THE FUTURE
OF THE FUTURE
Monthly encounters with the people building the next world.
Russian and global scientists, investors and engineers on one stage. One question, several positions, working prototypes.
Do not guess the future. Meet the people already building it.
НЕ УГАДЫВАТЬ БУДУЩЕЕ. ВСТРЕЧАТЬСЯ С ТЕМИ, КТО ЕГО СТРОИТ.
The future is a field of decisions. Each encounter shows what is really emerging and puts opposing positions against each other.
Seven evenings. Seven big questions.
A full academic year. Seven evenings.
The second season runs from physical AI and neural interfaces to the economics of abundance and the question of what we become. Topics are published in advance so you can plan the year. Sales open in spring 2027, with priority for season 01 pass holders.
Technologies never arrive one at a time
AI accelerates biology, biology rewrites energy, energy reshapes computing and space - and capital and society decide who gets access. The season is built around the intersections.
10 years: AI-biology convergence, orbital infrastructure as the norm, data-centre energy deciding the geography of industries.
- AI
- BIOLOGY
- ROBOTS
- ENERGY
- COMPUTING
- SPACE
- CAPITAL
- SOCIETY
One evening in three movements
A ten-minute primer, three dated sources, a topic glossary, an evidence map - and your question, submitted in advance.
An evidence briefing, the Russian Lens, the Global Dispatch, a prepared dialogue, a panel of positions, builder demos and the Future Questionnaire.
A brief and sources the next morning, introductions, topic action circles - and your Futures Map, growing all season.
Every evening ends the same way: seven questions that cannot be answered casually. Vladimir Pozner leads the ritual.
Pozner and Johnston - a spacebridge to the future
Forty years ago, satellite spacebridges first put Soviet and American audiences into a single conversation. The same principle and the same host, now about technology. The Russian Lens and the Global Dispatch argue in real time.
Five roles on stage every evening
The shape of the stage is the same every month; the people in three of the five roles change. Guest names are published once participation is agreed.
Three demos an evening. Selected on evidence, not sponsorship.
Startups and labs show working prototypes in the gallery before doors and on stage - five minutes each. Every demo carries an evidence-stage badge.
Apply to demoNoôdome, Romanov Dvor
A club in Romanov Dvor, ten minutes from the Kremlin. A private room with its own culture of conversation.
One evening - or the whole season
The programme draws on VLAB’s forum tradition and Singularity’s school of exponential thinking as editorial reference points. A mention implies no formal partnership or participation. Relationship statuses with external organisations are disclosed on the About page.
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