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FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe

FutureBites is a podcast exploring promising and exciting pathways to a better future. Hosted by Dr Bruce McCabe, a futurist and keynote speaker who travels the world presenting his unique insights and research on the future to corporations, governments, and audiences in all industries. In each FutureBites episode, Bruce meets with an inspiring leader in science, technology, economics or the social sciences to talk about ideas, game-changers and opportunities to create a better future.

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27:00

Insect-like Drones That Sense, Learn and Swarm – With...

FutureBites with Dr. Bruce McCabe ·

2025/11/10

Insect-like drones that tend crops, perform aircraft inspections and find gas leaks are here ... and they’re only the beginning! Today I’m diving into the future of bio-inspired drones with the one and only Professor Guido de Croon, head of the Micro-Air Vehicle Lab at Delft Technical University in The Netherlands. Guido shares the latest insect-inspired research developments in vision-systems, energy-efficient intelligence, height-sensing, autonomous navigation, swarming, energy-harves...

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52:02

Collaborative Housing: Pathway to a Better Future? –...

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2025/11/01

Vancouver, Dublin, Los Angeles, Sydney – in so many cities I visit, skyrocketing rents and prices are making housing a struggle for ordinary people. For younger people especially, it is a generational challenge that limits their future prosperity. But all over Europe communities are using collaborative housing to pool capital and enjoy a host of shared financial and social benefits in return. Is this a better way? In this episode, I'm in The Netherlands exploring collaborative housing w...

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47:17

Fantastic Voyage: Your Medical Micro-Robot Is Ready –...

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2025/10/20

Microscale robots will be conducting medical procedures inside our bodies sooner than you think. That’s the big takeaway from this fascinating conversation with Prof. Bradley Nelson, head of the Multi-Scale Robotics Lab at ETH Zürich, and for those of us who grew up watching Fantastic Voyage, that's a stunning statement! Brad walks us through the lab’s tiny bio-inspired prototypes and associated innovations in propulsion, power-delivery, external control and biocompatibility. He discusses the...

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65:32

Will AI Boil The Planet? – With Vlad Coroama

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2025/10/15

Will A.I. use up all the worlds electricity? Or will A.I. contribute more by helping us solve the world’s sustainability problems? In an era of ‘exponential AI,’ the answers have huge implications for our future, but they are far from clear, because ICTs contribute in so many ways to energy savings as well as use. I meet with IT & sustainability guru Dr Vlad Coroama for an in-depth look at both sides of the ledger. After exploring direct contributions and costs, Vlad tak...

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32:26

Multi-Sensory Surgical Robots -- With Philipp Fürnstahl

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2025/10/14

First generation surgical robots, such as the Da Vinci set new benchmarks for precision and accuracy. With A.I. and robotics developments racing ahead at breakneck speed, what new capabilities are in the pipeline? How might next-generation surgical robots impact the future of healthcare? I visit Prof. Philipp Fürnstahl, a global leader in this field, to unpack how his robots are going beyond vision to listen and feel and apply other senses as they operate. He compares orthopaedic and soft-t...

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61:58

Will We Worship A.I.? – With Beth Singler

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2025/10/11

Will we worship A.I.? How are religions already rejecting, adopting or adapting to A.I.? How could A.I. re-shape the future of organised religion? Could the questions get any bigger? My conversation today is with THE global expert on the AI and religion, Prof Beth Singler. Beth explores adoption, rejection, and adaptation responses from organized religion, gives vivid examples of chatbot “priests” and theomorphic robots already being used in religious rituals, and helps me think much mo...

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61:57

Modeling Our Climate Future – with Andreas Prein

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2025/10/07

How do we model the climate? How to make predictions at a local level? What role does AI play? What do our models predict about the future of extreme weather events? We sit down with world-leading atmospheric scientist Prof. Andreas Prein to pull back the curtain on how weather and climate models really work. Andreas describes the evolution of weather and climate modelling, the mechanics of prediction, where AI shines and struggles, the complex interconnections with other earth systems, ...

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41:38

Saving the Future of News – with Mark Eisenegger

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2025/10/02

Digital disinformation and the declining quality of newsmedia is one of the most important challenges of our time. Everyone is aware of it, and its easy to get overwhelmed and conclude it’s can’t be solved. But there ARE pathways forward, and sometimes it takes a fresh evidence-driven perspective to illuminate them. Enter Mark Eisenegger, Professor of Public Sphere and Society, Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich, who leads a research program which...

