Foresight with Greg Williams

DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Mathieu Flamini, CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a leading sustainable biochemical company with the mission to end chemical pollution by finding safer and more sustainable alternatives to the harmful petrochemicals commonly found in everyday products. They discuss decarbonising the chemical industry and building the circular bioeconomy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg cstches up with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A talk about how we make the connection between climate change and the state of the economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Arnavaz Schatten, director of sustainability at the Berlin-based vertical farming firm InFarm dicuss how vertical farms can massively reduce the environmental impact of our food system. "What could possibly work on Mars could be hugely beneficial on Earth today. We don't need to wait for the Mars scenario. We need this kind of farming on Earth now,” said Arnavaz when speaking at WIRED Impact in November 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

To create better outcomes we have to create the right governmental and legal frameworks. So how do we make better policy and implement it effectively? In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Alyssa Gilbert, the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute. Alyssa builds real-world impact by connecting relevant research across the university with policy-makers and businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Evelina Olago, the Managing Director, Client & Strategy at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable investment firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore. They discuss how Evelina is working to find new ways to deploy capital in ways that will have outsize impact for the climate and enable us to transition to net zero effectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Insiya Jafferjee the CEO and cofounder of UK biotech startup, Shellworks that aims to replace plastic with materials based in nature. It is estimated that UK households throw away a staggering 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging a year, averaging 66 items per household per week. In this episode, Insiya discusses how her interdisciplinary team is innovating in material science in order to be able to scale products that after use, will be consumed by microbes that are abundant in soil and marine environments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the second episode our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Greg Jackson the CEO of Octopus Energy Group to discuss how we're at the early stages of dramatic growth in green energy – one that has parallels in the explosive growth of the internet of the past twenty years. They also touch on how we're going to get to net zero, the challenges of getting renewable energy onto complex grids, EV infrastructure, national security and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In our very first episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Gaia Vince, author of the groundbreaking work Adventures In The Anthropocene for which she travelled to over 50 countries to map the ways humans are altering the planet forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Connecting the world online has brought enormous benefits but it has also digitised the way in which harmful things can happen. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat's to Mikko Hyppönen, Author of 'If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable', originator of the Hyppönen law and Chief Research Officer at WithSecure to discuss how we can counter the growing onslaught of toxic code thats coursing through the internet looking for vulnerabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone alongside solving some of the worlds most vexing problems. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat's to Kevin Scott, the CTO of Microsoft to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how it can be realistically used to serve the interests of everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of Foresight, one of Silicon Valley's most storied entrepreneurs and investors, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) and his co-founder of the media company behind Masters of Scale, June Cohen join Foresight to share the different strategies entrepreneurs can use to drive a companies growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Greg is joined by renowned physicist and CEO of PsiQuantum, Jeremy O'Brien to talk about quantum computing; to understand the Implications of it, the potential applications from drug discovery to the geopolitical impact and explore how the field will develop over the coming years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, shares how his latest piece, “Human One,” will continue to update over time—and what that means for how digital art will be viewed in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Parag Khanna, global strategy advisor and author of MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us explore the new age of mass migration and the deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University's Cyber Policy Center explore the rapid growth of big technology and solutions for governments to consider as they look to regulate big technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, we explore how AI is currently perceived and the wider societal impacts of AI that are changing how power is concentrated across the world.  Even though AI infiltrates many aspects of our lives from security, banking and retail through to climate change and politics, most people's vision of AI is that it's abstract and immaterial. In this podcast, we'll discuss how AI is made in a wider sense - the environmental costs, the labour processes and the way that it classifies and shapes the world around us.  Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Rebecca Henderson, Author of Reimagining Capitalism speaks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief, Greg Williams to discuss how we can develop models that deliver strong economic growth that ensures prosperity and wellbeing for human beings while also protecting and nurturing the planet. “We need to think of ourselves as an integrated world where we can't escape. We have a joint destiny. Hopefully the pandemic will begin to make us think about global cooperation in a different way.” - Rebecca Henderson Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a digital world, how do we build empathy into the algorithms that run our lives? WIRED UK's editor, Greg Williams sat down with Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of 'Girl Decoded' to discuss how to bring emotional intelligence to technology during a global health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Noreena Hertz, who is a renowned economist and author of The Lonely Century (one of WIRED's picks for the best books of 2020) explores why this is the lonely century, how we got here and what each of us can do to help reduce loneliness for ourselves and our communities. "With one in five adults, saying that they felt lonely often or all of the time, with one in five millennials saying that they didn't have a single friend at all and with 40% of office workers, saying that they felt lonely at work" Hertz felt compelled to explore this loneliness phenomenon.  "As I started looking at this data I realised that we were really, in the midst of a global loneliness crisis, a crisis that was affecting our health or wealth and the state of our democracy." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Carissa Véliz, associate professor in philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University explores how, in a constantly shifting digital era, we can reclaim our privacy and ensure that data brokers, tech giants and governments collect and use data in ways that consumers approve and are transparent. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winner, writer and journalist, Lawrence Wright reveals the oversights and errors that impacted the response the US had to COVID-19, sharing the wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain the virus. His latest book, “The Plague Year” is his testament to the year of COVID-19 in America. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WIRED editor Greg Williams and independent policy advisor and bestselling author, Simon Anholt investigate how we can defeat global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, war, poverty, migration and extremism with 'The Good Country Equation' - his formula for empowering governments and future generations to collaborate. Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What new strategies are retailers adopting to stand out online and retain customers during an e-commerce boom that has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic? Shopify's head of EMEA, Shimona Mehta sat down with WIRED editor-in-chief Greg Williams to share how brands are standing out in a crowded e-commerce space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sana Khareghani, head of the UK government's Office for Artificial Intelligence, talks to WIRED editor Greg Williams to explore the UK government's AI strategy and the role AI will play in helping rebuild the post-Covid economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ben Page, chief executive of Ipsos MORI joins Greg Williams in looking ahead to 2025 and explore future scenarios for business, consumers and society in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today… we chart the rise and fall of Football Index and explain what the hell is going on with non-fungible tokens.

