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Futurism and Foresight
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In this episode of the Moonshine Moonshot streaming series, hosts Sue Collins and Mike Hill talk about their new project Futurists World and the Moonshot thinking explored in the series. The purpose of the Futurists World series is to move humanity forward and inspire long-term thinking.
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Hello and welcome to the Moonshine Moonshot Podcast. We're here to talk about what the seemingly impossible and how to make it possible. We're going to be talking about impact. We're going to be talking about how to move humanity forward and what all of this means. I'm Sue Collins and this is Mike Hill.
SPEAKER_01Hello, and we're here to talk about the future. Ooh, sounds like there's a problem with the future, Sue.
SPEAKER_00Yes, sounds like the DeLoreans a bit unwell today.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, they can do that. So why on earth would we want to tell
Why make a show about Futurism and Foresight?
SPEAKER_01a, you know, why would we want to make a whole series about the future, things that haven't happened yet? Is it part of Moonshot and this idea?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well, I think it is. I mean, our company Moonshine Agency, um, for those of you who don't know us, um we've been producing um impact films for around 10 years now. So just recently had our 10th birthday, and um we over the last couple of years have been collecting some pretty fascinating interviews with um futurists. And one of the reasons for that, apart from Mike's enormous passion for sci-fi and futurism, is uh we're part of our company mission is to move humanity forward.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's right. And I guess, you know, in the course of doing our jobs, uh, which are focused around making impact films, we do get this opportunity to interview, like it's literally hundreds of people who are often thought leaders, prominent people in the world, and there's this kind of common thread that comes up. Uh, they have these amazing visions for the future and how to change things for the better. They know what the problems are, they know what the solutions are, but they're stopped by, you know, bad leadership, you know, governments that are, you know, uh not making enough of a change. So we've you know created this series as a response to that idea, all the short-term thinking that we're seeing uh in politics these days. Let's try and get back to some more long-term visions of the future, big picture moonshots that can actually be game changers for us, for humanity, for the climate, for the world at large. And really, a lot of the inspiration for this comes from Arthur C. Clarke.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I I I think um I'm gonna come back to Arthur C. Clarke, but um, I think one of the other big motivators for us to really do this series was that um,
What’s wrong with the news?
SPEAKER_00you know, it's so hard watching the news, it's so short-sighted, it's so um negative. It's you know, you watch 10 minutes of news and you feel like the whole world's gonna end, but then you go and spend an hour with a futurist and you think the world is our oyster. There is so much opportunity, there is just so much potential for what we can do and who we can be as as humans on this planet, and so we've got to shift the gear on that.
SPEAKER_01I totally agree with you on the news, you know. Between the news and social media, you know, depending on what you're looking at, I mean, it does your head in. This has got to be, you know, we've got these skyrocketing rates of shit mental health. It's got to be partly to do with consuming all this bad news all the time. Like, I just feel like I'm in a state of, you know, like anxiety and trauma sometimes from watching this stuff, and it's just at you now, 24-7, you can't get away from it. So totally agree. This is a response to that. This is a good news story about, you know. I mean, and not everyone we've interviewed, you know, uh has a utopian view of the future or anything, but they are focused on problems and solutions and thinking about how do we get there over time, how do we make a better tomorrow? And that recharges my batteries.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I DeLorean's still sick. Um, so I think uh I lost my train of thought now. I was I was gonna just reflect on even even though some of the futurists we've spoken to um have uh had a more dystopian
One thing all futurists have in common?
SPEAKER_00view of the future, they all have a common thread in that they all believe that humanity can do it. You know, whether we choose to do it or not is another question. But the the belief that we as humans can achieve extraordinary things is consistent. I've not heard any of them, and we've interviewed dozens now, I've not heard any of them say we're doomed. It's it watch the news, that's the reality.
SPEAKER_01So, how about Arthur C. Clarke?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, sorry, coming back to your favourite author there, Arthur
How Arthur C Clarke inspired the series.
SPEAKER_00C. Clarke. Tell us, tell me, tell the audience why Arthur C. Clarke.
