Episodes

Oct. 29, 2024

Physical Security

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Faisal Pandit, VP & GM of Global Security Products at Johnson Controls. They discuss the future of physical security, in a context where technology ...

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Oct. 22, 2024

Indoor Solar Futures

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Giovanni Fili, Founder & CEO of Exeger Sweden AB. They discuss the future of indoor solar and his vision to remove all the disposable batteries in t...

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Oct. 16, 2024

Personalization

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews David C. Edelman, co-author of Personalized, former CMO of Aetna and a visionary in AI-powered personalization and customer strategy. They discuss p...

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Oct. 1, 2024

The World in 2050

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. They discuss the world at mid-...

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Sept. 10, 2024

Psychological Fragility

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Dana Klisanin, a psychologist, futurist, and author. They discuss coping mechanisms for existential risk worries and events, including engaging in r...

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Aug. 27, 2024

CRISPR in the Future

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Neal Baer, author of The Promise and Peril of CRISPR , Harvard lecturer and well-known TV producer. They discuss why CRISPR keeps him up at night, i...

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Aug. 20, 2024

Microscale 3D printing

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews John Kawola, CEO of Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). They discuss the opportunities of micro-scale 3D printing to transform supply chains, create new...

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Aug. 13, 2024

Futuristic Encryption

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Rand Hindi, an entrepreneur and deeptech investor who is the CEO at Zama, an open source homomorphic encryption company. They discuss the future of ...

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May 28, 2024

Biosecurity Activism

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Sofya Lebedeva, PhD-student in clinical medicine at the University of Oxford, where she works on immunology. They discuss the skills necessary to be successful in the inte...

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May 21, 2024

Serendipity Networks

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Ken Stanley, CEO & founder of Maven, a new online social network focused on following interests, not people. Stanley is the author of Why Greatness Cannot be Planned …

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May 14, 2024

Drone monitoring

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Mathieu Johnsson, CEO & founder of Marble, a drone startup specializing in marine drone monitoring. They discuss the the implications of wanting to monitor the maritime...

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May 7, 2024

Digitizing Biotech

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jason Paragas, CEO and founder of the startup DVLP about the prospect of blockchain-based drug development. They discuss Paragas's work on digitizing biotech, making drug de...

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March 26, 2024

Epistemic Security

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Elizabeth Seger, Ph.D., the Director of CASM, Demos’ digital policy research hub. DEMOS is a cross-party political think tank in London, UK. Seger is also a research affili...

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March 19, 2024

Food After Nuclear Winter

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Florian Jehn, Data Science Leader at ALLFED. They discuss how present-day efforts to stay within planetary boundaries affect the survivors of an all-out nuclear war? This is...

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March 12, 2024

Existential Risks

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Dan Zimmer, Affiliate at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative (SERI). They discuss takeaways...

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Jan. 23, 2024

Robotic AI

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Daniel Theobald, Founder of Vecna Robotics and MassRobotics. They discuss the future of robotic AI, the major use cases in factories, logistics, and elsewhere, the impact of generati...

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Jan. 9, 2024

Existential Risk Controversies

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews philosopher Emile Torres. They discuss the current controversies surrounding existential risk, including whether we should prioritize safeguarding the very long term over co...

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Dec. 5, 2023

The Near Future of Quantum Computing

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Mark Jackson, Senior Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum. They discuss the near future of quantum computing including its near term use cases in batteries, medicine, and crypto...

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June 13, 2023

The Road to Regenerative Capitalism

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews John Fullerton, President and Founder of the Capital Institute. They discuss the future of finance, specifically the arduous road to regenerative capitalism, including the p...

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June 6, 2023

A Radically Different Future of Work

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Tiffany Vora. They discuss the multi-career normal, learning, exploration, what the world will look and feel like in the distant tomorrow, synthetic biology, and the value o...

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May 31, 2023

End of The World 2075 Board Game

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim introduces his new board game End of The World 2075, which is now on Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/yegii/end-of-the-world-2075. End of the World 2075 is a deep...

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May 30, 2023

Fictitious Capital in our Global System

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Taimur Ahmad, a Stanford graduate student focusing on policy and energy systems, and author of the Fictitious Capital newsletter. They discuss how the global paradigm of con...

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April 25, 2023

Hope in Hell for the Earth

In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jonathon Porritt, author, Co-founder, Forum of the Future. They discuss how the sciences say everything is getting worse everywhere, yet there is still time, perhaps a decad...

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April 18, 2023

Tackling Titanium

In this episode of Futurized, we interview Anastasios Arima, CEO & co-founder, IperionX. We discuss the challenge of bringing down the cost and environmental impact of titanium in the industrial supply chain, using novel technology that might be able...

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