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49:06

Fisheries are a Global Ponzi Scheme (and how to fix...

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2025/07/01

Why does the most cited fisheries scientist in the world call modern fisheries a global Ponzi scheme? Welcome to part two of our dive into the future of oceans, where my focus is still on the pathways we can take to preserve ocean ecosystems and fisheries for the future, but this time I’m putting my questions to Daniel Pauly. Daniel is Professor of the Institute of Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia, and Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us Project, winner...

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56:33

Future of Oceans and Fisheries – With William Cheung

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2025/05/26

How do we feed another 2 billion AND preserve the future of ocean ecosystems? In 2025, over three billion people rely on seafood as a significant source of protein. Over 80% of the world's biodiversity comes from oceans. A multitude of ocean ecosystems are in crisis mode. By 2086, the global population is projected to increase by another 2.2 billion (from 8.1 today to 10.4 at peak). How can we feed them and make future fisheries sustainable? This is a topic of VAST importance in determi...

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71:56

Future of Happiness – With John Helliwell

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2025/04/13

How do we create a happier future? What are the factors that influence happiness? What can we do as managers and leaders to enhance happiness, and why is this fundamental to achieving ALL our goals? Join me for a deeply insightful discussion with John Helliwell, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of British Columbia, and editor of the World Happiness Report 2025. They can be no more universal theme than this. Happier organizations are more productive. They are more innova...

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51:18

Electrification of Road Freight – With David Cebon

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2024/11/16

Forget cars, what does the transition to electric FREIGHT look like? How capable are HEAVY vehicles? What’s the future of charging infrastructure? What changes for shippers and logistics companies? How should they think and plan?On this episode of FutureBites, I travel to Cambridge University to ask Professor David Cebon, a visionary in the electrification of heavy vehicles.David is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engine...

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53:18

Autonomous Vehicles: The Next Generation – With Paul...

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2024/11/13

What is driving the NEXT generation of autonomous vehicles? How are scientists upping the innovation rate? Why are AVs utterly inevitable, everywhere? How will they transform industries, cities and even economies? To get a deep sense of where we are headed, I checked in with Paul Newman, a trailblazer in robotics and autonomous systems. Paul is BP Professor of Information Engineering at Oxford University, Founder of the Oxford Robotics Institute, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineerin...

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36:07

Carbon Pricing: Incentivizing a Net-Zero Future -...

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2024/11/10

Can carbon pricing incentivize a sustainable future? Join us for a compelling conversation with Professor Cameron Hepburn, the Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics and co-Director of the Economics of Sustainability Programme at Oxford University, as we unravel the power of carbon pricing and its potential to incentivize decarbonisation across industries, economies and countries. What lessons have early-movers learned about acceptance and building momentum? How to neutralize the polit...

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50:42

Unleashing Epigenetic Potential: A New Era In Genetic...

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2024/07/22

Imagine a future where, based on a diagnostic in your teens, your doctor gives you a customized infusion with a top-up every 5 to 10 years that “dials down” your genetic risk factors for all kinds of diseases WITHOUT making permanent changes to your DNA.Welcome to the world of epigenetic editing, a frontier that will unlock a new universe of gene therapies that are both potent and reversible.My guest today is Dr Ben Oakes, Co-founder, President and CEO of Scribe Therapeutics, a company that’s...

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47:10

Future of Cybersecurity - with Bruce Schneier

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2024/05/30

How can we build a more secure digital future? Cyber-attacks and data-breaches are escalating, attackers are employing all manner of sophisticated tools, AI is transforming the ‘arms race’ for both attackers and defenders. We see the headlines, but is this a future we have to accept? What are the pathways to a more secure digital future? I asked Bruce Schneier, the biggest name in cybersecurity. Bruce is a DEEP thinker. He’s been researching and writing prolifically on cybersecurity since 199...

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41:51

California's 100% Renewables Revolution - With Mark...

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2024/04/30

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57:11

Future of Energy with Michael Barnard - Part 2

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2024/01/30

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64:34

Future of Energy with Michael Barnard - Part 1

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2024/01/22

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22:31

Interfacing the Nervous System

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2024/01/05

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