SPEAKER_01Oh, Arthur, I mean, what a legend, you know. This is a guy who, you know, predicted, you know, successfully predicted so many things, including the communications satellite and dozens of other things that have changed our lives in terms of uh just thinking about where are we today and where might that lead us in the future. Uh, and you know, as he says, sort of taking that step, you know, just beyond what's possible to look at the impossible uh and be inspired by that. What's impossible that we could aspire to. So part of you know, the inspiration for this series, Futurist World, is Arthur C. Clarke's book, Profiles of the Future. And this is a book that sort of, you know, is a non-fiction book, I suppose. It's not like some of his famous stories like 2001. Uh, this, you know, is a book that, you know, very specifically makes predictions about the future. Now, we're not all about making predictions in our series, but we are about being thoughtful about different profiles of the future, what might come, and using that as inspiration in our everyday lives.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, which is which is a great source of inspiration. And so I guess um might be helpful if
The topic’s Futurists World covers and who stars in the series
SPEAKER_00we tell everyone a bit about the topics we've been exploring.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and the types of people we've been talking to. I mean, so I might throw back to you on that. It's quite a diverse group, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00Oh, it's it's been um a very broad group. So we've spoken with um people like um Jermay Cashio in um the US. He's based in Silicon Valley.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the Institute of the Future in Silicon Valley, yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, uh we spoke to Jack Delozo, who's um he was his topic was the future of education, and he's um an Australian entrepreneur who's um running a pretty extraordinary um school for entrepreneurs these days.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, absolutely. Inspirational young entrepreneur legend.
SPEAKER_00We also caught up with um a young woman, Ashley, Ashley Rani, who is based in Kerala in India. Um she had a terrible accident, I think it was about seven or eight years ago now, and found herself being um paraplegic and um unable to, you know, India's a very challenging place for somebody who's um in a wheelchair.
SPEAKER_01So that's the future of being differently abled. And I mean, she is like changing the world, like she's amazing.
SPEAKER_00Doing do it, yeah, doing incredibly um incredible things to she's um you know recently gotten a ramp put in at their local council offices so she can go and lobby the council. She's doing she's doing it. Uh so who else have we spoken to? Um we've spoken pretty far out. Far flung, yeah, in Geneva. We spoke to um James Beesham, who is um uh particle physicist at CERN on the future of time.
SPEAKER_01Hey, maybe you can try now.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I'll try the DeLorean. Oh not yet. A bit sad, not yet.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so I mean that was awesome, and we got to go to CERN and the uh the large hatring collider. Wow, what a mind-blowing experience that was. I mean, we've been to places like Zurich and talks a really leading renowned futurist like Gaia Lionhart.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that that was a really fun experience.
SPEAKER_01Um humanity versus technology, where are we gonna go?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there's been quite a bit of talk about AI, changing the future, you know.
SPEAKER_01Uh including with some great female futurists. Yeah, um like Narches Halar.
SPEAKER_00Yes, and um Arathi or Arathi Krishnan, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, that was amazing. The future of humanitarianism.
SPEAKER_00So um so it's gonna be a really exciting series, and um, we're really looking forward to releasing that um in early 2020.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's a new series for the new decade, and it's all about the future. I think the 2020s are gonna be absolutely critical to the future of humanity. What do you think?
SPEAKER_00Oh, I think I think so, and I mean it fills me with a lot of hope speaking with with these, you know, this variety of people that um, you know, there's so much, there's a lot in the media at the moment about AI stealing all our jobs and no one's got job security anymore. And but when you you actually speak to people who are really knowledgeable um about and they're really assessing what that means, they're super positive. They're you know, like if you're doing a very functional day-to-day thing that a robot can do, yeah, okay, that job might go, but that actually frees people up to do far more interesting, more creative work, much more um, you know, engaged work that that's probably way more fulfilling.
SPEAKER_01So we're not here to be trained monkeys, right? Like there's got to be more to it than that.
SPEAKER_00That's right. So I think um I think it's gonna be a fascinating um experience for people to hear a lot about what these people have got to say.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so tune in, you're gonna be really inspired. These are like some of the great thought leaders, and it's a really fun series. Uh, it's it's you know, at times, you know, pretty lightweight, but upbeat with some deep thinking in there as well.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, absolutely. So um, I guess the takeaways from today's episode are that you know the future's not all doom and gloom. There is um there is definite possibilities for some pretty extraordinary things.
SPEAKER_01For sure. If you need an antidote to all that stuff that's coming at you through the news and social media, if you want some good news, you know, hook into this series, you're gonna love it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so um as impact storytellers, this is this is a pretty different one for us. This is a different format, different way of doing it. So um we're really interested to see what sort of impact it does have.
SPEAKER_01So, how do people find this series?
SPEAKER_00Uh we'll put it all in the show notes, but the website's gonna be futurist.world once it's launched, and uh we would encourage you all to come and find us on YouTube and subscribe to the podcast.
SPEAKER_01Subscribe to YouTube channel as well.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that'd that's the best way to get notification as soon as the um episodes are being released.
SPEAKER_01Let's try and do this thing together. Okay.
SPEAKER_00It's off we're moving through time. Thanks for joining us, everyone.
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