Back from 2040: Recent Episodes
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What could 2040 look like? A broad range of business professionals, academic and futurists were asked to put themselves in 2040, explain what their 2040 looks like and what needs to happen today to get there.
In this version of 2040, we take a look at what the Gen Alpha children’s reality looks like. In this episode, Cathy Hackl, Founder & Chief Metaverse Officer at Journey, visit her three children in 2040 and discuss how new technologies have been created to express themselves through fashion, how virtual reality is now a mainstream reality and the transition to virtual currencies in different forms.
The guest recently back from 2040 is:
Cathy Hackl, Founder & Chief Metaverse Officer at Journey
Back from 2040 is a podcast where speakers reflect on their 2040. In this version of 2040, humans being an interplanetary species will no longer be confined to sci-fi. It will be a reality. In this episode, Dava Newman, MIT Media Lab and former NASA Deputy Administrator, explores the impact of discovering evidence of past life on Mars, how we've ensured that everyone gets to experience what space looks like and how space exploration has made us so much more appreciate of our own spaceship, Planet Earth.
The guest recently back from 2040 is:
Dava Newman, Director at MIT Media Lab
In 2040, gender equality is no longer a topic. Equality has spread across different areas - from health to education. In this episode, Fatou Ndiaye discusses her 2040 and describes how many of the challenges around gender equality have been addressed in the years leading to 2040, and how having women in positions of power in business and politics has reshaped the world.
The guest recently back from 2040 is:
Fatou Ndiaye, Founder & CEO of The Wonders
How will we manage to crack the whole cybersecurity problem which we faced in the early 2020s by 2040? In this episode, Alexander Klimburg, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, travels to 2040 and explores how a political solution helped resolve some of the biggest cybersecurity problems, and how security issues were balanced out by regions coming together and aligning law enforcement.
The guest recently back from 2040 is:
Alexander Klimburg, Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum
In 2040, technology has blurred the lines between time and space, enabling the urban and rural divide to fall away. Far from being undermined by technology, the sense of community has been enhanced, as we recognize the importance of the human touch. In this episode, Julia Glidden, CVP, Worldwide Public Sector at Microsoft, describes how in 2040 we’re able to be anywhere, at any time, living, working, and experiencing together, and how we have put human agency over technology so that it’s used for the service of humans around the world.
The guest recently back from 2040 is:
Julia Glidden, CVP Worldwide Public Sector, Microsoft
Democratizing technology-related decision making to enable companies to move fast. Accepting mistakes and failures. And removing bottle necks to remain competitive. In this episode of Back from 2040, Eran Zinman, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Monday.com discusses the future of enterprise innovation and gives great tips on being open to feedback and criticism from his experience as an entrepreneur.
The guest recently back from 2040 is:
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Monday.com
Farmers in 2040 are able to better protect crops from challenges like pests and drought through advanced prediction methods and agricultural technologies (Agtech). This translates into significant leap in production but also more environmentally sounds practices. Diego Stone, CEO of KrillTech, 2021 KPMG Private Enterprise Global Tech Innovator winner is just back from 2040 and the next guest on our podcast Back from 2040. Diego explains how digitization and automation have changed the agriculture landscape with nanotechnology taking precision agriculture to almost unimaginable levels. These changes will have profound impacts on many society’s challenges poverty and hunger.
With the enhanced development of technologies like augmented reality, visual recognition, advanced haptic suits and AI, Roni Michael, Global Head of Innovation, KPMG International discusses with Singularity University’s Co-CEOs on how people in 2040 no longer fear that technology will take over their life. Instead, they embrace it for what it truly is, highly functioning tools. In this episode Roni discusses with her guests their views of the impact of technology on the human condition in 2040. They explain how the freedom from that fear of technology allows people to use technology to remove menial tasks from lives which can free people to use their creativity more, and be even more human.
The guests, recently back from 2040 are:
Lisa Andrews and Christina Gerakiteys, Co-CEOs of Singularity University Australia