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Ecological integrity represents an essential element for a sustainable planet by 2033 and beyond. Consider the importance of coral in safeguarding the food ecosystem within global communities, both affluent and impoverished. Approximately 40% of the world's population lives near or on the coastlines, relying significantly on the ecological balance of these areas.Coral plays a vital role in preserving the ocean's ecosystem, responsible for absorbing up to 90% of all carbon emissions. Nevertheless, 15% of the tracked coral fields have already been lost worldwide. Suggestions to relocate bleached or dying coral to aquariums, sparked by record-high sea temperatures in Florida in 2023, are neither scalable nor a feasible long-term solution to safeguard coral.The critical approach involves identifying resilient coral types that thrive under extreme climate conditions, such as typhoons and warmer waters. It's an imminent challenge necessitating a substantial database on coral responses to these climate variables. Th

Thirty years ago, the concept of sports psychology was rarely discussed. Today, our guest is among the pioneers of this applied science, widely utilized by victorious Olympians and sports teams globally. Although there are only seven full-time sports psychologists across the thirty-two teams, this field remains a developing profession in an industry where peak performance is crucial for success. While discussing sports in the context of 2033 might seem unconventional, insights from interviews conducted for Forbes' "Futures in Focus" series with notable figures from Liverpool Football Club, the NFL, the San Jose Sharks, and the Atlanta Falcons indicate that future experiences might be evolving in high-performance teams today.Consider the application of analytics and AI algorithms in sports like tennis, cricket, and soccer, as well as the utilization of engineering in F1 and Formula E. These skills and scientific advancements applied in sports could potentially be adopted in various areas of life by 2033. Our g

Astellas Pharma Inc.Chief Commercial Officer, Claus Zieler, envisions this future. The shift from chronic treatment to highly personalized, one-off treatments is not far ahead of us. By 2033, this approach will be commonplace rather than an unusual outlier.In the medical industry, we can already witness the initial signs of this emerging future where AI is starting to transform the landscape of pharmaceutical discoveries currently in progress.Traditionally, the medical industry has followed extended timelines for discovery, testing, and market validation. Breakthrough treatment protocols usually emerge sequentially rather than concurrently. However, the integration of AI with these breakthroughs promises to accelerate the pace and broaden the impact, ultimately reshaping the healthcare system as a whole.Developing a new drug typically costs $2 billion and involves a 10-year development cycle with thousands of patients. AI simulations have the potential to significantly reduce costs and time while fostering in

GE Healthcare invests over $1 billion annually in R&D to serve one in eight global inhabitants, entrusting its technologies and intelligent systems. It stands as a major player in the U.S. healthcare industry, contributing to one in every six GDP dollars. Healthcare, ripe for AI's transformative impact, generates copious data in a single hospital, exceeding the Library of Congress. Yet, much of this data goes unused, unarchived, and rarely forms multi-modal models. Can AI enhance the immediate value of healthcare investments worldwide? These challenges span the globe.CEO Peter Arduini envisions the next decade as the onset of a profound global healthcare revolution powered by AI, benefiting every patient's journey. Picture every global patient accessing their multi-modal data, regardless of location, early in their healthcare journey. GE Healthcare's Edison AI-intelligent platform showcases how AI can modernize established products, exemplified by ultrasound applications and early lung cancer detection. C

By 2030, approximately 45% of a car's cost will be attributed to the expense of integrated chips. As we envision a future firmly rooted in software-defined systems, a substantial portion of these expenses will be invested in silicon technology.Modern automobiles are equipped with thousands of microprocessors, emphasizing the critical role silicon plays in the industry. The chip shortages experienced during and after the COVID-19 pandemic compelled OEMs like Ford to sell vehicles lacking some secondary chip technology. As we progress towards a software-driven future in the automotive sector, spanning from heavy machinery manufacturers like Caterpillar and John Deere to consumer vehicle brands such as Ford, Stellantis, Toyota, VW, BMW, and more, it is imperative to strike the right balance between software-focused advancements and chip-enabled capabilities.The increasing focus on software-centricity necessitates a parallel enhancement of silicon capabilities, which will enable cars to sense, learn, react, and s

In a world about to be dominated by technologies like AI and ML, and Chat GPT and run by machines computing, sensing, and learning on the edge, do we need more people with university degrees, or do we need a whole new approach to educating ourselves through our lives? It’s an existential moment for how we collectively consider our own educational investments and debt as well as the decisions we might be making for our children or grandchildren. The idea that a university education sets you up for life has been questioned for the first time in recent years. A typical US university education will cost between $120,000 for a four-year degree to over $250,000. It’s increasingly becoming common in the US for this to take six years and come closer to $300,000. Average college debt might take twenty years to pay back, and the interest rates (even with current inflationary levels) make this one of the most expensive decisions we will make in our lives, and it is often made in our teens. Is there a better wa

