FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe
FutureBites is a podcast exploring promising and exciting pathways to a better future. Hosted by Dr Bruce McCabe, a futurist and keynote speaker who travels the world presenting his unique insights and research on the future to corporations, governments, and audiences in all industries. In each FutureBites episode, Bruce meets with an inspiring leader in science, technology, economics or the social sciences to talk about ideas, game-changers and opportunities to create a better future.
Episodes
25 episodes
Electrification of Road Freight – With David Cebon
Forget cars, what does the transition to electric FREIGHT look like? How capable are HEAVY vehicles? What’s the future of charging infrastructure? What changes for shippers and logistics companies? How should they think and plan?On this...
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Autonomous Vehicles: The Next Generation – With Paul Newman
What is driving the NEXT generation of autonomous vehicles? How are scientists upping the innovation rate? Why are AVs utterly inevitable, everywhere? How will they transform industries, cities and even economies? To get a deep sens...
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53:18
Carbon Pricing: Incentivizing a Net-Zero Future - With Cameron Hepburn
Can carbon pricing incentivize a sustainable future? Join us for a compelling conversation with Professor Cameron Hepburn, the Battcock Professor of Environmental Ec...
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36:07
Unleashing Epigenetic Potential: A New Era In Genetic Medicine - With Ben Oakes
Imagine a future where, based on a diagnostic in your teens, your doctor gives you a customized infusion with a top-up every 5 to 10 years that “dials down” your genetic risk factors for all kinds of diseases WITHOUT making permanent changes to...
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Future of Cybersecurity - with Bruce Schneier
How can we build a more secure digital future? Cyber-attacks and data-breaches are escalating, attackers are employing all manner of sophisticated tools, AI is transforming the ‘arms race’ for both attackers and defenders. We see the he...
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47:10
California's 100% Renewables Revolution - with Mark Jacobson
The fifth largest economy in the world is smashing renewables records! For 41 of the past 49 days, California's grid has met more than 100% of electricity demand using solar, wind and hydro generation supplemented by grid-scale batteries. Suppl...
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41:51
Future of Energy - with Michael Barnard (Part 2)
Welcome to Part 2 of my interview with Michael Barnard, global energy expert and consultant to the biggest investors on the planet. In this episode ...
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Future of Energy - with Michael Barnard (Part 1)
What will the global mix of energy generation look like in 2060? Which technologies are dead ends and which should we be paying more attention to? What will power long range ships and aircraft? What about nuclear?Who better to ans...
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Interfacing the Nervous System - with Elisa Donati
What does the future of medicine look like when microchips and nervous systems speak the same language?I asked Dr Elisa Donati, a Senior Scientist working at the cutting edge of neuroscience and eng...
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Countdown to Age Reversal - with George Church
Affordable age-reversal drugs. Xenotransplants to eliminate organ shortages. Revolutionizing health economics. Keeping methane sequestered under the tundra. Editing livestock and crops to be resistant to ALL viruses ... What are the genomics pa...
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58:51
What's Next in CAR T-Cell Therapy? - with Bruce Levine
The future of medicine is one where all cancers are either 100% curable or turned into manageable diseases. You’ve heard me tell the story in my keynotes for many years. Now it’s time for you to hear from one of the heroes of that story,
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A.I. and the Future of Inequality - with Wendell Wallach
Will AI exacerbate inequality? Can we stop that from happening? As the world grapples with guardrails to protect us from future dangers of AI, I thought it timely to talk to an ethicist who has spent a lifetime pondering these challenges. Enter...
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58:37
Three New Frontiers In Cancer Medicine - with Ben Stanger
The story of cancer medicine is multi-threaded. It’s a story of early detection, of surgical removal, of radio- and chemo-therapies, of understanding lifestyle factors, of sequencing and pinpointing genetic factors, and lately of immunotherapie...
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26:49
Gene Editing to Prevent Heart Disease - with Kiran Musunuru
Is this the most important gene therapy in the world? At the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, a cutting-edg...
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1:08:06
Climate Change and The Future of Insurance - with Trent Thomson
Insurance companies must deal with the financial realities of climate change. They must make quantitative decisions and translate risks into dollars. They must do it for today’s impacts as well as making quantified predictions about future impa...
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41:36
The Future of Neuromorphic Computing - with Alexandre Marcireau
I’m calling neuromorphic computing the most important computer engineering research in the world. That’s right, more important than quantum computing (you heard it here first!) So what is neuromorphic computing? How is it inspired b...
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32:37
Innovating For A Better Future - with Ken Dovey
Innovation is a deeply, deeply social phenomenon that requires many people to come along for the ride. It’s not easy! So, where to start? What are the principles? How to think about it? If you want to make the world a better place by building n...
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1:09:54
How Far Can We Go With Solar? - with Martin Green
Has Martin Green done more than any other human to safeguard our future? For fifty years – yes fifty – he’s dedicated his life to pushing the boundaries of photovoltaics so they convert m...
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45:17
Can We Keep CRISPR Responsible? - with Jennifer Kuzma
Designer babies, agricultural mishaps, extinction via gene-drive. Now CRISPR has placed into our hands the awesome power to "edit life" in all its forms, how to keep the good while preventing the bad? How to safeguard our future? Is this ...
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50:35
What Comes After Lithium-Ion? - with George Crabtree
What comes after Lithium-ion? It’s only one of the most important technology questions in the world! Everything in the future of electronics, road vehicles, renewables, the electricity grid and even commercial aviation hinges on the answer.&nbs...
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Can We Reverse Aging? - with Jan Vijg
Rejuvenation and regeneration, hope versus hyperbole, healthspans and lifespans. Such is the frenzied focus on the potential for new drugs to extend our lifespans right now, I cannot deliver a keynote on the future of healthcare or even the fut...
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What Does it Mean to Make a Robot Conscious? - with Hod Lipson
What does it mean for a robot to be conscious? Can a robot have feelings? Will we make robots that take care of one another, upgrade themselves, and reproduce? I discussed these and other mind-bending questions about the future of robot...
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53:52
Can Lawyers Save The Planet? - with Michael Gerrard
Can lawyers save the planet? I asked the world’s foremost climate lawyer.Welcome to FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe, futurist and keynote speaker. In this episode, instead of examining science and technology pathways to a better futur...
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Gene Therapies for Eye Disease - with Aykut Demirkol
Welcome to the second episode of FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe. In this episode, Dr Aykut Demirkol of the Harkness Eye Institute joins Bruce to talk about CRISPR gene-editing and the future of ophthalmology!CRISPR is short for CRISP...
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