On the Future with Howard Covington

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Our guest this week is Howard Covington. Howard is a Cambridge graduate in physics and maths. He has been a banker, a co-founder and chief executive of New Star Asset Management, and a trustee of the Science Museum. He’s also been and chair of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge, The Alan Turing Institute, ClientEarth, and the Scotia Group.

He is the incoming chair of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. Howard is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and an honorary fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute and The Alan Turing Institute.

We want to a talk Howard gave recently and were very amazed about how many of his predictions have come to pass and therefore left comforted by his positive predictions of the future.

We talk about:

• A quick history of 540 million years
• Living in the midst of the third Intelligence Explosion
• Printing meat to eat
• Dark factories
• Are robots part of evolution
• How capitalism drives the race to net zero
• The restoration of the planet

Let’s gaze into the future!

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