https://www.spreaker.com/show/disruptorsfm
If in-depth, unscripted conversations with the researchers, startups and innovators transforming the future of all of us in a Tim Ferriss meets Sam Harris, Kara Swisher and a16z type no-holds-barred interview show is your cup of tea, you’ve come to the right place.

We cover EVERYTHING, from artificial intelligence, the ethics and economics of our coming century and futurism to fighting climate change, fixing blockchain and redesigning democratic politics from the ground up.

For the full Disruptors experience and interviews and to download our Existential Risk guide:

Visit our site and download our FREE Existential Risk Guide:

https://disruptors.fm/risk]]>enScienceCopyright The Disruptorshttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5304473d8a71ca4ef0d01b8bf8ca9305.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/show/disruptorsfmFri, 30 Oct 2026 09:50:12 +0000Matt WardMatt Wardfeeds@spreaker.comA Podcast About the Future of All of Us
If in-depth, unscripted conversations with the researchers, startups and innovators transforming the future of all of us in a Tim Ferriss meets Sam Harris, Kara Swisher and a16z type no-holds-barred interview show is your cup of tea, you’ve come to the right place.

We cover EVERYTHING, from artificial intelligence, the ethics and economics of our coming century and futurism to fighting climate change, fixing blockchain and redesigning democratic politics from the ground up.

For the full Disruptors experience and interviews and to download our Existential Risk guide:

Visit our site and download our FREE Existential Risk Guide:

https://disruptors.fm/risk]]>false99d0c5be-20ed-56bf-a785-230375b82204episodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/what-is-4ward-earth-inside-the-world-s-largest-climate-sustainability-ecosystem--66703757Why? 

Because humanity’s greatest problem is also its biggest opportunity to come together to build and collaborate on climate solutions at scale.

And 18 months ago, 4WARD.earth as you know it today was born - a free, open-to-all climate & sustainability do-ers network that’s part LinkedIn, part Meetup, part Tinder (minus the awkward swiping):

4WARD brings together four key pillars to support climate & sustainability doers at any level:

1. A Global Community (if you aren’t a member, what are you waiting for?): https://4ward.earth/circle
2. Supported by local city groups in 60+ cities that meet IRL: https://4ward.earth/cities
3. Driven by a host of networking opportunities, member calls and virtual events for learning and coming together moments: https://4ward.earth/events
4. And expert support sessions, office hours & consultancy services on fundraising, growth, & decarbonization for those that need it

To set the matter straight and explain our lofty goals, we made a video :)
https://youtu.be/v0X8l2ACuL8

We'd love to hear your thoughts on how we’re helping climate & sustainability stakeholders everywhere…?

Because true decarbonisation and global impact only occur if the entire world’s aligned, onboard and collaboratively moving the world 4WARD ➡ 🌳

🌱 JOIN 4WARD's GLOBAL CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILTY COMMUNITY FREE: https://4ward.earth/join

• Attend regular climate meetups in 60+ cities 🌎
• Join monthly sector networking groups & calls 📞
• 1000s of climate & sustainability folks on online networking & colab platform 🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏻
• Free resource toolkits for startups, corps, VCs & job seekers 🛠️
• Resources for funding 💰, decarbonization, legal & IP ⚖️, carbon accounting & more

And much much more... 👤 Create FREE profile today: https://4ward.earth/join

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]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/66703757Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:20:01 +0000Matt Ward3 years ago, I started exploring various models to bring together people working in sustainability and climate. Why?  Because humanity’s greatest problem is also its biggest opportunity to come together to build and collaborate on climate solutions...Why? 

Because humanity’s greatest problem is also its biggest opportunity to come together to build and collaborate on climate solutions at scale.

And 18 months ago, 4WARD.earth as you know it today was born - a free, open-to-all climate & sustainability do-ers network that’s part LinkedIn, part Meetup, part Tinder (minus the awkward swiping):

4WARD brings together four key pillars to support climate & sustainability doers at any level:

1. A Global Community (if you aren’t a member, what are you waiting for?): https://4ward.earth/circle
2. Supported by local city groups in 60+ cities that meet IRL: https://4ward.earth/cities
3. Driven by a host of networking opportunities, member calls and virtual events for learning and coming together moments: https://4ward.earth/events
4. And expert support sessions, office hours & consultancy services on fundraising, growth, & decarbonization for those that need it

To set the matter straight and explain our lofty goals, we made a video :)
https://youtu.be/v0X8l2ACuL8

We'd love to hear your thoughts on how we’re helping climate & sustainability stakeholders everywhere…?

Because true decarbonisation and global impact only occur if the entire world’s aligned, onboard and collaboratively moving the world 4WARD ➡ 🌳

🌱 JOIN 4WARD's GLOBAL CLIMATE & SUSTAINABILTY COMMUNITY FREE: https://4ward.earth/join

• Attend regular climate meetups in 60+ cities 🌎
• Join monthly sector networking groups & calls 📞
• 1000s of climate & sustainability folks on online networking & colab platform 🧑🏾‍🤝‍🧑🏻
• Free resource toolkits for startups, corps, VCs & job seekers 🛠️
• Resources for funding 💰, decarbonization, legal & IP ⚖️, carbon accounting & more