Eric Laakmann, the CEO of Seachange, discusses the initial steps in the following manner: Globally, there are 34 million vessels, all of which will eventually necessitate replacement with sustainable alternatives. The current pace of oil consumption, whether on land, in the air, or particularly at sea, is deemed unsustainable, given the delicate equilibrium with natural ecosystems.Specifically, domestic commercial vessels, comprising ferries and tourism vessels, account for a substantial $500 billion in capital expenditure, which must be replaced. Furthermore, there exists a substantial $47 billion recreational boat market. Boats, as a category, pose a distinctive challenge when considering electrification, given their inherent inefficiency, primarily attributed to the substantial energy expenditure in water displacement. Nonetheless, their indispensability necessitates innovative solutions.Within this context, there exists a requisite starting point, as colossal supertankers cannot emulate the airborne capab

Our desire to build and power more and more around portable electricity puts, and will put, even more pressure on technology, supply chains, and raw materials. How we generate? How we distribute? How we consume? These are going to be questions we need to ask ourselves.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

By 2030, the statistics from 2016 indicated that 10.5 million individuals in the United States would be self-employed. Nevertheless, by the conclusion of 2019, 30% of the US labor force were freelancers, and this 2030 prediction had been realized a decade earlier than anticipated. Should the labor landscape of 2032 and onwards diverge, it is apparent that certain transformations will have been instigated by our collective responses, not solely to COVID-19, but to the broader societal shifts in values.This week's podcast features the author of "NO BOSS! The Real Truth about Working Independently: 12 Lessons from 30 Years of Bossing Myself Around," Steven Cristol. The crux of the discourse revolves around the depth of introspection necessary to ascertain one's compatibility with the realm of self-entrepreneurship in the evolving context of 2033 and beyond. In essence, it encompasses a comprehensive self-value driver analysis, founded upon his cumulative reflections as a notably successful master of his own ende

We have had 500 consecutive months of temperatures above the average temperature for the 20th century. If you search for terms like climate crisis and food supply or climate crisis and the automotive industry on Google Trends the index for how many times this has increased in the last year goes from a one hundred percent increase to a one thousand percent increase. If you live in the United States or Europe you are experiencing historic highs or floods or forest fires. July was the hottest in recorded history and the head of the UN just declared that we are entering an era of global boiling.However, the guest this week, Dr. Jeff Arnold of MITRE Group as a climate expert believes that there is a playbook here for CEOs and corporate leaders to make a fundamental difference. 75% of global emissions are associated with energy production and consumption. If you are in business, then you have the direct capability and responsibility to reduce that impact and get us away from the 1.5C barrier we are trying

Rowing is one of the great forgotten sports. It was the first and most popular inter-collegiate sport before college football and one of the first in the revised Olympic movement at the turn of the 19th century. It is still seen as the preeminent elitist college sport still, and that needs to change as we widen the opportunities for access to these sports where resources (water and boats) are tough to find a digital experience that can replicate the experience of rowing on the Cam or the Thames or the South China sea from a garage, a front room or bedroom.   Twenty minutes of exercise a day is seen as being able to reduce the overall costs of healthcare in the US by 20%. In a multi trillion-dollar industry, we should be looking for as many variations as possible to keep reducing this cost for society. Rowing exercises 80% of the body’s muscles and is six times more efficient than cycling.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#d

We might only ever know 10% that is out there so get ready for it being the ever-present and un-seen norm of 2033. Ten years ago, zero-day exploits were incredibly rare and expensive for cyber threat agents. They were as complex as NASA programs. Maybe four or five countries could exploit them (US, China, Russia, the UK, North Korea, and Israel). By 2015 up to one hundred and twenty countries could deliver daily exploits, not quite the power of zero-day threats. Still, far more of them that nearly anybody can deliver, any organization, a company or any group, or nearly any country.These threats' width, depth, and invisible nature will be transparently connected to our everyday lives (not rare events) but 2032 and beyond. Juan Andrés Guerrero Saada He is the Senior Director of Research at SentinelOn, he is the Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His joint work on Moonlight Maze is now featured in the International Spy Museum’s perma

Just reflect on the last few years of change around us all and how that speed of disruption and change is accelerating in the future. These shifts have been challenging to read regarding direction and potential magnitudes. For example, could Peloton have predicted their business in the first few weeks of Covid or how to react as the work-from-home movement fell away towards the end of the last waves of Covid? Can Zoom take advantage of the billions, tens of billions of hours and experiences we had through Zoom, or will the rogue wave that drove their success to dissipate and they will not take advantage of it?  Our guest today, Jonathan Brill is a world-leading radical change thinker whose book Rogue Waves is a design thinking framework for navigating the next ten years where these rogue waves may be more frequent, more powerful, and even create greater opportunities than long-term, traditional strategic thinking might suggest. How CEO’s respond to these rogue waves (structurally and in the moment),

