#65– State of The Future 20.0 with Jerome Glenn

November 20, 2024 by Mark Sackler

“The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be.”–Yogi Berra

Jerome Glenn, of the Millennium Project is no stranger to regular listeners to this podcast. His previous visits with us have included a recent conversation on the project’s study on transitioning to Artificial General Intelligence from Artificial Generative Intelligence. He has also joined us in 2020, along with futurist Andrew Curry, for a look at the legacy of Alvin Toffler on the 50th anniversary of the publishing of Future Shock. And of course, back in August of 2018 I first had him on to discuss the Millennium Project’s State of the Future 19.0. It has been a long time coming, but State of the Future 20th edition is now out, and Jerry has a lot to say about it.

Episode #65 State of The Future 20.0, with Jerome Glenn

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Podcast #39: Quantum Computing, The State of The Art, featuring whurley

December 26, 2019 by Mark Sackler

“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley

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As one of America’s leading technologists, when whurley speaks, people listen. Lots of them. We first heard from him on Seeking Delphi in an exclusive interview after his SXSW 2018 Intelligent Future keynote, titled The Endless Impossibilities of Quantum Computing. He was just about to announce the launch of Strangeworks, a quantum computing software company. In this episode, we follow up with whurley to assess the progress of Strangeworks and the state of the art in quantum computing;

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Episode #9: Quantum Computing, The State of The Art, with whurley

You Tube Slide Show of Episode #39

Unedited YouTube video of Zoom interview for podcast #39

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SXSW Mini-Cast #3, Quantum Computing featuring whurley

March 14, 2018 by Mark Sackler

“As an entrepreneur I like to know the next two or three things I might start a company on. For me it was robotics, bio-hacking, and quantum.”–whurley

As one of America’s leading technologists, when whurley speaks, people listen. Lots of them. His SXSW 2018 Intelligent Future keynote, titled The Endless Impossibilities of Quantum Computing, packed the largest ballroom at the Austin Convention Center. Just hours before the launch of his new company, Strangeworks, he provided the culmination of IEEE’s Tech For Humanity series. In between those two events, I was able to sit down in person for an exclusive interview. Special thanks to Interprose and IEEE for arranging this and several other interviews as SXSW. whurley heads IEEE’s working group on quantum computing.

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SXSW 2018 Mini-cast #3 with whurley

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Traumgeist: A Science Fiction Short Story

September 12, 2017 by Mark Sackler

A rather stunning and well written short story by my Houston Foresight colleague, Eric Kingsbury

Short Fiction: A Life Pod at Riverton

March 16, 2017 by Mark Sackler

Here is a fascinating question for those who fear the apocalypse. Can there be a post-collapse world that might not be so bad? In this short piece of fiction, my University of Houston foresight colleague, Eric Kingsbury, suggests a future transformation that might not be so bad. It’s re-blogged from his site, http://www.kiteba.com

Kiteba: A Futurist Blog and Resource

Speculative fiction has always been a great way to imagine the future. The following is a short climate-related piece I wrote.

A Life Pod at Riverton

“When we look at biological analogues,” Jane began, lifting the cover off the evap system and dropping to one knee, “we see the many ways in which large organisms are vulnerable when climate push comes to climate shove.”

The sun hovered in an infinite sky, bright, blanching out any atmospheric color. It was spring, and the air was warming, with a sweet sugar breeze.

Jane lifted a hand to shadow her eyes.

“Elephants, lions, cows, all the big mammals,” she said, then gestured in the direction of several grassy mounds that rose from the prairie. “Too big, too slow, too pack-oriented. Vulnerable.”

Then, she reached into the evap unit and pulled out a length of rotten rubber hose.

“So too all the networks dependent on…

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Podcast Episode 1: The Abolition of Aging

January 25, 2017 by Mark Sackler

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don’t want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”–Woody Allen

In episode one of Seeking Delphi, the podcast, I talk with David Wood, chair of London Futurists, about his book The Abolition of Aging. Relevant links to this weeks’ show below the audio track. This is part 1 of a two part program. This week: can we do it? Next week: Should we do it, and if we do it, what are the implications? These podcasts are now available for subscription on YouTube and iTunes.