And much much more... 👤 Create FREE profile today: https://4ward.earth/join

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]]>96biodiversity,cleantech,climate,climateaction,climatechange,conservation,eco,energy,environment,green,innovation,renewables,startups,sustainability,transportationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-frans-von-der-dunk-space-law-piracy-profit-and-militarization-in-age-of-star-wars--42687557
In today's episode we discuss:
- The issue of ownership and sovereignty in space
- How regulation helps and hurts our the future of space
- Why current space treaties are anything but adequate for space exploration
- What you need to know about asteroid mining and space settlements
- The brewing issues in space which could provoke war
- Why solving the Kessler crisis NEEDS to be a top priority for space operators
- Thoughts private enterprises role in space exploration
- What Frans thinks about Trump's Space Force
- The realities of extraterrestrial space life and the law
- What technologies most worry Frans most
- Why social media and data privacy are such big issues to contend with
- The scary truth about cyber, and space]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42687557Fri, 01 Jan 2021 16:32:25 +0000Matt WardFrans von der Dunk is a Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Director of Black Holes Consultancy, and is generally recognized as one of the world’s leading space law experts. Franz has served as an adviser to a number of...
In today's episode we discuss:
- The issue of ownership and sovereignty in space
- How regulation helps and hurts our the future of space
- Why current space treaties are anything but adequate for space exploration
- What you need to know about asteroid mining and space settlements
- The brewing issues in space which could provoke war
- Why solving the Kessler crisis NEEDS to be a top priority for space operators
- Thoughts private enterprises role in space exploration
- What Frans thinks about Trump's Space Force
- The realities of extraterrestrial space life and the law
- What technologies most worry Frans most
- Why social media and data privacy are such big issues to contend with
- The scary truth about cyber, and space]]>3611crisis,cyber,data,dataprivacy,energy,exploration,extraterrestrial,future,law,outerspace,podcast,politics,socialmedia,sovereignty,space,spaceexploration,spaceforce,spacelaw,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-russell-gold-energy-infrastructure-fracking-and-the-future-of-journalism--42591194
He's the author of The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World and his new book, Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform Energy tells the story of Michael Skelly, who helped created the wind energy industry in the US in a push for sustainability.

In today's episode we discuss:
- How to speed the transition to renewable energy
- The pros and cons of fracking and why it has a bad rap
- Why the energy industry is so fragmented in the US
- What we need MOST to see renewables replace the grid
- How batteries are holding back cleantech
- The pros and cons of monopolies in public infrastructure
- Why Silicon Valley doesn't invest much in energy
- How one innovator can change the course of history and energy consumption
- What we NEED to do to combat climate change
- Why Andy thinks going public is the way to go
- Thoughts on Elon, Tesla and the future of transportation
- What will journalism look like in ten years
- Are billionaire-owned media corporations a net positive]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42591194Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:48:47 +0000Matt WardRussell Gold (@russellgold) is an author and award-winning investigative journalist and energy reporter at The Wall Street Journal best known for covering the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. They were awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for best...
He's the author of The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World and his new book, Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform Energy tells the story of Michael Skelly, who helped created the wind energy industry in the US in a push for sustainability.

In today's episode we discuss:
- How to speed the transition to renewable energy
- The pros and cons of fracking and why it has a bad rap
- Why the energy industry is so fragmented in the US
- What we need MOST to see renewables replace the grid
- How batteries are holding back cleantech
- The pros and cons of monopolies in public infrastructure
- Why Silicon Valley doesn't invest much in energy
- How one innovator can change the course of history and energy consumption
- What we NEED to do to combat climate change
- Why Andy thinks going public is the way to go
- Thoughts on Elon, Tesla and the future of transportation
- What will journalism look like in ten years
- Are billionaire-owned media corporations a net positive]]>3023batteries,cleanenergy,cleanmeat,cleantech,climatechange,economics,energy,future,governance,infrastructure,journalism,podcast,politics,renewable,renewableenergy,renewables,solar,tesla,transportation,windfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/disruptors-fm-death-donor-2-regular-replay--42478195
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42478195Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:49:29 +0000Matt WardWould you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her...
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>1549biology,biotech,biotecnology,family,life,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-death-donor-1-a-dystopian-scifi-techno-thriller-novel--42343850
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42343850Mon, 07 Dec 2020 17:07:07 +0000Matt WardWould you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her...
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>1680biology,biotech,biotechnology,fiction,life,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/neanderthal-king-a-medieval-epic-adventure-part-seven--42235943
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

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More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42235943Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:16:09 +0000Matt WardImagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off: MORE INFORMATION AT: neanderthalking.com It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal...
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>1804fiction,podcast,sciencefiction,scifi,sicencefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/neanderthal-king-a-medieval-epic-adventure-part-six--42115921
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42115921Mon, 23 Nov 2020 15:27:52 +0000Matt WardImagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off: MORE INFORMATION AT: neanderthalking.com It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal...
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

--

Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>1949fiction,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/neanderthal-king-a-medieval-epic-adventure-part-five--41996835
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41996835Tue, 17 Nov 2020 12:16:11 +0000Matt WardImagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off: MORE INFORMATION AT: neanderthalking.com It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal...
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

--

Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>2452fiction,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/neanderthal-king-a-medieval-epic-adventure-part-four--41869500
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

—

Want to follow along with Maralek’s adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

—

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41869500Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:08:53 +0000Matt WardImagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of...
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

—

Want to follow along with Maralek’s adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

—

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>1588fiction,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/neanderthal-king-a-medieval-epic-adventure-part-three--41752779
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

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More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41752779Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:11:36 +0000Matt WardImagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of...
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

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More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>2370podcast,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/neanderthal-king-a-medieval-epic-adventure-part-two--41640087
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41640087Sun, 01 Nov 2020 05:58:04 +0000Matt WardImagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of...
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>2007podcast,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/neanderthal-king-a-medieval-epic-adventure-part-one--41572003
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

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Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41572003Sun, 01 Nov 2020 05:57:26 +0000Matt WardImagine Game of Thrones, but Neanderthals never died off. It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of...
It’s 1107, and the once-great Neanderthal empire is no more, laid waste by the dark Sapien king, Isaac, the same bastard who slaughtered the Thal queen’s young heirs. A brutal reversal of medieval power forged in blood and fueled by Sap ingenuity.

But one babe escaped the mad king’s wrath.

Raised the son of a simple Thal herder, Maralek’s a rough lad with the ferocious pride and temper of his ruined people, a scorn for rules and rulers, and less than a little creativity in his thick skull. In a word, your average Neanderthal.

And life’s livable, until King Isaac resumes his bloodthirsty crusade, and Maralek’s forced into slaving shackles. Then, a rowdy caravan, a mysterious gypsy, a whispered prophecy… A whirlwind of devastation and war as his master is murdered, his fate unwoven, and his world ripped asunder in an epic battle to end all.

Neanderthal King is a historic epic YA fantasy by renowned science fiction and fantasy author, Matt Ward, that features savage twists and darker secrets, raging kings and enslaved heirs, and an audaciously ambitious coming of age quest set in an alternative medieval Europe. If you love Brandon Sanderson, Ursula le Guin, or Robin Hobb, or explosive high and low fantasy classics like Lord of the Rings, the Kingkiller Chronicles, and the Earthsea Cycle, you’ll love this heroic historical tale.

For more information, to purchase the complete audio adventure or to download the entire technothriller free with a free trial of Audible, visit neanderthalking.com

--

Want to follow along with Maralek's adventure? For a limited time, grab your FREE illustrated map of Tharkal and the six kingdoms of Sapdom by visiting mattwardwrites.com/map.

--

More information on the author at mattwardwrites.com.]]>1694adventure,podcast,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-dr-james-canton-the-5-most-impactful-technologies-of-21st-century--40365237The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the 21st Century (2006)
Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World (2015)
Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Technology Will Transform Business in the 21st Century (2004)
And James is no stranger to media. He was named “the Digital Guru” by CNN and “Dr. Future” by Yahoo, is a commentator on CNN and has been featured on/in CNBC, Fox, PBS, ABC, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg Report, The New York Times, US News and World Report, CEO, CIO and CFO Magazines. And finally, Dr. Canton serves as Co-chairman of the Futures and Forecasting Track at Singularity University.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How the pace of technology acceleration is accelerating
- The 5 most impactful areas of tech
- How government surveillance and privacy as balanced in the future
- Why James is optimistic about the future
- The future of work, even including AI
- How humanity needs to reinvent healthcare
- What it is like working in a governmental think tank
- Why quantum computing will change the world
- How James advises government and corporations about change and the future
- What James learned working at Apple Computer
- How systems thinking changes can solve most of the world’s problems
- Why our education system is broken and how to fix it]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40365237Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:03:41 +0000Matt WardDr. James Canton (@futureguru) is a renowned global futurist, social scientist, keynote presenter, author, and visionary business advisor. He is the CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a leading think tank he founded in 1990 that...The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the 21st Century (2006)
Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World (2015)
Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Technology Will Transform Business in the 21st Century (2004)
And James is no stranger to media. He was named “the Digital Guru” by CNN and “Dr. Future” by Yahoo, is a commentator on CNN and has been featured on/in CNBC, Fox, PBS, ABC, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg Report, The New York Times, US News and World Report, CEO, CIO and CFO Magazines. And finally, Dr. Canton serves as Co-chairman of the Futures and Forecasting Track at Singularity University.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How the pace of technology acceleration is accelerating
- The 5 most impactful areas of tech
- How government surveillance and privacy as balanced in the future
- Why James is optimistic about the future
- The future of work, even including AI
- How humanity needs to reinvent healthcare
- What it is like working in a governmental think tank
- Why quantum computing will change the world
- How James advises government and corporations about change and the future
- What James learned working at Apple Computer
- How systems thinking changes can solve most of the world’s problems
- Why our education system is broken and how to fix it]]>3430ai,apple,artificialintelligence,biology,biotech,biotechnology,capitalism,computer,education,educationsystem,future,genetic,geneticengineering,government,health,healthcare,quantum,quantumcomputing,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-geoff-ralston-how-ycombinator-is-working-to-save-the-us-education-system-from-collapse--41416867
Prior to joining YC as a Partner, Geoff was the CEO of Lala Media, a music startup which was acquired by Apple for $80M in 2009. He also spent 9 years at Yahoo and was the Former Chief Product Officer a decade before the company became irrelevant.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The major problems with America’s education system
- How startups and YC are working to redesign education
- Is college still necessary?
- How venture capitalists can make outsized differences in the world
- Why education and healthcare as so expensive and slow to adapt
- What angel investors need to know to avoid losing money
- How Geoff thinks about industries and investment philosophies
- Why Geoff started an edtech accelerator and merged with YCombinator
- The reason Geoff is incredibly optimistic about biotech and AI
- The ethical issues of education and access and how we can fix them
- Why education NEEDS to be personalized
- How to hone your craft and becoming worldclass
- Which industries Geoff is most excited about]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41416867Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:17:17 +0000Matt WardGeoff Ralston (@gralston) is the founder of Imagine K12, an education-focused vertical within the super successful startup accelerator YCombinator. Collectively, Y Combinator and Imagine K12 have backed over 100 education technology startups. In...
Prior to joining YC as a Partner, Geoff was the CEO of Lala Media, a music startup which was acquired by Apple for $80M in 2009. He also spent 9 years at Yahoo and was the Former Chief Product Officer a decade before the company became irrelevant.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The major problems with America’s education system
- How startups and YC are working to redesign education
- Is college still necessary?
- How venture capitalists can make outsized differences in the world
- Why education and healthcare as so expensive and slow to adapt
- What angel investors need to know to avoid losing money
- How Geoff thinks about industries and investment philosophies
- Why Geoff started an edtech accelerator and merged with YCombinator
- The reason Geoff is incredibly optimistic about biotech and AI
- The ethical issues of education and access and how we can fix them
- Why education NEEDS to be personalized
- How to hone your craft and becoming worldclass
- Which industries Geoff is most excited about]]>2750accelerator,ai,angelinvestor,artificialintelligence,biotech,capital,college,echnology,edtech,education,educationsystem,educationtechnology,podcast,startups,tech,vc,venture,venturecapital,yc,ycombinatorfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-eric-ward-the-4-main-hurdles-holding-humanity-back-from-space-colonization--41303415
At Odyne, Eric and the team are working on phase one: launch, and run a large scale nano and microsatellite launch program to allow more satellite tech companies easier access to space.

Aten Engineering, on the other hand, deals with what to do once we get there and is an asteroid mining company to provide humanity with inexpensive access to the materials we need to become a space-faring civilization.

Eric recently received a Master’s degree in Systems Design and Management from MIT, has published multiple technical documents on Systems Architecture and the Space Industry has been featured in Fast Company and co-founded the MIT New Space Age Conference.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The main hurdles holding humanity back from becoming a spacefaring civilization
- Why now is the time for space tech startups
- How politics and economics must evolve to suit space
- The reason holds the key to space travel
- Why we’re still a few years off from a moon or Mars colony
- The big problem with propulsion for space sustainability
- How economics will drive our current space race
- The reason governments won’t play much of a role in space exploration
- Eric’s thoughts on the ethics of space
- The unique challenges space tech startups face
- Political challenges associated with space travel
- Why the pace of innovation is constantly accelerating
- How AI will create a new breed of human]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41303415Wed, 07 Oct 2020 14:57:11 +0000Matt WardEric Ward(@AeroSigma) is the co-founder and CEO of both Odyne Space and Aten Engineering, two space tech startups with a ton of promise for the future. Eric is an experienced systems architect who sees growing the space industry as the next step to...
At Odyne, Eric and the team are working on phase one: launch, and run a large scale nano and microsatellite launch program to allow more satellite tech companies easier access to space.

Aten Engineering, on the other hand, deals with what to do once we get there and is an asteroid mining company to provide humanity with inexpensive access to the materials we need to become a space-faring civilization.

Eric recently received a Master’s degree in Systems Design and Management from MIT, has published multiple technical documents on Systems Architecture and the Space Industry has been featured in Fast Company and co-founded the MIT New Space Age Conference.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The main hurdles holding humanity back from becoming a spacefaring civilization
- Why now is the time for space tech startups
- How politics and economics must evolve to suit space
- The reason holds the key to space travel
- Why we’re still a few years off from a moon or Mars colony
- The big problem with propulsion for space sustainability
- How economics will drive our current space race
- The reason governments won’t play much of a role in space exploration
- Eric’s thoughts on the ethics of space
- The unique challenges space tech startups face
- Political challenges associated with space travel
- Why the pace of innovation is constantly accelerating
- How AI will create a new breed of human]]>3732ai,artificialintelligence,asteroid,asteroidmining,civilization,colony,economics,foodtech,governance,humanity,mars,mining,politics,rockets,space,spacetech,spacetravel,startups,sustainability,techfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-ashwin-seetharaman-genetic-engineering-will-cure-disease-end-aging-and-evolve-all-of-us--41172522
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The future of CRISPR and genetic engineering
- Why personalized medicine is closer than you would think
- How CRISPR and gene drive technology can have a butterfly effect like unintended consequences
- The problem and solution with causing and treating cancer
- Why we need to discuss the ethical implications of genetic editing
- The importance of DNA based edits and therapies to advance humanity
- How to shift the public perception on future technologies
- The reason humanity may evolve into multiple species
- Ashwin’s thoughts on the ethics of great power
- The reason Ashwin is cautious with CRISPR technology
- How researchers are fighting and will likely eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes
- Why research is now focused on systems vs individual genes
- The importance of epigenetics in understanding biological processes
Why we may have a “cure” to aging on the horizon]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41172522Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:41:27 +0000Matt WardAshwin Seetharaman is molecular genetics and cell/developmental researcher at the University of Toronto focused on understanding life at its most fundamental level. He is currently focused on unraveling genetic interaction networks underlying human...
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The future of CRISPR and genetic engineering
- Why personalized medicine is closer than you would think
- How CRISPR and gene drive technology can have a butterfly effect like unintended consequences
- The problem and solution with causing and treating cancer
- Why we need to discuss the ethical implications of genetic editing
- The importance of DNA based edits and therapies to advance humanity
- How to shift the public perception on future technologies
- The reason humanity may evolve into multiple species
- Ashwin’s thoughts on the ethics of great power
- The reason Ashwin is cautious with CRISPR technology
- How researchers are fighting and will likely eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes
- Why research is now focused on systems vs individual genes
- The importance of epigenetics in understanding biological processes
Why we may have a “cure” to aging on the horizon]]>3258biology,biotech,biotechnology,cancer,crispr,dna,epigenetics,future,gene,genes,genetic,geneticediting,geneticengineering,humanity,life,science,species,tech,technologies,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/death-donor-5-a-dystopian-scifi-techno-thriller-novel--41038015
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41038015Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:30:36 +0000Matt WardWould you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her...
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>1901biology,biotech,biotechnology,fiction,life,science,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/death-donor-4-a-dystopian-scifi-techno-thriller-novel--40875336
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable…

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40875336Mon, 14 Sep 2020 10:28:55 +0000Matt WardWould you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her...
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable…

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>1522biotech,biotechnology,fiction,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scifi,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/death-donor-3-a-dystopian-scifi-techno-thriller-novel--40704493
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40704493Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:38:28 +0000Matt WardWould you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her...
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>2304billionaire,biology,biotech,biotechnology,life,lifeextension,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/death-donor-2-a-dystopian-scifi-techno-thriller-novel--40560637
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40560637Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:58:19 +0000Matt WardWould you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her...
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>1964billionaire,biology,biotech,biotechnology,life,lifeextension,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/death-donor-1-a-dystopian-scifi-techno-thriller-novel--40365360
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

Someone is going to pay.

Grab the rest today FREE with an Audible trial:

deathdonor.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40365360Tue, 25 Aug 2020 14:50:13 +0000Matt WardWould you sell your life to save another? Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her...
Special forces vet, Samantha Jones, is a lowly bodyguard for Ethan Anderson, the biotech billionaire who revolutionized life extension. But at least she’s got a job, unlike most, and won’t have to sell her organs to support her family. Sure, they’re poor, but she’s got death insurance, and a roof over her head. Life is livable...

