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Deep tech with systems consequences.
Futurized is a future-facing interview show built around the social consequences of deep technology. Episodes move from airports and encrypted computation to anti-fragility, robotic consciousness, energy software, and sustainability beyond surface fixes.
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Futurized is an interview show about technological change at systems scale. It treats the future as a collision between tools, institutions, infrastructure, markets, and human limits. The subject matter is broad, but the center of gravity is deep tech. AI, encryption, robotics, 3D printing, energy software, sustainability, psychology, and existential risk all appear as parts of a larger question: what has to change when powerful capabilities leave the lab. The show is especially interested in practical constraints. A conversation about airport security turns quickly from mobile devices and cloud systems to physical luggage movement, agent workflows, and the limits of existing airport design. That grounded quality gives the technical episodes weight. Futuristic encryption is handled through developer tools, exact computation, and why approximation errors would be unacceptable in finance, aviation, energy, or space. Microscale 3D printing becomes a discussion of manufacturing business models, data capture, dental scanning, electronic components, and the pressure toward miniaturization. The show also makes room for softer but consequential problems. Psychological fragility is discussed through COVID-era research, anti-fragility, vulnerable groups, and the mental strain created by larger risk environments. Sustainability is framed beyond eco-efficiency, with attention to roots, symptoms, flourishing, and worldview. AI risk is treated as a civic and educational problem as well as a technical one. Robotic consciousness enters through a science-fiction frame, using Unfettered Journey to think about technology and worldview over a far longer horizon. The format favors serious guests and patient explanation. It is not a hype show. It can be promotional around the edges, but the core conversations are built for people who want concepts connected to operational reality. Futurized works best for listeners who are comfortable with technical language and want future-oriented thinking that crosses sectors instead of staying in a single industry lane.
Made for: For technology strategists, founders, researchers, policy-minded executives, and future-curious professionals who want serious conversations about emerging technology and its wider effects. It especially suits listeners comfortable with dense, cross-disciplinary interviews.
What sets it apart: Futurized connects deep tech to infrastructure, psychology, sustainability, risk, and business models in the same editorial frame. It is less about gadget novelty than about how new capabilities collide with real systems.
Futurized goes beneath the trends, tracking the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics, and the environment. Join Trond Arne Undheim, futurist, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur, as he discusses the societal impact of deep tech such as AI, blockchain, IoT, life science and robotics, interviewing smart people with a soul: founders, authors, executives and other thought leaders. Futurized—a bi-weekly show, preparing YOU to deal with the next decade's disruption.
Encrypted computation meets airport bottlenecks, while Trond makes shiny futures show you their implementation receipts.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A psychology-focused discussion of anti-fragility, COVID-era character strengths, and facing existential risk.
The episode frames anti-fragility as more than endurance: it is the capacity to become stronger through pressure. From there, the host links COVID-era research on character strengths to larger questions about existential risk, human potential, and the emotional strain of living…
Big questions, carefully held.
Hexagon's conversations on digital twins, mining and measurement.
Enterprise architects and master distillers on what innovation means.
Futurized host Trond Arne Unheim interviews Faisal, a Johnson Controls security executive whose background includes computer science, Panasonic industrial automation, and 15 months leading a global security program.
Futurized host Trond Arnheim interviews Giovanni, co-founder of Exeter, about PowerFoil, a flexible indoor solar cell invented around 2010 as an alternative to traditional dye-sensitized cells with silver lines.
Trond Arne Unheim and Dana connect anti-fragility to psychological fragility, arguing that stress testing the psyche matters as much as stress testing systems.
Futurized host Trond Arne Unheim interviews John, CEO of Boston Microfabrication, about how 3D printing evolved from prototyping into specialized manufacturing.
Futurized host Trond Arne Unheim interviews Rand, CEO of Zama, about fully homomorphic encryption and its ability to compute on data without decrypting it.
Biosecurity is broad: physicists, engineers, coders, painters and bloggers all have a role, not just wet-lab scientists.
If humans were the actual objective of evolution there would be no humans.
Futurized examines ChatGPT’s training, limitations, AI progress, market forecasts, and existential-risk questions through an extended exchange with the chatbot.
Host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Gary Becker about robotic consciousness and the technologies behind his sci-fi novel.
Host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Dr.
Host Trond Arne Undheim interviews Carolina Torres about using software to transform the energy industry and achieve sustainability breakthroughs.