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Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

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    S3 EP12: The Future of Systems (With Michael Pawlyn)

    30 JUN 2022 · S3 EP12: The Future of Systems with Michael Pawlyn Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of systems is the brilliant Michael Pawlyn. BIO: Michael Pawlyn is a British architect noted for his work in the field biomimetic architecture and innovation, as well as jointly initiating the 'Architects Declare' movement in the UK He was part of the principal team of architects that conceived and designed The Eden Project and is a regular keynote speaker at events on innovation and environmental sustainability. His best selling RIBA book Biomimicry in Architecture was published in 2011 and a revised second edition, with a foreword by Ellen MacArthur, was published in 2016. He was one of the three founders of The Sahara Forest Project - a way of supplying fresh water, food and renewable energy in arid conditions - and remains actively involved as a Founding Partner and Design Manager. We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    1h 11m 14s
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    JRATFN - War in Ukraine (with Lieutenant General Richard Nugee)

    21 MAR 2022 · JRATFN - War in Ukraine (with Lieutenant General Richard Nugee) This episode we're joined once again by Lieutenant General Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE to discuss the war in Ukraine. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    52m 21s
  • TOPIA SPECIAL 01: The Big Bang (The Futurenauts interview with Jon Richardson)

    28 FEB 2022 · TOPIA SPECIAL 01: The Big Bang (The Futurenauts interview with Jon Richardson) Welcome to the first in this special TOPIA series of candid conversations with remarkable people keeping our planet cool. This podcast is for people who have ever wondered just what this mind-bender of a universe is all about, or want to be entertained with inspiring positive stories. TOPIA is a kaleidoscopic new culture and positive impact magazine bursting with nature, art, design, travel, and perspectives from the world's wildest edges. The theme of Season 01 is THE BIG BANG. It features cosmic chats and stories of stardust, super volcanoes… and talking beavers. In this podcast, we go back to the origins with Jon Richardson – finding out why he wants to make people laugh and why we need humour at all. We discuss Big Bang epiphanies, transforming difficult times into laughs, mental health, and what “a world of good” looks like. TOPIA is a place where anything goes – as long as it’s good: Fall down the rabbit hole: worldoftopia.com Follow @worldoftopia & @jandthef
    39m 12s
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    S3 EP11: The Future of the Office (With Julia Hobsbawm)

    19 FEB 2022 · S3 EP11: The Future of the office (With Julia Hobsbawm) Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of the office is the brilliant Julia Hobsbawm. Julia's fantastic new book 'The Nowhere Office' is available now. BIO: Julia Hobsbawm is an entrepreneur, writer, and consultant who addresses the challenges of the hyper connected age, in particular remedies of what she has called Social Health for organisations. She is Chair of The Workshift Commission and is Founder and Chair of the content and connection business Editorial Intelligence. Her bestselling book The Simplicity Principle: Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World was published in 2020 and won two US Awards for Best Business Book and Best Self-Help Book of 2020. Her previous books include Fully Connected: Social Health in an Age of Overload which was shortlisted for Management Book of the Year. Awarded an OBE for services to business, her articles are amongst the most downloaded on the Strategy + Business site and she is an adviser to the British Academy’s Future of the Corporation project. She regularly speaks to global audiences in government, private and public sectors. Julia is a founding trustee in the UK of OurBrainBank, a patron of Saving Faces: Facial Surgery Research Foundation, patron of The Zoe Education Trust, and is the Founder of the Social Capital Network. We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    1h 19m 59s
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    S3 - EP10: The Future of the Citizen (With Jon Alexander)

    9 FEB 2022 · S3 EP10: The Future of the Citizen (With Jon Alexander) Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of the citizen and citizenship is the brilliant Jon Alexander. His fantastic new book 'Citizens' is available to pre-order now. BIO: Jon spent the first decade of his career working in the advertising industry, selling some of the world's biggest brands, and winning plenty of awards along the way. Then he realised he was caught up in a story he didn't believe in: The Consumer Story. In 2014, Jon co-founded the New Citizenship Project with Irenie Ekkeshis, a former ad-land colleague. Their mission was to figure out how to use their skills not just to sell stuff to Consumers, but to involve people in the decisions that affect their lives as Citizens. They have since partnered with organisations and institutions including the Co-op, The Body Shop, National Trust, BBC, European Central Bank and many more. Jon is a Fellow of the Young Foundation and the Royal Society of Arts, as well as a member of the World Economic Forum's Political Entrepreneurship Network and of the OECD's Innovative Citizen Participation Network. He holds three Masters degrees in disciplines spanning humanities and business, and has won several essay awards including the inaugural Ashridge/European Academy of Business in Society Sustainable Innovation Award, and the Young Foundation's Beyond Meritocracy Prize. Along the way, he has also represented Great Britain in two different sports. We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    1h 18m 40s
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    S3 - EP9: The Future of Carbon Drawdown (with Dr Gabrielle Walker)

