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Unbox Your WorldRCO: The business form that works like an organismWhat if questions could replace our KPIs and companies could legally work like an organism? Companies are one of the most powerful technologies humans have ever invented. But they can no longer maximise profit at the cost of the planet, we need a new approach. This is why Amit Paul, previous member of A-teens and co-founder of Innrwrks, has invented a new legal business form that is inspired to function like nature. By hacking the current system, Amit and his co-founder Nils von Heijne...2024-10-1046 min
Unbox Your WorldFuture of Democracy: Solving the Political Prisoner's DilemmaEinstein once said: "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
Someone that understands this is John Bunzl, a businessman and a political activist from the UK. He’s the founder of Simpol, the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation, a new political innovation to overcome the obstacles that are today refraining governments to cooperate with each other.
By applying game theory from business school, he explains the concept "The Political Prisoner's Dilemma" to visualise why governments are held back on taking true action to solve global problems. Si...2024-07-3057 min
Unbox Your WorldFour approaches to navigate ethics in AI & businessNew disruptions and technological advancements always lead to new ethical dilemmas and uncertainties.
In the past year, we've seen an explosion of technological advancements, and hence, new ethical discussions have become a hot topic.
Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie is an Ethics Manager and Philosopher who helps companies think better and make wiser decisions.
During this episode, Ben guides us through four approaches to ethics that can help your decision-making process.
There are no easy answers to ethics, but if we approach...2024-05-0948 min
Unbox Your WorldThe plant who could rule the worldWhat if we let a plant rule the world?
It is, in fact, already possible.
In this episode, we discover Herbie, a plant that has been given autonomy through the power of AI to make its own decisions based on its own health. Herbie can decide to invest in things like replanting a forest or protecting wetlands.
Mark Bünger is the co-founder and CTO of Futurity Systems, who has built Herbie as part of the 'Plantiverse' project.
In this...2024-03-0732 min
Unbox Your WorldFive nature-inspired ways to navigate the AI disruptionThe word artificial in artificial intelligence, is the polar opposite of nature's natural intelligence. What if we could find some answers on how to navigate the AI disruption in nature itself?
In today's solo episode, we'll dive into five ways to navigate the AI disruption, drawing inspiration from nature's intelligence itself.
We'll discuss:
AI from an Anti-Fragility Point of View
AI from the Lens of Parenthood
AI Ethics from a Biological Evolutionary Perspective
AI from an Ecosystem Point of View
AI from a Religious Point of View
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Unbox Your WorldAI through the lens of parenting?In today's episode, I'm stepping out of my comfort zone to share my own thoughts in a solo podcast format. In this debut episode, we'll explore AI through the lens of parenting. I wrote an article a few years ago about how we don't truly understand the potential of what we can become, until we've already become. The current AI boom is no different.
In the recent AI safety discussions, I've come to think of parallels between AI creation and parenting. Who's responsible for ensuring well-behaved children, or creations? Just as parents shape their kids, creators shape...2023-09-2817 min
Unbox Your WorldFinding Answers to Human Challenges in Outer Space?Finding Answers to Human Challenges in Outer Space?In this episode, we go on a cosmic journey with the space entrepreneur Mattias Hansson, CEO and Founder of I.S.A.A.C International Space Asset Acceleration Company AB, who is passionate about finding answers to some of our most pressing earthly challenges through insights from the space industry. Join us as we dive into the intriguing world of space exploration and its unexpected lessons for life on our planet.
You'll learn:
Why Space Entrepreneurship? First things first, our guest Mattias Hansson shares his pers...2023-09-2135 min
Unbox Your WorldThe Paradox of Decentralization and GovernanceIn today's episode, we're interviewing the crypto-professional Ludvig Öberg, co-founder of Safello and the Swedish Bitcoin Association, currently developing an open-source blockchain at ChromaWay. In other words, he is a true blockchain expert. He has recently pioneered one of the first theses on management controls within so-called Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, which are members-driven organizations powered by Blockchain technologies.
Blockchain technologies have opened new possibilities for how we organize ourselves. In the past, it has been challenging to maintain control in decentralized organizations as the number of members grows, however, blockchain technologies enable control in d...2023-08-1846 min
Unbox Your WorldAI Safety: Teaching Machines Ethics Through Debate?Two years ago, Devin Gonier, TEDx speaker and CTO at Wageup, joined the show to talk about how AI can be taught morality and ethics by replicating the way humans learn ethics as kids.
Devin has now founded a new company, DebaterHub, hoping to help secure AI safety through another process humans use to learn ethics: debate. He also has a Master’s degree in machine learning and a double major in philosophy and religion.
