Ep. 144 – TOM CHEESEWRIGHT/CHANGE AND THE FUTURE - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

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Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2019

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to applied futurist and writer Tom Cheesewright. Whilst discussing his book High Frequency Change, they talk about how to deal with change, how change affects social and political evolution and how something as seemingly simple as the washing machine changed the world. They also discuss the future of drugs and the future of privacy.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast, sponsored by cooker, spelt quicker, pronounced cooker,
0:05.6	100 degree boiling hot water straight from your kitchen tap. Today, you'll never guess it,
0:11.6	it's another special. And also, whoo. It's a conversation with Tom Cheese, right, also known as
0:19.6	the book of the future guy. Oh, I don't think that's the guy, but he's as the Book of the Future guy.
0:21.7	Oh, I don't think he has the guy, but he's just the book of the future.
0:24.7	That's the name of his business.
0:26.2	Tom Cheesewright is a futurist or a futurologist, whichever one you want to choose.
0:29.5	Is that what you want to call it, or a futureologist?
0:32.9	Same stuff.
0:33.9	Yeah, so he writes all about the future.
0:35.9	And what he does, he goes into companies and he tells them what they need to do for the future. And he also does speeches on the future and he writes books on the future.
0:45.9	His book, which is out at the moment, is high frequency change, why we feel like change happens faster now and what to do about it.
0:55.2	I thoroughly enjoy interviewing Tom or having a conversation with Tom.
1:00.8	I meet up with coffees every now and then when he comes to London because I absolutely love
1:06.4	talking about the future with him.
1:07.8	I think it's so exciting.
1:09.1	And he's always quite optimistic as well.
1:11.7	He's optimistic, which is good, but he's also so engaging. He's so easy to listen to.
1:18.1	We cover so many subjects in this. We cover, you know, how you, what work will look like. We cover
1:24.9	politics, the global taxation.
1:29.2	I mean, they all sound boring
1:30.3	and it's more stuff than that.
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