Sylvia Gallusser 'The Ethics and Philosophy of Futures'

05/07/24 • 61 min

Series Three
This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Sylvia Gallusser, who is a renowned Global Futurist and the CEO of Silicon Humanism. Based in San Fransisco, she's an inquirer of our future, conducting foresight projects on the future of health, well-aging, and social interaction, the future of work and life-long learning, as well as transformations in mobility and retail.
Sylvia closely monitors the future of the mind and transhumanism, investigates Artificial General Intelligence and AI ethics. She's also involved in the future of our oceans and sustainability, and supports positive ocean tech startups.
Over the past year, she focused her research on mental health in the workplace and remote work environments, and the future home. Sylvia has launched an "Ethics and Philosophy of Futures" think tank within the Association of Professional Futurists. She's also a Go-to-Metaverse Strategist, helping brands enter the metaverse and web3 strategically and ethically, and co-designing focused metaverse brand activation.
An author of Speculative Fiction , Sylvia teaches MBA classes, and facilitates workshops on go-to-market strategy, competitive analysis, futures thinking, worldbuilding, and entrepreneurship.
So...as you can no doubt imagine, I really enjoyed listening to her viewpoints - and I'm sure you will too!

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Alice Charles 'Emerging Challenges re: the Cities of Tomorrow'

Series Three
In this episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast I interview the incredibly dynamic Alice Charles, who leads the World Economic Forum's cities work streams, inc the Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization and its workstreams on City Climate & Resilience, Urban Inclusion, City Digital Transformation and City Financing. She's also created the City Dialogues series, which enables curated discussions between city leaders and leaders of business, civil society and academia on the city's future vision and collaborative action. Alice provides advice and direction on a variety of Forum initiatives inc the Future of Real Estate, BiodiverseCities 2030, Net Zero Carbon Cities and Sustainable Timber and the Built Environment. In addition, she leads the production of cities related content and events at WEF Summits, including Davos. So, and as you can imagine, we cover a lot of ground covering the above issues. I found her viewpoints absolutely fascinating and hope you do too!

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Tom Lombardo 'The History of Futurism & Futures Studies'

Series Three
This episode of #TheNewAbnormal podcast features a fascinating interview with a renowned futurist, Tom Lombardo.
He's a Director at the Center for Future Consciousness, which offers educational experiences that challenge and stimulate the mind, expand conscious awareness, empower creativity, deepen understanding, enhance ethics and promote social growth. Tom is also an Exec Board Member and Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, and Editor at the Journal of Futures Studies.
In this deeply interesting and wide-ranging conversation, Tom discusses issues including the history of futurism, his best-selling books, notable futurists / philosophers / psychologists / authors, along with contemporary leading-edge thinking into the overall subject of futurism, foresight and scenario planning.
So...I hope you enjoy listening to his viewpoints as much as I did!