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Any and all subject matter related to the future--the long view--of the human condition. Technology, Health, Economics, Politics, Society, Environment and the basics of how to think about the future.

Mark Sackler


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    #66–Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Internet, with Annie Hardy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2024 41:57


    “We are all now connected to the internet, like neurons in a giant brain.”–Stephen Hawking Unless you are living in a remote cabin completely off-grid, it has reached the point where you cannot avoid artificial intelligence. It’s in our search engines, it’s on our phones, it’s on the social media on our phones. It’s permeating […]

    #64–Disrupt With Impact, with Roger Spitz

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2024


    “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”–variously attributed The above quote dates from the late 19th century. A 21st century version might well be, “everybody talks about disruption, but can anybody do anything about it?” One person who has strong ideas on what to do about it is Roger Spitz. He […]

    #58 redux–Future-Fluent with Dmitriy Zakharov

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024


    “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne This podcast originally aired in March of 2022 “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne I wouldn’t call future fluency a a new jargon. I would call it a unique and practical way of looking at foresight–of integrating it into the culture […]

    #63, Two Futurists Talking: The Global IT Outage, Bird Flu, and Weaponized AI–with Mike Courtney

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2024


    “The internet gave us access to everything; but it also gave everything access to us.””–James Veitch Our daily lives are overloaded with information from more sources than anyone can can count. Your smart phone is substantially more connected to the world of information than the network TV newsroom of just a couple of decades ago. […]

    #62, AI and the Future of Big Data, with Anne Boysen

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 22, 2024


    “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”–Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlett) What is the fodder that feeds generative AI? Of course, there is massive software programming, but creating useful output requires data. Tons of data. Anne Boysen has a masters in strategic foresight from the University of Houston […]

    #60–Investing in AI and AI in Investing, with Jim Lee

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2024


    “Anyone who thinks there is safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market.”–Irene Peter Nowhere do we hear more about artificial intelligence than in the world of investing. Nvidia and other major AI-related stocks are in the news every day.  Is AI over-bought and due for a correction?  Perhaps at the peak of Gartner […]

    #59–Artificial Intelligence–Implications and Regulations, with Jerome Glenn

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2024 37:48


    “The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.”–B.F. Skinner “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne It’s non-stop: the buzz, the chatter, the speculations, the concerns. It’s visceral: the excitement, the awe, the deep amazement. But it’s also disturbing and at times, to some, terrifying. It’s artificial intelligence. […]

    Podcast #35 (redux): NASA, The Next Ten Years, with Dan Dumbacher

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2023 33:14


    “I did not come to NASA to make history.”–Sally Ride “Going to Mars would make NASA great again.”–John Grunsfeld This episode was originally aired in October of 2019.  The inaugural ASCEND conference was cancelled due to Covid-19.  It was held virtually in 2021 and live in 2022.  The 2023 event will be held in October. […]

    #58–Future-Fluent with Dmitriy Zakharov

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2022 24:43


    “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne I wouldn’t call future fluency a a new jargon. I would call it a unique and practical way of looking at foresight–of integrating it into the culture of an organization. Dmitriy Zakharov is a fellow […]

    #57: Update on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen with William F. Smith

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2021 28:55


    “So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.“–Bob Inglis In February of 2017, Seeking Delphi™ featured Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen, Inc.™ founder and CEO Bill Smith, in an episode entitled What Ever Happend to Fuel Cells. Not much was happening in early […]

    #56: Space Mining with Daniel Sax

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2021 24:14


    “Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”- Peter Diamandis Peter Diamandis might be right, but asteroid mining is probably not imminent–at least not in the way that lunar mining is. With both the NASA and the Chinese National Space Agency having designs on establishing permanent lunar […]

    #55: The Longevity Dialogs Part 3, The Science and Technology of Growing Young with Sergey Young

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2021 36:40


    “We have created science and technology to extend our life, but we haven’t created life we want to extend.”–Sergey Young, Seeking Delphi™ episode #55, explaining why he believes more people do not support radical life extension. Few individuals have done more, from an advocacy standpoint, to promote breakthroughs in human longevity, than Sergey Young. Seeking […]

    Podcast #26 Redux: Future Driving Part 1, Interconnectivity and Self-Driving Cars with Alex Wyglinski

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2021 26:30


    This podcast was originally recorded and aired in November of 2018.  “The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles is Great.”–Dan Lipinski “My opinion is that it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous vehicles.”–Elon Musk  ™ There’s no shortage of opinions on the viability of self-driving cars.  Be you a bull or a bear, though, […]

    Podcast #23(redux): A Conversation With Joanne Pransky, Robot Psychiatrist

    Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2021 27:36


    This podcast originally ran in June of 2018. Seeking Delphi(tm)will return from hiatus with new material next month.  “I can’t imagine a future without robots.”–Nolan Bushnell  ™ In the popular HBO series Westworld, robotic hosts are depicted as being placed into a kind of psychiatric analysis by their creators.  Could this actually happen one day?  […]

    Podcast Episode 3 (redux): Whatever Happened to Fuel Cells?

