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Future Visions

Future Visions

Written by: Virgin
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 Will robots steal our jobs? How will shopping feel in virtual reality? Future Visions is a brand new podcast series from Virgin that explores the surreal world of tomorrow through the finest minds of today. With the help of scientists, experts and respected futurologists, presenter Natalie Campbell (Badass Women’s Hour / A Very Good Company) peers into the crystal ball to imagine what the world will look like in 20 years’ time – and what we’ll need in our future toolkit to survive. A Pixiu production for Virgin. Original theme composed by James Beckwith.

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Episodes
  • Future Visions live in London

    Future Visions live in London
    Dec 6 2017

    Natalie Campbell hosts a live Future Visions panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence and the future of work from THECUBE London.


    Following on from the first series of Future Visions we asked you, the listeners, to tell us what you wanted us to focus on next. The number of responses we received was overwhelming, with the vast majority keen to understand how the rise of AI would impact our lives. To help us answer this question we invited three of the stars of the first series to share their thoughts; Araceli Camargo (cognitive neuroscientist, lab director at The Centric Lab and co-founder of TheCUBE London), Ben Hammersley (British internet technologist, journalist, author, broadcaster and futurist) and Tracey Follows (award-winning futurist and regular commentator on the future of AI, gender, work and culture).


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    51 mins
  • Why predicting the future is a really bad idea

    Why predicting the future is a really bad idea
    Sep 27 2017
    In the final episode of the series Natalie Campbell introduces Ben Hammersley – who prefers to think of his job as being about getting people super-up-to-date rather than jumping too far ahead. He discusses whether ‘presentism’ could actually be the key to finding the optimum state for innovation, and is joined by experts including serial entrepreneur and investor Joi Ito (Director of MIT’s Media Lab) and business strategist Margaret Heffernan (author of Beyond Measure: The Big Impact Of Small Changes).

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    30 mins
  • Can we use AI to fight crime predictively?

    Can we use AI to fight crime predictively?
    Sep 13 2017
    Natalie Campbell introduces award-winning futurist Tracey Follows, who believes artificial intelligence could be a ruling force in the next 20 years. But in a world where automation is rife, can we trust algorithms to keep us safe and police our streets? To discuss the opportunity and the ethics, they are joined by data scientist Cathy O’Neil (Weapons of Math Destruction), cybercrime expert Emily Orton (Darktrace), and hacking guru Jennifer Arcuri (Hacker House).

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    35 mins
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