Exponential Minds Podcast with Chief Futurist Nikolas Badminton
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsChief Futurist and leader of the Futurist Think Tank Nikolas Badminton presents the Exponential Minds Podcast where he explores ideas with experts from futures thinking all fields around the world discussing how humanity is impacted by the exponential growth in technology and the thinking behind it.
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Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep013: The Future of Biohacking with Amal Graafstra
August 29, 2017 20:12 - 36 minutes - 50.8 MBWelcome to the new Exponential Minds Podcast where Global Futurist Nikolas Badminton speaks to amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions. This episode features Amal Graafstra - biohacker and CEO of DangerousThings.com - who believes our bodies are our own, to do with what we want, and that biohacking is the forefront of a new kind of evolution. He pushes the agenda that he “socially acceptable” of tomorrow will be defined by boundaries pushed tod...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep012: Innovation and the evolution of advertising with Tom Goodwin
June 13, 2017 12:36 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MBWelcome to the new Exponential Minds Podcast where Global Futurist Nikolas Badminton speaks to amazing thinkers that dream bigger and impact the world with their thinking and actions. This episode features Tom Goodwin - Linkedin's top influencer, journalist, analyst, and strategist that looks after all content and innovation initiatives at Zenith Media. He has a goal of unleashing the power of new technology, building products not just buying media, for making what content marketing can beco...
Nikolas Badminton talks to CBC Business Radio about a cashless society
May 01, 2017 17:17 - 1 minute - 1.79 MBNikolas Badminton talks to CBC Business Radio about a cashless society. This broadcast was one of the top-3 stories on Wednesday 26th April across Canada.
The Future Of Work - Is There A Possibility Your Job Could Be Replaced By A Robot In The Future?
April 24, 2017 12:51 - 7 minutes - 6.72 MBNikolas Badminton, Futurist, is a regular contributor to Lynda Steele and Drex’s CKNW Drive Time show talking about a number of future-forward items from The Future of Work, The Sharing Economy, Privacy, and other items of public interest. In this episode – Nikolas Badminton Discusses the Future of Work – Nikolas talks about how work is changing with the rise of automation and artificial intelligence.
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep011: The Future of Marriage and Relationships with Dr. Marina Adshade
January 05, 2017 14:55 - 29 minutes - 41.3 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews Dr. Marina Adshade who has spent the last fourteen years teaching economics and engaging in original economic research. They discuss how technology influences relationships, what modern marriage can be, and how things are likely to change. In 2008, she launched an undergraduate course titled Economics of Sex and Love, which invited her students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s lens. The class was an immediate hit with students ...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep010: Riding this Hyperconnected Life with Nikolas Badminton
October 28, 2016 20:29 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBIn this episode we see Nikolas at the Asia-Pacific Communications Summit talking about the birth of the internet, technoshamans, the predictions of Rushkoff and McKenna, how technology companies are controlling out psycho-social-physiological urges to create hyperconnectivity. Implied value and a return to the human condition of love and connection are discussed. Read more of Nikolas' thoughts - www.nikolasbadminton.com APCS - http://www.communications-summit.asia/ Asia-Pacific Association o...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep009: Robosexuality and Sex Robots with Katie Metaverse
October 06, 2016 19:21 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews Katie Metaverse, known by her Internet name “Miss Metaverse” (MM) is a New York based Futurist + Founder, BodAi, a New York based tech startup dedicated to bringing humanity’s dream of coexisting with humanoid robot companions to life through emerging technologies. Apps, VR, and sex robots (Bods) are discussed in detail along with what robosexuality is, idollators, what considerations are needed, as well as ethical boundaries of this new field of technolog...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep008: IMPACT, The Belief Economy, and Spirituality with Keith Ippel
June 08, 2016 01:26 - 32 minutes - 45 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews Keith Ippel who co-founded Spring to focus on early stage entrepreneurs with high growth potential who want to make the world a better place. Nikolas and Keith talk about what makes an IMPACT entrepreneur, the modern startup, along with ethics, spirituality, and community in modern business. He also shares what StartUp City IMPACT, via a partnership with the Vancouver Economic Commission, is trying to achieve from June 6 to 11, 2016. In April 2016 Keith an...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep007: Empowering Kids in Changing the World with Sarah Prevette
