- 57
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 38
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About 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.
- Publisher
- Berggruen Institute
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Jun 2025
- Latest episode
- 22 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 57 episodes have a transcript.
22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How the UN Stopped World War III (with Shashi Tharoor and Nathan Gardels)
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
We Can’t Prove We’re Conscious, Let Alone AI (with Geoffrey Lee and Grant Slater)
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Multispecies Democracy Now! (with Jonathon Keats and Grant Slater)
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How the UN Stopped World War III (with Shashi Tharoor and Nathan Gardels)
Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so we really, it worked. And as a result of that, there wasn't a third world war. But what there was, was there was development, there was decolonization, there was freedom for people groaning under these imperialist yokes. You had countries that were suddenly being able to improve their infant mortality, their maternal mortality, their children were being able to find some nutrition, growth and development were happening. We've actually seen a world that has gained enormously for whatever you call it, the international rules-based order, the liberal world order, whatever you want to call it, that actually worked. […]
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- Shashi Tharoor
- Geoffrey Lee
- Grant Slater
- Jonathon Keats
- Stephen Batchelor
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 21 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 17 ratings
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- 71
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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