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Artificial Intelligence Futurist Speaker – Nikolas Badminton
Facing Our Futures / Futurist Keynote
The Future of Technology with Futurist Speaker Nikolas Badminton
Artificial Intelligence
Joy Buolamwini and Sam Altman: Unmasking the Future of AI
Artificial Intelligence / Facing Our Futures
CounterCloud – AI powered disinformation experiment
Facing Our Futures / Foresight Methods
Everybody is looking into the future: a technology foresight perspective
Facing Our Futures
Personal dictatorships must be challenged
Artificial Intelligence
Stephen Fry on How to use AI as a force for good
Design Fiction
Super Flux – The Ecological Intelligence Agency
Futurist Speaker
How do you become a futurist speaker?
Design Fiction
Design Fiction Deep Dive – #001
Facing Our Futures / Futurist Keynote
Upgrading Strategic Planning with Foresight with Futurist Speaker Nikolas Badminton
Facing Our Futures
Designing the Future: A Conversation with Futurist Speaker Nikolas Badminton
Business & Economy / Long-term thinking
‘It’s time to embrace the mess’ with Rory Sutherland
Facing Our Futures
What CEOs are talking about in 2023
Space
The Astra Carta and Space Sustainability
Energy / Facing Our Futures
Oslo, the world’s most electric city
Facing Our Futures
Of Snake Oil Salesmen and New Tech Evangelists
Artificial Intelligence / Facing Our Futures
Yann LeCun – From Machine Learning to Autonomous Intelligence
Facing Our Futures
Facing Our Futures selected as JP Morgan’s 2023 “Next Gen Pick”
Facing Our Futures
Nikolas Badminton on FuturePod
Facing Our Futures
Cyborg Camp YVR – 10 Years Since
Facing Our Futures
Futurist Speaker – 5 Futurist Keynotes
Artificial Intelligence / Facing Our Futures
Wait, The Robots Didn’t Take Our Jobs? — Erik Brynjolfsson
Facing Our Futures
Nikolas Badminton is in the Next Big Idea Club
Artificial Intelligence
Esther Perel on The Other AI – Artificial Intimacy
Facing Our Futures
Exit past the Water Cooler, by Kharis O’Connell
Facing Our Futures
Better brands use authentic media production with Nikolas Badminton
Foresight Methods / Long-term thinking
Protopia, Not Utopia with Bronwyn Williams & Monika Bielskyte
Facing Our Futures
How to Explore Future Thinking in Your Organization with Nikolas Badminton
Facing Our Futures
Questioning Hype and Embracing Organizational Excellence
Artificial Intelligence
10 reasons to not use ChatGPT
Facing Our Futures
Nikolas Badminton discusses Facing Our Futures on CTV
Facing Our Futures
Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism
Artificial Intelligence / Facing Our Futures
Meta’s Yann LeCun on auto-regressive Large Language Models (LLMs)
Facing Our Futures
50 Life Lessons from a 50 Year Old Futurist
CEO Futures Briefing / Facing Our Futures
CEO Futures Briefing: The Open Artificial Intelligence Rabbit Hole
Facing Our Futures / Futurist Keynote / Science & Tech
Geordie Rose on Robot Brains and AGI
Facing Our Futures / Long-term thinking / Society
Who We Really Are… When Everything Goes Wrong
Facing Our Futures
The Struggle of Writing a Book on Futures Design and Foresight
Facing Our Futures
Doomsday Clock Set to 90 Seconds to Midnight
Energy / Facing Our Futures
Dealing with renewable energy doubters and conspiracy theorists
Futurist Think Tank
New Futurist Think Tank Member – Polly M Allen
Facing Our Futures
Clowns and Profits (Puns intended)
Facing Our Futures
ChatGPT Discusses the Risks of Large language AI Models in Journalism
Facing Our Futures / Foresight Methods
Star Wars and Foresight – Framing Struggle and Hope
Facing Our Futures / Planning Futuring Strategy
Chatham House Director’s Annual Lecture 2023
Long-term thinking
The Future Starts Here in Africa Tour with Flux Trends
Facing Our Futures
What is a Technology Futurist?
Science & Tech
The World’s Smartest Robot?