June 01, 2016 20:57 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews Sarah Prevette, the Founder of Future Design School -- a school focused on empowering youth innovation through design methods and entrepreneurial experience. Nikolas and Sarah talk about empowering kids and cultivating their ideals and passion with tools and educational methods. They also discuss breaking and rebuilding the world, risk taking, the changing economy, and making governments alter their thinking to make change actually happen. Previously, Sara...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep006: Coworking, Community, and The Future of Work with Denise Brennan
April 11, 2016 21:23 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews Denise Brennan who owns and operates The Studio at Creative Coworkers, a coworking space for mostly creative professionals in Vancouver's Railtown district. With an educational and professional background in social networking, open source community building and labour activism, she's passionate about the connection between the near future evolution of work and labour rights, and the potential for coworking to facilitate progress and change in that process. ...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep005: Music + Art + Code = Creativity with Samantha Blondtron
April 04, 2016 02:14 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews Samantha 'Blondtron' Mathews, CEO of Venn.Agency, Techno-advocate, Musician, and disruptor about how Music is mashing together with Art, Code, and Virtual Drugs to create a new world for brands wanting to connect with youth culture. During this interview she plugged Nikolas into a Thync headset with some pretty amazing results and reactions. Thanks to Venn.Agency for making this podcast possible and for energizing Nikolas. Links: http://www.circlework.tv/...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep004: Nikolas Badminton Interviewed on AI and The Future of Work
March 31, 2016 16:21 - 6 minutes - 8.95 MBIn this episode Nikolas is interviewed on 630CHED Morning News, in Edmonton, by host Bruce Bowie. They discuss a study, which surveyed 2299 adults across Canada, found that a quarter (26%) of Canadian adults believe an unbiased computer program would be more trustworthy and ethical than their workplace leaders and managers. Among younger adults (those aged 20-39) that number was significantly higher, with 31% agreeing that an unbiased computer program would be more trustworthy and ethical t...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep003: Designing Multi-modal Realities with Kharis O'Connell (Part 2)
March 30, 2016 03:25 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews Kharis O'Connell, CEO of HUMAN, a product design studio that lives at the frontier of technology. In Part 2 of this interview Kharis talks about experimenting with edge technologies in Wearables, Virtual and Augmented Reality, immersive human experiences, and how the future will be 'twitchy'. Nikolas would like to thank the HUMAN who supported this interview. Links: www.ishuman.co The Future is Not a Screen You Can touch - https://thoughts.ishuman.co/the-...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep003: Designing Multi-modal Realities with Kharis O'Connell (Part 1)
March 29, 2016 01:52 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBIn part 1 of this episode Nikolas interviews Kharis O'Connell, CEO of HUMAN, a product design studio that lives at the frontier of technology. In part 1 of this interview Kharis shares his journey into designing systems, smartphones, and realizing that Wearables, Virtual and Augmented Reality were going to be the way forward for immersive human experiences. Nikolas would like to thank the HUMAN who supported this interview. Links: www.ishuman.co The Future is Not a Screen You Can touch - h...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep002: The Future of Exobionic Sports with Inventor Jonathan Tippett
March 19, 2016 18:00 - 30 minutes - 42.7 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews Engineer and Inventor Jonathan Tippett about the projects that defined the amazing eatART Foundation, his exobionic mech sports robot project PROSTHESIS, and what it takes to redfine the world of sports using kinetically-powered robotics. Nikolas would like to thank the eatART Foundation who supported this interview. Links: www.eatart.org Nikolas Badminton is a world-respected futurist speaker that provides keynote speeches about the future of work, the s...
Exponential Minds Podcast - Ep001: The future of gaming with VR pioneer Denny Unger
March 11, 2016 00:35 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBIn this episode Nikolas interviews the VR Pioneer and CEO of CLOUDHEAD GAMES Denny Unger. His team are just about to release the first installment of The Gallery - a four part episodic fantasy exploration game built from the ground up for virtual reality. Denny talks about how the VR market is developing, innovation in game development using VR technologies, how to keep pushing forward when things get tough, how gameplay will be changed forever, and how to build a VR Gaming business. You c...