, peter and mary calico, the best and robin l curry foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles schwab, the eric and wendy schmidt defined for his strategic innovation. corporate funding is provided by stevens inc. and by pfizer inc. >>> re wallick, welcome to firing line. >> thank you for having me. x you are an author, a futurist, the founder of an initiative that focuses on the future of humanity. what is a futurist? >> there is a common misconception, which is a futurist products tomorrow, what is going to happen. look, people have been doing this for centuries, so we kind of think about tomorrow, but a professional working futurist like myself, we don't protect the future, we study megatrends, where almost anthropologists from tomorrow looking backwards. so, megatrend is something like the demographics or population or climate change, things that have been happening for decades and will unfurl for decades, then we look at how those megatrends will impact us in the years to come, and from that, we start to develop the story's, scenarios, and from that, we help people, organi