Futurist Friday with David Houle

Over the course of the summer of 2022, we are releasing 12 interviews with futurists and forward thinkers in order to help our global audience of leaders become better visionaries for their organizations and be more prepared for our uncertain future.

In this episode, David Houle joins the show. David is a futurist and the author of This Spaceship Earth, Entering the Shift Age, and a series of books about the 2020s including The 2020s: The Golden Age of Design and Redesign. David is Futurist in Residence and Guest Lecturer at the Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida. He is Honorary President and Futurist of the Future Business School of China. He is a Founding Member and Managing Partner of The Sarasota Institute - A 21st Century Think Tank.

In this interview, David discusses the books that have influenced how he views the future, how he identifies trends through his research, two trends - aging and Technological Intelligence/Artificial Intelligence - that he is following closely and that will influence life through the 21st century, and why the 2020s will be the most disruptive decade in human history. David also raises provocative questions about the future ability of being able to upload consciousness, genetic alterations, and the morality of cloning humans.

“Electricity was the single greatest invention for how we live on the planet. Artificial Intelligence/Technological Intelligence will equal that in this century. It will be the single greatest thing after electricity to shape how we live.” David Houle in “Futurist Friday with David Houle”

David has appeared two other times on 12 Geniuses. His first interview - The Future of Humanity - was released March 21, 2021. His second interview - Climate Change’s Mass Migration - was released October 12, 2021.

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