We’ve also created a Branded Cities immersive report. Read it on our site and also download a PDF: www.thefuturelaboratory.com/blog/branded-cities

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With two-thirds of humanity predicted to be living in urban environments by 2050, cities need to be able to sustain the growing demands on their infrastructure. But if governments don’t have the resources to do this, will the role of city-makers fall entirely to corporations? And if so, will the metropolis of the future become a branded utopia or a commercial dystopia?

These are the questions that lie at the heart of our new placemaking podcast, Branded Cities: Can We Avoid an Urban Dystopia? In it, we explore three preferable, probable and potential future scenarios of branded cities.

And remember, the future city doesn’t have to be dystopian. If you are looking at how to build tomorrow’s branded communities, get in touch to find out how our strategic placemaking services can help lay the foundations for a brighter future.

https://www.thefuturelaboratory.com/placemaking-strategic-consultation

Branded Cities: Can We Avoid an Urban Dystopia? A Podcast by The Future Laboratory

The Future Laboratory's Critical Horizons podcast is a deep dive into the mind of a world-renowned thinker whose ideas challenge the status quo and shed light upon emerging behaviours that will drive seismic shifts for brands and consumers alike. 

This episode's critical thinker is Douglas Rushkoff. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, he is the author of 20 books, the most recent of which is Team Human, which is also a podcast series. 

His work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He’s also a professor of media theory and digital economics at CUNY/Queens. He even once played keyboards in the cult industrial band Psychic TV. 

Editorial Director Tim Noakes and Rushkoff discuss the future of Universal Basic Income, AI ethics, persuasive design, and even some limbic consonance. And if you don’t know what that is, please do listen on and let Mr Rushkoff enlighten you.

 The Future Laboratory specialise in making a better future happen for businesses through our proprietary trends intelligence and strategic research. We aim to give our clients a glimpse of the future long before the rest of the world discovers it.

https://www.thefuturelaboratory.com/
https://www.lsnglobal.com/
https://teamhuman.fm/

Critical Horizons: Douglas Rushkoff

Welcome to episode two of Critical Horizons, a podcast by The Future Laboratory. This month’s guest is futurist Mike Walsh, CEO of Tomorrow. He advises leaders on how to thrive in the current era of disruptive technological change.

A true global nomad, Mike Walsh travels over 300 days a year worldwide, researching trends, collecting innovation case studies and presenting on the future of business. Walsh is also the author of three books. His latest book is The Algorithmic Leader: How to be smart when machines are smarter than you.
 
What you’re about to listen to is a recording between Walsh and Martin Raymond, the co-founder of The Future Laboratory, in which they cover the future of leadership, human intuition vs algorithm analysis, digital biology, the rise of Chinese AI, and perhaps the most pressing question of all: what is the true potential of human intelligence in the twenty-first century?

The Future Laboratory specialise in making a better future happen for businesses through our proprietary trends intelligence and strategic research. We aim to give our clients a glimpse of the future long before the rest of the world discovers it.

https://www.thefuturelaboratory.com/
https://www.lsnglobal.com/
https://www.mike-walsh.com

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