Futureproof: Aric Dromi on futurism and 'professional troublemaking'

Aric Dromi is a futurist, but prefers the term “professional troublemaker”. Keynote speaker at this year’s AIB Future Sparks student festival, he spoke with Donal O’Keeffe.

Aric Dromi laughs when told that the only futurist his interviewer can think of is Tony Stark, Robert Downey Jr’s Iron Man character from the Marvel movies. “Tony Stark is more a great pragmatist, I think, than a futurist,” Dromi suggests, in his gentle Mitteleuropean accent.