Benjamin J Butler is an Asia-based Futurist, passionate about guiding and coaching people in to the uncertain future. He left London 20 years ago and has been ‘on the road ever since,’ accumulating a unique international perspective to advise leaders on where the world might be heading, known for making many prescient forecasts of trends in financial markets, technology, geopolitics and culture. He sits on a number of boards as a future-thinker: he is a member of the Global Future Council on Quantum Computing at the World Economic Forum, Futurist-In-Residence at Futur/io, the European Institute of Exponential Technologies & Desirable Futures, and is a futurist with the UN’s Resilience Frontiers initiative. In 2019 he launched a new unconference series called Future Explorers. What could you possibly learn from him in this interview? (Yes, a provocation is you needed to have one to spend some time with this man.)