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, whichis 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 hothose 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, organizations, countries, governments make better decisions about tomorrow. >> what is an example of the megatrend? >> something like climate based migration. as we look forward to mobilizing hundreds of millions of