Coal is Dead, Climate Change is Real, and Bezos and Alexa for President

Nikolas Badminton 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. Nikolas regularly appears on the BBC, CBC, CTV, Global News, Fast Company, VICE, and writes for the Techcrunch, Huffington Post, Forbes, Venturebeat, Betakit, TechVibes, Business.com, and other media.

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