Journalist and author Vince Beiser joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the increased demand for cobalt, nickel, copper and other metals to fuel everything from batteries to the wires that transfer energy – and how access to those resources feeds geopolitical relationships.
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Shannon Osaka joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the growing number of people who share a grim view of the future, and how climate scientists are trying to win them back.
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Ari Wallach is a futurist and he joins us to discuss his methods for teaching people to think far into the future in order to connect to what really matters.
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Professor William MacAskill discusses why we must make long-term thinking a priority if we truly care about the descendants we’ll never meet.
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Carissa Véliz discusses the increasingly ever-present A.I. in our lives and what that means for human agency now and far into the future.
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Political scientist Ian Bremmer joins us to talk about how the well-oiled machines of big technology – with their influence and reach into every part of daily life – are challenging national governments in shaping society.
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Parag Khanna, founder and managing partner of FutureMap, joins us to discuss the future of humankind as climate change and destabilization are expected to cause mass migrations.
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This hour, we’re exploring how three sectors of everyday life are responding to the pandemic.
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Atlantic staff writer Ed Yong joins us to explain why instead of asking “when will life get back to normal?”, we should focus our energies on incremental steps to a more livable future.
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Ross Douthat joins us to talk about what he reads in the nation’s tea leaves for the trajectory of future innovation.
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New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman joins us to talk about disproven ideas that have been resurrected by politics and fear – and about how to argue for common sense.
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Samuel Woolley, program director for computational propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the future of destructive tech and ways to combat it.
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