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Send us Fan Mail Silicon Valley was supposed to change the world. Turns out, it wasn't kidding. For decades, the tech industry's biggest personalities sold us a vision of innovation, openness, and progress. But somewhere along the way, the people building our digital future began accumulating something even more consequential than wealth: political power. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF....

Send us Fan Mail Artificial intelligence may dominate the headlines. But behind every breakthrough model, every chatbot, and every AI-powered application is something far less glamorous—and arguably far more important: The semiconductor. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF. , Jeremy Goldman sits down with Rakesh Kumar , Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois and author of THE C...

Send us Fan Mail For years, the debate has been framed as a simple choice: Work from home—or return to the office. But what if we've been asking the wrong question? In this episode of FUTUREPROOF. , Jeremy Goldman sits down with Harvard-trained economists Emma Harrington and Natalia Emanuel , authors of IN PERSON: How Working Together Fuels Creativity, Productivity, and Growth . Drawing on ye...

Send us Fan Mail Can businesses still be a force for good? It's a surprisingly complicated question. Over the past decade, companies have been encouraged to take stands on social issues, invest in their communities, and think beyond shareholder value. More recently, many of those same organizations have faced growing political scrutiny, shifting consumer expectations, and mounting pressure to...

Send us Fan Mail For years, we've talked about how artificial intelligence could make government faster, smarter, and more efficient. But there's another side to the story. AI isn't just helping governments. It's empowering citizens, businesses, and watchdog groups to interact with public institutions at a scale those institutions were never designed to handle. In this episode...

Send us Fan Mail For years, leadership was about managing change. Today, it feels more like surviving it. AI is reshaping industries. Geopolitical tensions are redrawing supply chains. Climate events are disrupting operations. Employees expect something fundamentally different from work than they did just a few years ago. The challenge isn't one disruption. It's all of them at once. In t...

Send us Fan Mail We're living through one of the fastest periods of workplace transformation in modern history. AI is reshaping jobs, layoffs have become a recurring reality, and many professionals are quietly asking themselves a question they never expected to ask: Can I keep working like this? In this episode of FUTUREPROOF. , Jeremy Goldman sits down with DJ DiDonna , senior lecturer at Ha...

Send us Fan Mail For years, the AI industry has operated under a simple assumption: talent is global. That assumption is beginning to break. As governments increasingly view advanced AI as a matter of national security—not just commercial competition—companies are finding themselves caught between innovation, geopolitics, immigration policy, and global talent markets. In this episode of FUTUREPROO...

Send us Fan Mail We're living through the fastest technological acceleration in human history. Every week brings a new AI model, a new productivity tool, and a new prediction that everything is about to change forever. And yet somehow, most people feel less focused, less certain, and more overwhelmed than ever. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., I sit down with Fredric Marshall, author of THRIV...

Send us Fan Mail Every company today says it’s data-driven. Billions are spent on analytics. AI pilots are everywhere. Dashboards glow with real-time metrics. And yet, only a small fraction of organizations actually transform. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., I sit down with Sebastian Wernicke — author of DATA INSPIRED: Building an Organizational Culture of Inquiry for Lasting Transformation —to u...

Send us Fan Mail We talk a lot about AI reshaping the future. We talk less about who gets to participate in it. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., I sit down with Corbb O’Connor, who leads accessibility advocacy at Level Access. Corbb is blind. He’s spent years consulting enterprise teams — from financial institutions to global brands — helping them design digital experiences that are actually usabl...

Send us Fan Mail We talk constantly about the future of work — AI agents, automation, leaner teams, productivity gains. But what if the real drag on performance isn’t technology — it’s coordination? Unproductive and unnecessary meetings cost companies up to $1.4 trillion every year. Seventy-one percent of senior leaders say meetings are inefficient. The average knowledge worker now spends around 1...

