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Any and all subject matter related to the future--the long view--of the human condition. Technology, Health, Economics, Politics, Society, Environment and the basics of how to think about the future.

Seeking Delphi™ » Podcasts is a society podcast hosted by Mark Sackler, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  #66–Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Internet, with Annie Hardy

  Dec 26, 202442 minS0

  <p >“We are all now connected to the internet, like neurons in a giant brain.”–Stephen Hawking</p> <p>Unless you are living in a remote cabin completely off-grid, it has reached the point where you cannot avoid artificial intelligence. It’s in our search engines, it’s on our phones, it’s on the social media on our phones. It’s permeating the internet at a breakneck pace.</p> <p>Annie Hardy, a fellow member of the Association of Professional Futurists and a senior visioneer at Cisco Systems, spends most of her working hours assessing the future of artificial intelligence a...

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  #64–Disrupt With Impact, with Roger Spitz

  Sep 26, 202442 minS0

  <p >“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”–variously attributed </p> <p>The above quote dates from the late 19th century. A 21st century version might well be, “everybody talks about disruption, but can anybody do anything about it?”</p> <p>One person who has strong ideas on what to do about it is Roger Spitz. He is a former M&A investment banker and current venture capitalist and advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network. He is also a fellow member of the Association of Professional Futurists. His new book Disrupt with Impact, Achi...

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  #58 redux–Future-Fluent with Dmitriy Zakharov

  Sep 13, 202425 minS0

  <p >“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne</p> <p >This podcast originally aired in March of 2022</p> <p >“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne</p> <p >I wouldn’t call future fluency a a new jargon. I would call it a unique and practical way of looking at foresight–of integrating it into the culture of an organization.</p> <p >Dmitriy Zakharov is a fellow alumnus of the University of Houston’s graduate foresight program. His recent volume Future-Fluent equates foresight with language. He breaks down it’s component parts into syntax and sema...

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  #63, Two Futurists Talking: The Global IT Outage, Bird Flu, and Weaponized AI–with Mike Courtney

  Aug 5, 202432 minS0

  <p >“The internet gave us access to everything; but it also gave everything access to us.””–James Veitch</p> <p >Our daily lives are overloaded with information from more sources than anyone can can count. Your smart phone is substantially more connected to the world of information than the network TV newsroom of just a couple of decades ago. How does one make sense of it?</p> <p >In this first of a new series, Two Futurists Talking, I’m joined by fellow futurist Mike Courtney, of Aperio Insights, to sort out our views on some recent news stories that have intri...

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  #62, AI and the Future of Big Data, with Anne Boysen

  Jul 22, 202435 minS0

  <p >“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”–Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Scarlett)</p> <p>What is the fodder that feeds generative AI? Of course, there is massive software programming, but creating useful output requires data. Tons of data.</p> <p>Anne Boysen has a masters in strategic foresight from the University of Houston and a graduate certificate in business analytics from Penn State University. Working in high tech for 6 years, she also works on foresight projects and uses data mining and analytics in her research. She is generally recognized as one of the...

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