Foresight with Greg Williams
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- Nov 11, 2026
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Designed as an extension of WIRED’s long-running live conference portfolio, these punchy, deliberate and engaging sessions reflect the same high calibre of speakers and programming featured at a WIRED event.
Episodes 51
From The Big Story: She Got a Great Deal on Egg Freezing. Then She Spiraled
To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop A new startup called Cofertility lets young women freeze their eggs—for free. But is anything ever truly …
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A new startup called Cofertility lets young women freeze their eggs—for free. But is anything ever truly free?
Written by Maia Hibbett. Originally published on September 9th 2026.
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From The Big Story: The Genesis Engine
To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop We now have the power to quickly and easily alter DNA. It could eliminate disease. It could solve world …
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We now have the power to quickly and easily alter DNA. It could eliminate disease. It could solve world hunger. It could provide unlimited clean energy. It could get really out of hand.
Written by Amy Maxmen. Originally published in August 2015.
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From The Big Story: You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished
To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not …
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Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not “notable” enough. How do these poor souls take the news?
Written by Duncan Fyfe. Originally published on October 26th 2026.
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The Big Fight Over 403 Very Small Wasps
To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Earth is teeming with unknown species, and they’re dying off faster than ever. Now biologists are …
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Earth is teeming with unknown species, and they’re dying off faster than ever. Now biologists are battling over an old question: how to catalog life?
Written by Brooke Jarvis. Originally published on November 10th 2022.
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From The Big Story: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans From Tehran
To hear stories three days earlier, listen on The Big Story: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Sneaking six Americans out of Iran in 1979 would take an audacious plan, false identities, and an epic …
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Sneaking six Americans out of Iran in 1979 would take an audacious plan, false identities, and an epic Hollywood cover story.
Written by Joshuah Bearman. Originally published on April 24th, 2007.
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From The Big Story: She Was the DEA’s Premier Crypto Detective. The Clues Led Straight to Her Own Family
To listen to episodes a day early, follow The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy …
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To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy. She pioneered the DEA’s investigations of the dark web—never suspecting who she’d find hiding there.
Written by Joshuah Bearman and Owen Long. Originally published on October 21st, 2026.
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From The Big Story: Inside the Bitcoin Bust That Took Down the Web's Biggest Child Abuse Site
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded …
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They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.
Written by Andy Greenberg. Originally published on April 7th, 2022.
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From The Big Story: Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here's What Happened
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop He shed his identity with the goal of disappearing for one month. Then the manhunt began. Written by Evan Ratliff. Originally …
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He shed his identity with the goal of disappearing for one month. Then the manhunt began.
Written by Evan Ratliff. Originally published on November 20th, 2009.
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From The Big Story: Nathan Fielder Tells Us Everything
Including what Elizabeth Holmes said to him last week. A WIRED exclusive interview with the comic auteur, as his first feature film hits theaters. The conversation between Katie Drummond and Nathan Fielder is …
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Including what Elizabeth Holmes said to him last week. A WIRED exclusive interview with the comic auteur, as his first feature film hits theaters.
The conversation between Katie Drummond and Nathan Fielder is performed by voice actors. These are not their actual voices.
Written by Katie Drummond. Originally published on October 19th, 2026.
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From The Big Story: A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online …
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Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.
Written by EJ Dickson. Originally published on September 14th, 2026.
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From The Big Story: The Accidental Zillionaire
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Microsoft spawned two billionaires. Paul Allen is the other one. Written by Paulina Borsook. Originally published on August …
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Microsoft spawned two billionaires. Paul Allen is the other one.
Written by Paulina Borsook. Originally published on August 1st, 1994.
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From The Big Story: In Search of the Heart of the Online-Cat Industrial Complex
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop A cat wearing a short tie plays music on a cat-shaped keyboard (“Pancake Meowsic Video,” 185,459 views). A woman performs sun …
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A cat wearing a short tie plays music on a cat-shaped keyboard (“Pancake Meowsic Video,” 185,459 views). A woman performs sun salutations with a cat on her back (“Cat Loves Yoga,” 1,539 views). A man slaps two cats on an ironing board to the beat of “Atmosphere” (“Cat Slap Joy Division,” 357,605 views).
Written by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. Originally published on August 31st, 2012.
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From The Big Story: The Internet Runs on Cats and Porn. It’s About to Get Cattier and Pornier
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the …
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Soon, hundreds of new top-level domains, including .meow and .fart, could be added to the internet. WIRED goes inside the backroom shenanigans of ICANN, the organization at the helm.
Written by Pete Millspaugh. Originally published on October 6th, 2026.
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From The Big Story: Billions Registered
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as your own internet address. Written by Joshua …
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Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as your own internet address.
Written by Joshua Quittner. Originally published on October 1st, 1994.
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From The Big Story: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an …
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Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species.
Written by Bill Joy. Originally published on April 1st, 2000.
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From The Big Story: Choke Points
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost Lives. How Israeli checkpoints suffocate Palestinian life in the occupied …
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Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family.
Lost Lives.
How Israeli checkpoints suffocate Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank.
Written by Lama Rabah, Sabrina Slipchenko, Charles Boutaud, Firas Tawil and Elena DeBre. Originally published on September 30th 2026.
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From The Big Story: How a Research Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the …
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Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.
Written by Amos Zeeberg. Originally published on April 4th, 2023.
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From The Big Story: Greetings From Burning Man!
