Futures studies

His key focus is across applied foresight, long-term strategy and anticipatory governance.

Just to cover off some of his current roles before I introduce him, he's a director in the Doctorate Programme in Management at the University of Columbia.

He's an advisory board member in the Global Foresight Network, a care of the World Economic Forum.

He's a member of the Global Government Foresight Community of OECD, a board member for Interpol Futures Council, Asia-Pacific Coordinator for the Group of Experts at Colpec, and a columnist for the Diario La Republica, Colombia's leading economic newspaper.

All sounds absolutely fantastic.

So, Freddy, hi, and how are you?

So.

Really interesting.

Hi, and welcome to Futurology.

I'm Dawn Nakagawa, your host.

In this episode, we have Grant Slater, the senior producer of Futurology, in conversation with Bobby Allyn, an NPR reporter who covers the relationship between tech and power.

Recently, Bobby's been studying prediction markets, which sound pretty innocuous.

Humanity's always trying to understand the future, whether it's futures markets or it's futurology.

And at the moment, people around the current administration of the United States government are benefiting from their rise.

This alarming connection between this new technology and the current political powers are what Bobby has been studying and explores in this interview with Grant.

And with that, let's go to the interview with Grant and Bobby on Futurology.