Category: Futurati Podcast

Watch our interview with Eric Yakes on Youtube or listen on the Futurati Podcast website. 

Eric Yakes graduated with a double major in finance and economics from Creighton University, and 3 years later earned his CFA charter. He began his career at FTI Consulting in their Corporate Finance and Restructuring group and then moved to Lion Equity Partners, a distressed buyout private equity fund. All the while he intently followed Bitcoin, and its development eventually led him to author the book “The 7th Property: Bitcoin and the Monetary Revolution”.

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Watch our interview with Eric Yakes on Youtube or listen on the Futurati Podcast website. 

Eric Yakes graduated with a double major in finance and economics from Creighton University, and 3 years later earned his CFA charter. He began his career at FTI Consulting in their Corporate Finance and Restructuring group and then moved to Lion Equity Partners, a distressed buyout private equity fund. All the while he intently followed Bitcoin, and its development eventually led him to author the book “The 7th Property: Bitcoin and the Monetary Revolution”.

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Watch our interview with Nathan Young on Youtube or listen on the Futurati Podcast website.

Nathan Young. Nathan is a corporate strategist and marketing expert who has been exceptionally active in the Effective Altruism movement, the prediction markets community, and in discussions around designing good policy.

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• “Ep. 53: Mauro F. Guillén on the world in 2030.”
• “Ep. 46: Shermon Cruz on gamification, engaged foresight, and the methodology of futurism.”
• “Ep. 24: Woody Wade, scenario planning expert, talks to us about strategic forecasting”

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Watch our interview with George Selgin on Youtube or listen on the Futurati Podcast website. 

George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus of the the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary history, macroeconomic theory, and the history of monetary thought.

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Watch our interview with John Spencer on Youtube or listen to it on the Futurati Podcast.

John Spencer is a pioneering outer space architect with design awards from NASA for his work on the International Space Station (ISS). He is the founder of the Space Tourism Society, co-founder of the Space Tourism Conference, and co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Mars World Enterprises, Inc. His work aims at promoting and developing the Space Experience Economy (SEE).

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Watch our interview with Velina Tchakarova on Youtube or on the Futurati Podcast website.

Velina Tchakaravo is the Director at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria. Her work includes research, consulting, and lectures on Global System Transformation and the geostrategy of global actors.

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• “Ep. 76: Samo Burja on Russia, Ukraine, and the new, emerging global order.”
• “Ep. 71: Vance Crowe on culture, narrative engineering, and the future of social media.”
• “Ep. 69: Ben Landau-Taylor on social technology, institutions, and the future.”
• “Ep. 50: Velina Tchakarova on geopolitics and the world after COVID.”

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Watch our interview with Elaine Pofeldt on Youtube or listen on the Futurati Podcast.

Elaine Pofeldt is an independent journalist and speaker specializing in careers and entrepreneurship. In 2018 she published a well-received book called “The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business”, and today she’s joining us to discuss her newest book “Tiny Business, Big Money”.

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Watch our interview with Michael Cushman on Youtube or listen on the Futurati Podcast website.

Michael Cushman is the former president of Engaging Change, head of strategy at the Garlic Media Group, and the managing director of the consulting arm of the Da Vinci Institute, as well as a noted expert on the future of education, the future of real estate, and myriad other topics.

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• “Ep. 65: Brad Templeton on the Metaverse, VR applications, and genetic privacy.”
• “Ep. 41: Complexity science and its applications with Geoffrey West.”
• “Ep 22: Logan Thrasher Collins talks to us about synthetic biology, aesthetics, and his research.”

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Watch our interview with Samo Burja on Youtube.

Samo Burja is a sociologist and the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a firm that analyzes institutions, from governments to companies. His research work focuses on the causes of societal decay and flourishing and he writes on history, epistemology and strategy.

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• “Ep. 71: Vance Crowe on culture, narrative engineering, and the future of social media.”
• “Ep. 69: Ben Landau-Taylor on social technology, institutions, and the future.”
• “Ep. 50: Velina Tchakarova on geopolitics and the world after COVID.”

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Watch Trent’s talk on Youtube or listen on the Futurati Podcast website. 

Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author, and co-host of the Futurati Podcast. As someone who’s worked at several crypto startups, he has years of experience dealing with blockchain data and thinking about the blockchain’s mechanics. This episode is adapted from a talk he recently gave explaining at a high level how this remarkable technology works and what it might mean for the future.

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• “Ep. 72: Jeffrey Booth on deflation, blockchain, and progress.”
• “Ep. 68: Teresa Grobecker on the intersection of real estate and the blockchain.”
• “Ep. 64: Max Galka on building a universal search engine for the blockchain.”
• “Ep. 63: Radhika Iyengar-Emens on enterprise blockchain and deeptech.”

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Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author, and co-host of the Futurati Podcast. As someone who’s worked at several crypto startups, he has years of experience dealing with blockchain data and thinking about the blockchain’s mechanics. This episode is adapted from a talk he recently gave explaining at a high level how this remarkable technology works and what it might mean for the future.

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