Rapid Response: 2024 is the most significant time in human history (Encore)
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We are biologically wired to focus on the near-term, and that’s often a good thing. But in this moment — with global conflict, fast-evolving tech, and climate change dominating our present — we need to also prioritize long-term impacts. Futurist Ari Wallach joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to dive into our biological and business motivations around what he calls “futuring.” Host of the new PBS docuseries, A Brief History of the Future, Wallach shares lessons from the longest-standing corporations on Earth, why he views AI as “immortal algorithms,” and how business leaders must embrace the moral imperative of their business as a core KPI.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there listeners, it's Jeff Berman. |
| 0:02.3 | We all know that technology moves fast, |
| 0:04.8 | and it can be quite hard to keep up. |
| 0:07.8 | That's why there's a podcast I'd like to tell you about. |
| 0:10.2 | It's called TED Tech, a show that helps you get ahead of the curve and unlock the biggest ideas about the future. |
| 0:17.0 | This weekly podcast from Ted features the tech world's most innovative minds on the science that's changing the world. |
| 0:24.0 | Find TED Tech wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:27.7 | Hey everyone, Bob Safian here. |
| 0:29.8 | We have a very special and timely episode for you today. With the US presidential |
| 0:35.0 | election looming and candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump preparing to |
| 0:39.4 | debate, it's an important moment to think about the future. |
| 0:44.0 | So we're revisiting a chat that I had with a futurist Ari Wallach, |
| 0:48.0 | who talks about the concept of, quote, featuring. |
| 0:52.0 | You'll find lots of insights in his advice |
| 0:54.3 | about how to best participate in creating the future |
| 0:57.1 | we all want to see. |
| 0:58.6 | Plus, he's fun. |
| 1:00.4 | The name of the episode, |
| 1:01.8 | 2024 is the most significant time in human history. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's get to it. |
| 1:08.0 | The future is not a noun. |
| 1:10.0 | It's not this thing out there that we're heading towards us going to kind of wash over us. |
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