Uploaded June 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Nancy Giordano (@nancygiordano) is an entrepreneur, futurist, consultant and techno-optimist committed to building societal structures and behaviors that keep up with tech to ensure a safe and thriving future for us all...Nancy's been recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and guiding a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands through her work with PlayBigInc.She's also frequent panelist at South by Southwest (where she produced the first Career Fair For the Future to help college + high schools more actively design the future of their work), is global keynote speaker, Singularity University guest lecturer and world’s first TEDx licensee.
Full episode ---- https://disruptors.fm/111-a-career-fair-for-the-future-of-work-as-we-shift-to-a-post-automation-system-focused-society-nancy-giordano
In today's episode we discuss:
- How Nancy thinks about the future of work
- Why the mental health epidemic is a bigger deal than we think
- The power of system thinking
- Why GDP's an awful measure of progress and how to replace it
- What can we do to fix politics
- The ways we can redesign education for the 21st century
- Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes
- The UBI question and how to reframe it
- What will be AI's actual impact
- How organizations like Singularity University inspire change
- What technologies most worry Nancy
- Why we can engineer the future of our choosing
- The pesky problems of incentives ruining our world
- What to think about social media and blockchain
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Nancy Giordano (@nancygiordano) is an entrepreneur, futurist, consultant and techno-optimist committed to building societal structures and behaviors that keep up with tech to ensure a safe and thriving future for us all...Nancy's been recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and guiding a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands through her work with PlayBigInc.She's also frequent panelist at South by Southwest (where she produced the first Career Fair For the Future to help college + high schools more actively design the future of their work), is global keynote speaker, Singularity University guest lecturer and world’s first TEDx licensee.
Full episode ---- https://disruptors.fm/111-a-career-fair-for-the-future-of-work-as-we-shift-to-a-post-automation-system-focused-society-nancy-giordano
In today's episode we discuss:
- How Nancy thinks about the future of work
- Why the mental health epidemic is a bigger deal than we think
- The power of system thinking
- Why GDP's an awful measure of progress and how to replace it
- What can we do to fix politics
- The ways we can redesign education for the 21st century
- Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes
- The UBI question and how to reframe it
- What will be AI's actual impact
- How organizations like Singularity University inspire change
- What technologies most worry Nancy
- Why we can engineer the future of our choosing
- The pesky problems of incentives ruining our world
- What to think about social media and blockchain
VISIT THE DISRUPTORS FOR TONS MORE INTERVIEWS, TOPICS & GUIDES
https://disruptors.fm
SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON iTUNES
https://disruptors.fm/itunes
SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST ON ANDROID (Any Podcast App)
https://disruptors.fm/android
JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER + GET FREE AUDIOBOOK
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SUPPORT US WITH TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION ON PATREON
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