A podcast rethinking the future of how we live, work, and play.
The Foresight Radio podcast looks at fast changing technology and business trends driven by leading edge advances in Artificial Intelligence.
March, 2025
The Rise of Agentic AI and Digital Workers
Tom dives into autonomous “agent-based AI”—advanced digital workers capable of managing projects, making decisions, and negotiating contracts. Major players like OpenAI and Salesforce are driving this trend, with open-source options opening doors for smaller businesses. Tom interviews Jack Crawford, who references Colonel John Boyd’s “OODA loop” to explain how these AI agents can drastically accelerate decision-making. They explore the potential of AI-driven code development, administrative tasks, and strategic problem-solving, noting that widespread adoption may happen within months. While it raises questions about job displacement, Tom and Jack agree that, ultimately, humans will focus on higher-level innovation and value creation alongside these new digital coworkers.
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Tom Koulopoulos, Host of Foresight Radio
TK’s passion for technology spans 40 years, from architecting some of the earliest enterprise IT systems, to building an Inc 500 company, authoring 14 books, teaching at Boston University, founding and Directing the Babson College Center for Business Innovation, Tech commentator for MSNBC, and columnist for Inc.com.
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Available Episodes
The Rise of Agentic AI and Digital Workers
Tom dives into autonomous “agent-based AI”—advanced digital workers capable of managing projects, making decisions, and negotiating contracts. Major players like OpenAI and Salesforce are driving this trend, with open-source options opening doors for smaller businesses. Tom interviews Jack Crawford, who references Colonel John Boyd’s “OODA loop” to explain how these AI agents can drastically accelerate decision-making. They explore the potential of AI-driven code development, administrative tasks, and strategic problem-solving, noting that widespread adoption may happen within months. While it raises questions about job displacement, Tom and Jack agree that, ultimately, humans will focus on higher-level innovation and value creation alongside these new digital coworkers.Episode page
Agentic AI AI Agents AI Digitral Workers Windsurf Anthropic OpenAIYour Immortal Digital Self
Imagine your great grandkids and generations beyond chatting with you long after you’re gone. Science fiction, right? Stick with me, I’ll show you how I did just that using OpenAI’s APIs and RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) to create my digital self.Episode page
AI Digital Self OpenAI Private AI ChatbotsThe Fix to Healthcare is Hiding in Plain Sight
In this episode of Foresight Radio, Tom challenges the status quo of our fractured, overburdened health care system. He explores the looming crisis driven by an aging population and overworked medical staff, then proposes a revolutionary solution: digital health care advocacy powered by AI. Tune in to discover how this new approach could ensure true continuity of care and transform health care into a proactive, patient-centered system. Episode page
#ForesightRadio #HealthcareInnovation #DigitalAdvocacy #AIPoweredCare #HealthcareReform #AgingPopulation #FutureOfHealthcareFrom Arms to Algorithms
Tom and two synthetic AI cohosts take a deep dive into the looming cold war fueled by nationstate AI developmentEpisode page
AI NotebookLM NationState Dominance DeepSeek China StargateMicrosoft’s Majorana 1 Quantum Chip
In this episode of Foresight Radio, Tom discusses Microsoft's Majorana 1 chip and its implications for quantum computing. Microsoft's breakthrough could allow for scaling quantum computers to millions of qubits on a single chip, potentially solving complex problems that would be impossible for classical computers. While there is skepticism in the scientific community about Microsoft's claims, the investment from major players like Microsoft, IBM, Google, and others indicates inevitable breakthroughs in quantum computing.Episode page
Quantum Computing AI Microsoft Majorana Topological ComputingThe iPhone Moment for AI: OpenAI’s Next Big Move
In this episode of Foresight Radio, Tom Koulopoulos explores the game-changing potential of AI-specific hardware. Could OpenAI’s next move redefine how we interact with technology—just as the iPhone did in 2008? Tom dives into the implications of AI moving beyond software into personalized, always-present devices that know us better than we know ourselves. Are we on the verge of an AI-first revolution?Episode page
AI Openai Sam Altman iphoneThat Will Never Work: The Untold Story of Netflix’s Scrappy Beginnings
In this episode, we sit down with That Will Never Work author and Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph to uncover the real story behind Netflix’s journey from a scrappy DVD rental startup to a global streaming giant. Marc shares candid insights on entrepreneurship, failure, and the pivotal role of serendipity, iteration, and resilience in building a billion-dollar company. He also debunks the myth of the "eureka moment" and reveals how Netflix’s iconic recommendation algorithm had its roots in old-school video store wisdom. If you think success is a straight line, think again. 🎧 Tune in for an honest, funny, and eye-opening conversation about what it really takes to turn an idea into an industry disruptor.Episode page
Leadership Entrepreneurship InnovationQuantum Computing Part 2: Entanglement, Einstein’s Skepticism, and the Future of Computing
In this second part of Tom's podcast on quantum computing he looks at the strange world of quantum entanglement and the views of scientists and researchers working on quantum computers who where interviewed at a recent event, Nano Days with a Quantum Twist, which was held at the Boston Museum of Science.Episode page
Quantum ComputingQuantum Computing I
A fascinating journey through the minds of those building tomorrows quantum computers. Bob Sutor, VP for IBM Q strategy and Ecosystem at IBM Research joins Tom for part one of this two part podcast series on quantum computers. Episode page
