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
LFP 135: Pat Kane & Indra Adnan - If politics is broken, what's the alternative?
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Our guests in this episode are Pat Kane and Indra Adnan, the co-convenors of The Alternative Global. That project was launched in 2017 with the question, “If politics is broken, what’s the alternative?” Pat and Indra will be speaking at the London Futurists and IEET event in London on 19-20 September, “The Technoprogressive Opportunity,” where they’ll giving an update on progress with their project. Our episode today provides a chance to dive into what they have experienced and learned.
Pat is a writer, musician, curator, consultant, activist and futurist. He is the author of the book “The Play Ethic”, and has written for the Independent, the Sunday Times, the Guardian/Observer and Scotland’s Sunday Herald, of which he was a founding editor in 1999. He is currently a columnist with The National, and is researching a new book on politics, creativity and the science of emotions.
Indra is a psycho-social therapist, founder of the Soft Power Network, and a writer and events producer. She has consulted to the World Economic Forum, Indian, Finnish and Danish governments, NATO, the Scottish Executive and the Institute of Contemporary Arts amongst others. She is the author of the book “The Politics of Waking Up: Power & Possibility In The Fractal Age”.
Selected follow-ups:
- "The Alternative"
- "The Daily Alternative" (newsletter)
- "Who Is Pat Kane?"
- "About Indra Adnan"
- "The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age" - book by Indra
- "The Play Ethic: A Manifesto For a Different Way of Living" - book by Pat
- "Fourth Generation Civilization" - Substack by Michel Bauwens
- "Cosmolocalism: A Framework for Building Sustainable Network State Economies" - by Sterlin
- "Ecocivilisation through the CAN of CANs [Community Agency Networks]"
- "Alternative Editorial: All For Devolution"
- "Scottish Community Coalition on Energy release a Manifesto for Community Renewables"
- "Alternative Editorial: Facing The Chasm" (covers Three Horizons)
- "Climate Whistleblower: We Face COLLAPSE" - Aaron Bastani Meets Kevin Anderson
- "Disruptive Climate Futures, with Dr Tom Harris" - London Futurists
- "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren" by John Maynard Keynes (1930)
- "Spring: a social and political invitation"
- "Emotions and the Brain with Mark Solms" - New Thinking Allowed, with Leanne Whitney
- "Mo Gawdat"
- The Technoprogressive Opportunity: Event in London, Sept 19-20
Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration
