FARSIGHT

Most futurists prefer the exploration of multiple potential scenarios over determinate paths. Some will say prediction is entirely impossible – but is this necessarily true?Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the Institute.Author: Christian Kaarup BaronNarration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

Across wealthy societies, citizens no longer believe the future will be better than the past. The idea of progress as an inevitable historical force was born in the Western world – now it may be drawing its last breath there, too.Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the Institute.Authors: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & Suus HulsenNarration: Manya Lind (with ElevenLabs AI)Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

We now understand that the future is not fixed but contingent – it can unfold in an endless number of ways, its outcome hinging on both choice and chance. When did humans discover that the future is undecided, and what did it mean? We’re joined by Thomas Moynihan, a thinker and author interested in X-risk, deep possibility, planetary-scale thinking, and the history of human self-understanding. Thomas Moynihan’s upcoming book is The History of Contingency and Future-Oriented Thought.Subscribe to FARSIGHT in print by becoming a ⁠Futures Member⁠ at the Institute.Hosts: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & August Leo LiljenbergGuest: Thomas MoynihanPublished by the ⁠Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

With artificial intelligence comes radical change in how information is both created and retained. What place do humans have in future knowledge ecologies?Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the Institute.Author: Caitlin van BommelNarration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

How have societies collapsed in the past? Are we heading towards a global societal collapse? And, if looking towards history, is collapse always necessarily a bad thing when viewed from the perspective of the 99%?In this podcast, Luke Kemp (re)-joins us for yet another episode of FARSIGHT to talk about his latest book Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse. Luke Kemp is a Research Affiliate & Former research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge.Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the Institute.Hosts: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & August Leo LiljenbergGuest: Luke KempPublished by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies