How can you shape your future?
Visionaries, pioneers, and activists break down the revolutions in humanity, AI and technology—and where they might lead us. These original voices cut through the noise, offering raw insights on how we can shape the future we want before it shapes us.
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Opening Up Alternative Futures with Sohail Inayatullah
Including Shorts:
• What is Causal Layered Analysis
• Tell a better story
• Why development programs fail
• Beyond the battle in the streets
• How to fix the UN
and more
Idea Hunter & Innovation Enthusiast – Bill Fischer
Including shorts:
• Can giants reinvent themselves?
• Entrepreneurial Dreams in An Old Economy
• Break the dictates of hierarchy
• Attack Zombie Ideas – Zero Distance
Preparing Children for Their Futures, Not Our Pasts – Sugata Mitra
Including Shorts:
• Hole in the Wall and How Kids Learn on Their Own
• 20 years from now?
• Sugata Mitra Predicts Neuralink: “The Internet Will Vanish Into Our Heads”
Unanticipating Our Children’s Futures – David Weinberger
Including shorts:
• Creativity, free will, knowledge in the age of AI?
• Unanticipation – essential to Make More Future. It’s strategy of strategies
• Dangers of Conversational Knowledge
Storytelling shapes perceptions, politics, traditions & technology for better futures – Wole Talabi
Including shorts:
• Social ENRAGEMENT
• Stories Converge to Make Reality
• AI For Consulting Ancestors
CLIMATE ACTIVISM: success or failure?
Tackling the Plastic Life Cycle: Environmental & Health Risks – Nirere Sadrach
Including shorts:
• How Brand Audits Expose Big Companies’ Role in Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Plastic Life Cycle
After World: Preserve Human Life Or Earth?
Including shorts:
• Why is witnessing important as the world transitions?
• Younger people have lost the most. Can they fix it?
• Can the New Generation Lead the Fight Against Climate Change?
• Extend personhood beyond humans?
• To leave the planet behind
Amplifying African Voices in Climate Activism — Vanessa Nakate
Including shorts:
• Hold leaders accountable • Leaders are not leading, not serving their people.
Legal plus Science. What is Climate Causality? – Joyce Kimutai, Scientist
Including short:
• Climate Law
AI – Friend or Foe?
Will AI Reunite Humanity?
Including shorts:
• Can AI Touch Human Hearts
• Science fiction is more than you think
• Slow Eco Violence
• Invisible People
• Nationalistic ways of thinking harm our climate
• Is this a century of paradigm shift and singularity? Yes!
What is The AI Dilemma? Art Kleiner Author of The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology
Including shorts:
• Can giants reinvent themselves?
• Entrepreneurial Dreams in An Old Economy
• Break the dictates of hierarchy
• Attack Zombie Ideas – Zero Distance
Wikimedia in the Age of AI — Florence Devouard
Including shorts:
• Wikimedia versus TikTok
• Do you know any Wikipedians in Residence? A key role for us today
Sustainable AI That Has Our Backs — Thomas Vander Wal
Including shorts:
• Humans got out of caves by sharing knowledge, unlike generative AI
• Generative AI can be a smart rubber duck, helping us through our ideas
• Does the 15-minute city limit you? Blend in the “near in thought” perspective
WELL-BEING in body and mind: a key to the future?
Building Peace in the Face of Violence — Mandar Apte
Including shorts:
• Sustainable Peace – The influence of India on Martin Luther King
• Gandhi to MLK: A Legacy of Nonviolence
• Meditation Workshops in Tough Neigborhoods
• How to Create Freedom
Humanity has no borders – Robin Vincent-Smith
Including shorts:
• Making children’s health education meaningful through new media & influencers
• Innovative transport by donkeys to help patients reach healthcare
• How to fight misinformation & broken trust? MSF gives voice to patients, shares scientific research.
Will Virtual Reality Become Our Reality?
Why VR & AR Are the Future of Business — Mark Gröb of UPS
Including shorts:
• Shadow learning for safe driving practices
• Why XR Doers Can’t be Replaced By AI
Can Virtual Reality Transform Our Lives? — Cortney Harding
Including shorts:
• Use AI to Find Your Zone of Genius
• The “Never-Figure-It-Out” World
What is the power of DECENTRALIZATION?
Coming soon…
Sohail Inayatullah, first UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies for Sustainability and Humanity
In 2016, Professor Sohail Inayatullah was awarded the first UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies for Sustainability and Humanity, IIUM, Malaysia. He is also co-host of MetaFutures, an educational think tank that explores alternative and preferred futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. He is a Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei (Graduate Institute of Futures Studies) and an Associate, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne.