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2021 20:35


    “I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.” –William Clay Ford Seeking Delphi will return from Hiatus in Mid-May.  This is the first in a series of rebroadcasts of the highlights from the past 4 years of programs. Much has changed in the fuel cell sector since this program […]

    #54: The End of Jobs, with Jeff Wald

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2021 34:26


    “There’s a lot of automation that can happen that isn’t a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.” –Stewart Butterworth “Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we better prepare for it.”–Mark Cuban In an early standup routine, Woody Allen once joked that when his father came home to announce that his job on an […]

    #53: The Longevity Dialogues Part 2, Selling the Science, with Aubrey de Grey, Nir Barzilai, and Keith Comito

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2020 42:59


    “Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That’s all that ageing is.–Aubrey de Grey It’s that simple. Or so say Aubrey de Grey and his many followers in the gerontological and biotech communities. But the sixty-four dollar question is: how does the message disseminate to the rest of the world? […]

    Podcast #52: Nurturing Foresight in a Short-Sighted World, with Peter Hayward

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2020 29:06


    “It is not in our stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”–Willaim Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III Got foresight? Do you even need it? Hell yes, you do. The consequences of lack of foresight have never been more evident than they are in the age of the coronavirus pandemic. But just how […]

    Podcast #51: The Longevity Dialogues Part 1, The Long View, with Sergey Young, David Wood, and Jose Cordeiro

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2020 38:06


    “What I’m after is not living to 1,000. I’m after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.”–Aubrey de Grey It’s all so complicated. Back in January I hosted a panel entitled The Dawn of Superlongevity: Scenarios for a post-aging future. I hoped to address many of the issues involved in getting […]

    Podcast #50: Future Minds, with Richard Yonck

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2020


    “I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”–Stephen Hawking For Seeking Delphi’s™ fiftieth** episode, we return to visit with one of our earliest guests, professional futurist and author Richard Yonck.  Three years ago, he joined me to […]

    Special Edition Mini-Cast: Preview of the 2020 Ending Age-Related Diseases Conference

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2020


    “As far as I’m concerned, aging is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance.”–Aubrey de Grey   Keith Comito, president of Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, joins me for a discussion to preview the 2020 Eding Age Related Diseases conference, to be held online, August 20-21, 2020.  Go HERE to register for the conference, and use discount […]

    Podcast #49: The Future of Veterinary Medicine, with Dr. Donna Harris and Dr. Karen Rosenthal

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 1, 2020


    “Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.”–Robert Wagner   Even as the pandemic-struck U.S. economy shrunk by 32% in the first quarter of this year, veterinary medicine saw a different story.  Pet ownership soared at a record pace, and public pet supply companies, like Petco, registered increases in sales. Donna Harris […]

    Podcast #48: Space Commerce with Tess Hatch

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2020


    “I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”–Elon Musk   With the May 30 launch of two American astronauts to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule, history was made.  This was not only the first launch of astronauts from American soil since 2011, it […]

    Podcast #47: Technology and The Brain, with Laura Cabrera

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2020


    “The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”–Thomas Edison   Richard Dawkins might disagree with Thomas Edison.  He’d likely say the purpose of our bodies and our brains is to carry around–and perpetuate– our genes.  Increasingly, though, the purpose of body is to carry around our technology and interface it with […]

    Podcast #46: The Post-Covid Future, Part 3: The Electrical Grid and Emergency Preparedness, with Shay Bahramirad

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2020


     “Without Electricity, the air would rot.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson   What might Ralph Waldo Emerson say if he lived in the age of “shelter-at-home?”   Perhaps he’d opine that without electricity, we all would rot.  At any rate, we’d all be a lot more miserable, if not in far greater danger.  The reliability of electricity has […]

    Podcast #45: The Post Covid-19 Future, Part 2, Economics and Investing with Jim Lee

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2020


    “The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”–Bernard Baruch   For all the pain, suffering, sickness in death, all we have to look forward to if we survive the pandemic, is the worst global economy since the 1930’s.  Does one need a financial analyst or a […]

    Podcast #44: The Post Covid-19 Future, Part 1, Urban and Social Issues with Cindy Frewen

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020


    “If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.”–Irwin Redlener   There is no doubt about it.  The after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be with us for many years into the future.  […]

    Podcast #43: The Future of Work 2050, with Jerome Glenn

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2020


    “Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.”–Mark cuban   Unfortunately, mass unemployment has apparently hit us without any help from automation.  But if there is a silver lining in the COVID-19 pandemic–and it’s awfully hard to imagine one–it might be that this may prepare us for dealing with mass […]

    Podcast #42: Going to Mars, featuring Moriba Jah

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2020


    “I want to die on Mars–just not on impact.”–Elon Musk “I am convinced that humans need to leave earth.”–Stephen Hawking Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking are not alone in their calls for humanity to become a multi-planetary species.  But they certainly are the most  visible advocates for space colonization.  And while the moon […]

    Podcast #41: After Shock and the Legacy of Alvin Toffler, with Jerome Glenn and Andrew Curry

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2020


    “Future shock is a sickness that comes from too much change in too short a time.”–Alvin Toffler   The newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 years.  In this episode recorded just […]

    After Shock, 2017 APF Mini-Cast #1 redux: What Is A Futurist? With Cindy Frewen, Andy Hines, Richard Yonck, et al

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2020


    “No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.”–Alvin Toffler   The newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 years.  Seven of the contributors have been […]

    After Shock, Podcast #19 redux: Ending Aging, with Aubrey de Grey

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2020


    “Your future self is watching right now through your memories.”–Aubrey de Grey   The newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 years.  Seven of the contributors have been guests on Seeking Delphi™  This is […]

    After Shock, Podcast #32 redux: Reimagining Out Tomorrows, with Joe Tankersley

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2020


    “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”–Albert Einstein   The upcoming volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 years.  Seven of the contributors have been guests on Seeking Delphi™  This is the  fifth in a series of repeats […]

    After Shock, Podcast #24 redux: The State of The Future with Jerome Glenn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2020


    “We’re doing a lot better than people think.”–Jerome Glenn “Change is the process by which the future invades our life, and it is important to look at it closely.”–Alvin Toffler, in Future Shock   The upcoming volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future […]

    After Shock, Podcast #21 redux: The Future of Privacy with Gray Scott

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2020


    “It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.”–Noam Chomsky The upcoming volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock, and looking ahead to the next 50 years.  Seven of the contributors have been guests on Seeking Delphi™  This is the third in […]

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