Until her daughter is kidnapped and sold for parts, and the ex-assassin snaps.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The science of meditation and how it affects your brain
- Why Ariel is passionate about neuroscience and its ability to evolve our species
- How IoT and technical enhancements will shape humans of the future
- The mental health problem we’re facing and how to overcome it
- Why elite performers tend to be meditators
- The ways to consciously control and hack your brain
- How technological innovation will impact our evolution
- What brain scientists are just starting to understand
- The reason capitalist incentive structures drive many of our most pressing problems
- What is really the future for wearables]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40154562Mon, 17 Aug 2020 14:22:30 +0000Matt WardAriel Garten (@ariel_garten) is the Founder of InteraXon, makers of Muse: the brain sensing headband. Muse is the award-winning headband that makes meditation easier. During guided exercises, Muse senses your brain activity and sends that information...
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The science of meditation and how it affects your brain
- Why Ariel is passionate about neuroscience and its ability to evolve our species
- How IoT and technical enhancements will shape humans of the future
- The mental health problem we’re facing and how to overcome it
- Why elite performers tend to be meditators
- The ways to consciously control and hack your brain
- How technological innovation will impact our evolution
- What brain scientists are just starting to understand
- The reason capitalist incentive structures drive many of our most pressing problems
- What is really the future for wearables]]>3112brain,capitalist,consciousness,economics,enhancement,evolution,future,governance,health,human,innovation,iot,meditation,podcast,science,scientists,species,tech,technology,wearablesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-yotam-ariel-satellites-creating-renaissance-of-space-tech-startups-and-combatting-climate-change--40154448
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How Yotam thinks see satellite space technology changing everyday life
- The space tech convergence of small scale satellites
- Why methane is the new carbon dioxide
- The reason Yotam doesn’t look up to Elon Musk and Richard Branson
- Why we are still a ways off from living in space
- The 80/20 way to think about climate change
- How complexity becomes commodity and creates innovation
- Why Yotam spent 12 years in China and what he learned
- The reason today’s entrepreneurs focus on profitable purpose
- How to start a space tech startup today – and how much it costs]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40154448Mon, 10 Aug 2020 12:06:00 +0000Matt WardYotam Ariel (@yotamariel) is the Founder and CEO of Bluefield, a satellite change detection startup that was recent winner of Top 20 NewSpace Awards alongside SpaceX, Virgin Orbit and other innovative space startups. Bluefield use proprietary methane...
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How Yotam thinks see satellite space technology changing everyday life
- The space tech convergence of small scale satellites
- Why methane is the new carbon dioxide
- The reason Yotam doesn’t look up to Elon Musk and Richard Branson
- Why we are still a ways off from living in space
- The 80/20 way to think about climate change
- How complexity becomes commodity and creates innovation
- Why Yotam spent 12 years in China and what he learned
- The reason today’s entrepreneurs focus on profitable purpose
- How to start a space tech startup today – and how much it costs]]>2174change,china,climate,climatechange,energy,entrepreneur,future,innovation,life,methane,podcast,satellites,sensing,solar,space,spacetech,spacetechnology,startup,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-fraser-cain-why-we-are-entering-a-new-space-race-and-where-we-go-from-here--39985457
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- What’s been happening in space since the space race
- How advances in reusable rockets, materials science and hardware have revolutionized the future of space
- Why Fraser thinks Earth is far and away from the best place in the solar system to live
- How the new space race may unfold and the political implications
- The health problems associated with living in space and living in low gravity
- Why asteroid mining and space manufacturing may hold humanity’s key to the stars
- The changes in space technology since the space race
- How space exploration may impact our evolution
- Why Earth should be focused as only our home
- Why space is a possible answer to our climate change and pollution problems
- The reason the economics of space are starting to become viable
- What is really the future for life in space
- Why space is key to overcoming the existential risk]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/39985457Mon, 27 Jul 2020 09:07:26 +0000Matt WardFraser Cain (@fcain) is the founder of Universe Today, one of the most popular spaces and astronomy sites online with over 3 million space focused visitors a month. In addition to Universe Today, Fraser co-hosts Astronomy Cast, a fact-based weekly...
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- What’s been happening in space since the space race
- How advances in reusable rockets, materials science and hardware have revolutionized the future of space
- Why Fraser thinks Earth is far and away from the best place in the solar system to live
- How the new space race may unfold and the political implications
- The health problems associated with living in space and living in low gravity
- Why asteroid mining and space manufacturing may hold humanity’s key to the stars
- The changes in space technology since the space race
- How space exploration may impact our evolution
- Why Earth should be focused as only our home
- Why space is a possible answer to our climate change and pollution problems
- The reason the economics of space are starting to become viable
- What is really the future for life in space
- Why space is key to overcoming the existential risk]]>3355astronomy,blueorigin,climate,climatechange,economic,economics,economy,evolution,existential,exploration,gravity,humanity,nasa,podcast,solar,solarsystem,space,spaceexploration,spacerace,spacexfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-george-dvorsky-the-dangers-of-ai-and-safety-of-mutually-assured-destruction--39847889
George is a founding member of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, he is Chair of the Board and is the founder and program director for its Rights of Non-Human Persons program. In addition, George is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for Humanity+ for two terms.

George's work has been featured in such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, CBC, Forbes, the New York Times, Slate, Radio Free Europe, and al-Jazeera. Outside of work, he is also an avid CrossFitter, an ancestral health enthusiast, and an accomplished music performer, composer, and recording engineer.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How life extension and longevity affect society and the technologies ending aging
- The dangers of AI and problems with containment
- Why consciousness is such a hard problem and what it means for all of us
- How George's study of the past influences his views on the future
- Why mutually assured destruction could become a thing again
- The reason AI regulation is harder than it seems
- Which technologies have George most excited today and why
- Why tech ethics are so important going forward
- What happens if and when we invent AGI
- The problems and possibilities of exponential technology in today's world]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/39847889Mon, 20 Jul 2020 12:13:52 +0000Matt WardGeorge Dvorsky (@dvorsky) is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist that has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and...
George is a founding member of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, he is Chair of the Board and is the founder and program director for its Rights of Non-Human Persons program. In addition, George is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for Humanity+ for two terms.

