London Futurists

About London Futurists

Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions. He also wrote Pandora's Brain and Pandora’s Oracle, a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superintelligence. He is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and radio. In the last decade, Calum has given over 150 talks in 20 countries on six continents. Videos of his talks, and lots of other materials are available at https://calumchace.com/. He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members. Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress. David Wood is Chair of London Futurists, and is the author or lead editor of twelve books about the future, (https://deltawisdom.com/books/)including The Singularity Principles, Vital Foresight, The Abolition of Aging, Smartphones and Beyond, and Sustainable Superabundance. He is also principal of the independent futurist consultancy and publisher Delta Wisdom, executive director of the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, Foresight Advisor at SingularityNET, and a board director at the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies). He regularly gives keynote talks around the world on how to prepare for radical disruption. See https://deltawisdom.com/. As a pioneer of the mobile computing and smartphone industry, he co-founded Symbian in 1998. By 2012, software written by his teams had been included as the operating system on 500 million smartphones. From 2010 to 2013, he was Technology Planning Lead (CTO) of Accenture Mobility, where he also co-led Accenture’s Mobility Health business initiative. Has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge, where he also undertook doctoral research in the Philosophy of Science, and a DSc from the University of Westminster.

Publisher

London Futurists

Category

news · news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Aug 2022

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

68 of 137 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   LFP 137: Perspectives on Machine Consciousness

   Host David Ryan interviews co-editor Calum Carmichael about the groundbreaking "Perspectives on Machine Consciousness" book, exploring diverse expert views on artificial intelligence.

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   9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   LFP 136: Steve Keen - Will economists destroy capitalism?

   Host [Host Name] interviews economist Professor Steve Keen about his critique of mainstream economics and its potential to harm capitalism.

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   24 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   LFP 135: Pat Kane & Indra Adnan - If politics is broken, what's the alternative?

   Pat Kane and Indra Adnan, co-convenors of The Alternative Global, discuss their project's progress and insights into alternative political systems in this interview.

Inside a recent episode

LFP 136: Steve Keen - Will economists destroy capitalism?

Published 9 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] People will lose their jobs, so they can't pay their margin debt, or companies won't be able to get the sulfuric acid they need to make the copper that they're selling, et cetera, et cetera. So the capacity to service their debts will start to fall over. So I expect a financial crisis driven by inability to pay existing debts because of the damage to the production system rather than the financial sector causing the crashes it did back in 2008. Do you have any idea on timescales when this might unfold? It's all going to start when the Strait of Hummel's shortages start hitting actual productive capability. […]

Who has been a guest on London Futurists

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Calum
• Steve Keen
• Pat Kane
• Indra Adnan
• Ewan McMillan

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

865,839

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

24 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

61

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

85

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