Foresight with Greg Williams

From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0000

DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.

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Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.
Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.
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The Circular Bioeconomy

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 04:00:00 -0000

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Mathieu Flamini, CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a leading sustainable biochemical company with the mission to end chemical pollution by finding safer and more sustainable alternatives to the harmful petrochemicals commonly found in everyday products. They discuss decarbonising the chemical industry and building the circular bioeconomy.

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Humanity, the Economy and Climate Change – Can We Fix Things?

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 04:00:00 -0000

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg cstches up with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A talk about how we make the connection between climate change and the state of the economy.

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Sowing the Seeds for a Better Food System

Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:21:00 -0000

Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Arnavaz Schatten, director of sustainability at the Berlin-based vertical farming firm InFarm dicuss how vertical farms can massively reduce the environmental impact of our food system. "What could possibly work on Mars could be hugely beneficial on Earth today. We don’t need to wait for the Mars scenario. We need this kind of farming on Earth now,” said Arnavaz when speaking at WIRED Impact in November 2022.

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Making Better Climate Policy

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 16:59:00 -0000

To create better outcomes we have to create the right governmental and legal frameworks. So how do we make better policy and implement it effectively?

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Alyssa Gilbert, the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute. Alyssa builds real-world impact by connecting relevant research across the university with policy-makers and businesses.

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The Case For Climate Led Investing

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 04:00:00 -0000

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Evelina Olago, the Managing Director, Client & Strategy at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable investment firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore. They discuss how Evelina is working to find new ways to deploy capital in ways that will have outsize impact for the climate and enable us to transition to net zero effectively.

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Using Nature for Packaging

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 04:00:00 -0000

In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Insiya Jafferjee the CEO and cofounder of UK biotech startup, Shellworks that aims to replace plastic with materials based in nature.

It is estimated that UK households throw away a staggering 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging a year, averaging 66 items per household per week. In this episode, Insiya discusses how her interdisciplinary team is innovating in material science in order to be able to scale products that after use, will be consumed by microbes that are abundant in soil and marine environments.

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Green Energy Will Be Bigger Than The Internet

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0000

In the second episode our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Greg Jackson the CEO of Octopus Energy Group to discuss how we’re at the early stages of dramatic growth in green energy – one that has parallels in the explosive growth of the internet of the past twenty years. They also touch on how we're going to get to net zero, the challenges of getting renewable energy onto complex grids, EV infrastructure, national security and more.

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Migration Is Not The Problem, It Is The Solution

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 06:00:00 -0000

In our very first episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Gaia Vince, author of the groundbreaking work Adventures In The Anthropocene for which she travelled to over 50 countries to map the ways humans are altering the planet forever.

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If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable with Mikko Hyppönen

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 06:45:00 -0000

Connecting the world online has brought enormous benefits but it has also digitised the way in which harmful things can happen. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Mikko Hyppönen, Author of 'If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable', originator of the Hyppönen law and Chief Research Officer at WithSecure to discuss how we can counter the growing onslaught of toxic code thats coursing through the internet looking for vulnerabilities.

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Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft on future of artificial intelligence

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 15:16:19 -0000

AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone alongside solving some of the worlds most vexing problems. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Kevin Scott, the CTO of Microsoft to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how it can be realistically used to serve the interests of everyone.

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Reid Hoffman on strategies to grow startups into global brands

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:00:00 -0000

In this episode of Foresight, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied entrepreneurs and investors, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) and his co-founder of the media company behind Masters of Scale, June Cohen join Foresight to share the different strategies entrepreneurs can use to drive a companies growth.

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Exploring Quantum Computing with Jeremy O’Brien

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 20:00:00 -0000

In this episode, Greg is joined by renowned physicist and CEO of PsiQuantum, Jeremy O’Brien to talk about quantum computing; to understand the Implications of it, the potential applications from drug discovery to the geopolitical impact and explore how the field will develop over the coming years.

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Beeple on Art as a Subscription

Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:30:00 -0000

Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, shares how his latest piece, “Human One,” will continue to update over time—and what that means for how digital art will be viewed in the future.

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MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us with Parag Khanna

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 12:46:40 -0000

In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Parag Khanna, global strategy advisor and author of MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us explore the new age of mass migration and the deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for the future.

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Regulating Technology with Marietje Schaake

Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:00:00 -0000

In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center explore the rapid growth of big technology and solutions for governments to consider as they look to regulate big technology.

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The Atlas of AI with Kate Crawford

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:00:00 -0000

In this episode, we explore how AI is currently perceived and the wider societal impacts of AI that are changing how power is concentrated across the world.

Even though AI infiltrates many aspects of our lives from security, banking and retail through to climate change and politics, most people’s vision of AI is that it’s abstract and immaterial. In this podcast, we’ll discuss how AI is made in a wider sense - the environmental costs, the labour processes and the way that it classifies and shapes the world around us.

