Futurist Explains Why Dystopia Is Not Inevitable | Pivot

Kara Swisher and guest host Lydia Polgreen talk to futurist Ari Wallach about his new PBS series "A Brief History of the Future." Wallach explains how he's approaching the future with optimism, instead of doom and gloom, and why we need to move away from short-term thinking. #pivot #podcast #future

Kara SwisherhostAri WallachguestLydia Polgreenhost

Apr 2, 202416mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: April 2, 2024
Duration: 16m
Channel: Pivot
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Kara Swisher and guest host Lydia Polgreen talk to futurist Ari Wallach about his new PBS series "A Brief History of the Future." Wallach explains how he's approaching the future with optimism, instead of doom and gloom, and why we need to move away from short-term thinking. #pivot #podcast #future

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Kara Swisher
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Ari Wallach
guest
Lydia Polgreen
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Pivot, featuring Kara Swisher and Ari Wallach, Futurist Explains Why Dystopia Is Not Inevitable | Pivot explores futurist Argues Hopeful, Human-Centered Futures Are A Choice, Not Fate Ari Wallach, futurist and host of PBS’s “A Brief History of the Future,” explains that futurism is a structured discipline that extrapolates from long-term megatrends to build probabilistic scenarios about the future, rather than making crystal-ball predictions.

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