Learning Episodes

Nov. 23, 2020

Future Tech - a preview

In this mini-episode, futurist Trond Undheim briefly discusses his upcoming book Future Tech: How to capture value from disruptive industry trends, to be published by Kogan Page in March 2021. He also reads an excerpt from the book. Future Tech …

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Nov. 20, 2020

The Serendipity of Social Innovation

Christian Busch, Director, NYU Global Economy Program, interviewed by Trond Arne Undheim, futurist and author. In this conversation, they talk about serendipity, the art and science of creating good luck, and how it is intimately related to future trend...

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Nov. 19, 2020

AI for Learning

Futurist David Shrier, Managing Director and co-founder of Esme Learning Solutions. and Associate Fellow at Oxford University, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about what’s next in digital learning innovation. ...

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Nov. 17, 2020

The Urgency of a Social-Emotional Learning Fix

Shai Fuxman, Project Director at Education Development Center (EDC), interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about what’s the big deal with social and emotional learning. They cover the tremendous measurable benefits ...

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Nov. 17, 2020

Living the Future of Work

Gary Bolles, Chair for the future of work at Singularity University, interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about how organizations try to channel human energy-but still need processes and practices, that can become ...

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Nov. 5, 2020

How to Invest in Sci-Fi Tech?

Adam Draper, Managing Director and co-founder of Boost, the startup accelerator and VC firm, is interviewed by futurist Trond Arne Undheim. In this conversation, they talk about taking your investment advice from sci-fi movies. Exoskeletons, jet packs, ...

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Oct. 13, 2020

The Future of Online Learning

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Furqan Nazeeri, Partner at Extension Engine, the online education platform consulting firm. In this conversation, they talk about what learning is all about, how COVID-19 both (in)validates and facilitates online le...

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Oct. 1, 2020

One Woman’s Empowerment Quest to help One Million

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Savi Barrowes, host of the Dream Big and Live Free podcast. In this conversation, which I initially had planned as a prep call, we instead dove straight in. We talked about Savi’s path to empowerment, …

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Sept. 29, 2020

The Future of Computational Media

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Chris Weaver, Distinguished Professor of Computational Media at Wesleyan University, Director of Smithsonian Videogame Pioneers Initiative and Research Scientist at MIT microphotonics center. Chris was busy this wee...

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Aug. 17, 2020

The Future of K-12 Education

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jeff Wetzler, co-founder at Transcend Education, a nonprofit leading the way in holistic school design. They talk about learning science, the necessary leaps to make towards 21st century learning, as well as the imp...

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Aug. 13, 2020

The Future of Industrial Operations

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Natan Linder, CEO and co-founder of Tulip Interfaces, the manufacturing technology platform spun out of MIT Media Lab. They talk about fusing hardware, software and design to create new product experiences, touching...

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Aug. 4, 2020

Post-pandemic Tech

Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews David A. Bray, Inaugural Director of the GeoTech Center at the Atlantic Council, the esteemed Washington DC-based think tank. We talk about jazz improv, geopolitics, technology, privacy, openness, human dignity, dat...

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July 29, 2020

Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure--Introduction

Futurist and author Trond Arne Undheim reads from the introduction to his book Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure which was published by Atmosphere Press in May, 2020. The takeaway is that taking part in disruption games, just …

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July 14, 2020

Solving for Surveillance Capitalism

Futurist and author Trond Arne Undheim interviews Mathew Lowry, founder of MyHub.ai, who talks about how he sees the challenge of surveillance capitalism by big tech. The takeaway is that as polarized and broken as the online business model for …

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