Send us Fan Mail We live in a moment where disagreement feels dangerous. Politics is polarized. Social media amplifies outrage. Inside companies, dissent is often muted — not because people agree, but because they assume speaking up will damage relationships or reputations. But what if most of that fear is wrong? Julia Minson, decision scientist at Harvard Kennedy School, studies the psychology of...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone says they’re “AI-first.” Very few organizations are AI-ready. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., we sit down with Ben Tasker, who is leading one of the largest workforce-scale AI education efforts in the public utility sector — upskilling 36,000 employees while advising global organizations on certification and governance. Ben calls this moment the “AI Between Times.” The t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., we sit down with Kevin Ashton—the technologist who coined the term Internet of Things and helped usher in the smartphone era—to talk about something even more foundational than AI. Stories. In his new book, The Story of Stories , Kevin traces a million-year arc—from the first fires where early humans gathered, to the invention of writing and printi...

Send us Fan Mail Healthcare is colliding with technology faster than most people realize. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., I sit down with analyst Rajiv Leventhal, who covers the intersection of healthcare, pharma, and tech, to unpack three forces reshaping the system at once: AI, GLP-1 weight loss drugs, and the mental health impact of digital life. We start with AI as a health tool. Nearly a qua...

Send us Fan Mail For years, organizations have poured millions into DEI training. And yet most employees still report discrimination. Promotion gaps persist. Trust remains uneven. So what’s going on? In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., I sit down with Lily Zheng — strategist and author of Fixing Fairness — to interrogate a hard truth: much of what we call DEI doesn’t work. Not because fairness is unp...

Send us Fan Mail For years, we treated emotional intelligence like a cultural add-on. Nice to have.  Important, maybe.  But not central to performance. That framing doesn’t survive the AI era. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., I sit down with Dr. Bushra Khan, founder of Leading with BK, to examine what actually differentiates leaders as automation compresses the knowledge gap. When AI can draft, an...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of FUTUREPROOF. is different. My guest is Trevor Reed , a former U.S. Marine who was wrongfully detained and abused in a Russian gulag for nearly three years, freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange in 2022—and then made a decision few could comprehend: he voluntarily went to Ukraine to fight against the same system that imprisoned him. In this conversation, Trevor...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most undervalued leadership skill in the AI era isn’t technical fluency—but emotional presence ? This episode of FUTUREPROOF. features Claude Silver , the world’s first Chief Heart Officer and the No. 2 executive at VaynerX, joining the show to unpack why authenticity, empathy, and belonging are no longer “nice-to-haves,” but strategic advantages. Claude’s 2025 book, B...

Send us Fan Mail Healthcare is entering its most consequential design moment in decades. As AI moves from the background into the core of clinical decision-making, diagnostics, and patient experience, the real question isn’t what AI can do —it’s whether people can trust it. This week on FUTUREPROOF., I’m joined by Peter Skillman, Global Head of Design at Philips, and one of the few leaders shaping...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Joe Devon Title: Chair, GAAD Foundation | Co-founder, Global Accessibility Awareness Day AI is reshaping how we design software—but accessibility still too often shows up as an afterthought. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF. , Joe Devon joins us to unpack what it actually means to build technology that works for everyone, especially as generative AI becomes embedded across pr...

Send us Fan Mail Climate change is a global problem—but climate capital doesn’t flow globally. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF. , Jeremy sits down with Lassor Feasley , co-founder and CEO of Renewables.org , to unpack why some of the highest-impact climate solutions on Earth remain dramatically underfunded. Renewables.org applies a Kiva-style crowdfunding model to distributed solar projects across...

Send us Fan Mail When Google’s algorithm changes caused HubSpot’s traffic to plummet 80%, most companies would have panicked. Aja Frost saw an opportunity. As Senior Director of Global Growth at HubSpot, Aja led the transformation that helped HubSpot not only recover—but become the most-cited CRM in generative AI results. In this episode of FUTUREPROOF., Jeremy Goldman sits down with Aja to talk a...

Send us Fan Mail In a world where algorithms amplify outrage and newsfeeds reward noise, 1440 Media has quietly built something radical — a daily newsletter that promises “all your news, none of the bias.” This week on FUTUREPROOF. , Jeremy Goldman talks with Tim Huelskamp , CEO and cofounder of 1440, about how a 15-person team grew to reach over 4 million subscribers without chasing clicks, outra...