Episodes
36
Aug. 31, 2020
How 5G+AR might revolutionize communication
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews David A. Smith, CEO and founder of Croquet, the augmented reality collaborative operations system. In this conversation, they talk about how augmented reality builds on insights that were present among the precursor...
Guest: David A. Smith
21
Aug. 25, 2020
What's next in Energy Storage?
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Joe Adiletta, Senior Director at Ionic Materials, the battery storage spun out of Tufts University. After listening, check out Ionic Materials and Joe Adiletta's online profile: Ionic Materials https://ionicmateri...
Guest: Joe Adiletta
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Aug. 24, 2020
The Future of Child Trafficking
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Vassilia Orfanou, founder of Luxembourg Diplomacy and Communications Institute, Ludci.eu, the media diplomacy agency. We talked about child trafficking, the first problem Ludci.eu will devote its attention to. Child...
Guest: Vassilia Orfanou
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Aug. 20, 2020
The Future of Engines
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Alec Shkolnik, President and co-founder of Liquid Piston, an MIT spinout. We talk about engines and how they can power robots, vehicles and drones. Our guest has made the bold choice of making a new engine, which ha...
Guest: Alec Scholnik
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Aug. 18, 2020
Digital Health in Future Pandemics
In this episode, futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Greg Licholai, Chief Medical Officer, PRA Health Sciences, Faculty at Yale School of Management, and healthcare innovation columnist for Forbes. We talk about where digital health as a field is righ...
Guest: Greg Licholai
28
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...
Guest: Jeff Wetzler
17
Aug. 12, 2020
Pandemic Aftermath: Introduction
In this episode, the topic is Pandemic Aftermath: How Coronavirus Changes Global Society. Trond Undheim reads from the introduction to his eponymous book which was published by Atmosphere Press in June, 2020. The first portion of the book is non-fiction....
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Aug. 11, 2020
The Future of Human Perception AI
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Gabi Zijderveld, Chief Marketing Officer at Affectiva, the MIT MediaLab spinout. They talk about perceptive AI, the future of augmented reality, data privacy, and ethical uses of face recognition. The takeaway is t...
Guest: Gabi Zijderveld
15
Aug. 6, 2020
The Future of Pre-seed Investing
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Magnus Grimeland, CEO and founder of Antler, the early-stage VC. We talk about trigger points to achieve greatness, promising startups, the globalization of venture capital, the importance of finding founders with d...
Guest: Magnus Grimeland
14
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...
Guest: David Bray
9
July 23, 2020
Killer Applications of Next Decade’s Edge Computing
Futurist and author Trond Arne Undheim interviews Carlo Daffara, CEO and co-founder of NodeWeaver, discussing the future of edge computing.The takeaway is that the importance of edge computing lies, not in the technology itself, but in what it delivers...
Guest: Carlo Daffara
6
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 content ...
Guest: Mathew Lowry
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July 7, 2020
The Emergence of Remote Activism
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Laurent Liscia, entrepreneur, author, ex-diplomat and standards activist, who talks about how remote activism helped by technology can re-ignite politics. The takeaway is that remote activism will be a huge force i...
Guest: Laurent Lischia
3
July 2, 2020
The Remaking of Transportation
Host and futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews special guest Evangelos Simoudis, technologist, investor and author of the new book Transportation Transformation: How Autonomous Mobility Will Fuel New Value Chains (2020). The takeaway is that new mobili...
Guest: Evangelos Simoudis
1
June 30, 2020
How can Corporates Reignite the Entrepreneurial Spirit?
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Steve Epner, who teaches corporate entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University and was the Entrepreneur-in-residence at Boeing. They discuss how corporations and startups best innovate, together and alone, including ...
Guest: Steve Epner
2
June 30, 2020
The Future of Beverages
Futurist Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ronan McGovern, MIT alum with a PhD in mechanical engineering, serial entrepreneur and founder of Point5 Brewing, who talks about his newly launched non-alcoholic beer and muses about emerging trends in the beverage...
Guest: Ronan McGovern
June 19, 2020
Futurized Trailer
Are you exited or curious about the future? Does your job depend on it? Futurized goes beneath the trends, tracking the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. Join Trond Arne Undheim, futur...