Futurology

By Berggruen Institute

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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.

Episode Date
What Exactly is Futurology? (with Nils Gilman & Grant Slater)
May 20, 2026
The Democratization of Violence (with Fareed Zakaria and Nathan Gardels)
May 14, 2026
We Were Promised a World Without Work… (with Nick Srnicek and Nils Gilman)
May 06, 2026
Against the Tyranny of Certainty (with Elif Shafak and Nils Gilman)
Apr 28, 2026
The Quantum Path to Consciousness (with Hartmut Neven & Grant Slater)
Apr 22, 2026
The Backlash Against the “Best and Brightest” (with Michael Sandel and Nathan Gardels)
Apr 14, 2026
Augmenting Reality, Both Online and Off (with Evan Spiegel and Dawn Nakagawa)
Apr 07, 2026
Nothing Good Comes From This War (with Reza Aslan & Nathan Gardels)
Apr 02, 2026
Does Freedom Have a Future? (with Lea Ypi & Nils Gilman)
Mar 27, 2026
Could We Spotify-ify Healthcare? (with D.A. Wallach & Grant Slater)
Mar 10, 2026
How to Build a Consciousness Meter (with Christof Koch & Claire Webb)
Mar 03, 2026
Should We Use CRISPR to Steer Human Evolution? (with Jennifer Doudna & Dawn Nakagawa)
Feb 10, 2026
Our Mind Meld with Machines Is Coming (with Max Hodak and Nils Gilman)
Feb 04, 2026
The Human Right to Tell Our Own Stories (with Daniel Kwan and Dawn Nakagawa)
Jan 27, 2026
Can 'Big Math' Solve for the Future? (with Terence Tao and Dawn Nakagawa)
Jan 20, 2026
Why Consciousness Matters in the Age of AI (with David Chalmers and Nils Gilman)
Jan 13, 2026
Breaking Out of a Black-and-White World (with Brook Ziporyn and Bing Song)
Jan 06, 2026
The Future of Sovereignty Is Closer Than You Think (with Graham Brewer and Grant Slater)
Dec 23, 2025
Conjuring Art from Machine Hallucinations (with Refik Anadol and Claire Webb)
Dec 16, 2025
The Dangers of Seeing Ourselves in Artificial Intelligence (with Anil Seth and Nils Gilman)
Dec 09, 2025
What Whales Can Teach Us About Talking to Aliens (With David Gruber and Claire Webb)
Nov 25, 2025
The Big Lie Behind AI (with Jaron Lanier and Grant Slater)
Nov 18, 2025
How to Spot an Alien Civilization (with Adam Frank and Claire Webb)
Nov 11, 2025
When the Machine Becomes the Medium (with Ken Liu and Nils Gilman)
Nov 04, 2025
A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time (with Ross Andersen and Grant Slater)
Sep 30, 2025
The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome (with Aminah Bradford and Jonathan Blake)
Sep 23, 2025
The Wisdom of Not Knowing (with Pico Iyer and Nathan Gardels)
Sep 16, 2025
The Artful Politics of Picturing the Cosmos (with Lois Rosson and Claire Webb)
Sep 09, 2025
Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with Pascal Lamy and Lorenzo Marsili)
Sep 02, 2025
The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels)
Aug 26, 2025
A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan Gardels and Anne-Marie Slaughter)
Aug 19, 2025
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with Lauren Bon and Grant Slater)
Aug 12, 2025
The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana Dasgupta and Jonathan Blake)
Aug 05, 2025
How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton)
Jul 29, 2025
The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff and Grant Slater)
Jul 22, 2025
Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (with Niall Ferguson and Nathan Gardels)
Jul 15, 2025
What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen Batchelor and Bing Song)
Jul 08, 2025
Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-Fei Li and Dawn Nakagawa)
Jul 01, 2025
Inhabiting Artificial Minds... On Mars and Beyond (with Vandi Verma and Claire Webb)
Jun 24, 2025
After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (with Francis Fukuyama and Nathan Gardels)
Jun 24, 2025
Welcome to Futurology | Podcast Trailer
Jun 19, 2025