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since Nov. 1, 2022
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With wealth-inequality now worse than it was in ancient Rome, and the uber-rich exchanging wealth for power and applying that power to circumvent democracy and amass even more wealth, what can we do to break out of the loop and create a more equitable future?  I met with the wonderful Carl Rhodes, …

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Insect-like drones that tend crops, perform aircraft inspections and find gas leaks are here ... and they’re only the beginning!  Today I’m diving into the future of bio-inspired drones with the one and only Professor Guido de Croon, head of the Micro-Air Vehicle Lab at Delft Technical University i…
Vancouver, Dublin, Los Angeles, Sydney – in so many cities I visit, skyrocketing rents and prices are making housing a struggle for ordinary people. For younger people especially, it is a generational challenge that limits their future prosperity.  But all over Europe communities are using collabor…
Microscale robots will be conducting medical procedures inside our bodies sooner than you think. That’s the big takeaway from this fascinating conversation with Prof. Bradley Nelson, head of the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zürich, and for those of us who grew up watching Fantastic Voyage, that&…
Will A.I. use up the worlds electricity? Or will A.I. contribute more upside than downside by helping us solve the world’s sustainability problems?  In an era of ‘exponential AI,’ the answers have huge implications for our future, but they are far from clear, because ICTs contribute in many complex…
First generation surgical robots, such as the Da Vinci set new benchmarks for precision and accuracy. With A.I. and robotics developments racing ahead at breakneck speed, what new capabilities are in the pipeline? How might next-generation surgical robots impact the future of healthcare? I visit P…
Will we worship A.I.? How are religions already rejecting, adopting or adapting to A.I.? How could A.I. re-shape the future of organised religion?  Could the questions get any bigger? My conversation today is with THE global expert on the AI and religion, Prof Beth Singler. Beth explores adoption, …
How do we model the climate? How to make predictions at a local level? What role does AI play? What do our models predict about the future of extreme weather events? We sit down with world-leading atmospheric scientist Prof. Andreas Prein to pull back the curtain on how weather and climate models r…
Digital disinformation and the declining quality of newsmedia is one of the most important challenges of our time. Everyone is aware of it, and its easy to get overwhelmed and conclude it’s can’t be solved.  But there ARE pathways forward, and sometimes it takes a fresh evidence-driven perspective …
Why does the most cited fisheries scientist in the world call modern fisheries a global Ponzi scheme? Welcome to part two of our dive into the future of oceans, where my focus is still on the pathways we can take to preserve ocean ecosystems and fisheries for the future, but this time I’m putting m…
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