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2024-03-01T18:39:00.000Z

The New Global Order

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Markku Wilenius

Dr. Markku Wilenius is the Unesco Chair in Learning Society and Futures Education. This week on The Futurists, Markku shares his global perspective on emerging trends and regional conflicts, including the fate of the EU, the newly-active BRICs, Chinese military projection, the end of US hegemony, the emergence of new trade blocks and what lies beyond the limits of global society. Dr Markku Wilenius on the web: https://www.markkuwilenius.net/

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2025-09-12T15:38:00.000Z

The Next War

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Mike Woodward

Best selling author M.P. “Mike” Woodward joins the Futurists to share scenarios for the future of the next major naval war in the Pacific. How might a war between the United States and China happen? According to Woodward, it begins with a struggle to control the chips that govern artificial intelligence, then rapidly escalates to a massive ocean-spanning clash between two navies bristling with high tech gear. Woodward exposes critical weaknesses in US military preparedness and he speculates about innovations in weaponry and tactics. Woodward’s new book RED TIDE provides the basis for a lively discussion about the politics, economics and strategy that will determine the course of the next world war.

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2025-08-22T16:43:00.000Z

Quantum Days

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Steve Suarez

In this week’s episode Steve Suarez from Horizon X Quantum and one on the speakers at the Futurists Summit discusses the reality of the famed Q-Day or Quantum Day - a date sometime in the near future when Quantum computers can break our existing RSA encryption technologies exposing banks, government and military to significant cyber security risk. How real is it and how can we prepare our institutions for this change? Suarez and Brett get into it

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2023-09-21T21:00:11.354Z

Metaverse and Weaponized Tech

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Mark Pesce

Award-winning author and technologist Mark Pesce tells us about the deep history of today’s consumer technology in military R&D including the 30 year arc of the Metaverse which Pesce himself kickstarted in the early 1990s. Pesce points out how consumer technology has outpaced the defense innovation, and now has become a front for a new kind of warfare.