In conversation with Paramount Pictures futurist Ted Schilowitz

The obvious question to ask a futurist is, just what does a futurist do? It’s something Ted Schilowitz, who fulfils the first-of-its-kind role at Paramount Pictures, gets asked a hundred times a day.

“I define it in different ways depending on the audience,” he says. “The most direct way to describe what I do is that I am a glorified lab rat. I’m experimenting and exploring future media and technology with…