In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
They discuss the world at mid-century and how we can and should change the future writ large through thought leadership, individual behavior change, and pressure on politicians.
Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics...
In this episode of the Futurized podcast, host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Jeffrey D. Sachs, University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
They discuss the world at mid-century and how we can and should change the future writ large through thought leadership, individual behavior change, and pressure on politicians.
Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment.
Trond Arne Undheim (@trondau) is a futurist, scholar, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. He is currently the Research scholar in Global Systemic Risk, Innovation, and Policy at Stanford University. Futurized tackles the societal impact of deep tech such as AI, blockchain, IoT, nanotech, quantum, robotics, and synthetic biology, and tackle topics such as entrepreneurship, trends, or the future of work. On the show, Trond interviews smart people with a soul: founders, authors, executives, academics, and other thought leaders, or even the occasional celebrity.
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Dr. Undheim is the author of seven books, Eco Tech: Investing in Regenerative Futures, Health Tech: Rebooting Society's Software, Hardware and Mindset, Future Tech: How to Capture Value from Disruptive industry Trends, Pandemic Aftermath: how Coronavirus changes Global Society, Disruption Games: How to Thrive on Serial Failure, and of Leadership From Below: How the Internet Generation Redefines the Workplace, and the co-author of Augmented Lean: A human-centric framework for managing frontline operations. For an overview, go to Trond's Books at Trondundheim.com/books
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