Designed as an extension of WIRED's long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

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Reimagining Capitalism with Rebecca Henderson

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 19:00:00 -0000

In this episode, Rebecca Henderson, Author of Reimagining Capitalism speaks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief, Greg Williams to discuss how we can develop models that deliver strong economic growth that ensures prosperity and wellbeing for human beings while also protecting and nurturing the planet.

“We need to think of ourselves as an integrated world where we can’t escape. We have a joint destiny. Hopefully the pandemic will begin to make us think about global cooperation in a different way.” - Rebecca Henderson

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Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology with Rana el Kaliouby

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:00:00 -0000

In a digital world, how do we build empathy into the algorithms that run our lives? WIRED UK's editor, Greg Williams sat down with Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, and author of 'Girl Decoded' to discuss how to bring emotional intelligence to technology during a global health emergency, such as the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020.

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The Lonely Century with Noreena Hertz

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:00:00 -0000

Noreena Hertz, who is a renowned economist and author of The Lonely Century (one of WIRED’s picks for the best books of 2020) explores why this is the lonely century, how we got here and what each of us can do to help reduce loneliness for ourselves and our communities.

"With one in five adults, saying that they felt lonely often or all of the time, with one in five millennials saying that they didn't have a single friend at all and with 40% of office workers, saying that they felt lonely at work" Hertz felt compelled to explore this loneliness phenomenon.

"As I started looking at this data I realised that we were really, in the midst of a global loneliness crisis, a crisis that was affecting our health or wealth and the state of our democracy."

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Carissa Véliz on The Power of Privacy

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:00:00 -0000

In this episode, Carissa Véliz, associate professor in philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, Oxford University explores how, in a constantly shifting digital era, we can reclaim our privacy and ensure that data brokers, tech giants and governments collect and use data in ways that consumers approve and are transparent.

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The Plague Year: America in The Time of Covid with Lawrence Wright

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 19:00:00 -0000

In this episode, Pulitzer Prize winner, writer and journalist, Lawrence Wright reveals the oversights and errors that impacted the response the US had to COVID-19, sharing the wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain the virus. His latest book, “The Plague Year” is his testament to the year of COVID-19 in America.

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The Good Country Equation with Simon Anholt

Thu, 27 May 2021 19:00:00 -0000

WIRED editor Greg Williams and independent policy advisor and bestselling author, Simon Anholt investigate how we can defeat global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, war, poverty, migration and extremism with 'The Good Country Equation' - his formula for empowering governments and future generations to collaborate.

Designed as an extension of WIRED’s long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.

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Rebooting retail with Shimona Mehta

Thu, 20 May 2021 19:00:00 -0000

What new strategies are retailers adopting to stand out online and retain customers during an e-commerce boom that has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic? Shopify's head of EMEA, Shimona Mehta sat down with WIRED editor-in-chief Greg Williams to share how brands are standing out in a crowded e-commerce space.

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The UK's AI roadmap with Sana Khareghani

Thu, 13 May 2021 16:00:00 -0000

Sana Khareghani, head of the UK government's Office for Artificial Intelligence, talks to WIRED editor Greg Williams to explore the UK government's AI strategy and the role AI will play in helping rebuild the post-Covid economy.

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The road to recovery and life in 2025 with Ben Page

Wed, 05 May 2021 14:13:15 -0000

Ben Page, chief executive of Ipsos MORI joins Greg Williams in looking ahead to 2025 and explore future scenarios for business, consumers and society in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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In conversation with DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis

Fri, 05 Mar 2021 16:39:12 -0000

Demis Hassabis, CEO and co-founder of DeepMind, joins Greg Williams to discuss how AI can impact scientific research, building multidisciplinary teams – and how to combat algorithmic bias

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Shared experiences in future virtual worlds with Herman Narula

Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:36:12 -0000

Herman Narula, CEO and co-founder of Improbable, joins Greg Williams to explore the dynamics of social connection forged through virtual worlds – and how Covid-19 has impacted these relationships

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Survival and the future with economist Richard Davies

Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:04:31 -0000

Richard Davies, economist and author of Extreme Economies joins Greg Williams to share his insight of extreme economies to better understand the long-term impact of Covid-19

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Deepfakes and the infocalypse with Nina Schick

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:58:51 -0000

Greg Williams and Nina Schick explore the rise of fake news and the disturbingly outsized impact this type of misinformation has on how we think and behave

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Big Tech and Covid-19: Power and accountability with Rana Foroohar

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:25:45 -0000

Author Rana Foroohar on the heightened power of big tech during the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for stronger regulation

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The future of work and collaboration with John Maeda

Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:39:40 -0000

John Maeda, technologist and chief experience officer at Publicis, joins WIRED editor Greg Williams to discuss the impact of the pandemic on collaboration, customer experience and future operations.

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