His latest book, The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage is an Amazon #1 Hot New Release for Business Daniel has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on programs such as CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg, and is quoted in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, and Forbes and is a featured writer with millions of monthly readers on the topics of innovation, change and the future. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Wired, CNBC, and Huffington Post to name a few. Daniel has founded six businesses, four of which were national leaders in the United States in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590589" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How hard and soft trends change the world

* Why Daniel was able to predict major consumer tech breakthroughs decades before they happened

* What areas of technology Daniel is most excited about and why

* The reason Daniel is somewhat worried about CRISPR

* How to think about disruption and positive disruption specifically

* The reason some companies die and others thrive

* How to spot big tech trends

* Why Daniel avoids competition to crush it

* Why not all trends pan out

* The biggest mistake big companies make

* Why Daniel thinks Apple has something big planned soon

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