Quantum Computing IBMA Digital Perspective on Leadership
In this episode, we cast a broad net that considers the ways in which organizational and leadership thinking has changed over the past several decades. Episode page
Leadership Artificial Intelligence BusinessAI in the Enterprise
This conversation between Tom Davenport and Tom koulopoulos covers the more practical aspects of enterprise AI. Drawing on Davenport's latest book, The AI Advantage, they delve into the how and why of the successes and failures of AI. Episode page
Enterprise AI Artificial IntelligenceClocks vs Clouds, Why we can non longer solve problems in the same way
For the past 5000 years humanity has developed ever more sophisticated and powerful tools to solve the challenges of growth and increasing complexity. But what if these tools can no longer take on the challenges of the future? More than 60 years ago one of the last century's most brilliant minds gave us a metaphor for understanding exactly that—long before artificial intelligence.Episode page
Problem solving AI Complexity LeadershipThe Driverless Revolution: AI, Safety, and the Future of Transportation
Tom goes to Las Vegas to talk with Abe Ghabra, Managing Director at autonomous vehicle firm Aptiv, and ride in a self-driving Lyft. Episode page
self-driving cars AIRevealing The Invisible – Excerpt: The Story of Ill-fated Flight 447
The challenge of artificial intelligence isn't so much the technology as this. Listen as Tom shares the story of ill-fated Air France 447 and how it can teach us about the deep cultural flaw that stands in the way of artificial intelligence. Episode page
Revealing the Invisible (Introduction)
Revealing the Invisible provides a front-row seat to the mind-blowing future, where businesses of the 21st century can read consumers’ minds and make informed decisions based on their behaviors and tendencies.Episode page
AI Social Media Privacy Identity LeadershipThe Gen Z Manifesto
One of the most profound changes in business and society is the emergence of the post-Millennial generation, Gen Z. While every new generation has faced its share of disruption in technology, economics, politics and society, no other generation in the history of mankind has had the ability to connect every human being on the planet to each other and in the process to provide the opportunity for each person to be fully educated, socially and economically engaged.Episode page
Generations The Future of Work LeadershipCracking Complexity: How Leaders Can Solve the Toughest Challenges with David Komlos & David Benjamin
In this episode, Tom talks with the authors of a new book, Cracking Complexity, which looks at how we can identify complex challenges, distinguish them from complicated tasks, and use a methodology to crack the complexity code.Episode page
Leadership Problem Solving ComplexityLeading the 4-Generation Workforce
In this episode we explore the popular topic of millennials, Gen-Z, generational differences, and the challenges of 4 generation leadership, with best selling author of Counter Mentor Leadership, Robby Riggs. Episode page
Gen Z Millennials LeadershipThe Big Pivot: Business, Sustainability & Climate Change with Andrew Winston
Join Tom and Andrew as they discuss the role of corporations in building sustainable businesses, misconceptions about China's impact and efforts in sustainability, and the challenges of building a sustainable future. Episode page
Sustainability ChinaGeneral AI is Already Here
In this episode, we look at the global aspects of AI and the implications of generalized AI in enterprise settings. Our guest Chris Boos is an AI entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor to the German government on the implications of digital technology. Episode page
Artificial Intelligence Machine LearningDemocratizing Data: The Data Revolution: How AI, Smart Cities, and Food Tech Are Shaping Our Future
A look at how technology is democratizing access to products, services, and knowledge across the globe with entrepreneur and MIT researcher Erin Baumgartner. Episode page
Sustainability Data Smart CitiesThe Future of Data: How Storage, AI, and Abundance Are Transforming Innovation with David Friend
In this episode of Foresight Radio long-time colleague and serial entrepreneur David Friend joins me to look at the dramatic ways in which data storage and affordability will change not only the way we do business but also make some of the greatest innovations of the 21st Century, such as AI and machine learning, possible. Episode page
The Cloud Data Artificial IntelligenceThe Evolution of AI: Fear, Opportunity, and the Future of Business with Jack Crawford
In this episode of Foresight Radio Tom speaks with AI veteran and entrepreneur Jack Crawford about the dramatic changes that AI will bring to our businesses and our lives. Episode page
Artificial IntelligenceThe Uncertainty Principle Audio book
In The Uncertainty Principle, Thomas Koulopoulos explores one of the most defining forces of our time—uncertainty. Drawing from history, economics, psychology, and personal insights, Koulopoulos reframes uncertainty not as a threat, but as a catalyst for innovation, resilience, and transformation.Episode page
Uncertainty Leadership AI The FutureThe Bottomless Cloud – Full Audio Book
The Bottomless Cloud challenges the scarcity-driven mindset by taking a hard look at how industrial age business models are failing us by regarding data as a commodity and a cost that needs to be constrained, rather than an near infinite resource that can be mined to build entirely new sources of value and insight. From Uber, to Nike, to Netflix, The Bottomless Cloud is defining the tenets of success in the 21st Century by changing the way we view data, from being a byproduct of business to a foundational driver of radically new business models.Episode page
Data The Future of Work Abundance AI
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Join us as we talk with a who's who of industry luminaries who are redefining the way we do business in the 21st Century. We’ll cover a broad range of topics, from driverless cars, to advances in personalized medicine and genomics, to the radical changes happening in the entertainment industry, to how our privacy and digital selves are being co-opted by social media.