Futurist Friday with Ufuk Tarhan

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, Ufuk Tarhan joins the show. Ufuk is a futurist, economist, and a best-selling author in Istanbul. She is the only Turkish woman to appear on Forbes Magazine's "50 Most Influential Female Futurists" and "World's Top 100 Female Futurists" lists. She writes articles for business and future-oriented journals and online platforms, and she is an active and effective social media content creator.

In this interview, Ufuk discusses the wide variety of sources she regularly uses in her research. She shares the trends she is following closely including aging and how a global population that continues to get older will change the way we live. She ends the conversation with a fascinating look at the technology advances that will likely occur through the 2020s all the way to the year 2060.

“The population aging is anticipated to become one of the most significant social transformations of the 21st century affecting nearly every sector of society including labor and financial markets, demand for goods and services such as housing, transportation, and social protection, as well as family structures.” Ufuk Tarhan in “Futurist Friday with Ufuk Tarhan” talking about how many nations will experience financial challenges as the average age of their populations increase.

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Resources From This Episode

Some of the resources Ufuk mentions in this interview: World Future Society, Alvin Toffler, Jacque Fresco, It’s YOUR Future…Make It a Good One! by Vern Wheelwright Ray Kurzweil, Michio Kaku, Juan Enriquez, Gerd Leonhard, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, MIT Sloan Management Review, Sigularity Hub