The Front Row

We go to the forefront of a growing educational pivot, from pedagogies developed during the industrial age to new teaching methods being developed in the digital age. Come along for a tour....

Newspapers have gotten thinner in recent years, and some have even ceased to exist. Journalism as we know it is changing with the onset of technology into a more data driven, personalized, and crowdsourced being. We speak to the newsmakers embracing these changes in stride.

By the year 2050, more than 60% of the world’s populations will live in cities. Humanity has come a long way since the very first cities began to emerge about ten thousand years ago. Today, cities like New York, Tokyo and Barcelona are centers of innovation and human progress. Urban projects globally are pushing the limits of engineering, design, and agriculture. Meet a few people working on ways to give our urban areas a technological upgrade, planning the connected infrastructures that will support tomorrow's smart cities.

Digital privacy and cybersecurity concerns are an ever-increasing threat. As our homes and cars get smarter, they become more susceptible to hacks. How can we better prepare ourselves to counteract these invisible threats? Meet the experts focused on safeguarding your future privacy.

As our lives become more and more digital, we hear a lot about the dangers of big data, data leaks, loss of privacy, security etc. The flipside is that data can also be harnessed for social good, and applied to make progress in justice, mental and public health, even human trafficking.

The plague killed sixty percent of the Europe's population in the 14th century. Today medical professionals are arming themselves against future epidemics with a variety of unique weapons from tracking wild animals carrying diseases we don’t even know about yet to new ways of rethinking and communicating infection.

We are at the cusp of the Silver Tsunami: by 2050, the number of Americans over the age of 65 will have doubled, while the number older than 85 will have tripled. The tide is rolling in and we’ll meet people who are determined to make living longer, better.

We hear a lot about the manufacturing industry slowing down, work going overseas, and automation making some jobs obsolete. In today’s uncertain economic and political climate, it’s easy to feel a little lost -- but we’ll introduce you to people who are taking the future into their own hands and creating hope for this sector.

A podcast about what it takes to solve the problems of the future. Brought to you by 2U.