Coming up today… the long-term psychological impacts of surviving ICU with Covid-19 and how Slack can actually fix workplace communications.

Coming up today: we explain why anecdotal benefits of microdosing might only be a placebo effect and find out how a bunch of deepfakes could one day replace the cast of The Simpsons.

Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, joins Greg Williams to discuss how AI can impact scientific research, building multidisciplinary teams – and how to combat algorithmic bias Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Uber lawsuit feeding frenzy, how growing grapes in space can make wine better on Earth and the reality of life under Myanmar's internet shutdown.

Coming up today: What Uber's loss in the Supreme Court means for the gig economy, why Facebook was right to ban news in Australia and we go inside the UK's controversial Covid-19 challenge trial

Coming up today: Matt Reynolds delves into the origins of the UK Covid-19 variant, Natasha looks at how Amazon saved Deliveroo from disaster and Amit charts the strange demise of Habbo Hotel

Coming up today: we explain how QAnon took over yoga, look at Google's plan to rewrite the rules of the web and investigate the scammers getting rich from the lockdown puppy boom.

Herman Narula, CEO and co-founder of Improbable, joins Greg Williams to explore the dynamics of social connection forged through virtual worlds – and how Covid-19 has impacted these relationships Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: we delve deep into WeWork's financials, look at what's really happening with Covid-19 in North Korea and get moderately angry about generic startup adverts

Richard Davies, economist and author of Extreme Economies joins Greg Williams to share his insight of extreme economies to better understand the long-term impact of Covid-19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: a Covid crisis for sommeliers and bakers, the tragic rise of instant loan apps and that data that shows why April is going to be a tough month for everyone.

Coming up today: we're 500 today so we're all feeling terribly old. Come celebrate

Coming up today: lucid dreams, lonely penguins and our predictions for 2021

Coming up today: it's the final podcast of 2020, so we're having a party...

Coming up today: How a coronavirus vaccine will affect the return to work, what we learned from F1's biggest crash in recent history, and how will Santa deal with lockdown?

Coming up today: Matt Reynolds lays on a Covid Christmas, Amit explains why Netflix is elbowing in on linear TV, and Matt Burgess explores the issue of work burnout.

Coming up today: Matt Reynolds dissects China's coronavirus strategy, Amit asks why games are getting shorter, and we discuss the security faux pas you're probably making

Amit and Matt Reynolds talk us through the Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough and Natasha explores the weird world of pandemic office Christmas parties

Greg Williams and Nina Schick explore the rise of fake news and the disturbingly outsized impact this type of misinformation has on how we think and behave Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Matt Reynolds explains why Africa has been spared the worst of the pandemic, Natasha reveals the middle-class private jet boom and Matt Burgess looks at the worrying rise of police fingerprint scanners

Coming up today: Natasha looks into Uber's robo-firings, Matt Burgess charts the grim rise of stalkerware and Vicki explains why there might not be signs of life on Venus after all

Author Rana Foroohar on the heightened power of big tech during the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for stronger regulation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coming up today: Sweden's pandemic gamble; the deepfake bot being weaponised against women; and Natasha tries to put the ‘interesting' in negative interest rates

Coming up today: Natasha investigates the UK's broken housing algorithm, Matt Burgess reveals how universities are snooping on students and Amit witnesses The grim demise of the cinema industry.