Podcast archive

Metaverse

From August 2021 to June 2023 Francis hosted Metaverse, a future-minded podcast of conversations with futurists, founders, scientists and storytellers. These are the 31 episode write-ups.

The original podcast audio and its old website are no longer available. Video recordings of these conversations are on the Tech To The Future YouTube channel, and each episode page below links to its video.

The metaverse and immersive tech

Bringing 2D Data to Life in the Virtual Universe With Bad VR’s Suzanne Borders

With Suzanne Borders. 16 March 2022. 3 min read, 24 min video
Talking AR with Camera IQ’s Allison Ferenci

With Allison Ferenci. 10 March 2022. 3 min read, 20 min video
Tom Ffiske Guides Us Into The Metaverse

With Tom Ffiske. 17 February 2022. 3 min read, 23 min video
Forging Metaverses For All With Vincent Buyssens

With Vincent Buyssens. 1 February 2022. 4 min read, 25 min video
The Technical Meets Creative with Apurva Shah

With Apurva Shah. 26 January 2022. 4 min read, 35 min video
“Painting the World” with AR and Hrish Lotlikar

With Hrish Lotlikar. 5 January 2022. 4 min read, 28 min video
Building an Inclusive Metaverse with Jon Radoff

With Jon Radoff. 30 November 2021. 4 min read, 30 min video
Holonic Systems, Cryptoeconomics, and Making the Metaverse with Joel Dietz

With Joel Dietz. 2 November 2021. 4 min read, 22 min video
Preparing to Enter the Metaverse with Theo Priestly

With Theo Priestly. 27 October 2021. 4 min read, 25 min video

Bitcoin, blockchain and finance

Building the Next Internet with Ziliqa’s Sandra Helou

With Sandra Helou. 3 March 2022. 4 min read, 17 min video
NFTs Meet High-End Wine and Spirits With BlockBar’s Sam and Dov Falic

With Sam and Dov Falic. 23 February 2022. 4 min read, 24 min video
Building a New Future through Blockchain with Katharina Gehra

With Katharina Gehra. 21 December 2021. 4 min read, 20 min video
Exploring the Intersection of Innovation and Investment with Simon Erikson

With Simon Erickson. 14 December 2021. 4 min read, 22 min video
Bitcoin, Digital Property Rights, and a Borderless Future with Edan Yago

With Edan Yago. 12 October 2021. 4 min read, 27 min video
Looking Towards the Future While Learning from the Past with Anthony Scaramucci

With Anthony Scaramucci. 27 September 2021. 4 min read, 31 min video
The Future of Finance with Tokeny’s Daniel Coheur

With Daniel Coheur. 9 September 2021. 3 min read, 29 min video
What The Future Looks Like For The Economy, And The Role Tech Plays In It

With Scott Kitun. 24 August 2021. 3 min read, 32 min video
Bitcoin, from infancy, to global behemoth with Jimmy Nguyen

With Jimmy Nguyen. 19 August 2021. 5 min read, 32 min video

Futures and foresight

Chasing Unicorns, Reinventing University and Seeking Unification With Jimmy Chan

With Jimmy Chan. 20 January 2022. 4 min read, 32 min video
From the WHO to Hollywood: Imagining the Future with Marc Palatucci

With Marc Palatucci. 13 January 2022. 4 min read, 25 min video
Technological Futurism and the Next Big Thing with Shara Evans

With Shara Evans. 23 November 2021. 3 min read, 27 min video
Looking Towards Horizon 2 with Susan Cox-Smith

With Susan Cox-Smith. 9 November 2021. 4 min read, 20 min video
Fostering the Future With Dr. Amy Zalman

With Dr Amy Zalman. 19 October 2021. 3 min read, 25 min video
Sci Fi and Strategic Foresight with Madeline Ashby

With Madeline Ashby. 6 October 2021. 3 min read, 33 min video
Feminist Futurology with Alexandra Whittington

With Alexandra Whittington. 16 September 2021. 4 min read, 24 min video
Anticipating, Innovating, and Communicating the Future with Elina Hiltunen

With Elina Hiltunen. 1 September 2021. 3 min read, 28 min video

Film, storytelling and entertainment

The Power of Storytelling in the Metaverse with Adipat Virdi

With Adipat Virdi. 6 December 2021. 4 min read, 23 min video
“Yes And”-ing the World of Entertainment with Nathan Phillips

With Nathan Phillips. 15 November 2021. 4 min read, 30 min video
Going Back to the Future with Bob Gale

With Bob Gale. 30 September 2021. 4 min read, 39 min video

Space

Skyward Bound: The Unstoppable Women Behind NASA’s Historic Space Missions

With Sarah Milkovich, Trina Ray and Kim Steadman. 4 June 2023. 5 min read, 33 min video
Exploring the Final Frontier with Astronaut Michael López-Alegría

With Michael López-Alegría. 9 February 2022. 4 min read, 24 min video