In today’s episode, Devin provides an overview of the methods and research on AI safety that exist as of today, along with...2023-04-2057 min
Unbox Your WorldThe Promise Economy: How Is Money Created?Have you ever thought about how money is created in our new digital era?
If it is neither coins created from gold nor physical cash notes, what really happens when new digital money is created in our modern world?
Together with Brett Scott, who is an author, monetary anthropologist and former financial broker, we investigated this seemingly simple, but in reality very complex question.
You'll learn:
The different types of money and the different roles they play in our society
How digital money is created
The unknown role of cash (and we're not...2023-03-1059 min
Unbox Your WorldScaling Sustainable Living: the First Web3 Smart Village in EuropeIn previous episodes, we’ve covered the topic of regenerative living. Whilst sustainability focuses on sustaining Mother Earth, regenerative living goes one step beyond that and focuses on restoring it.
Across the globe enthusiasts and change-makers are building so-called Smart Villages, or eco-villages, based on these regenerative principles that restore our planet.
OASA is a non-profit focusing on innovating and building these Smart Villages at scale. They are currently building a regenerative farm outside Lisbon called Traditional Dream Factory. To fuel further investments and enable governance at scale, they’ve just launched Europe’s first land-b...2023-01-2051 min
Unbox Your WorldSpiral Dynamics: A Human Developmental Framework to Embrace Multiple PerspectivesWhat if there was a simple way to explain why people can have such different worldviews?
What if there was a simple reason to understand why some countries care more about solving climate change than others?
What if there was an easy way to understand polarization and create a win-win-win situation to unite people?
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Spiral Dynamics offers a simple framework to understand human development and how humanity’s values change and are expressed in different sequential stages. The model can be applied both on an individual level and on a cultural le...2022-12-161h 21
World of Wisdom156. Maria Selting: 5 mental shifts to thrive in the future of workMaria Selting from the Unbox your world podcast came on. She is a futurist and a technologist having spent time in a couple of hyper growth start-ups. She is now a speaker and podcaster focusing on what's next in the world. Discussing her article titled 5 mental shifts to thrive in the future of work. This is a fun exploration around the times we are standing in and a meeting of paradigms. The conversation cover the 5 shifts and it was a privilege to weed out and untangle similarities and differences in our way of thinking. The 5 points are useful as...2022-11-241h 11
Unbox Your WorldSustainability 2.0: Creating Systemic Change in PracticeHubville: Learnings from building a Smart Village with the Government
Imagine living in a city where not only every single architectural detail is optimised to restore Mother Earth, but also city life itself is designed to enhance wellness and improve social sustainability.
Anders Varger, the founder of Hubville, is building one of the world’s first self-sustaining city districts in Vetlanda in Sweden. Hubville is fundamentally rethinking sustainability and reinventing how we can live together, and the project is optimising sustainability from 16 different perspectives such as relationships, education and social security.
The project is...2022-10-1945 min
Unbox Your WorldThe Future of Economy: Transitioning into an Impact EconomyWhat if companies would pay the true cost of their footprint, and anyone could get paid for planting trees and restoring the Earth?
What if we redesigned the economic system so that the true gains and costs are fully represented in the financial return?
What if we could transition into an impact economy?
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Alan Laubsch is an internationally recognized risk management thought-leader and impact investor. His mission is to protect life and regenerate Earth’s ecosystems by growing an Earth Positive economy that includes nature in global accounting systems.
Yo...2022-08-3147 min
Unbox Your WorldWhat Modern Leaders Can Learn from Ancient PhilosophersWhat could modern tech executives, learn from the street dialogues of the ancient philosophers?
Quite a lot it turns out. Ancient wisdom doesn't grow old, in fact one could argue that the teachings are more relevant now than ever.
To learn more about the topic, we interview Ben Wilberforce-Ritchie who is a philosopher, author and an Ethics Manager* and a true ancient philosophy enthusiast. He walks us through the basic principles that some of the most prominent philosophers throughout history were exploring and how this knowledge could be applied today in a modern environment.
You'll learn:
Why ancient philosophy is high...2022-07-061h 03
Unbox Your WorldAncient Wisdom Explained by Scientific PsychologyDoes ancient wisdom, especially found in Stoic Philosophy and Buddhism, have elements in common with modern psychology?
Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis is a world-renowned expert on Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), which is in fact the pioneering cognitive approach in the field of psychotherapy and the precursor of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT).*
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy focuses holistically on the human being, even more than classic CBT does, reminding us that the mind and behavior and emotions and physical health and well-being are inseparably intertwined, and REBT also has many similarities with elements seen within the teachings of ancient philosophies...2022-06-1048 min
Unbox Your WorldBlockchain Explained: Can We Really Scale Human "Trust"?In today’s episode we interview Dr Brennan Jacoby, founder of Philosophy at Work, who holds a Ph.D in philosophy and is specialized in the philosophy of trust.
Blockchain is argued to solve the human trust issue, or even scaling human trust. However is this really what blockchain is doing? What is the actual benefit of blockchain? And what is trust really, according to philosophy?
You’ll learn:
The definition of trust from a philosophy point of view
Why blockchain is argued to solve human trust
What the Dunbar’s number is and how th...2022-04-2850 min
Unbox Your WorldFuture of Voting: Liquid Democracy to Combat Polarization?What if we could combine the best out of ancient direct democracy and modern delegative democracy? Where you can vote for representatives in regular elections but override their votes on any specific topic when you disagree with your representative?
This is something that David Ernst, CEO of Secure Internet Voting, Liquid Democracy Technologies, and Secure ID, set out as a mission to build. By building a modern technological platform his company is enabling states to integrate liquid democracy solutions into their already existing democratic systems.
You’ll learn:
What liquid democracy is
The role of...2022-02-2452 min
Unbox Your WorldHow To Master Your Hidden Creative GeniousHow can you unlock your hidden creative genius?
Today's guest is Stephan Schwartz, who is a scientist, futurist, award-winning author, columnist for the journal EXPLORE, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net. He is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, and a BIAL Foundation Fellow who has spent 40 years as an experimentalist researching the nature of consciousness. He has also studied creativity and found during his research a pattern that all creative geniuses throughout history seem to follow.
In today’s episode, he shares the secret path and what you need to do t...2022-01-2043 min
Unbox Your WorldFuture of Journalism: Overcoming the Filter Bubble BiasWhat will journalism look like in the future?
In today's episode, together with Viktor Lidholt, the founder of Newsvoice who are on a mission to 'fix the news', we're discussing the future trends of journalism.
Journalism used to be a dedicated and trusted profession, however when anyone in the world can become a publisher, how can we trust anything we read online? Accelerated by filter bubbles, the need for unbiased news has become a pressing societal matter. Unbiased news is the backbone of our democratic society, so now is the time to protect it.
N...2021-11-1938 min
Unbox Your WorldApplying UX Principles to Design a Better FutureCompanies have mastered the art of design to grow their businesses, but how could you UX principles to design a better future?
Stephen Bau, a designer, writer and educator decided to, after 30 years in the design industry, retire to focus on projects that enhance not only humanity but all life forms.
In the episode, he shares his learnings from 30 years as a UX designer and how the design principles could be, instead of building products, be applied to build a better future.
You'll learn:
What social architecture is
The difference between human-centered vs...2021-11-0957 min
Unbox Your WorldHow Would Basic Income Work in Practice?In today's episode, it's exciting to host one of the brain's behind Universal Basic Income; professor and author Guy Standing who is a founding member of Basic Income Earth Network.
Guy Standing has been working on the concept of Basic Income, a new political system for wealth distribution, for over 30 years. During the last years the concept of Basic Income has gained rapid traction and interest across the globe and he is one of the few to have been able to test his ideas in real. The Basic Income pilots have turned out with positive results.
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Unbox Your WorldScience Human Connection: Can Technology Build Better Relationships?Can technology help us build authentic and meaningful relationships?
This is something that Nina Iordanova, an award-winning actor turned tech start-up founder, and Niloo Ravaei, an ex-film maker and blockchain professional, set out as their mission to build.
Both Nina and Niloo were tired of endless swiping on the phone and realized the one area where technology has not helped to improve is our relationships.
They discovered our relationships have one thing in common: ourselves. So perhaps that is where it needs to start: with ourselves.
Can technology help us understand...2021-06-0250 min
Unbox Your WorldSustainability 2.0: The Rise of a New Living in a Smart VillageWhat if you could live in a house where every single attribute is optimized for your well-being?
Where by each single day that passes, you in fact help to restore our planet, only by living in your house.
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This is something that James Ehrlich, a faculty member at Stanford, Singularity University and senior fellow at NASA Ames Research Center, set out as his mission to build.
Sustainability is obsolete. It is too late to sustain our planet - we need to restore our planet. This is what regenerative living means - living...2021-04-211h 12
Unbox Your WorldHow To Teach Artificial Intelligence Morality and EthicsIn today's episode, we have Devin Gonier on the show - a passionate machine learning expert from the U.S., who will take us deep into artificial intelligence morality and ethics.
