Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Steve Fisher
143 episodes
1 week ago
Welcome to this special crossover episode from our other show, Going Off World. In this episode, the hunt for alien life isn’t a sci-fi dream. It’s a patient, high-stakes investigation unfolding across labs, observatories, and space missions—and Sarah Seager is charting the course. We sit down with the MIT exoplanet pioneer to unpack how a field once defined by four puzzling worlds grew into a catalog of thousands, each challenging our assumptions about what planets can be and where life migh...
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Welcome to this special crossover episode from our other show, Going Off World. In this episode, the hunt for alien life isn’t a sci-fi dream. It’s a patient, high-stakes investigation unfolding across labs, observatories, and space missions—and Sarah Seager is charting the course. We sit down with the MIT exoplanet pioneer to unpack how a field once defined by four puzzling worlds grew into a catalog of thousands, each challenging our assumptions about what planets can be and where life migh...
Think Forward EP 140: Afro Rhythms, Storytelling and Breaking Through with Ahmed Best
Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
43 minutes
2 months ago
Think Forward EP 140: Afro Rhythms, Storytelling and Breaking Through with Ahmed Best
What if the people best equipped to shape tomorrow aren’t engineers first—but emotional athletes? Our guest, Ahmed Best—actor, educator, Afrofuturist, and the pioneering performer behind Jar Jar Binks—shows how art can lead technology, not chase it. From South Bronx summers where hip‑hop was born to conversations with George Lucas at Lucasfilm, Ahmed traces a life lived at the edge of invention and explains why trusting artists to drive the tools changed cinema—and could change the future. W...
Think Forward: Conversations with Futurists, Innovators and Big Thinkers
Welcome to this special crossover episode from our other show, Going Off World. In this episode, the hunt for alien life isn’t a sci-fi dream. It’s a patient, high-stakes investigation unfolding across labs, observatories, and space missions—and Sarah Seager is charting the course. We sit down with the MIT exoplanet pioneer to unpack how a field once defined by four puzzling worlds grew into a catalog of thousands, each challenging our assumptions about what planets can be and where life migh...
