London Futurists
Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace
Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy.
His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions.
He also wrote Pandora's Brain and Pandora’s Oracle, a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superintelligence. He is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and radio.
In the last decade, Calum has given over 150 talks in 20 countries on six continents. Videos of his talks, and lots of other materials are available at https://calumchace.com/.
He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members.
Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress.
David Wood is Chair of London Futurists, and is the author or lead editor of twelve books about the future, including The Singularity Principles, Vital Foresight, The Abolition of Aging, Smartphones and Beyond, and Sustainable Superabundance.
He is also principal of the independent futurist consultancy and publisher Delta Wisdom, executive director of the Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) Foundation, Foresight Advisor at SingularityNET, and a board director at the IEET (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies). He regularly gives keynote talks around the world on how to prepare for radical disruption. See https://deltawisdom.com/.
As a pioneer of the mobile computing and smartphone industry, he co-founded Symbian in 1998. By 2012, software written by his teams had been included as the operating system on 500 million smartphones.
From 2010 to 2013, he was Technology Planning Lead (CTO) of Accenture Mobility, where he also co-led Accenture’s Mobility Health business initiative.
Has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge, where he also undertook doctoral research in the Philosophy of Science, and a DSc from the University of Westminster.
London Futurists
Why this podcast?
Co-hosts David Wood and Calum Chace share their vision and plans for the London Futurists podcast.
00.20: Why we are launching this podcast. Anticipating and managing exponential impact
02.45: It’s not the Fourth Industrial Revolution – it’s the Information Revolution
04.58: AI’s impact. Smartphones as an example of technology’s power
09.04: The obviousness of change in hindsight. Why technology implementation is often slow
11.30: Technology implementation is often delayed by poor planning
15:20: We were promised jetpacks. Instead, we got omniscience
17.14: Technological development is not deterministic, and it contains dangers
19.08: Technologies are always double-edged swords. They might be somewhat deterministic
22.03: Better hindsight enables better foresight
23.06: Introducing ourselves
23.13: David bio
24.53: Calum bio
26.44: Fiction and non-fiction. We need more positive stories
27.37: Topics for future episodes
28.03: There are connections between all these topics
28.42: Excited by technology, but realistic
29.24: Securing a great future
Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration
For more about the podcast hosts, see https://calumchace.com/ and https://dw2blog.com/
Agency in Amsterdam dives into topics like Tech, AI, digital marketing, and more drama...
Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify
