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 136: Steve Keen - Will economists destroy capitalism?
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Our guest today is Professor Steve Keen, an economist and author best known for his long-standing critique of mainstream neoclassical economics. He was one of the relatively few economists to warn publicly, in advance, of the dangers that culminated in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. In 2010 he received the Revere Award from the “Real World Economics Review” for that work.
His books include “Debunking Economics”, “Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?”, and “The New Economics: A Manifesto”. He has held professorships at Kingston University London, the University of Western Sydney, and UCL – University College London.
Selected follow-ups:
- "Prof Steve Keen" - Patreon
- "Building a New Economics" - Steve Keen's substack
- The Technoprogressive Opportunity: Event in London, Sept 19-20
- "‘4°C of global warming is optimal’ – even Nobel Prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong" - The Conversation
- "Paul Romer and William Nordhaus – why they won the 2018 ‘economics Nobel’" - by Sergey Popov
- "Energy in packets – What did Planck discover?" - Max Planck Society
- "Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?" - by Pierre Azoulay et al
- "The Great Depression" - book by Lionel Robbins
- "Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism" - book by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller
- "Irrational Exuberance" - book by Robert Shiller
- "Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist" - book by Kate Raworth
- "Hyman Minsky" - Wikipedia
- "Ben Bernanke" - Wikipedia
- "Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises" - book by Charles Kindleberger
- "How is money created?" - Bank of England
- "The Economic Crisis from a Neoclassical Perspective" - paper by Lee Ohanian
- "What helium reveals about the next chip shortage" - by Michelle Nguyen
- "Sovereign Money Creation and Basic Income" - London Futurists webinar featuring Geoff Crocker
- "The Paradox of Debt, by the Tycho Brahe of Credit" - Review by Steve Keen of the book by Richard Vague
- "Isabella Weber" - Wikipedia
- "Economics from the Top Down" - essays by Blair Fix
- "Stratospheric aerosol injection" - Wikipedia
- "Space mirror" - Wikipedia
- "Bamboo: A Vital Ally in Climate Action" - Climate Change Commission
- "The Role of Kelp Forests in Carbon Dioxide Removal and Climate Mitigation" - Kelp Forest Alliance
- "The two-year trail of financial controversy dogging Reform and Farage" - The Guardian
- "Water pollution: Facts & Figures" - Surfers against Sewage
- "Why is it so difficult to build new reservoirs?" - BBC News
- "Peter principle" - Wikipedia
Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration
