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Featured Stories

Conversations that
moved the room.

Seven stories pulled from the field — the people, places, and decisions shaping what comes next.

Richard Gere & Alessandra Silva on Xala

Featured Conversation

Costalegre, Jalisco · Mexico01 / 07

Conservation · Cover Story

Richard Gere & Alessandra Silva on Xala

A coastline, a couple, and a quiet revolution in wildlife restoration.

On the Pacific edge of Mexico's Costalegre, Richard Gere and Alessandra Silva sit with Ian Khan to share Xala — their decades-in-the-making sanctuary protecting endangered jaguar corridors, sea turtle nesting beaches, and one of the last intact tropical dry forests on the continent. A conversation about love, legacy, and what it takes to build something that outlives you.

Coming Soon

Aston Martin Aramco F1 — The Net-Zero Lap

Field Investigation

Silverstone · United Kingdom02 / 07

Sport × Sustainability

Aston Martin Aramco F1 — The Net-Zero Lap

Chasing a net-zero podium at 220 mph, one byte at a time.

Inside the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One Team's Silverstone campus, engineers are rewriting the playbook for sustainable motorsport. With NetApp's intelligent data infrastructure as the backbone, every telemetry packet, wind-tunnel run and freight movement is measured against a single ambition: a credible net-zero by 2030 — without surrendering an inch of pace.

Featured in Episode 03 · Now Streaming

Sanofi — The Next Evolution of Drug Discovery

Industry Deep Dive

Cambridge · Paris · Lyon03 / 07

Healthcare · Frontier Science

Sanofi — The Next Evolution of Drug Discovery

AI, biology, and the compression of decades into months.

From R&D labs in Cambridge to manufacturing floors in Lyon, Sanofi's leadership walks us through a transformation underway across global pharma: AI-native discovery pipelines, generative biology, and real-world data loops that are collapsing development cycles. The story of how one of the world's oldest pharmaceutical companies is racing to become its most modern.

Now Streaming

Starwalker Farms — A Family, A Field, A Future

Family Portrait

American West04 / 07

Regenerative Agriculture

Starwalker Farms — A Family, A Field, A Future

Third generation. America's first Regenerative Organic Certified farm.

In the high meadows of the American West, the Starwalker family is rewriting what a working farm can be. Now America's first Regenerative Organic Certified™ operation, the family — three generations strong — talks with Ian about soil as a balance sheet, water as a covenant, and why the future of food may look a lot like its past.

Releases June 2026

NVIDIA — Deepu Talla on the Future of Physical AI

Frontier Conversation

Santa Clara · California05 / 07

Physical AI · Frontier Robotics

NVIDIA — Deepu Talla on the Future of Physical AI

When intelligence steps off the screen and into the world.

Ian Khan sits with Deepu Talla, NVIDIA's VP of Robotics and Edge Computing, for a wide-ranging conversation on Physical AI — the convergence of foundation models, simulation, and humanoid robotics that is moving machines from screens to streets. From Isaac Sim to GR00T, a first look at the platforms training the next generation of embodied intelligence.

Coming Soon

Per Espen Stoknes — Rewiring the Climate Conversation

Featured Conversation

Oslo · Norway06 / 07

Climate Psychology · TED Global Speaker

Per Espen Stoknes — Rewiring the Climate Conversation

The psychologist and economist who proved that facts don't change minds — but stories do.

At the BI Norwegian Business School, Per Espen Stoknes has spent decades studying why smart people ignore climate science — and how to talk about the future without triggering apocalypse fatigue. Ian Khan sits with him for a candid conversation about green economics, the psychology of hope, and why the biggest barrier to sustainability might be the way we frame it.

Featured in Episode 04 · Now Streaming

Naveen Jain — Rewriting the Code of Human Health

Longevity Conversation

Bellevue · Washington07 / 07

Longevity · Cellular Frontier

Naveen Jain — Rewriting the Code of Human Health

The Viome founder making the case that chronic disease is optional.

Ian Khan sits with serial entrepreneur and Viome founder Naveen Jain for an unflinching conversation on the next era of human health. From gut microbiome sequencing to RNA-level diagnostics, Jain lays out the data-driven argument that aging — and most chronic illness — is a solvable engineering problem. A defining voice for the Longevity chapter of The Futurist.

Featured in The Futurist: Longevity

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The future isn't a forecast.
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“I built this series because the world doesn't need more predictions. It needs better witnesses.”

For three decades I've sat across from the founders, scientists, and policymakers shaping what comes next — at Microsoft summits, MIT labs, F1 pit lanes, and government war rooms. The Futurist is what I've learned: that the real story of technology is always, in the end, a story about people.

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Organizations Featured

A selection of the institutions, enterprises and innovators whose work has been documented across the series.

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Intelligence

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The State of Generative AI: Q2 2026

A comprehensive intelligence briefing on the regulatory, commercial, and technical landscape of generative AI across G7 nations and emerging markets.

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Sustainable Industrial Transformation Tracker

Quarterly intelligence on net-zero commitments, green hydrogen capacity expansion, and carbon-capture deployment at industrial scale.

April 202636 pp

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Frontier Technology Index: Quantum & Biotech

Investment flows, patent filings, and regulatory approvals across quantum computing and synthetic biology sectors.

March 202652 pp

Now Streaming · 10 EPisodes

Stories Captured

EP 01Artificial Intelligence

Silicon Valley, Cambridge, Dubai · 24 min

EP 02Creating a Sustainable Future

Amsterdam, Dubai, Singapore · 26 min

EP 03Data & Sustainability

Silverstone, UK · 22 min

EP 04The Future Ahead

Global — 6 continents · 25 min

EP 05Transforming Industries

Paris, New York, Toronto · 27 min

EP 06The Innovation Imperative

Tallinn, Dubai · 23 min

EP 07Beyond Boundaries

Geneva, Boston, Research Triangle · 28 min

EP 08The Human Machine

Tokyo, Austin, Boston · 26 min

EP 09Trust in the Machine Age

Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Brussels · 25 min

In Production · 9 Investigations

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Nine new chapters from the frontiers of technology and the work of building a better future.

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The Future of Regenerative Agriculture

Coming Soon11

Agriculture

The Future of Regenerative Agriculture

Spending time at America's First Organic & Regenerative Certified farm in California, Ian looks at regenerative agriculture practices and what the future looks like.

The Future of Food Automation

Coming Soon12

Food Tech

The Future of Food Automation

Ian speaks to America's first automated pizza maker, Donatos Pizza, a brand that has created pizzas for over 60 years. We also meet Appetronix, technology maker of America's first automated pizza machine.

The Future of AI in Healthcare

Coming Soon13

Human Health

The Future of AI in Healthcare

Ian speaks to Philips Healthcare about the Future of AI in Medicine, Diagnostic Imaging and providing care to communities far and wide. We look at clinic imaging, deployment of technology in remote areas of Kenya by the Gates Foundation.

The Longevity Equation

Coming Soon14

Human Health

The Longevity Equation

How long can we live and what are some of the new pathways to live disease free and healthy. Ian speaks to practitioners, advocates and critics about the future of human lifespan. Ian speaks to scientists who have created technology for us to make our minds sharper as well as to providers who can offer therapies and treatments to make us live longer.

Anatomy of a Hair Transplant

Coming Soon15

Human Health

Anatomy of a Hair Transplant

Ian meets with Hair Transplant Surgeon, Dr. Aziz Elghindi to understand the hair transplant industry better.

What is Agentic AI

Coming Soon16

Artificial Intelligence

What is Agentic AI

Ian speaks to leaders within the Agentic Industry space to understand what exactly Agentic AI is. Speaking to Enterprise technology leaders including Cisco, CXN and others.

FC Mother — a Healing Sports Revolution

Coming Soon17

Social Impact

FC Mother — a Healing Sports Revolution

What is the connection between mothers and football or for that matter public health and the power of healing sports. Ian looks into the healing sports domain and speaks to FC Mother about the science of healing at a mass scale with football at its center.

How Safe Are We?

Coming Soon18

Cybersecurity

How Safe Are We?

Ian covers cybersecurity, cybercrime and what is coming next. In a one on one conversation with Lastwall Ian exposes what security threats are coming.

A Humanoid Future

Coming Soon19

Robotics

A Humanoid Future

What are Humanoid Robots and are they coming for us? Ian speaks to industry leader NVIDIA about the future of Physical AI. Also covering the developments by UK based startup Humanoid that has rapidly accelerated humanoid robot production at an industrial scale.

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