Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Nikolas Badminton (@nikolasfuturist) is a world-respected futurist speaker, author, and researcher. He wows audiences with keynote speeches on the impact of exponential technologies including: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality; Work Productivity; The Sharing Economy; Autonomous Transportation; Smart Cities; Education; The Future of AI integrated with Life and Business; and Predictions for humanity from 2017 to 2030, and beyond.

Full episode ---- https://disruptors.fm/91-coal-is-dead,-climate-change-is-real-and-why-jeff-bezos-will-become-president-|-nikolas-badmington

Listen and learn:

- The reason the world's most valuable company has yet to be created
- Why we need to start taking climate change seriously and saying screw you to lobbyists
- The biggest problems with the traditional education and a few creative ways to solve them
- Why China is making such fast technological and economic progress and what it means for the future of the West
- The future of energy and why it is renewables all the way
- What Amazon Alexa and voice assistants mean for the future of work and parenting
- How agritech and AI will change the future of cities and supply chains
- Why the singularity is and isn't almost here
- The reason some companies and kids dominate the world while others die out
- Why genetic engineering and CRISPR based designer babies aren't something that worries Nikolas
- How to address the issues social media
- Why the future is never really knowable and rarely predictable


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