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Forecast 2050
Interviewing the thinkers and doers shaping the world of 2050. Hosted by Nebular General Partner, Finn Murphy.
Episodes
Forecast 2050Apple, China, and the End of American Dominance | Patrick McGee
Apple didn't just build its iPhones in China. It taught China how to build them, and then how to build everything else. Now Apple says it's diversifying. But…
Forecast 2050Why This Astronomer Thinks Aliens Are Out There | Laura Kreidberg
Laura Kreidberg believes there is life out there in the universe. An astrophysicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg…
Forecast 2050Why China Is Baffled by America’s AI Race | Yi-Ling Liu
Silicon Valley frames AI as a race against China to reach AGI. In China, almost nobody thinks that way. Journalist Yi-Ling Liu, author of The Wall Dancers and…
Forecast 2050We Need Revolutionary Military Change | Ex-CIA Chief David Petraeus
General David Petraeus believes we need draconian change to prepare for the age of autonomous warfare. A retired four-star general, Gen. Petraeus commanded…
Forecast 2050Can AI Talk To Whales? | Project CETI Founder David Gruber
The real reason AI was given to humans is to communicate with animals, according to David Gruber. A marine biologist and National Geographic Explorer, he is…
Forecast 2050'Claude's Priest': Fr. Brendan McGuire on Shaping AI for the Common Good
Fr. Brendan McGuire believes that we still have an opportunity to align AI for the common good, though time is running out. A Silicon Valley executive turned…
Forecast 2050Forecast 2050 Season 2 Trailer
Forecast 2050 Season 2 has arrived with a brand new set of conversations with the thinkers, founders, and investors shaping the next 25 years. Hosted by…
Forecast 2050Enveda's Radical Vision for the Future of Medicine | Viswa Colluru & Pablo Lubroth
Enveda Founder and CEO Viswa Colluru believes we have been looking for new medicines in the wrong places for decades. In the Season 1 finale of Forecast 2050…
Forecast 2050Building the Next Great American City | Esmeralda CEO Devon Zuegel
Devon Zuegel believes America has been building cities wrong for decades. She grew up spending summers in Chautauqua, an intellectual community in western New…
Forecast 2050Rule Britannia? How the UK Wins the AI Era | Matt Clifford & Ian Hogarth
Matt Clifford and Ian Hogarth believe Europe is roughly a decade behind the United States in building the technology companies that will define the next era…
Forecast 2050Dimming the Sun to Save the World | Stardust CEO Yanai Yedvab on Solving Climate Change by 2050
Yanai Yedvab thinks we need to completely overhaul the infrastructure of humanity to avoid a climate disaster, and we can't afford to wait the 70 years it’ll…
Forecast 2050The Technologies That Will Remake Civilization by 2050 | Casey Handmer
Casey Handmer thinks we're living through the most consequential 25 years in human history, and that human civilization is just getting started. I sat down…
Forecast 2050Space AI, Moon Resorts, and Interstellar Calamity | Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston on 2050
Starcloud Founder and CEO Philip Johnston believes data centers in space are the first step to becoming a Kardashev level civilization. I caught up with Philip…
Forecast 2050Conflict and Diplomacy in an Era of Recklessness | Sir Malcolm Rifkind on 2050
Sir Malcolm Rifkind served as Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1995 to 1997 and as Defence Secretary before that. He has sat across from Soviet…
Forecast 2050Artificial Wombs, IVF & Robot Nannies | Noor Siddiqui on Family in 2050
Noor Siddiqui is building a future free of inherited disease. As Founder & CEO of Orchid, she has developed embryo screening technology that reads 99% of an…
Forecast 2050Quantum, Superintelligence, and Reality's Ultimate Nature | Scott Aaronson on 2050
Scott Aaronson thinks that the time to prepare for a post-quantum world isn’t years away - it was yesterday. In the second episode of Forecast 2050 with…
Forecast 2050The surprising truth behind collapsing birthrates | Tyler Cowen on 2050
Tyler Cowen believes we are woefully unprepared for the next 25 years. In the first episode of Forecast 2050 with Nebular General Partner, Finn Murphy, we…
Forecast 2050Introducing Forecast 2050
Forecast 2050 is a series about the next 25 years, and the builders, thinkers, and leaders shaping what lies ahead. Hosted by Nebular General Partner Finn…