Twenty minutes of walking daily could save over 25% of all health costs. Imagine walking to the store for food shopping and having a robot carry home your food. You get the health benefits, plus no need to. This idea of machines working seamlessly as humans do is a flip of the traditional approach to machines replacing certain humans. Twenty minutes of walking every day will cut health costs by 25%. That is the equivalent of $500bn a year in GDP. Today’s guest talks about a different way of thinking about autonomous vehicles as partners with citizens walking their urban communities by 2033.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

100M Americans have pre-diabetes conditions, one of the leading causes of death. By 2032 over half a billion people on Earth will have it globally. If it is 25% of US health dollars and healthcare is fifteen percent of the US economy, then imagine the size of the economic impact of not solving this globally by 2032 and beyond. It would be in the trillions, the size of many large European economies combined. Finding ways to solve or reduce the speed of this disease should be a significant priority for us. This is a discussion with Robert Booth, Glytec’s chief strategy and research officer, about how to reduce that by 2032 radically.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The world is moving to EVs from ICU’s. How fast we move to electric is a complex balance of consumer pressure, supply chains for all the software and semiconductors needed for these new vehicles, and how quickly we shifted our mindset from over one hundred and forty years of doing it one way. The more significant challenge is that much of the carbon emission does not come from running a vehicle but from the manufacturing process to get it on the road. Upcycling is the idea of taking trusted workhorses or great classics   (Rolls Royce, Aston Martin’s) and upcycling them to be EV vehicles that can serve another life in an EV future. As beautiful and or as practical (waste trucks, fire engines, mining equipment, etc.).David Lorenz founded Lunaz in the UK to address the potential mass-redundancy of the 2 billion internal combustion engine vehicles currently on the planet.  Imagine being able to logically upcycle existing vehicles in industrial, exotic sports cars to reduce carbon emissions. Ve

2023 marks the first time greenhouse omissions will decline while energy consumption, production, and populations are increasing. New, environmentally sensitive production systems (solar, wind, etc.) are biting into the fossil fuel history. These are just the tip of the iceberg for environmental and sustainable investing opportunities that could help turn back the tide of damage to the planet. Even more importantly, looking after the planet and learning how to govern for a positive future for all mankind should sit at the center of how we build new from our existing corporations to the future corporations.Today’s podcast is with an expert who will guide us through what that conversation we should all be having as leaders in major enterprises as we learn to re-balance.  Keesa C. Schreane is the author of Gambling on Green: Uncovering the Balance among Revenues, Reputations, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) (Wiley, September 2022) and Corporations Compassion Culture: Leading Your Busine

Manifesting one’s experiences through the mind of others is the premise of AR and the metaverse. However, the killer app has still alluded to us, until now. The challenge in a three-dimensional world where most of a journey in a city might occur inside the buildings more often than not is how to use the power of AR to share and navigate yourself when there is no such thing as indoor satellite positioning. Imagine being in a grocery store, and your cell phone can instantly point to the exact place on shelves where specific products are for sale. Or being able to share your experience in a clothing store with somebody at home who you want to look at the clothing with you but experience it right next to you through the cell phone, bringing them into that shared experience. The AukiLabs co-founder, Nils Pihl believes that the level of sensory and experiential sharing is the killer meta-verse application that could change how we think and behave as human beings by 2033 and beyond. See Privacy Policy at h

We are living in extraordinary times when it comes to human capital. At one end, increasingly intelligent AI systems and machines are reducing the number of mundane tasks we need for humans in everything from the food industry to legal processes and even complex software design and deployment. Yet unemployment appears to be at a near-all-time low. Our need to keep, develop and even recruit people is more stressful than ever before. The question is. Are we at the start of a new human capital era, or is this a hiccup in traditional supply and demand dynamics that will help even themselves out over time? Our guest, Lenwood Ross, believes that this will be a dramatic moment for change in how we think about human capital and a moment where industries like headhunters and the recruiting industry could be under very significant threat as we head to a world where personal, ongoing relationships will engender the right type of recruiting when and where the company needs people. We move from a world of labor marke

The energy sector is a monolithic giant set up to supply consistent energy to all of us. That model has worked well for over one hundred and thirty years, but the question we have to ask is, can that monolithic energy system react and change fast enough for the world around us? Our quest, Bill Nussey, the author of Freeing Energy, believes that we need a fundamentally different engine to break what he calls the grid monopoly, which will look very old-world by 2033. He argues this is a moral imperative as we should build an engine system that delivers what our future grandchildren can live with. The Inflation reduction act, with its $369 Billion, is the largest energy bill in the history of the world. This is when we need to think about freeing energy in the same ways we have ideas like farm-to-table in food, regional, seasonal and mixed.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.