Narrated articles and conversations with the world's foremost futures thinkers, delivered to you by FARSIGHT, a quarterly publication by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 97 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Society & Culture | |||
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The history of ideas is a history of error. Prominent scientists once believed people lived on the surface of suns — a view we now find absurd. But folly comes in many forms, and its history may be less a catalogue of embarrassments than an unlikely ... more
The 20th century French philosopher Gilbert Simondon believed that humankind harbours a primitive and xenophobic attitude to the technologies it creates. Today, we are surrounded by conversations about acceleration and automation, with the philosophe... more
On the long history and possible future of Europe's uneasy relationship to American automation.
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Author: Tallulah Richards
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)
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After a long summer break, FARSIGHT co-hosts Casper and August get meta with the Swedish superfuturist, Anders Sandberg, in the studio, reflecting on the future of their profession.
What kinds of societal conditions give rise to successful futurists... more
As generative AI disrupts the balance between effort and reward in writing and creativity, shame nevertheless remains at work, as a hidden mechanism of social control. Might a cultural backlash to generative AI cause widespread 'chat-shaming', and if... more
AI promises a pornography without abuse, without performers, without limits – and, apparently, without much imagination. Might the biggest disappointment of AI porn be how boring it is?
This article was first featured in Issue 17: The Future of Vice... more
Expectations are that AI will automate a significant percentage of the knowledge economy’s workforce and make their jobs redundant. We dig into the futurist toolbox to interrogate this assumption – punctuated by a provocative scenario snippet from 20... more
Writing in the ruins of post-war Europe, Dutch futurist Fred Polak argued that societies rise and fall based on the vitality of their images of the future. By that measure, he believed, Western civilization was headed for terminal decline.
In his 1... more
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The show centers on long-range thinking, futures studies, and the ideas shaping tomorrow's world. Across episodes, it trends toward intellectual explorations of forecasting methods, macro-trends in technology, geopolitics, climate, and civilization-scale questions, often blending historical context with contemporary debates. Notable throughlines include scenario planning, the ethics of risk and uncertainty, the role of elites and institutions in shaping futures, and the tension between optimism and accountability when imagining long-term change. A distinctive trait is the integration of rigorous academic perspectives with accessible, narrative-driven discussions, making complex foresight concepts approachable for listeners who are evaluatin... more
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4. Luke Brunning
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