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




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Summary: 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. <a href="https://nikolasbadminton.com/">Nikolas</a> 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.<br> <br> <br> Listen and Learn:<br> <br> * The reason the world’s most valuable company has yet to be created<br> * Why we need to start taking climate change seriously and saying screw you to lobbyists<br> * The biggest problems with the traditional education and a few creative ways to solve them<br> * Why China is making such fast technological and economic progress and what it means for the future of the West<br> * The future of energy and why it is renewables all the way<br> * What Amazon Alexa and voice assistants mean for the future of work and parenting<br> * How agritech and AI will change the future of cities and supply chains<br> * Why the singularity is and isn’t almost here<br> * The reason some companies and kids dominate the world while others die out<br> * Why genetic engineering and CRISPR based designer babies aren’t something that worries Nikolas<br> * How to address the issues social media<br> * Why the future is never really knowable and rarely predictable<br> <br> <br> Are you an accredited investor? <a href="https://thesyndicate.vc/ts-joinsyndicate">Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.</a>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. <a href="https://nikolasbadminton.com/">Nikolas</a> 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.<br> <br> <br> Listen and Learn:<br> <br> * The reason the world’s most valuable company has yet to be created<br> * Why we need to start taking climate change seriously and saying screw you to lobbyists<br> * The biggest problems with the traditional education and a few creative ways to solve them<br> * Why China is making such fast technological and economic progress and what it means for the future of the West<br> * The future of energy and why it is renewables all the way<br> * What Amazon Alexa and voice assistants mean for the future of work and parenting<br> * How agritech and AI will change the future of cities and supply chains<br> * Why the singularity is and isn’t almost here<br> * The reason some companies and kids dominate the world while others die out<br> * Why genetic engineering and CRISPR based designer babies aren’t something that worries Nikolas<br> * How to address the issues social media<br> * Why the future is never really knowable and rarely predictable<br> <br> <br> Are you an accredited investor? <a href="https://thesyndicate.vc/ts-joinsyndicate">Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.</a><br>