While humans continue to make tremendous progress in many aspects of life, we are still making mistakes. Deloitte Consulting Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel discusses what we are doing today that the humans of 2073 will shake their heads at in disbelief. He focuses on our approach to education, our thinking about aging and healthcare, and the ethics of eating food raised in industrial settings.

In the full episode (S10 | E3), Mike paints a picture of life in 2053 with a focus on information technology. Mike describes how digital information will stream directly over our eyeballs, why artificial intelligence will be a fundamentally transformative technology – like the wheel or electricity - that we can’t imagine living without, and the reasons that blockchain will be essential for establishing trustworthy information. Mike wraps up the interview by talking about how some of our current behaviors – like our approaches to education and aging – will be looked at in 50 years with a sense of disbelief.

Mike Bechtel is a managing director and the chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP. Mike helps clients develop strategies to thrive in the face of discontinuity and disruption. His team researches the novel and exponential technologies most likely to impact the future of business, and builds relationships with the startups, incumbents, and academic institutions creating them.

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