"Beyond 2025" with Futurist Dr Ben Hamer

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Josh Szeps

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Happy new year, human. Remember the Year 2000, the turn of the millennium? Well, you're about to enter the century's second quarter. This Wednesday, we'll be closer to 2050 than to the last millennium. The final half of the twenty-first century will be nearer than the twentieth.

What might the next quarter of a century have in store? Josh argued it out with the whimsical and surprisingly youthful public speaker on futurism, Dr Ben Hamer. He's done projects at the World Economic Forum and as a visiting scholar at Yale University, and hosts The ThinkerTank Podcast. Have a happy and safe new year. Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this podcast possible in 2024.

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0:00.0	Good day, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. I hope you had a lovely Christmas
0:07.1	or Hanukkah, whatever you were doing. And I'm looking forward to a fabulous new year. Here's a
0:12.7	dangerous idea that blew my mind. When we pass over into 2025, I literally almost said 2015. That's like how out of date my brain is. When we pass over into 2025, I literally almost said 2015, that's like how out of date my brain is.
0:23.6	When we pass over into 2025 this week, we will be passing from the first quarter of the 21st
0:29.7	century into the second quarter of the 21st century. So cast your mind back to New Year's Eve that took us into this millennium. Do you remember that? Do you remember January 1st of the year 2000 and how futuristic the 21st century sounded the end of the 20th century felt? Well, we're already a quarter of the way through the 21st century.
0:58.0	And come Wednesday, the 1st of January,
1:03.5	we will be closer to the final half of the 21st century,
1:08.3	2050, than we are to the 20th century itself.
1:14.1	We are about to go from being closer to the 20th century to being closer to the second half of the 21st century. I wanted to look forward to not just the next year,
1:22.8	but the next quarter century and beyond and try to wrestle with some of the things that we
1:26.5	might expect to come down the pike. So I called up the one-only futurist, Dr. Ben Hamer, who turned out to be
1:32.7	a lot more young and whimsical and fun than I thought a futurist was going to be. I was
1:37.9	expecting somebody old. I thought you had to be an old sage to have insights into the future.
1:42.9	But apparently not. You can be a preper young person,
1:45.4	just like Dr. Ben. He has, he's been a visiting scholar at Yale University. He's done projects
1:50.7	at the World Economic Forum. He has a podcast called Thinker Tank, which you should check out.
1:55.2	I hope you enjoy this. This is a lot more whimsical than I was expecting it to be, and we disagreed
1:59.2	about a lot more than I was expecting us to. Have a wonderful new year, a very safe New Year's Eve. Here's to an incredible
2:05.3	2025. And thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me to have this podcast as be as successful
2:12.0	as it is and as it has been in 2024. It's been an amazing year for me and I have you to thank.
2:17.4	Please enjoy.
2:18.2	The one and only, Dr. Ben Hamer, happy news. So here we are at the juncture point of like
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