Facing Our Futures
Kickstart Your Futures Exploration
Environment & Energy
Meet 8 Young Founders Turning Trash Into Cash
Environment & Energy / Facing Our Futures
The Future of Energy is Community-Owned
Facing Our Futures
Nikolas Badminton and Futurist.com – Looking ahead to 2023
Facing Our Futures / Futurist Keynote
Crip Futurity, Cyborg Disability and Designing the World Otherwise
Facing Our Futures
Future of Luxury – Guest lecture for GOLDSMITHS
Facing Our Futures / Long-term thinking
Artificial General Intelligence and the Future of Ethics
Facing Our Futures
Generative AI will change the world – Machine vs. Human Edition
Facing Our Futures / Futurist Keynote
Speculative Fiction – If GPT-3 took over the world
Facing Our Futures
40 Reasons to Apply Strategic Foresight in Your Organization
Facing Our Futures
Embracing Global Dynamics and our Impending Collapse
Facing Our Futures
The Future of Humanity in 2023: Predictions, Implications, and Solutions (written by GPT-3)
Podcast
The Small Print – Facing Our Futures
Facing Our Futures
Learn from Dystopia: 536 AD, The Year of the Apocalypse
Book News / Long-term thinking
Facing Our Futures – available for pre-order
Art & Society / Long-term thinking / Science & Tech / Society
Monika Bielskyte – The Metaverse: Extending realities
Long-term thinking / Planning Futuring Strategy
New 2023 Keynote and Workshop : Bracing for recession, Looking to 2030 and beyond
Long-term thinking
Survival of the Richest – Douglas Rushkoff
Long-term thinking
All Futurists are Sellouts…
Futurist Keynote
Nikolas Badminton – Elevate Festival 2022 Keynote
Innovation
Edward Castronova on the Phenomenon of Virtual Realities
Foresight Methods
Communicating the Value of Foresight
Long-term thinking
Futures Literacy: shaping your present by reimagining futures
CEO Futures Briefing / New at Futurist.com
CEO Futures Briefing: Democracy Emerges From the Spaces In Between
Foresight Methods / Innovation / Long-term thinking
Futures Design and Punk Rock
Long-term thinking
Masayoshi Son – Entrepreneur and Futurist
Science & Tech
James Whately – Metaverse? What Metaverse?
Long-term thinking
Nikolas Badminton, Futurist Speaker – Amazing Clients
Long-term thinking / Planning Futuring Strategy
The need for fun, edgy and risky thinking in Futures Design
Science & Tech
The iPhone Baby: Growing up with tech
Foresight Methods
What is Design Fiction?
CEO Futures Briefing / Foresight Methods
CEO Futures Briefing: Playing Games to Design Futures
Foresight Methods / Long-term thinking
Designing futures: an ethics of the possible by Arjun Appadurai
Long-term thinking / Transportation / Work
Future of Trucking in the United States
Cities / Long-term thinking
2050 – Coachella Valley Futures
Long-term thinking
What will life be like in 100 and 200 Years?
Foresight Methods / Reports
Alternative Futures of Geopolitical Competition in a Post-COVID-19 World
CEO Futures Briefing
CEO Futures Briefing: Imaginology and critical discussions on the Metaverse
Long-term thinking / Society
20 Essential Quotes on the Future
Long-term thinking / Planning Futuring Strategy
Revolutionizing Activism: The Power of Utopia
Foresight Methods
Jean-Claude Biver – The importance of innovation and thinking different
Foresight Methods
Should Futurists Make Predictions?
Work
The Future of Work and the Jobs we might have in 2040
Long-term thinking
Jaron Lanier on Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI
Long-term thinking
The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking
Foresight Methods / Planning Futuring Strategy / Society
What is a Futurist?
CEO Futures Briefing
CEO Futures Briefing: futurist.com, from 1993 to 2022 and beyond
New at Futurist.com
Futurist Emeritus Glen Hiemstra on Looking Back to Look Forward
Society
President Obama speaks on disinformation’s threat to democracy
Society / Transportation / Work
Future of the Metaverse: Surveillance and DAOs
Society / Transportation / Work
Future of the Metaverse: Digital Transformation
Society / Space / Transportation / Work
Future of the Metaverse: Interoperability and Business Models
Science & Tech
EXPONENTIAL LOGISTICS – The Future of Trucking
Facing Our Futures
Futures Exploration Quick Reference for PMI Chapter Leaders
Artificial Intelligence