Beyond The Paradox Podcast

Professor Sohail Inayatullah is inaugural chair in Futures Studies at UNESCO and professor at Tamkang University. He teaches online from www.metafutureschool.teachable.com.  Host Juanique Randall learns more about Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), his technique used widely in strategic planning to more effectively shape our future through narrative. 

Host Juanique Randall chats to Social Entrepreneur and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate Netia McCray serves as the Founder and Executive Director of Mbadika, a social venture dedicated to fostering youth-driven innovation and entrepreneurship. Netia assisted with the development of carbon nanotubes for possible use in spacesuits or a space exploration. She turned away from a career in Silicon Valley to focus on Mbadika, a Boston-area nonprofit that helps kids get the technology skills they need to succeed in the modern economy. We discuss the reality that while "Talent is universal, opportunity is not" and what she is doing to change that. 

David Malone is a British independent filmmaker, he has directed television documentaries on philosophy, science and religion, originally broadcast in the United Kingdom by the BBC. Juanique Randall chats to David about his upcoming documentary  with James Cameron "Are We Ready For Artificial Intelligence? | We Need To Talk About A.I. (2020) interviewing tech companies who may not have humanity's best interest at heart - and why its important to regulate the ethical and moral elements of the future of AI.

Alex Tsado is founder of Alliance4ai  and HPC market strategy lead for Cloud at NVIDIA. In this episode, he unpacks the potential of Africans to drive socio-economic improvements through AI with host, Juanique Randall. Alex's life's purpose is enabling people of color bring more to the global economic table. He believes that Africa's contributions could revolutionize the potential for the field to bring quality of life to all of humanity. 

Dr Francesca Ferrando's key focus is on Philosophical Posthumanism, defined as a philosophy of mediation which addresses the meaning of humanity not in separation - but in relation to technology and ecology. In this discussion, host Juanique Randall chats to Francesca about how understanding the distinction between the Transhumanist and Posthumanist narrative is important to ensure humanity collectively decides its fate. 

Greg Watson is Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. Host Juanique Randall learns more about why the context in which humanity is operating, is often omitted from global decision making, and how reintegrating it stands to impact our future to reveal a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts.  Greg served on President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Department of Energy transition team in 2008 and as the 19th Commissioner of Agriculture in Massachusetts under Governors Dukakis and Weld from 1990 to 1993 and under Governor Deval Patrick from 2012 to 2014.