HELLO FUTURE: Press 0 for Hope: The Future of Customer Service (Without the Wait Music)

We’ve all been there — trapped in customer service purgatory, listening to that same four-second loop of hold music while an automated voice insists our call is “very important.” But what if the future of customer service didn’t make you want to throw your phone across the room? In this episode of …

HELLO FUTURE: Sky Routes & Super Sleighs: How Drones Will Rewrite the Supply Chain

Kevin and Professor Carlsson look at the next era of delivery — a world where rooftop drone pads, airborne supply lanes, and smart trucks work together like a futuristic North Pole logistics system. Think fast: medicine delivered in minutes, groceries dropped from the sky, emergency supplies sent a…

HELLO FUTURE: Santa by Drone? Will Rudolph get replaced by AI? — The Future of Holiday Delivery

From drone drops to AI-optimized logistics, Kevin looks at how the future of shipping is rewriting Santa’s playbook — and what happens when everyone has a sleigh of their own. Host Kevin Cirilli teams up with USC Professor John Carlsson to explore a world where delivery trucks become mini flying ai…

HELLO FUTURE: The Data Center Boom: Why the Future Needs Bigger Digital Fortresses

Kevin Cirilli teams up with Professor Saad to break down the giant buildings powering your apps, your AI, and your entire online life. Think of data centers as the secret server cities behind every swipe, stream, and search. Kevin and Saad explain why these digital fortresses are suddenly exploding…

HELLO FUTURE: The Future of Shopping: Robots, AI… and Still Going to the Mall

Kevin Cirilli teams up with MIT Sloan’s Sharmila C. Chatterjee to explore the next era of shopping — a world where robots restock shelves, AI finds your perfect outfit, and smart stores know exactly what you need before you do. But here’s the twist: we’re still going to want to shop in person. Chat…

HELLO FUTURE: The Rise of Computer Organoids

Kevin Cirilli sits down with Dr. Fred Jordan, co-founder of FinalSpark in Switzerland, to talk about a breakthrough that sounds almost unbelievable: tiny groups of human cells that behave like simple, living computers. These “mini brains” can react to signals, make basic adjustments, and hint at a …

HELLO FUTURE: The Future of Christmas Lights — From Clark Griswold to Rudolph the Red Nose Drone

Kevin Cirilli sits down with Jim Hardaway — COO of Novelty Lights and one of the nation’s leading authorities on holiday displays — to trace how America became obsessed with lighting up the season. From German candle-lit trees in the 1800s, to the first electric strands in the early 1900s, to Regin…

HELLO FUTURE: Can Artificial Intelligence Dream & Hallucinate?

The Algorithm and the Soul — Can AI Dream? Can a machine imagine — or even dream? In this episode of HELLO FUTURE with Kevin Cirilli, Dr. Maya Ackerman — author of Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us — joins Kevin to explore what happens when computers start to hallucinate. From AI image generators tha…

HELLO FUTURE: Can Artificial Intelligence Dream & Hallucinate?

The Algorithm and the Soul — Can AI Dream? Can a machine imagine — or even dream? In this episode of HELLO FUTURE with Kevin Cirilli, Dr. Maya Ackerman — author of Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us — joins Kevin to explore what happens when computers start to hallucinate. From AI image generators tha…

HELLO FUTURE: Will Quantum Computers Kill Cryptocurrency?

Kevin Cirilli sits down with Matt Swayne, co-founder of The Quantum Insider, to explore how quantum computing could disrupt cryptocurrency and modern encryption systems. They break down the real risks of quantum computers cracking today’s cryptographic standards, the uncertain timeline for quantum …