Listen to more of The Big Story here: http://swap.fm/l/wi-bigstorypod-feeddrop Dispatches from the New American Holiday: Writer Bruce Sterling takes the kids to the Temporary Autonomous Zone, where survival …
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Dispatches from the New American Holiday: Writer Bruce Sterling takes the kids to the Temporary Autonomous Zone, where survival is a personal choice.
Written by Bruce Sterling. Originally published in WIRED on November 1st, 1996.
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From The Big Story: She's 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can't Have Kids
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.For more of the most ambitious, future-defining stories from …
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No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
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From WIRED Politics Lab: How Election Deniers Are Weaponizing Tech To Disrupt November
DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling …
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DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.
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Be sure to subscribe to the WIRED Politics Lab newsletter here.DESCRIPTION: Election deniers are mobilizing their supporters and rolling out new tech to disrupt the November election. These groups are already organizing on hyperlocal levels, and learning to monitor polling places, target election officials, and challenge voter rolls. And though their work was once fringe, its become mainstreamed in the Republican Party. Today on Wired Politics Lab, we focus on what these groups are doing, and what this means for voters and the election workers already facing threats and harassment.
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The Circular Bioeconomy
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Mathieu Flamini, CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a leading sustainable biochemical company with the mission to end chemical …
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In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Mathieu Flamini, CEO and co-founder of GFBiochemicals, a leading sustainable biochemical company with the mission to end chemical pollution by finding safer and more sustainable alternatives to the harmful petrochemicals commonly found in everyday products. They discuss decarbonising the chemical industry and building the circular bioeconomy.
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Humanity, the Economy and Climate Change – Can We Fix Things?
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg cstches up with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A talk about how we make the connection between climate change and the state of the …
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In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg cstches up with Lubomila Jordanova, Co-Founder and CEO of Plan A talk about how we make the connection between climate change and the state of the economy.
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Sowing the Seeds for a Better Food System
Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. In this episode of our foresight climate change …
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Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Arnavaz Schatten, director of sustainability at the Berlin-based vertical farming firm InFarm dicuss how vertical farms can massively reduce the environmental impact of our food system. "What could possibly work on Mars could be hugely beneficial on Earth today. We don’t need to wait for the Mars scenario. We need this kind of farming on Earth now,” said Arnavaz when speaking at WIRED Impact in November 2022.
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Making Better Climate Policy
To create better outcomes we have to create the right governmental and legal frameworks. So how do we make better policy and implement it effectively?In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg …
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To create better outcomes we have to create the right governmental and legal frameworks. So how do we make better policy and implement it effectively?
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Alyssa Gilbert, the Director of Policy and Translation at the Grantham Institute. Alyssa builds real-world impact by connecting relevant research across the university with policy-makers and businesses.
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The Case For Climate Led Investing
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Evelina Olago, the Managing Director, Client & Strategy at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable …
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In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg catches up with Evelina Olago, the Managing Director, Client & Strategy at Just Climate, part of Generation Investment Management — the sustainable investment firm co-founded by former US vice-president Al Gore. They discuss how Evelina is working to find new ways to deploy capital in ways that will have outsize impact for the climate and enable us to transition to net zero effectively.
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Using Nature for Packaging
In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Insiya Jafferjee the CEO and cofounder of UK biotech startup, Shellworks that aims to replace plastic with materials based in nature.It is …
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In this episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Insiya Jafferjee the CEO and cofounder of UK biotech startup, Shellworks that aims to replace plastic with materials based in nature.
It is estimated that UK households throw away a staggering 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging a year, averaging 66 items per household per week. In this episode, Insiya discusses how her interdisciplinary team is innovating in material science in order to be able to scale products that after use, will be consumed by microbes that are abundant in soil and marine environments.
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Green Energy Will Be Bigger Than The Internet
In the second episode our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Greg Jackson the CEO of Octopus Energy Group to discuss how we’re at the early stages of dramatic growth in green energy – one that has …
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In the second episode our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Greg Jackson the CEO of Octopus Energy Group to discuss how we’re at the early stages of dramatic growth in green energy – one that has parallels in the explosive growth of the internet of the past twenty years. They also touch on how we're going to get to net zero, the challenges of getting renewable energy onto complex grids, EV infrastructure, national security and more.
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Migration Is Not The Problem, It Is The Solution
In our very first episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Gaia Vince, author of the groundbreaking work Adventures In The Anthropocene for which she travelled to over 50 countries to map …
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In our very first episode of our foresight climate change series, Greg chats to Gaia Vince, author of the groundbreaking work Adventures In The Anthropocene for which she travelled to over 50 countries to map the ways humans are altering the planet forever.
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If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable with Mikko Hyppönen
Connecting the world online has brought enormous benefits but it has also digitised the way in which harmful things can happen. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Mikko Hyppönen, Author of 'If It's …
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Connecting the world online has brought enormous benefits but it has also digitised the way in which harmful things can happen. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Mikko Hyppönen, Author of 'If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable', originator of the Hyppönen law and Chief Research Officer at WithSecure to discuss how we can counter the growing onslaught of toxic code thats coursing through the internet looking for vulnerabilities.
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Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft on future of artificial intelligence
AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone alongside solving some of the worlds most vexing problems. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Kevin Scott, the CTO of Microsoft to …
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AI has the potential to create abundance and opportunity for everyone alongside solving some of the worlds most vexing problems. In this episode of Foresight, Greg chat’s to Kevin Scott, the CTO of Microsoft to discuss the future of artificial intelligence and how it can be realistically used to serve the interests of everyone.
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