Forecast 2050
by Nebular
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The Future of Chips in the AI Era | Fractile's Walter Goodwin &…
The Future of Chips in the AI Era | Fractile's Walter Goodwin &…
About this podcast
Interviewing the thinkers and doers shaping the world of 2050. Hosted by Nebular General Partner, Finn Murphy.
Episodes
- The Future of Chips in the AI Era | Fractile's Walter Goodwin & ARM's Sir Robin Saxby · 1 h 13 min · Season 2 Episode 7Nobody has shown why there should be a limit to how much we can benefit from intelligence. If that holds, AI could be the first market in semiconductor history without a bust…
- Apple, China, and the End of American Dominance | Patrick McGee · 1 h 15 min · Season 2 Episode 6Apple didn't just build its iPhones in China. It taught China how to build them, and then how to build everything else. Now Apple says it's diversifying. But Patrick McGee thinks…
- Why This Astronomer Thinks Aliens Are Out There | Laura Kreidberg · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 5Laura Kreidberg believes there is life out there in the universe. An astrophysicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, Laura is one…
- Why China Is Baffled by America’s AI Race | Yi-Ling Liu · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 4Silicon Valley frames AI as a race against China to reach AGI. In China, almost nobody thinks that way. Journalist Yi-Ling Liu, author of The Wall Dancers and journalist in…
- We Need Revolutionary Military Change | Ex-CIA Chief David Petraeus · 1 h 0 min · Season 2 Episode 3General David Petraeus believes we need draconian change to prepare for the age of autonomous warfare. A retired four-star general, Gen. Petraeus commanded U.S. forces in Iraq…
- Can AI Talk To Whales? | Project CETI Founder David Gruber · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 2The real reason AI was given to humans is to communicate with animals, according to David Gruber. A marine biologist and National Geographic Explorer, he is the founder of…
- 'Claude's Priest': Fr. Brendan McGuire on Shaping AI for the Common Good · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 1Fr. Brendan McGuire believes that we still have an opportunity to align AI for the common good, though time is running out. A Silicon Valley executive turned Catholic priest, Fr…
- Forecast 2050 Season 2 Trailer · 2 min · Season 2Forecast 2050 Season 2 has arrived with a brand new set of conversations with the thinkers, founders, and investors shaping the next 25 years. Hosted by Nebular General Partner…
- Enveda's Radical Vision for the Future of Medicine | Viswa Colluru & Pablo Lubroth · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 10Enveda Founder and CEO Viswa Colluru believes we have been looking for new medicines in the wrong places for decades. In the Season 1 finale of Forecast 2050, I sat down with…
- Building the Next Great American City | Esmeralda CEO Devon Zuegel · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 9Devon Zuegel believes America has been building cities wrong for decades. She grew up spending summers in Chautauqua, an intellectual community in western New York where four…
- Rule Britannia? How the UK Wins the AI Era | Matt Clifford & Ian Hogarth · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 8Matt Clifford and Ian Hogarth believe Europe is roughly a decade behind the United States in building the technology companies that will define the next era. But they also…
- Dimming the Sun to Save the World | Stardust CEO Yanai Yedvab on Solving Climate Change by 2050 · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 7Yanai Yedvab thinks we need to completely overhaul the infrastructure of humanity to avoid a climate disaster, and we can't afford to wait the 70 years it’ll take to wean off…
- The Technologies That Will Remake Civilization by 2050 | Casey Handmer · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 6Casey Handmer thinks we're living through the most consequential 25 years in human history, and that human civilization is just getting started. I sat down with Casey in Los…
- Space AI, Moon Resorts, and Interstellar Calamity | Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston on 2050 · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 5Starcloud Founder and CEO Philip Johnston believes data centers in space are the first step to becoming a Kardashev level civilization. I caught up with Philip at Starcloud’s HQ…
- Conflict and Diplomacy in an Era of Recklessness | Sir Malcolm Rifkind on 2050 · 1 h 2 min · Season 1 Episode 4Sir Malcolm Rifkind served as Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1995 to 1997 and as Defence Secretary before that. He has sat across from Soviet ministers while a KGB…
- Artificial Wombs, IVF & Robot Nannies | Noor Siddiqui on Family in 2050 · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 3Noor Siddiqui is building a future free of inherited disease. As Founder & CEO of Orchid, she has developed embryo screening technology that reads 99% of an embryo's DNA - 100…
- Quantum, Superintelligence, and Reality's Ultimate Nature | Scott Aaronson on 2050 · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 2Scott Aaronson thinks that the time to prepare for a post-quantum world isn’t years away - it was yesterday. In the second episode of Forecast 2050 with Nebular General Partner…
- The surprising truth behind collapsing birthrates | Tyler Cowen on 2050 · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 1Tyler Cowen believes we are woefully unprepared for the next 25 years. In the first episode of Forecast 2050 with Nebular General Partner, Finn Murphy, we discuss the real…
- Introducing Forecast 2050 · 2 min · Season 1Forecast 2050 is a series about the next 25 years, and the builders, thinkers, and leaders shaping what lies ahead. Hosted by Nebular General Partner Finn Murphy.







