FUTURES Podcast

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🎬 I’m speaking at @LDNTechWeek 2026, and I’ll be on the ground shooting a cinematic mini-documentary on UK #innovation. 🎥 Are you working on #AI, #deeptech, frontier #science, or emerging and #immersive technologies? If you’re doing something genuinely ambitious, I want to hear from you. 🇬🇧 Has Britain become risk-averse? And if so, how do we rebuild a culture of experimentation, ambition and invention that drives real progress? 💡If you’re attending and want to collaborate - be featured in the film or explore a partnership - reply or DM. 🤯 Let’s tell stories about the future that actually matter. #LondonTechWeek #LTW2026 #London

What role will gaming play in shaping the future of society? At the @WorldGovSummit 2026 in Dubai, Sir @pauljfoster_GEF joins @LukeRobertMason on the @FUTURESPodcast to explore how esports is evolving beyond entertainment — from AI-driven ecosystems to a platform for economic development and diplomacy. 🎧 Listen now: futurespodcast.net/episodes/bonus… ▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/wnKKaLKngxU?si… #worldconnected #WGS2026

🧠 On the @FUTURESPodcast, I sat down with physicist Paul Davies to explore the ideas behind his new book 'Quantum 2.0' (@PenguinUKBooks), and what the #quantum world reveals about #consciousness and the limits of human understanding. 📺 Watch now: youtu.be/QtxPc7au7FI

🧠 Thinking is being reshaped by the media we use to express it. 🎙️ On the @FUTURESPodcast, recorded live at the @uniofwarwick, I sat down with @ProfSteveFuller to explore how new media is transforming the way knowledge is created, communicated, and contested. The themes in his new book 'Media and the Power of Knowledge' (@BloomsburyAcad). We discussed: ✍🏻 Why the future of thinking is shaped by short form - from aphorisms to tweets - designed to explain ideas, and provoke new ones. 📡 How social media is disciplining public intellectuals - forcing clarity, compression, and performance across multiple platforms. 🤖 How Artificial Intelligence is surfacing ‘undiscovered public knowledge’ - ideas we’ve already produced, but never fully understood. ⚡ And why true intellectual integrity may lie in the ability to change your mind publicly, in real time. In a world where everyone can publish and persuade - who gets to be heard, and what counts as knowledge? 📺 youtu.be/pwgzaVTM36Y

🧬 I sat down with geneticist & biotech entrepreneur @AdrianWoolfson at the @WorldGovSummit for the @FUTURESPodcast to discuss his new book 'On the Future of Species'. 🧪 What happens when we move from observing life to authoring it? youtu.be/6WWjtIBpLJE

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🚀 ‘Exploring the Unknown’ is a new five-part mini-series created in collaboration with the @DubaiFuture. 🎬 What made the project special is how it was created. Each episode was developed on-site during the Dubai Future Forum, shaped in real time around its five flagship themes, and scripted directly in response to in-person interviews with some of the most incredible people I’ve had the privilege of interviewing. youtu.be/vRvt9WNCEfw

Are humanoid robots the key to understanding ourselves? It was great to welcome @LukeRobertMason to our Dubai studio, where we explored a big question: What does it mean to be human in a world of accelerating change? Humanoid robots are like mirrors. By building robots in our image, we start to question what truly makes us human. What traits do we value? What defines us? HYPERSCALE podcast episode drops later TODAY—Friday, 14 March 2025.

🐾 Jane Lawton (@earthspecies) shared her insights on how artificial intelligence (#aI) is used to decode animal communication, how new #technology challenges human-centric views of #intelligence, and how the ‘voices’ of other #species can inform #conservation efforts and influence rights-for-nature debates. 💡 A Bonus Episode of the @FUTURESPodcast, recorded live from the #DubaiFutureForum's Podcast Lounge at the @MOTF - in partnership with the @DubaiFuture Foundation. 📺 Watch Now: youtu.be/TU1N8ObMR6g #DubaiFuture #podcasting #science #technology #futures #foresight

🤖 On this week's @FUTURESPodcast, I speak to computer scientist Neil Lawrence (@lawrennd @Cambridge_Uni @Cambridge_CL), who shared his insights on what #machineintelligence can teach us about being #human, the risks of relying on technologies that prioritise efficiency and scalability over #ethics & the hubris of efforts to extend or upload human consciousness using #AI. 🎧 Listen Now: futurespodcast.net/episodes/83-ne…

🎙️ Hear Director of Impact Jane Lawton on The FUTURES Podcast, exploring the profound implications of decoding animal communication—not just for conservation, but for our relationship with the natural world. 🎧 Listen here: futurespodcast.net/episodes/bonus…

🌍 Philosopher Koert van @Mensvoort (@nextnature) shares his insights into humanity’s ever-evolving relationship with #nature, how integrating #technology and #biology can support #ecology and the possibility of becoming an interplanetary species. 💡 This is the fourth of six bonus episodes of the @FUTURESPodcast, recorded live from the #DubaiFutureForum's Podcast Lounge at the @MOTF - in partnership with the @DubaiFuture Foundation. 📺 Watch Now: youtu.be/4dHD_QIWGSM #DubaiFuture #podcasting #science #technology #futures #foresight

On the @FUTURESPodcast, Media Lab Prof. Pattie Maes (@fluidinterfaces) talks to @LukeRobertMason about the need to emphasize human needs, interests, and connections when developing AI systems. youtube.com/watch?v=gJWeHD…

🧠 I spoke to MIT @medialab’s Prof. @PattieMaes, who shared her insights on using #technology to enhance human potential and agency, developing #wearable systems to support #cognition and #learning, and designing ethical human-centred artificial intelligence (#AI). 💡 This is the second of six bonus episodes of the @FUTURESPodcast, recorded live from the #DubaiFutureForum's Podcast Lounge at the @MOTF - in partnership with the @DubaiFuture Foundation. 📺 Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/gJWeHDlDOLk #DubaiFuture #podcasting #science #technology #futures #foresight

🎤 In November 2024, I recorded six bonus episodes of the @FUTURESPodcast Live from the Dubai Future Forum's Podcast Lounge at the Museum of the Future in partnership with the @DubaiFuture Foundation 🔮 Our first episode is with conceptual artist Pierre-Christophe Gam, who shared his thoughts on the transformative power of imagination to shape reality, the potential of the African continent to become a global leader, and how to dream futures that reflect our individual aspirations and collective desires. 💡 Other episodes will be released throughout January - on Mondays & Wednesdays. Guests include @PattieMaes (@medialab), young change agent @adam_elrafey, Koert van @Mensvoort (@nextnature), Jane Lawton (@earthspecies Project) & visionary filmmaker @Liam_Young. 📺 Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/zmQj-tSf52U #DubaiFutureForum #DubaiFuture #FutureDreaming #AfricansRising #TogunaWorld #Africa #Vision #Community #FutureOfAfrica #Collaboration #Podcasting

⏳On my way to @DubaiFuture #DubaiFutureForum where I am due to record four episodes of the @FUTURESPodcast in front of a live audience at @MOTF. 🤯 If you’re planning to be there I’d love to connect with fellow future thinkers. 🔮

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RT @LukeRobertMason: 🎉 Excited to share that the @FUTURESPodcast has been Shortlisted for the @IndPodAwards in the 'Science & Technology' c…

What a treat to get to do this episode with you @LukeRobertMason! Thank you for you fantastic and thought-provoking questions and ideas.