13 Episodes

  1. Why Globalization Can't Stop War Anymore (with Pascal Lamy and Lorenzo Marsili)

    Published: 9/2/2025

  2. The Making of Ideas That Matter (with Nicolas Berggruen and Nathan Gardels)

    Published: 8/26/2025

  3. A Breakdown in Global Governance (with Nathan Gardels and Anne-Marie Slaughter)

    Published: 8/19/2025

  4. The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with Lauren Bon and Grant Slater)

    Published: 8/12/2025

  5. The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana Dasgupta and Jonathan Blake)

    Published: 8/5/2025

  6. How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton)

    Published: 7/29/2025

  7. The Rise of the Cyberocracy (with John Markoff and Grant Slater)

    Published: 7/22/2025

  8. Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (with Niall Ferguson and Nathan Gardels)

    Published: 7/15/2025

  9. What if Buddhists Ran the World? (with Stephen Batchelor and Bing Song)

    Published: 7/8/2025

  10. Letting Robots Know Where They Stand (with Fei-Fei Li and Dawn Nakagawa)

    Published: 7/1/2025

  11. Inhabiting Artificial Minds... On Mars and Beyond (with Vandi Verma and Claire Webb)

    Published: 6/24/2025

  12. After the End of History, an Age of Disorder (with Francis Fukuyama and Nathan Gardels)

    Published: 6/24/2025

  13. Welcome to Futurology | Podcast Trailer

    Published: 6/19/2025

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The future never arrives all at once. It ripples through society long before we know what to call it. At the Berggruen Institute, we know that we need more than prediction to name what’s next; we need invention. Each week, Institute President Dawn Nakagawa introduces us to scientists and philosophers recalibrating our cosmologies, technologists coming to terms with alien intelligence, and policymakers scrambling to design systems for a world in flux.  Join thinkers and doers from the Berggruen-verse as we imagine a future that we can accomplish together, instead of one that we’re all working to prevent.