George's work has been featured in such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, CBC, Forbes, the New York Times, Slate, Radio Free Europe, and al-Jazeera. Outside of work, he is also an avid CrossFitter, an ancestral health enthusiast, and an accomplished music performer, composer, and recording engineer.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How life extension and longevity affect society and the technologies ending aging
- The dangers of AI and problems with containment
- Why consciousness is such a hard problem and what it means for all of us
- How George's study of the past influences his views on the future
- Why mutually assured destruction could become a thing again
- The reason AI regulation is harder than it seems
- Which technologies have George most excited today and why
- Why tech ethics are so important going forward
- What happens if and when we invent AGI
- The problems and possibilities of exponential technology in today's world]]>3361agi,ai,artificialintelligence,artificiallife,automation,biotech,consciousness,ethics,governance,life,lifeextension,longevity,machine,podcast,robotics,robots,technology,transhumanismfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-andrew-maynard-what-science-fiction-teaches-us-about-morality-and-existential-risk--39343831
Andrew is widely published in the academic press and in public media and stretch from physics and nanotechnology to toxicology, risk perception, governance, and policy. He writes regularly for the journal Nature Nanotechnology and is a frequent contributor to The Conversation. He also directs and produces the YouTube science education channel “Risk Bites” and blogs at 2020science.org.

Andrew’s science training is in nanoparticle analysis – and for many years he conducted and led research on aerosol exposure in occupational settings. In the early 2000’s he became increasingly involved in guiding US federal initiatives supporting nanotechnology research and development, and in addressing potential risks. In 2005 he became Chief Science Advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (and later the Synthetic Biology Project) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and for five years helped inform national and global initiatives addressing the responsible development of nanotechnology. Over this period, he became increasingly interested in science communication and science policy and began working closely with academics, policymakers, industry, non-government organizations, and journalists, on science-informed decision making. This interest continued between 2010 - 2015 as Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, and Chair of the Environmental Health Sciences Department. In 2015 he joined the faculty of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University to continue his work and collaborations on socially responsible, responsible and beneficial research and development.

In the course of his work, Andrew has testified before congressional committees, has served on National Academy panels, and has worked closely with organizations such as the World Economic Forum and the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) that promote public-private partnerships.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The biggest risks to humanity's future
- Why Andrew is excited and terrified about AI and synthetic biology
- Which areas of technology are most susceptible to negative consequences
- The reason Ex Machina is such a terrifying example of artificial intelligence
- How we can use science fiction to ask deep philosophical questions about society
- Why Andrew is that worried about the killer AI scenario
- The big difference between corporations and universities when it comes to technological innovation
- How Andrew thinks about risk and why it is different than most
- Why man's reach exceeds his grasp and what to do about it
- The reason Andrew is optimistic and pessimistic about the future
- Why nanotechnology has disappointed to date and where we go from here
- Is China or the US a more surveillance driven country?]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/39343831Mon, 13 Jul 2020 12:04:30 +0000Matt WardAndrew Maynard (@2020science) is the Director of the Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University, a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the author of Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi...
Andrew is widely published in the academic press and in public media and stretch from physics and nanotechnology to toxicology, risk perception, governance, and policy. He writes regularly for the journal Nature Nanotechnology and is a frequent contributor to The Conversation. He also directs and produces the YouTube science education channel “Risk Bites” and blogs at 2020science.org.

Andrew’s science training is in nanoparticle analysis – and for many years he conducted and led research on aerosol exposure in occupational settings. In the early 2000’s he became increasingly involved in guiding US federal initiatives supporting nanotechnology research and development, and in addressing potential risks. In 2005 he became Chief Science Advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (and later the Synthetic Biology Project) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and for five years helped inform national and global initiatives addressing the responsible development of nanotechnology. Over this period, he became increasingly interested in science communication and science policy and began working closely with academics, policymakers, industry, non-government organizations, and journalists, on science-informed decision making. This interest continued between 2010 - 2015 as Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, and Chair of the Environmental Health Sciences Department. In 2015 he joined the faculty of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University to continue his work and collaborations on socially responsible, responsible and beneficial research and development.

