If Part 1 names the crisis, Part 2 confronts the consequences of continuing as we are.

This second part of my conversation with Arthur Keller moves from diagnosis to responsibility, and from observation to choice.

We explore what collapses first when systems fail, not just infrastructures, but trust, meaning, and social cohesion.

🧠 Psychological denial

🔥 Escalating systemic shocks

🏙 Fragile urban concentration

⚖ Growing inequality and exposure

🗳 Democratic systems under strain

Collapse is rarely sudden. It is cumulative, uneven, and deeply political.

Some populations are protected longer than others, but no one is outside the system.

Arthur challenges the idea that adaptation will happen naturally or smoothly.

Without conscious choices, adaptation becomes brutal selection.

The question is no longer whether change is coming.

It is whether we prepare together, or fragment under pressure.

In this episode we explore

✨ why resilience is not a technical problem

✨ how fear shapes political responses

✨ the risk of authoritarian reflexes

✨ the limits of individual solutions

✨ what collective lucidity actually demands

Part 2 closes the conversation by asking what it would mean to act without illusion, without panic, and without false comfort.

🎙 The Future We Must Build - Part 1

The world is entering a period of deep instability and no society will be spared. In this first part of my conversation with Arthur Keller, we explore the forces already reshaping the conditions of life on this planet.

🌡 Climate overshoot

🌿 Biodiversity collapse

⛽ Resource depletion

📉 Economic fragility

🏛 Institutions unable to think systemically

These are not separate problems. They form a single planetary crisis that will affect everyone, rich or poor, north or south.

Arthur explains why our societies remain unprepared, why institutions cannot think at the scale required, and why information alone rarely leads to meaningful change.

His formulation is stark.

Almost no one changes after understanding the issues.

Information does not move people.

So what does move people

And what does it really mean to face a systemic crisis with clarity instead of denial

In this episode we explore

✨ the limits of institutional thinking

✨ why warnings are ignored

✨ how stories shape action

✨ the collapse of political imagination

✨ the need to rebuild meaning before rebuilding systems

Part 1 lays the groundwork for the ethical and cultural questions taken up in Part 2.

Artificial intelligence now influences decisions in health, justice, and finance. In this episode of inSUBSTANTIA, Gabor Farkas speaks with Mariana de la Roche Wills, Co Chair of INATBA’s AI and Blockchain Convergences Task Force and leader at BlackVogel. They explore how blockchain can enhance trust, transparency, and accountability in AI, the limits of decentralisation, and why human oversight remains essential.

🎙️ Blockchain and AI. Trust, fairness, and accountability with Mariana de la Roche Wills

Artificial intelligence now shapes decisions that affect real lives, from healthcare to criminal justice. How do we make sure these systems remain transparent, fair, and accountable. Can blockchain, often described as a trust machine, help us achieve that, or does it create new risks of its own.

In this episode of inSUBSTANTIA, Gabor Farkas speaks with Mariana de la Roche Wills, Co Chair of INATBA’s AI and Blockchain Convergences Task Force and leader at BlackVogel. Drawing from her background in law, human rights, and digital governance, Mariana explores how these two transformative technologies converge in practice, and what it takes to align them with human values.

💡 In this conversation

• How blockchain could enhance transparency and accountability in high stakes AI

• The paradox of privacy and traceability under GDPR

• Governance in decentralised systems and the limits of democracy in code

• Environmental impact and tokenisation beyond greenwashing

• Equity, inclusion, and the risk of digital colonialism

• Why human oversight must remain central in automated systems

⚙️ Editorial note

A technical issue affected the start of the recording. The introduction and Mariana’s first response were re recorded, so you may notice a small difference in tone at the beginning.

🎧 inSUBSTANTIA. Exploring ideas, challenging assumptions.