    2 FEB 2022 · S3 EP9: The Future of Carbon Drawdown (with Dr Gabrielle Walker) Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of carbon drawdown is the brilliant author and lecturer - Dr Gabrielle Walker. BIO: Gabrielle gives keynote addresses to corporate audiences around the world. She is also an accomplished moderator of high-level debates, guiding panels involving global CEOs, former heads of state, government ministers, military generals and global humanitarian leaders. She has extensive experience at designing and facilitating innovative “safe-space” conversations between global leaders, from small round tables through to major international meetings. Gabrielle has presented many TV and radio programs for the BBC. She has been Climate Change Editor at Nature and Features Editor at New Scientist and has written very extensively for many international newspapers and magazines, including The Economist, Prospect, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is author of four books including co-authoring the bestselling book The Hot Topic, how to avoid global warming while still keeping the lights on, which was described by Al Gore as “a beacon of clarity” and by The Times as “a material gain for the axis of good”. She has a PhD from Cambridge University and has taught at both Cambridge and Princeton Universities. A self-confessed “ice addict” Gabrielle has made more than a dozen trips to both poles. She has also climbed trees in the Amazon rainforest, swum with piranhas, been sneezed on by a humpback whale, hooked lava out of a live volcano, and flown in zero gravity. We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    1h 14m 56s
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    S3 - EP8: "Happy" "New" Year

    6 JAN 2022 · S3 - EP8: "Happy" "New" Year In this episode we reflect on and discuss the events of 2021 and look forward to 2022 with as much hope and optimism as we can muster. We'll be back very soon for more JRATFN... We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    38m 12s
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    S3 - EP7: The Future of Trust (with Rachel Botsman)

    17 DEC 2021 · S3 - EP7: The Future of Trust (with Rachel Botsman) Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of trust is the brilliant author and lecturer - Rachel Botsman. BIO: Rachel Botsman is a trust expert, author, and lecturer at Oxford University. She is passionate about teaching people how to think differently and challenge ideas around trust and humility. She has been recognized as one of the world’s 30 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, one of the Top 10 most influential voices in the UK on LinkedIn and honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Rachel is the author of two critically acclaimed books that have been translated into 14 languages. Her first book, “What’s Mine is Yours”, predicted the rise of the ‘sharing economy’, and was hailed by TIME magazine as one of the “10 Ideas that Will Change the World.” Her second book, “Who Can You Trust?”, explores the profound ways trust is shifting in the world; it was praised by Adam Grant, Marc Benioff, Sherry Turkle, and was named one of the best books of the year by Wired. She is a world-renowned speaker for her clear insights and warm storytelling. Past clients have included Salesforce, Goldman Sachs, the World Business Forum, Aspen Ideas Festival, Adobe, and Snapchat Rachel is often voted the audience’s favourite speaker at events and her TED talks have been viewed more than five million times. She is also the host of the podcast series Trust Issues. Rachel is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Financial Times, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review and Wired. Through her popular newsletter, Rethink, Rachel warmly engages with a community of over 40,000 subscribers every fortnight. We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    1h 10m 39s
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    S3 - EP6: The Future of the Military (with Lieutenant General Richard Nugee)

    8 DEC 2021 · S3 - EP6: The Future of the Military (with Lieutenant General Richard Nugee) Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of the Military is Lieutenant General Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE the Non-Executive Director for Climate Change and Sustainability in Defence. We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    1h 24m 14s
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    S3 - EP5: The Future of Future Generations (with Jane Davidson)

    1 DEC 2021 · S3 - EP5: The future of future generations (with Jane Davidson) Our guest this week joining to discuss the future of future generations is the brilliant Jane Davidson. A Welsh former Labour politician, the former Assembly Member for Pontypridd, and served as minister for environment, sustainability and housing in the Welsh Government. We hope you enjoy. Please rate and review. Thanks, Jon, Ed, and Mark. Get in touch with the show; Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com TWITTER: @JANDTHEF   A 'Keep it Light Media' Production All enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 
    1h 12m 30s

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts: The Book of Revelations Comedian and professional worrier Jon Richardson doesn’t sleep much at night. The questions he is asking himself in the small, dark...

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Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts: The Book of Revelations

Comedian and professional worrier Jon Richardson doesn’t sleep much at night. The questions he is asking himself in the small, dark hours see to that. Are we going to run out of food? Is it already too late to stop climate change? Should I start learning Mandarin? Are killer death robots from the future already among us? Will my kids grow up to see a real tiger or giraffe? Could Trump become ‘President for Life?’ Why hasn’t anyone yet made an intelligent hairbrush? Oh they have? As you were…Playing on his own paranoia Jon will discuss his fears with guarded optimists Ed Gillespie and Mark Stevenson aka ‘The Futurenauts’. Authors, futurists and provocateurs, to ease Jon’s angst Ed and Mark take him on adventures through the futures we need that already exist today.

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