Foresight with Greg Williams

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  From The Big Story: Choke Points 04.10.2026 36min

  Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost Lives. How Israeli checkpoints suffocate Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank. Written by Lama Rabah, Sabrina Slipchenko, Charles Boutaud, Firas Tawil and Elena DeBre. Originally published on September 30th 2026. For more of the most ambitious, future-defining stories from our favorite human writers, subscribe to The Big Story newsletter: https://www.wired.com/newsletter/the-big-story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  From The Big Story: How a Research Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won 02.10.2026 38min

  Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war. Written by Amos Zeeberg. Originally published on April 4th, 2023. For more of the most ambitious, future-defining stories from our favorite human writers, subscribe to The Big Story newsletter: https://www.wired.com/newsletter/the-big-story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  From The Big Story: Greetings From Burning Man! 30.09.2026 30min

  Listen to more of The Big Story here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Dispatches from the New American Holiday: Writer Bruce Sterling takes the kids to the Temporary Autonomous Zone, where survival is a personal choice. Written by Bruce Sterling. Originally published in WIRED on November 1st, 1996. For more of the most ambitious, future-defining stories from our favorite human writers, subscribe to The Big Story newsletter: https://www.wired.com/newsletter/the-big-story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  From The Big Story: She's 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can't Have Kids 27.09.2026 39min

  No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.For more of the most ambitious, future-defining stories from our favorite human writers, subscribe to The Big Story newsletter: https://www.wired.com/newsletter/the-big-story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November 11.04.2024 16min

  DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment. Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.Listen to and follow WIRED Politics Lab here.Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  The Circular Bioeconomy 24.04.2023 46min

  In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Mathieu Flamini, CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a leading sustainable biochemical company with the mission to end chemical pollution by finding safer and more sustainable alternatives to the harmful petrochemicals commonly found in everyday products. They discuss decarbonising the chemical industry and building the circular bioeconomy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Humanity, the Economy and Climate Change – Can We Fix Things? 17.04.2023 47min

  In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg cstches up with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A talk about how we make the connection between climate change and the state of the economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Sowing the Seeds for a Better Food System 11.04.2023 40min

  Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Arnavaz Schatten, director of sustainability at the Berlin-based vertical farming firm InFarm dicuss how vertical farms can massively reduce the environmental impact of our food system. "What could possibly work on Mars could be hugely beneficial on Earth today. We don’t need to wait for the Mars scenario. We need this kind of farming on Earth now,” said Arnavaz when speaking at WIRED Impact in November 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Making Better Climate Policy 03.04.2023 39min

  To create better outcomes we have to create the right governmental and legal frameworks. So how do we make better policy and implement it effectively? In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Alyssa Gilbert, the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute. Alyssa builds real-world impact by connecting relevant research across the university with policy-makers and businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  The Case For Climate Led Investing 27.03.2023 44min

  In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Evelina Olago, the Managing Director, Client & Strategy at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable investment firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore. They discuss how Evelina is working to find new ways to deploy capital in ways that will have outsize impact for the climate and enable us to transition to net zero effectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Using Nature for Packaging 20.03.2023 37min

  In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Insiya Jafferjee the CEO and cofounder of UK biotech startup, Shellworks that aims to replace plastic with materials based in nature. It is estimated that UK households throw away a staggering 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging a year, averaging 66 items per household per week. In this episode, Insiya discusses how her interdisciplinary team is innovating in material science in order to be able to scale products that after use, will be consumed by microbes that are abundant in soil and marine environments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Green Energy Will Be Bigger Than The Internet 13.03.2023 43min

  In the second episode our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Greg Jackson the CEO of Octopus Energy Group to discuss how we’re at the early stages of dramatic growth in green energy – one that has parallels in the explosive growth of the internet of the past twenty years. They also touch on how we're going to get to net zero, the challenges of getting renewable energy onto complex grids, EV infrastructure, national security and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Migration Is Not The Problem, It Is The Solution 06.03.2023 41min

  In our very first episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Gaia Vince, author of the groundbreaking work Adventures In The Anthropocene for which she travelled to over 50 countries to map the ways humans are altering the planet forever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable with Mikko Hyppönen 15.12.2022 34min

  Connecting the world online has brought enormous benefits but it has also digitised the way in which harmful things can happen. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Mikko Hyppönen, Author of 'If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable', originator of the Hyppönen law and Chief Research Officer at WithSecure to discuss how we can counter the growing onslaught of toxic code thats coursing through the internet looking for vulnerabilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft on future of artificial intelligence 22.07.2022 35min

  AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone alongside solving some of the worlds most vexing problems. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Kevin Scott, the CTO of Microsoft to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how it can be realistically used to serve the interests of everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Reid Hoffman on strategies to grow startups into global brands 06.06.2022 39min

  In this episode of Foresight, one of Silicon Valley’s most storied entrepreneurs and investors, Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, investor at Greylock) and his co-founder of the media company behind Masters of Scale, June Cohen join Foresight to share the different strategies entrepreneurs can use to drive a companies growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Exploring Quantum Computing with Jeremy O’Brien 17.02.2022 44min

  In this episode, Greg is joined by renowned physicist and CEO of PsiQuantum, Jeremy O’Brien to talk about quantum computing; to understand the Implications of it, the potential applications from drug discovery to the geopolitical impact and explore how the field will develop over the coming years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Beeple on Art as a Subscription 10.12.2021 33min

  Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, a.k.a. Beeple, shares how his latest piece, “Human One,” will continue to update over time—and what that means for how digital art will be viewed in the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us with Parag Khanna 25.11.2021 39min

  In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Parag Khanna, global strategy advisor and author of MOVE: The Forces Uprooting Us explore the new age of mass migration and the deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  Regulating Technology with Marietje Schaake 28.10.2021 32min

  In this Episode, WIRED's deputy global editorial director, Greg Williams and Marietje Schaake, international policy director at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center explore the rapid growth of big technology and solutions for governments to consider as they look to regulate big technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices