FARSIGHT Reads
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Unfolding futures in all their kaleidoscopic complexity. Narrated articles from FARSIGHT, a quarterly publication by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Arts & Culture Podcasts
Description:
Unfolding futures in all their kaleidoscopic complexity. Narrated articles from FARSIGHT, a quarterly publication by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
Language:
English
Episodes
The Grounded Mind
5/17/2024
New research into mental health is pushing our understanding of the mind-body connection and the intricacies of the brain. What would a more holistic approach to mental wellbeing look like?
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Author: José Manuel Herez Pombo
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (AI with ElevenLabs)
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:13:07
Treacherous Utopia
4/24/2024
‘Longtermism’ has emerged as one of the most influential ideas of our time. But is it safeguarding or sabotaging our common future?
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Authors: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & August Leo Liljenberg
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:14:45
The Shape and Size of Wellbeing
4/15/2024
Youth attitudes towards the future are increasingly polarised across the world. Could demographic change provide us with an answer as to why?
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Author: August Leo Liljenberg
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (audio generated by ElevenLabs)
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:14:48
Lunar Power Play
4/4/2024
The world’s most populated country is throwing their weight into the space race – but is India a genuine contender?
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Author: Lena Hunter
Narrator: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:12:16
No Children of Men
3/25/2024
Chemicals are among the primary causes for dwindling sperm counts worldwide. How severe is the global male fertility crisis, and can an impending ‘spermpocalypse’ be avoided? To find out we spoke with two renowned fertility researchers.
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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen
Narrator: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:09:53
Space for the Few
3/4/2024
With recreational spaceflight taking off, onlookers are questioning whether something so grand can ever be for the many.
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Author: Artemis Karagkouni
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:08:41
Hope - The Pillar That Holds Up the World
2/16/2024
Although we may acknowledge the importance of hope in an age that seems plagued by perpetual crisis, is hope genuinely practical, and if it is, what makes it so?
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Author: Sean Pillot de Chenecey
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:07:11
Technology Leading on Sexuality
2/5/2024
From vibrators to sex bots, technology can be a force of sexual liberation, or a tool used to strengthen existing norms and taboos. How might it change what happens behind closed bedroom doors?
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Author: Jasmin Cramon
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:09:18
Stardust and Dollar Signs
1/26/2024
As the mineral-rich wealth of the cosmos is gloated at from Earth, actors are racing towards extracting, as well as regulating, its resources.
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Author: Thor Svanholm
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:10:22
Europe in Space
1/12/2024
An interview with Hermann Ludwig Moeller, Chairman of the European Space Policy Institute.
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Author: August Leo Liljenberg
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:16:22
Farewell to the Astronaut?
1/3/2024
Why there will always be a need for manned space exploration missions, regardless of technological advances in robotics and AI.
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Author: Josh Sims
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:11:31
What Will Leisure Mean to Us in the Future?
12/18/2023
As technological strides edge us closer to a post-work world, how we perceive ‘down-time’ could undergo a radical transformation.
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Author: Owen Savage
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:10:08
Excursions With Empathy
12/8/2023
Global tourist hotspots are integrating sustainability into their business models as holidaying abroad moves from luxury to necessity.
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Author: Monika Volgyi & Celine Athina Vang
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:12:14
The Ancient Assyrian Who Invented Sci-Fi
12/1/2023
Before Thomas More or H.G Wells came the tongue-in-cheek satirist, Lucien of Samosata.
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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:07:40
To Boozy Futures
11/24/2023
A civilisational defence of the intoxicant amid cultural retrograde – alcohol.
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Author: August Leo Liljenberg
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:18:42
Eating & Techno-Pleasures
11/17/2023
Technology’s convergence with eating and sex could push both into strange and uncharted territory.
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Author: Sarah Frosh
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:11:08
What Gaming Could Be
11/10/2023
From VR to crypto and AR to AI – how might emerging technologies intersect with the human desire for play?
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Author: Lena Hunter
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:19:22
Bored of the Future?
11/2/2023
How philosophers and psychologists have tried to answer the question of whether to embrace or resist the mundane – and why efforts seem to be so futile, nonetheless.
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Author: Casper Skovgaard Petersen
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:09:38
Eske Willerselv is Building a Genomic Time Machine
10/23/2023
The renowned evolutionary biologist explains why the future of food needs to be rooted in the ancient past – and how he and his team are working to make that happen.
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Author: Emilie Balk-Møller
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:09:47
Free From Work
10/9/2023
Amid job automation, a push toward shorter work weeks, and growing political interest in Universal Basic Income schemes, why does is the idea that work is virtuous still so pervasive?
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Author: Josh Sims
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Duration:00:15:28