Dr. Parag Khanna is my guest on episode 44 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.
Parag is a leading global strategy advisor, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is Founder & Managing Partner of FutureMap, a data, and scenario-based strategic advisory firm. Parag's newest book is The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century(2019). He is the author of a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State(2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.”
Parag has been an adviser to the US National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends 2030 program. From 2013-2018 he was a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. From 2006-2015, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation. During 2007, he served in Iraq and Afghanistan as a senior geopolitical adviser to United States Special Operations Forces. From 2002-5, he was the Global Governance Fellow at the Brookings Institution; from 2000-2002, he worked at the World Economic Forum in Geneva; and from 1999-2000, he was a Research Associate at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
Parag also appears frequently in media around the world such as CNN, BBC, CNBC, Al Jazeera, and other broadcasters. In 2010, he became the first video-blogger for ForeignPolicy.com and from 2010-12, co-authored the Hybrid Reality blog on BigThink. From 2008-9, Parag was the host of “InnerView” on MTV. He was a consultant to the National Geographic series Origins. Khanna spoke at TED in 2016, TED Global 2009, was a guest host of TEDGlobal 2012, and lead speaker at TEDxGateway in 2018. His TED talks have been viewed more than three million times. The maps customized for Dr. Khanna’s books have been displayed in numerous prestigious international art exhibitions.
https://www.paragkhanna.com/
https://futuremap.io/
@paragkhanna
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00:00 - One Global Civilization Connected - Mapping the future of the World
00:40 - Introduction of Inside Ideas guest Dr. Parag Khanna
04:22 – Claudia Rinke friends and the Documentary NOW by Jim Rakete
05:50 – How have you weathered this pandemic? Moving to virtual
09:44 – What is the Playbook? Resilience preparedness
11:01 – Civilization framework structures – collapse of specific countries
14:16 – Outdated maps of our world
15:05 – Are you a Global Citizen? More borders than ever. We cannot survive without each other
15:30 - How borderless world evolves
21:22 – The Digital Ecosystem for the earth– UN project
23:30 – Brexit – they are the losers
32:00 – The transformational WEF maps from 2018. System dynamic modeling
34:18 – If the future is Asian. Innovation and Invention
41:35 – Inclusive market
42:46 – John Naisbitt Author of Megatrends and his wife Doris Naisbitt
43:14 – The Future is Asian book. Key takeaways
47:57 – Greta Thunberg journey and visit to US 2019. Climate activism
51:52 – Supply chain – One global civilization connected through infrastructure & supply chain
53:10 – Dumping garbage in other countries – not an option. Recycle, upcycle
55:20 – The burning question, what is the Future? New book, future of human geography
57:38 – Neo Darwinism & neoliberalism
58:25 – Favorite maps, cartography. Free downloads & free use
59:18 – Maps of Global agriculture if temperatures rise 4 degrees Celsius
1:03:47 – Sustainable takeaways – Food supply
1:05:34 – How to make an impact – study geospatial systems
1:06:35 – What I wish I knew when from the start – be more critical
1:08:50 – Diplomacy – being legitimate by doing something good
