Will tomorrow’s tech solve today’s problems? What will our children’s old age be like? How carefully can we plan in an unpredictable world? Famous guests and great minds join our studio team and St. James’s Place experts to explore the ideas, people and trends that are shaping our futures. Packed with fascinating insights and lively conversation from around the world, on the things you’ll need to be prepared for – from the way we’ll live, work and invest, to science, money and psychology.
Season 2, Episode 3: Responsible investing and climate change special
This special edition webcast was hosted by Matt Potter, Chief Content Officer at John Brown Media, and Rob Gardner, Director of Investment Management at St. James's Place, as they were joined by three climate experts to discuss the most pressing climate change issues ahead of COP26.
Season 2, Episode 2: Moving beyond our assumptions
In this episode of Tomorrow Comes Today we ask the questions: How can the biases we hold within us affect the decisions we make and the work we produce? Ultimately, how do they shape our future?
Matt Potter, Rob Gardner and Vicki Foster explore these questions through three different lenses with our guests this week - the future of the world we live in with futurist Mark Stevenson, the future of aging with Professor of Economics Andrew Scott and the algorithms that shape our lives with Dr Safiya Umoja Noble.
Season 2, Episode 1: Talk is cheap
How do you get past the easy answers and arrive at meaningful action?
Matt Potter, joined by St. James’s Place’s Rob Gardner and Vicki Foster, talks to journalist and author Annabelle Williams about just that – exploring why women are poorer than men and what to do about it. He also catches up with the ex-head of finance and planning at one of the largest banks in Syria when the war broke out, Louai Al Roumani, about how to manage in a crisis. And he asks the former director of operations and intelligence for the British Secret Intelligence Service, Nigel Inkster, who will win the looming techno wars.
Episode 6: Reframing your perspective
How can shining a light on different perspectives encourage us to learn, grow and develop? In this episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner talk to some very special guests who are helping to shine that light. George Magnus, one of the world’s foremost experts on China, tells us how stepping away from the media narrative can increase our understanding of what’s really going on. Astrochemist Ashley Walker discusses how she is working to get black and female voices into science, while Barnaby Spurrier and Greg Nugent talk about their documentary, Rising Phoenix (pictured right), which looks at the advent of the Paralympic Games and the future of the Paralympic movement.
Episode 5: Superstar tennis coach Judy Murray
What can we learn from one of the most legendary coaches in the world of sport, and apply it to our own choices, investments, and lives? Judy Murray has steered her sons Andy and Jamie Murray to greatness, founded competitions, and coached countless successful players as kids and adults. In this very special episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner delve deep into the psychology, method and instincts of the game, to reveal some often-surprising truths about the value of advice.
Episode 4: Plausible futures
In this episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner meet the people putting in the hours to investigate what our world might be like in the years to come. Gavin Serkin, author of Frontier: Exploring the Top Ten Emerging Markets of Tomorrow, has travelled the world scoping out frontier markets, while Nicholas Booth and Elizabeth Howell, authors of the new book The Search for Life on Mars: The Greatest Scientific Detective Story of All Time, have examined the ultimate frontier market. Finally, we meet Future Today Institute founder Amy Webb, the futurist who doesn’t predict the future but models it – with a methodological approach and by challenging her own biases.
Episode 3: Drowning in data, starving for wisdom?
In this episode, hosts Matt Potter, Rob Gardner and Claire Trott are joined by the FT’s Undercover Economist Tim Harford, who explores the perils of prediction, with cautionary tales of unexpected crashes in stock markets and computers; Baroness Camilla Cavendish, former advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron and author of the acclaimed book Extra Time: 10 Lessons For An Ageing World, discovers some intriguing possible futures as our populations age; and we meet Toby Heaps, the ‘clean capitalism’ pioneer, who reveals how greater transparency has allowed investors to become a powerful force in global efforts to make business more sustainable.
Episode 2: The new normal
How does sleeping help us make smarter decisions? Will working from home challenge the need for big cities? What can history teach us about the journey from crisis to ‘new normal’? In this special recorded-under-lockdown episode, hosts Matt Potter and Rob Gardner meet the people whose job it is to help turn those crises into opportunities.
Episode 1: Context is everything
Just how intelligent is Artificial Intelligence? Will the robots take over? Are millennials really so different from Baby Boomers? And how close is Britain to closing the gender gap in everything from pay to pensions? Hosts Matt Potter, Rob Gardner and Alice Wilkinson talk to Professor Geraint Rees and “AI weirdness” researcher Janelle Shane, meet youth money expert Iona Bain… and discover what makes us so gloriously, uniquely human.