Category: Future of Trends

Visakan Veerasamy, popularly known as Visa on Twitter, is a hugely prolific and interesting guy. He writes about self-improvement, design, the uses and future of social media, culture, and a billion other topics. He is the author of "Friendly Ambitious Nerd".

Mauro F. Guillén teaches management at the Wharton school of business and is a renowned expert on the global trends shaping the future.

Velina Tchakarova is the Director at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria. Her work includes research, consulting and lectures on Global System Transformation and geostrategy of global actors, particularly the EU's role in Eastern Europe.

Geoff is the Founder and Executive Director of Leverage Research, a research institute that studies and supports early stage science.

Philip Rosedale is a serial entrepreneur whose lifelong passion for using virtual technology to connect people led to his founding Second Life in 1999.

Marshall Brain is a futurist, speaker, and professor of entrepreneurship who founded HowStuffWorks.com. He joins us on the podcast to talk about these subjects and his new book on existential risk.

Elaine is an independent journalist and speaker specializing in careers and entrepreneurship.

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have been featured prominently in the news recently. Trent and Thomas do a solo episode exploring how SPACs are structured and what impact they might have on business.

Luca Dellanna joins us to talk about how his research into adaptive systems applies across management, psychology, investing, and economics.