In the course of his work, Andrew has testified before congressional committees, has served on National Academy panels, and has worked closely with organizations such as the World Economic Forum and the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) that promote public-private partnerships.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The biggest risks to humanity's future
- Why Andrew is excited and terrified about AI and synthetic biology
- Which areas of technology are most susceptible to negative consequences
- The reason Ex Machina is such a terrifying example of artificial intelligence
- How we can use science fiction to ask deep philosophical questions about society
- Why Andrew is that worried about the killer AI scenario
- The big difference between corporations and universities when it comes to technological innovation
- How Andrew thinks about risk and why it is different than most
- Why man's reach exceeds his grasp and what to do about it
- The reason Andrew is optimistic and pessimistic about the future
- Why nanotechnology has disappointed to date and where we go from here
- Is China or the US a more surveillance driven country?]]>3187ai,artificialintelligence,biology,biotech,future,futuretech,governance,humanity,innovation,nanotechnology,politics,risk,science,sciencefiction,scifi,society,surveillance,synthetic,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-isaac-arthur-colonizing-space-the-fermi-paradox-and-future-of-genetic-engineering--36075852
Isaac’s popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans, including his own sub-Reddit. Arthur covers a wide range of futurist and science fiction ideas including cyborgs, androids and artificial intelligence, the Fermi paradox and interstellar warfare, Dyson spheres and megascale engineering, quantum teleportation and faster-than-light travel—typically exploring hypothetical scenarios extending to the distant future.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The future of interplanetary travel
- What you didn’t know about the Fermi paradox
- How humanity will likely evolve as we explore space
- The reason we probably won’t terraform planets and where we’ll live instead
- Why material science and meta-materials may be the most important technology of this decade
- The effects of genetic engineering on society
- Two paths to free energy for all
- The reason Isaac thinks we are close to a post-scarcity world
- Why Isaac thinks cybernetics/mechanical human enhancement is more likely than gene editing
- How Isaac build the top Science channel on Youtube
- The reason manmade structures are the habitats of the future
- How AI is likely to evolve and play out in society
- Why our education system is failing and how we can fix it]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/36075852Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:12:59 +0000Matt WardIsaac Arthur (@isaac_a_arthur) is a physicist and futurist who runs popular YouTube channel Featured Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. Isaac’s popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans,...
Isaac’s popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans, including his own sub-Reddit. Arthur covers a wide range of futurist and science fiction ideas including cyborgs, androids and artificial intelligence, the Fermi paradox and interstellar warfare, Dyson spheres and megascale engineering, quantum teleportation and faster-than-light travel—typically exploring hypothetical scenarios extending to the distant future.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The future of interplanetary travel
- What you didn’t know about the Fermi paradox
- How humanity will likely evolve as we explore space
- The reason we probably won’t terraform planets and where we’ll live instead
- Why material science and meta-materials may be the most important technology of this decade
- The effects of genetic engineering on society
- Two paths to free energy for all
- The reason Isaac thinks we are close to a post-scarcity world
- Why Isaac thinks cybernetics/mechanical human enhancement is more likely than gene editing
- How Isaac build the top Science channel on Youtube
- The reason manmade structures are the habitats of the future
- How AI is likely to evolve and play out in society
- Why our education system is failing and how we can fix it]]>3510ai,biotech,cybernetics,cyborg,education,engineering,fermiparadox,futurist,genetic,genetics,governance,life,lifeextension,podcast,politics,robotics,space,spacetravel,transhumanism,travelfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-sam-watts-understanding-the-adoption-curve-of-vr-and-mixed-reality--34441422
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How psychedelics started the virtual reality movement
- Why dystopian VR is unlikely in Sam's opinion
- What areas are advancing rapidly and causing VR's progress
- The reason a single company probably won't own the VR market
- Why immersive experiences change the equation for the entertainment of the future
- The problem with consumer VR today and what needs to change to spur adoption
- What is the experience escape velocity and why is it so important?
- When we can expect to see consumer VR takeoff
- The chicken and the egg problem of content and cost
- Why 5G will drive adoption of VR
- The reason the future is likely mixed reality]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/34441422Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:37:54 +0000Matt WardSam Watts (@vr_sam) is one of the foremost thinkers on VR and the Director of Immersive Technologies at MakeReal, a company that believes that immersive digital products are transforming the way we work, play and learn. MakeReal makes virtual reality...
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How psychedelics started the virtual reality movement
- Why dystopian VR is unlikely in Sam's opinion
- What areas are advancing rapidly and causing VR's progress
- The reason a single company probably won't own the VR market
- Why immersive experiences change the equation for the entertainment of the future
- The problem with consumer VR today and what needs to change to spur adoption
- What is the experience escape velocity and why is it so important?
- When we can expect to see consumer VR takeoff
- The chicken and the egg problem of content and cost
- Why 5G will drive adoption of VR
- The reason the future is likely mixed reality]]>2742ar,augmentedreality,computing,consumer,entertainment,future,futuristic,occulus,podcast,psychedelics,reality,science,sciencefiction,scifi,tech,technology,virtualreality,virual,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/190-rewriting-the-black-american-dream-to-building-better-communities-at-home-majora-carter--32377569
Majora’s work has won major awards including a MacArthur ‘genius’ Grant, a Peabody Award, the Rudy Bruner Award Silver Medal, nine honorary doctorates, and is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture: “Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one.”

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Black Lives Matter and the big issue with housing inequality
- Why owning communities is such a big part of improving them
- Majora’s work with greenification and better urban areas
- The role of investment in changing a city’s culture
- What steps can the US take to righting past racial wrongs
- Why the future of cities and urbanization is a bit more local
- Which narratives around health and wealth contribute most to racial inequality
- Why inner city brain drain makes everything all the worse
- How to use triple bottom line businesses to better the world
- What systemic racism looks like from a successful black woman’s perspective]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/32377569Mon, 22 Jun 2020 13:07:27 +0000Matt WardMajora Carter (@MajoraCarter) is an American urban revitalization strategist and broadcast producer/host from the South Bronx in New York whose career has spanned environment, economy, social mobility, and real estate development. Majora’s work has...
Majora’s work has won major awards including a MacArthur ‘genius’ Grant, a Peabody Award, the Rudy Bruner Award Silver Medal, nine honorary doctorates, and is quoted on the walls of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture: “Nobody should have to move out of their neighborhood to live in a better one.”

