Generative Futures

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• Why Is There No Moonshot for Housing? - With Geoff Mulgan

  October 13, 2026 · 45 min

  Geoff Mulgan has been a key figure in UK innovation for a number of decades. He Chief Executive of Nesta from 2011 to 2019, worked as advisor to Tony Blair and currently professor at UCL and founder of The Institutional Architecture Lab…

• Will AI break capitalism? With Paul Mason

  September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

  This interview took place on March 6th 2026 Paul Mason is former Economics editor at Channel Four and author of Post-Capitalism, where he argued that information technology was undermining the ability for capitalism to survive, and a…

• David Edgerton on Historical Analogies, Technology, and AI

  June 9, 2026 · 50 min

  David Edgerton is Professor of History at Kings College London. His book Shock of the Old challenged the way we think about innovation, arguing that we systematically overvalue the new and ignore the old (including maintenance). He has…

• How is AI changing our experience of Time?

  April 1, 2026 · 50 min

  The rhythm of social media is frenetic. But what if AI can give us more choice about the speed at which we live our lives? In his article ‘Time Machines’ Nicklas Berild Lundblad outlines the thesis that AI has the potential to be a…

• Can Europe Catch Up on AI? with Carl Frey

  February 12, 2026 · 43 min

  I spoke to Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute and one of the most cited scholars on the political economy of technology. His new book How Progress Ends argues that technological progress is far from inevitable…

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