The Futureverse: From the Ancients to AI
b'The future. It\\u2019s all there, in front of us. It could go wonderfully. Or it could go badly wrong. It will inevitably require our passions and our ingenuity. So how do we see the challenges early on, find solutions and help make the world a better place? For ourselves, for our families, for everyone. Welcome to The Futureverse, a new series brought to you by Intelligence Squared and in partnership with Y TREE.\\nIn the first episode of The Futureverse podcast, From the Ancients to AI, host Kamal Ahmed and a panel of experts explore the history of the future as an idea. Dr Aleks Krotoski, social psychologist, researcher and science communicator, explains why planning for the future is at the heart of being human. Dr Amanda Rees, a historian of science based at the University of York, and Alexander Boxer, author of A Scheme of Heaven, look back at the history of the future as a concept; how have we juggled planning and prediction from ancient times through to modernity? And Dirk Helbing, Professor of Computational Social Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, reveals how we might be able to stream data into a giant simulator that could help us predict \\u2013 and prepare for \\u2013 events in the future.\\nCome with us into The Futureverse: http://intelligencesquared.com/futureverse\\nFor more information and to register to watch an event featuring Sir Antony Gormley, Mo Gawdat and Clover Hogan, please visit: y-tree.com/futureverse\\nFind out more about Dirk\\u2019s latest project\\xa0- how to build a \\u201cdigital twin\\u201d of the Earth, here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358571489\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'