In the next 15 years, one billion cars will be made, and futurist Mark Pesce is here to explain the madness. What are the pending expectations and what experiences will they provide for a completly ransformed automotive industry?
It’s the focus of a new podcast series called The Next Billion Cars with Pesce as the host. He’s our guest on this episode of The Weekly Driver Podcast.
Co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia discuss with Pesce, reached in Australia via Skype, the premise of the 10-part podcast, which debuted in February. It’s produced with innovator Sally Domingue, a Wheels Car of the Year judge, and auto industry insider Drew Smith.
An American now living in Australia, Pesce is a futurist, inventor, writer, entrepreneur, educator and podcaster. Pesce co-invented VRML, a 3D interface for the internet, in 1994. And he’s direct: The automotive industry manufactures two cars a second, he explains. And never have so many had access to motorized transportation.
The podcast surveys the landscape of electrification, autonomy, mobility — and an automotive future that looks nearly nothing like the past.
Dominguez is a multi-award-winning product designer and architect of the Adventurous Thinking innovation strategy which she has implemented at organizations including NASA, Stanford and Breville.
Drew is visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, advising automotive design Masters and Ph.D. students. He founded the Automobility Group, a global community exploring the future of urbanism, design and software.
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Article Last Updated: March 18, 2019.
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A sports, travel and business journalist for more than 45 years, James has written the new car review column The Weekly Driver since 2004.
In addition to founding this site in 2004, James writes a Sunday automotive column for The San Jose Mercury and East Bay Times in Walnut Creek, Calif., and monthly auto review and wellness columns for Gulfshore Business, a magazine in Southwest Florida.
An author and contributor to many newspapers, magazines and online publications, co-hosted The Weekly Driver Podcast from 2017 to 2024.
