Goody, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Let me ask you a little question. Do you have a noodle on the future? Would you say you noodle on the future? When you noodle on things in your noggin, would you say that you noodle on things in the future? Because I know I do. If you're anything like me, you find yourself doing a lot of

noodling. And the things you find yourself noodling on, I hazard a guess, are probably things in the

future. Because there's no much point noodling on things in the past. Am I right? I don't know how we got started on this whole noodling thing.

Honestly, I turned on the microphone and I was like, I'm going to talk about Catherine Ball.

And then now we're up Noodle Creek without a paddle, so to speak.

Do you think I'm going to turn the microphone off and do a second take?

Not on my life.

Not on my life. I want to get out of here and do more

noodling on the future. Don't want to be doing second takes just so we can do less noodling. The world

needs more noodling, not less. That's my motto. I'm going to write a book about that. Anyway,

in the meantime, you should enjoy this conversation with Catherine Ball because she noodles a hell of a lot about a lot of things and mostly in the future. You know, why? Because

she's a futurist, and that's what futurists do. They noodle on things that haven't happened

yet. And if you want to noodle on things, I'm not going to say noodle anymore. If you want

a noodle on things, there you go, but this sentence is not included in that promise.

After this sentence, I'm not going to say noodle anymore.

If you want a noodle on things, okay, that's the last noodle about the future,

then this is the podcast episode for you.

Full stop, new chapter of this introduction.

Catherine Ball is a futurist, a scientific futurist, and she explains you in this

conversation why she makes that distinction, who, I mean, thinks heavily about what the

next, you know, half century is going to look like or more.

And this is a fascinating

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