The Friendly Futurist: Towards Society 5.0

In the lead up to the #cop26 conference in Glasgow, we are continuing with our campaign to meet real people making a real difference when it comes to climate change. Over the next three episodes, we …

Today's guest is Paul Shapiro, CEO and Founder of The Better Meat Co, Sacramento California. And he is here with a novel way of producing meat without harming the animal, via the Fungi Kingdom

Conti…

Today's tale is about one man, Tariq Fancy, founder of Rumie.org. His journey from corporate-financier to creating a startup with meaning and contributing back to the community.

It is also a eye-ope…

COP26, The United Nations Climate Summit is happening at the end of the month in Glasgow. And sure enough, it will be another opportunity for the Australian federal government to embarrass itself whe…

Happy International Podcasts Day!

A break from the normal programming to give you food for thought. Why is podcasting so popular?

Because it taps into an innate region of our psyche, we need storyt…

Welcome back on board the good ship SS Tomorrow for another series!

Today we are discussing the abstract, but the interesting topic of renewing our social contract, with three amazing guests with pr…

We take a break between recording seasons 3 and 4 to bring you this special news bulletin.

Lockbit 2.0 is ransomware on the increase and can be affecting a computer near you. To help us explain, an …

Today's journey on the good ship SS Tomorrow we explore spacefaring technology.

First, we travel to the year 2171, a quick tour of our cosmic neighbourhood sees a hive of mining activity throughout …

Increasing for all of us, we are living in urban environments. However, what has experience of living through the covid pandemic has taught us is that urban design and living has not changed much sin…

Today's voyage of discovery on the SS tomorrow examines the role AI plays in the modern workforce. From screening resumes to managing shift workers and performing repetitive tasks. The wheels of the …

Can AI really be taught to be creative?

Let's take another voyage into the future, on the good ship SS Tomorrow. In 2046, the singularity has happen yet we see humans and cobots (collaborative robo…

Let's first take a voyage of discovery on the good ship SS Tomorrow, back to the 17th and 19th Centuries. Here you witness some of humanity's finest work being born out of humanity's darkest hours. H…

Today on board the good ship SS Tomorrow we explore the state of genetic testing today. With special guest Dr. Yael Joffe from 3x4 Genetics in Cape Town, South Africa.

It has been nearly 30 years si…

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Imagine a world where humans can live beyond the life expectancy of 80 years. Where we can be enhanced with new biological features like night vision or photosynthesis. Sounds l…

Today we chat about how far the Wine Industry has come over the past 10 years. With our Special Guest Aubrey Terrazas from the Palate Club, France. Aubrey is a wine journalist, ethical entrepreneur a…

Wrapping up our Blockchain and Crypto Month. We investigate the one question that seems to be repeated throughout the episodes: Is crypto mining bad for the environment?

To help us out, we invited o…

Continuing our blockchain and crypto month. This week we are focusing on one application of blockchain technology you may have not thought of Accounting.

Our guest Chris D'Costa is a part of a team …

Our blockchain and crypto month continues.

This week we are joined by Erica Stanford from the Crypto Curry Club, London. She has recently written a book on the world of crypto scammers and is kind e…

Following on from Blockchain and Crypto Month. This week we get the point of view from someone setting up a marketplace and from an artist selling her wares as NFTs.

Ian Lord from Pembroke Technolog…

We continue our quest to demistify Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs). In part two we have my good friend Sam Kamani from the excellent Want Money Got Money Podcast.

Sam is a serial entrepreneur and podcast…