Devin is the CTO of a machine learning company WageUp, has a Masters degree in machine learning, and a double major in philosophy and religion. He argues that the best way to apply philosophy in our modern society is to, in fact, work with artificial intelligence.
Is there a way to teach artificial intelligence morality and ethics?
What is right or wrong?2021-04-2151 min
Unbox Your LivingUnlocking the Power of Vulnerability to Build a Strong CommunityIn today's episode, we are continuing to explore the topic of human connection and how to create strong bonds between people. To do so, we will dig further into vulnerability and how it can be such a powerful tool to create relationship that last. The same principles applies whether it is a love, family or friend relationship - or between members of a community.
In order to truly crack the code to human connection, we've invited Lemarc Thomas, who is a psychologist, professional matchmaking and conscious relationships coach. He's the founder of Sweden's only matchmaking industry lemarcthomas...2020-10-0600 min
Unbox Your LivingKPIs in Community Building: Four Approaches to Designing CommuityIn today's episode we have Gui Perdrix on the show - a true coliving expert who lives and breathes coliving in everything that he does. After a transformational experience a few years ago, he got hooked into the coliving community and has since then cofounded several coliving initiatives, such as a magazine called Coliving Insights. He also runs Co-Liv which is the world's largest coliving association, a consultancy and educational platform called Art of Co and he is soon about to publish his book Art of Coliving, which will come out in October 2020.
He is particularly...2020-09-1241 min
Unbox Your LivingConscious Coliving - Sustainable Living With Yourself, Others and the PlanetIn today's episode, we have a true co-living guru on the show - Matthew Lesniak - who is specifically interested and specialised in sustainability within co-living, not only from a climate perspective but from all social aspects of life.
He is a co-founder and Head of Impact & Innovation at Conscious Coliving, which means he is designing community experience and impact strategies and measuring the social value of co-living communities.
In this episode you'll learn more about:
- What conscious co-living is
- The framework "Conscious Coliving Manifesto" and how...2020-09-0441 min
Unbox Your LivingCreating Human Connection in a Co-Living CommunityIn today's episode, we dig into an interesting topic related to co-living. At the end of the day, what creates a strong community is human connection. Strong bonds between humans are what makes people wanting to stay and live together.
How do you then create a foundation for human connection?
In order to investigate this question, we have Philip Jonzon Jarl who is the co-founder of a values-based relationship app called Relate as a guest in today's episode. He is an expert on values and explains the power of shared values and how to...2020-07-0742 min
Unbox Your LivingWhat Is Co-Living?To kick off this show, let's start with answering the obvious question "What is co-living?".
To answer this question, we have invited two experts within the field, Anton Chernikov and Morgane Oléron.
Anton Chernikov is a trained architect, an entrepreneur within co-living who runs his own consulting business called Exponentials and has helped to launch several co-living spaces across Europe. Morgane Oléron comes from the community side of co-living and has worked for both co-working and co-living operators. She used to work as the Chief Happiness Officer for a co-living operator an...2020-05-2056 min
Unbox Your LivingHubville - Building the World's First Self-Sustaining and Sustainable City DistrictIn today's episode, you'll learn about a fascinating project - in 2020 the world's first self-sustaining and sustainable city district will be launched in Vetlanda, Sweden. It is called Hubville and the founder of the project, Anders Varger, share his vision on the project and how we can once and for all rethink how we live and work and redesign our lifestyle to create a more sustainable way of living.
To Anders Varger sustainability is not only about environmental matters. According to him, sustainability is a multidimensional approach including everything from social sustainability, housing, schooling and transport...2020-05-2051 min
Unbox Your LivingWhy Community Building Is Good for BusinessCo-founder and CEO of WiFI Tribe Diego Bejarano Gerke has built a successful global co-living company by building a strong community first. Community building is what creates loyalty and barriers to entry and is the strongest asset you can have within the co-living business. After all, it is about living and it is not just a business transaction. If people feel at home, they will stay regardless if something nicer looking comes along.
In this episode you will learn:
- What community building is and why it is good for business, especially within co-living2020-04-2750 min
Unbox Your LivingThe Rise of Coop Living - Live in a Castle at a Fraction of the CostToday's guest on the show is Samuel Delesque who is the founder Oasa which is a company specialised in coop living and sustainable living. Instead of living in a studio apartment in the city, they are making it affordable to live in a castle by organising co-owning of properties and cooperatives in castles.
In today's episode you learn more about:
- What coop living is
- How you can live in a castle and save money whilst doing it
- The rise of alternative ways of living, for example, co-living on...2020-04-2641 min