FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe
Episodes
Will We Worship A.I.? – With Beth Singler
11 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Will we worship A.I.? How are religions already rejecting, adopting or adapting to A.I.? How could A.I. re-shape the future of organised religion? Co...
Modeling Our Climate Future – with Andreas Prein
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we model the climate? How to make predictions at a local level? What role does AI play? What do our models predict about the future of extreme ...
Saving the Future of News – with Mark Eisenegger
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Digital disinformation and the declining quality of newsmedia is one of the most important challenges of our time. Everyone is aware of it, and its ea...
Fisheries are a Global Ponzi Scheme (and how to fix it) – With Daniel Pauly
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does the most cited fisheries scientist in the world call modern fisheries a global Ponzi scheme?Welcome to part two of our dive into the future o...
Future of Oceans and Fisheries – With William Cheung
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we feed another 2 billion AND preserve the future of ocean ecosystems?In 2025, over three billion people rely on seafood as a significant sourc...
Future of Happiness – With John Helliwell
13 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we create a happier future? What are the factors that influence happiness? What can we do as managers and leaders to enhance happiness, and why...
Electrification of Road Freight – With David Cebon
16 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Forget cars, what does the transition to electric FREIGHT look like? How capable are HEAVY vehicles? What’s the future of charging infrastructure? W...
Autonomous Vehicles: The Next Generation – With Paul Newman
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is driving the NEXT generation of autonomous vehicles? How are scientists upping the innovation rate? Why are AVs utterly inevitable, everywhere?...
Carbon Pricing: Incentivizing a Net-Zero Future - With Cameron Hepburn
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can carbon pricing incentivize a sustainable future? Join us for a compelling conversation with Professor Cameron Hepburn, the Battcock Professor of E...
Unleashing Epigenetic Potential: A New Era In Genetic Medicine - With Ben Oakes
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a future where, based on a diagnostic in your teens, your doctor gives you a customized infusion with a top-up every 5 to 10 years that “dia...
Future of Cybersecurity - with Bruce Schneier
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build a more secure digital future? Cyber-attacks and data-breaches are escalating, attackers are employing all manner of sophisticated too...
California's 100% Renewables Revolution - with Mark Jacobson
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The fifth largest economy in the world is smashing renewables records! For 41 of the past 49 days, California's grid has met more than 100% of el...
Future of Energy - with Michael Barnard (Part 2)
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Part 2 of my interview with Michael Barnard, global energy expert and consultant to the biggest investors on the planet. In this episode we...
Future of Energy - with Michael Barnard (Part 1)
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What will the global mix of energy generation look like in 2060? Which technologies are dead ends and which should we be paying more attention to? W...
Interfacing the Nervous System - with Elisa Donati
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What does the future of medicine look like when microchips and nervous systems speak the same language?I asked Dr Elisa Donati, a Senior Scientist wor...
Countdown to Age Reversal - with George Church
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Affordable age-reversal drugs. Xenotransplants to eliminate organ shortages. Revolutionizing health economics. Keeping methane sequestered under the t...
What's Next in CAR T-Cell Therapy? - with Bruce Levine
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The future of medicine is one where all cancers are either 100% curable or turned into manageable diseases. You’ve heard me tell the story in my key...
A.I. and the Future of Inequality - with Wendell Wallach
10 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Will AI exacerbate inequality? Can we stop that from happening? As the world grapples with guardrails to protect us from future dangers of AI, I thoug...
Three New Frontiers In Cancer Medicine - with Ben Stanger
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story of cancer medicine is multi-threaded. It’s a story of early detection, of surgical removal, of radio- and chemo-therapies, of understandin...
Gene Editing to Prevent Heart Disease - with Kiran Musunuru
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is this the most important gene therapy in the world? At the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, a cutting-edge facility at the University of Penns...
Climate Change and The Future of Insurance - with Trent Thomson
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Insurance companies must deal with the financial realities of climate change. They must make quantitative decisions and translate risks into dollars. ...
The Future of Neuromorphic Computing - with Alexandre Marcireau
10 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m calling neuromorphic computing the most important computer engineering research in the world. That’s right, more important than quantum comput...
Innovating For A Better Future - with Ken Dovey
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation is a deeply, deeply social phenomenon that requires many people to come along for the ride. It’s not easy! So, where to start? What are t...
How Far Can We Go With Solar? - with Martin Green
05 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Has Martin Green done more than any other human to safeguard our future? For fifty years – yes fifty – he’s dedicated his life to pushing the bo...
Can We Keep CRISPR Responsible? - with Jennifer Kuzma
19 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Designer babies, agricultural mishaps, extinction via gene-drive. Now CRISPR has placed into our hands the awesome power to "edit life" in a...
What Comes After Lithium-Ion? - with George Crabtree
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What comes after Lithium-ion? It’s only one of the most important technology questions in the world! Everything in the future of electronics, road v...
Can We Reverse Aging? - with Jan Vijg
27 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rejuvenation and regeneration, hope versus hyperbole, healthspans and lifespans. Such is the frenzied focus on the potential for new drugs to extend o...
What Does it Mean to Make a Robot Conscious? - with Hod Lipson
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean for a robot to be conscious? Can a robot have feelings? Will we make robots that take care of one another, upgrade themselves, and r...
Can Lawyers Save The Planet? - with Michael Gerrard
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can lawyers save the planet? I asked the world’s foremost climate lawyer.Welcome to FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe, futurist and keynote speaker....
Gene Therapies for Eye Disease - with Aykut Demirkol
06 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second episode of FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe. In this episode, Dr Aykut Demirkol of the Harkness Eye Institute joins Bruce to ta...
CRISPR and the Future of Food - with Rodolphe Barrangou
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first episode of FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe. In this episode, Prof. Rodolphe Barrangou of North Carolina State University joins ...