Rapid Response: 2024 is the most significant time in human history, w/PBS host & futurist Ari Wallach

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 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, it's Bob Safian. You've been hearing me as the host of rapid response in this feed for a few years now,
0:07.8	with short newsy interviews alongside the deeper dives of Masters of Scale. Well, I'm excited to share that rapid response is expanding into its own feed.
0:17.0	We'll be putting out shows twice a week, focusing on the urgent issues that business leaders are dealing with in real time.
0:24.8	So search for rapid response in your podcast player
0:28.0	and subscribe to make sure you get all our episodes.
0:31.2	I'll see you on the other side.
0:34.1	The future is not a noun.
0:36.7	It's not this thing out there that we're heading towards us
0:38.7	gonna kind of wash over us.
0:40.0	The future is very much a verb.
0:41.5	It's something that we do consistently and constantly
0:44.9	as humans, as parents, as partners, as professionals.
0:49.6	We have to envision
0:53.4	homo sapien global planetary civilization looks like in order to get there.
0:59.0	That's Ari Wallach, host of the new series,
1:01.8	a brief history of the future, which premiered last night on PBS.
1:06.7	Ari is a futurist and the founder of Long Path Labs, an initiative striving to help build a better
1:12.3	tomorrow, as global conflict and an initiative striving to help build a better tomorrow.
1:13.0	As global conflict and evolving tech dominates our here and now,
1:18.0	I wanted to talk to someone who passionately believes in a long-term focus.
1:22.0	Ari's research helps us understand why we struggle to empathize with our future selves
1:28.0	and why CEOs everywhere must reconnect and refine the moral imperative of their business.
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