Quit to win” is the unconventional advice given by entrepreneur Francesco Urso, who has written a book by that title. Urso explains to The Futurists how the best career strategy in a time of turmoil is to create your own company. In this episode, he explains how to surmount the barriers of fear and inertia, to quit your job and start a new venture.

Steve Rosenbaum is an author and entrepreneur who co-founded the Sustainable Media Center, where he advocates for better protection for the users of abusive social media platforms. Now in his new book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality, Steve turns his attention to the perils of a digital world defined by the funhouse mirror of machine intelligence. Steve acquaints the Futurists with the perils and potential of AI fragmenting audiences and distorting our collective understanding of subjective truth.

Visualizing the interior of the human body has always presented a major challenge to caregivers. Most medical imaging techniques in use today were first introduced during the past fifty years. Today novel technologies for entertainment are being applied to healthcare. Michael Hollins of the University of Nebraska’s iEXCEL Center joins the Futurists to explain how breakthroughs in imaging and simulation are used to train doctors, nurses, and first responders in the most advanced techniques in the US. For the first time in history, doctors can visualize their patients’ complex metabolic systems at the molecular level.