
Futurized
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The Futurized podcast goes beneath the trends, tracking the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. Futurist Trond Arne Undheim, PhD, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur, interviews smart people with a soul. Every week, founders, authors, executives and other thought leaders come on the show to discuss the societal impact of..
Futurized
4M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Faisal Pandit, VP & GM of Global Security Products at Johnson Controls.
They discuss the future of physical security, in a context where technology evolution enables the evolution of products that enable productivity in addition to safety.
Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.
Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau) is a futurist, scholar, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. He is currently the Resear ..read more
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4M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews David C. Edelman, co-author of Personalized, former CMO of Aetna and a visionary in AI-powered personalization and customer strategy.
They discuss personalization, the art of creating customer experiences at scale that get fine-tuned with each successive interaction.
Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.
Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau) is a futurist, scholar, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. He is cu ..read more
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4M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Daniel Theobald, Founder of Vecna and MassRobotics. They discuss the future of robotic AI, the major use cases in factories, logistics, and elsewhere, the impact of generative AI, and how technology's impact often is overestimated short term and underestimated long term. Daniel has clear opinions on the anthromorphizing of robots and AI.
Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.
I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim ..read more
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4M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
They discuss the world at mid-century and how we can and should change the future writ large through thought leadership, individual behavior change, and pressure on politicians.
Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.
Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau) is a futurist, scholar, author, investor, and s ..read more
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5M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Dana Klisanin, a psychologist, futurist, and author.
They discuss coping mechanisms for existential risk worries and events, including engaging in rewilding experiences, sensory exploration, etc.
This is part of Futurized's focus on the takeaways from the third annual Stanford Existential Risks Conference and the collection of papers now issued as conference Proceedings.
The past two decades have seen anthropogenic global catastrophic and existential risks (x-risks) develop into an increasingly prominent so ..read more
Futurized
6M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Neal Bear, author of The Promise and Peril of CRISPR, Harvard lecturer and well-known TV producer.
They discuss why CRISPR keeps him up at night, its current and future uses and misuses, in short, both the promise and peril.
Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.
I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, scholar, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. I am a Research schol ..read more
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6M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews John Kawola, CEO of Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF).
They discuss the opportunities of micro-scale 3D printing to transform supply chains, create new products, and achieve better sustainability, both in terms of current market and futuristic uses that include AI.
Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.
I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau), futurist, scholar, author, investor, and ser ..read more
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6M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Rand Hindi, an entrepreneur and deeptech investor who is the CEO at Zama, an open source homomorphic encryption company.
They discuss the future of encryption, its use cases, and especially the role of open source cryptography in a world with increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a concept long considered to be the optimal yet impossible holy grail of cryptography, enables computation on encrypted data without necessitating decryption.
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9M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Sofya Lebedeva, PhD-student in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford, where she works on immunology.
They discuss the skills necessary to be successful in the interesection of risk, synthetic biology and immunology, and especially her passion around biosecurity.
This is part of Futurized's focus on the takeaways from the third annual Stanford Existential Risks Conference and the collection of papers now issued as conference Proceedings.
The past two decades have seen anthropogenic globa ..read more
Futurized
9M ago
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ken Stanley, CEO & founder of Maven, a new online social network focused on following interests, not people. Stanley is the author of Why Greatness Cannot be Planned (Springer, 2015).
They discuss Stanley's work on open-ended AI algorithms and how they can foster and enhance desirable serendipity. Open-ended systems try to mimic the single run of an algorithm represented by the biological evolution, as well as the evolution of civilization. For now, AI can create useful output based on human prompts or previ ..read more