Preview of Tomorrow

Preview of Tomorrow looks at the future through the problems cities face today. The show is built around interviews with people creating tools for resilience, sustainability, and public access. Mike Lake keeps the frame practical. Recent episodes ask how businesses can identify genuinely sustainable suppliers, how residents can receive services when language blocks communication, how satellite data can guide climate adaptation, and how everyday logistics products can carry hidden environmental costs. The show favors concrete use cases over abstract prediction. Green the Chain is discussed as a marketplace that helps buyers compare products by sustainability goals while giving sellers a clearer way to communicate their efforts. Translate Live is presented through the experience of people who need real-time language access in schools, health care, government assistance, and other essential services. WIO is explored as a way for communities to see heat islands, flood-prone zones, vegetation, and other environmental risks with sharper data. Panera's pallet work appears as a reminder that supply chains include physical materials most people rarely notice. The conversations are optimistic, but they do not stay at the level of good intentions. Use matters. Trust matters. Cost matters. Data quality matters. The show repeatedly returns to the gap between having a promising technology and getting it into the hands of cities, agencies, nonprofits, businesses, and residents. Its pace is accessible and explanatory, with openings that translate technical issues into familiar civic stakes. Mike Lake's questions often connect a product back to public benefit, especially for vulnerable communities and climate-stressed neighborhoods. The result is a show for people who care about urban innovation but want more than demo-day enthusiasm. It is climate tech with procurement forms, school districts, flood maps, supplier pages, and public communication built into the story.