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Black Lives Matter and the big issue with housing inequality
- Why owning communities is such a big part of improving them
- Majora’s work with greenification and better urban areas
- The role of investment in changing a city’s culture
- What steps can the US take to righting past racial wrongs
- Why the future of cities and urbanization is a bit more local
- Which narratives around health and wealth contribute most to racial inequality
- Why inner city brain drain makes everything all the worse
- How to use triple bottom line businesses to better the world
- What systemic racism looks like from a successful black woman’s perspective]]>2933business,community,covid,culture,economics,economy,governance,health,housing,inequality,podcast,politics,racism,riots,slavery,success,urban,urbanization,wealthfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/189-objectivity-is-a-fictitious-thing-we-like-to-pretend-exists-charles-arthur--30786729
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Thoughts on data-powered totalitarianism
- A deeper dive into social media’s ability to influence us, and democracy
- How data privacy and surveillance have changed in the last ten years
- Why open-sourcing government data is a good thing
- How mission-driven journalism both helps and hurts the world
- A bold proposal to improve democratic outcomes
- How to avoid heading towards 1984
- Just how bad is the surveillance economy today
- Which of the tech giants Charles is most worried about and why
- Charles thoughts on COVID contact tracing]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/30786729Tue, 16 Jun 2020 13:36:42 +0000Matt WardCharles Arthur (@CharlesArthur) is a former technology editor of the Guardian and the author of Cyber Wars: Hacks That Shocked the Business World covering some of the world’s biggest cyber attacks. He also played a large role in the UK’s Free Our Data...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Thoughts on data-powered totalitarianism
- A deeper dive into social media’s ability to influence us, and democracy
- How data privacy and surveillance have changed in the last ten years
- Why open-sourcing government data is a good thing
- How mission-driven journalism both helps and hurts the world
- A bold proposal to improve democratic outcomes
- How to avoid heading towards 1984
- Just how bad is the surveillance economy today
- Which of the tech giants Charles is most worried about and why
- Charles thoughts on COVID contact tracing]]>2955climate,climatechange,covid,cyber,data,democracy,ecommerce,economic,economics,economy,governance,governmen,journalism,media,podcast,politics,privacy,social,surveillance,totalitarianismfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-byron-reese-ai-consciousness-tech-progress-and-4th-age-of-humanity--29887742
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- Why the world is fundamentally improving and Byron is an optimistic realist
- How AI will transform the labor market and economy, leading to better jobs
- The reason optimism and pessimism are incredibly important to humanity’s survival, and evolution
- Why forecasting artificial general intelligence is just silly
- Will AI become conscious
- Why we’re entering a fourth era of humanity
- The reason Byron is a little worried about the prospect of bioterrorism
- How 25 years in the internet industry has evolved Byron’s view of the future
- Why the news drives fear and separation among us
- What to say to naysayers about technological progress
- Why social media will ultimately be a net positive to society]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/29887742Mon, 08 Jun 2020 13:04:39 +0000Matt WardByron Reese (@byronreese) is the CEO and publisher of Gigaom, an industry-leading technology research company. Byron’s also an award-winning author, speaker and futurist with a strong conviction that technology will help bring about a new golden age...
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- Why the world is fundamentally improving and Byron is an optimistic realist
- How AI will transform the labor market and economy, leading to better jobs
- The reason optimism and pessimism are incredibly important to humanity’s survival, and evolution
- Why forecasting artificial general intelligence is just silly
- Will AI become conscious
- Why we’re entering a fourth era of humanity
- The reason Byron is a little worried about the prospect of bioterrorism
- How 25 years in the internet industry has evolved Byron’s view of the future
- Why the news drives fear and separation among us
- What to say to naysayers about technological progress
- Why social media will ultimately be a net positive to society]]>3061abundance,ai,artificialintelligence,autiomation,biotech,bioterrorism,computing,consciousness,innovation,internet,jobs,neuroscience,podcast,progress,robotics,sciencefiction,scifi,socialmedia,society,workfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-garry-golden-why-elon-musk-is-wrong-about-electric-vehicles-and-future-of-energy--28806748
Garry teaches an online course on The Future of Energy & Environment through the University of Houston Futures Studies program, and was Founding Editor of The Energy Roadmap.com Garry is co-author of Designing Your Future (2008) a Fast Futures / ASAE publication, and has co-written several business white papers including the Future of the Social Web and the Future of Green as a Business Strategy published by Future Think.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The future of energy consumption and the grid
- Why Garry isn’t sold on electric vehicles and battery technology
- The 4 types of futures and what they mean for society
- How we save the planet while still using fuel
- Why consciousness could be a problem with AI
- The reason politicians pull progress backward
- How futurists help society evolve
- Why Garry is quite enthusiastic about automation and AI
- Where the US is falling behind the rest of the world]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/28806748Mon, 01 Jun 2020 12:59:35 +0000Matt WardGarry Golden (@garrygolden) is a professionally trained futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on complex issues shaping society and business in the 21st century. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, governmental agencies and the US Army on...
Garry teaches an online course on The Future of Energy & Environment through the University of Houston Futures Studies program, and was Founding Editor of The Energy Roadmap.com Garry is co-author of Designing Your Future (2008) a Fast Futures / ASAE publication, and has co-written several business white papers including the Future of the Social Web and the Future of Green as a Business Strategy published by Future Think.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The future of energy consumption and the grid
- Why Garry isn’t sold on electric vehicles and battery technology
- The 4 types of futures and what they mean for society
- How we save the planet while still using fuel
- Why consciousness could be a problem with AI
- The reason politicians pull progress backward
- How futurists help society evolve
- Why Garry is quite enthusiastic about automation and AI
- Where the US is falling behind the rest of the world]]>2932ai,artificialintelligence,automation,battery,consciousness,electric,energy,futuretech,podcast,renewable,renewableenergy,renewables,science,solar,tech,technology,tehnology,transportation,vehiclesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-robin-chase-lessons-learned-inventing-ridesharing-almost-a-decade-before-uber-and-what-it-means-for-future-of-urban-transportatio--28265161
Robin is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce and the OECD's International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Governor's Transportation Transition Working Group and Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force.

She lectures widely, is frequently featured in major media and has received many awards including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers.

In today's episode we discuss:
- How Robin invented the ride-sharing market almost a decade before Uber
- What does the future of urban transportation look like
- The important difference between ridesharing and car-sharing, and what that means for climate change
- Why Europe is so far ahead of the US when it comes to livable cities
- The reason decentralization is so valuable and why it doesn't always work
- How to fix our cities for healthier, happier people
- What will driverless vehicles mean for the future of car ownership
- Why electrics bikes and scooters change everything when it comes to transforming cities
- What Robin thinks about Lyft and Uber's business models
- Why Robin is intrigued and worried about blockchain and Bitcoin]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/28265161Mon, 25 May 2020 12:23:54 +0000Matt WardRobin Chase (@rmchase) is the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a carsharing marketplace in France; and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community as well as co-founder of Veniam, a company that moves...
Robin is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce and the OECD's International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Governor's Transportation Transition Working Group and Boston Mayor's Wireless Task Force.

She lectures widely, is frequently featured in major media and has received many awards including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers.

In today's episode we discuss:
- How Robin invented the ride-sharing market almost a decade before Uber
- What does the future of urban transportation look like
- The important difference between ridesharing and car-sharing, and what that means for climate change
- Why Europe is so far ahead of the US when it comes to livable cities
- The reason decentralization is so valuable and why it doesn't always work
- How to fix our cities for healthier, happier people
- What will driverless vehicles mean for the future of car ownership
- Why electrics bikes and scooters change everything when it comes to transforming cities
- What Robin thinks about Lyft and Uber's business models
- Why Robin is intrigued and worried about blockchain and Bitcoin]]>2675falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/replay-ben-hammersley-the-importance-of-internet-censorship-power-of-authoritarianism-and-collapse-of-digital-advertising--27650275
Ben explores the effects of the internet and the digital network on the world’s business, political and social atmospheres. His latest book, 64 Things You Need to Know Now For Then gives us the essential guide to the things we need to know for life in the 21st century. He’s the writer, host, and narrator of Netflix and BBC television series Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley that was shot in over six countries across the globe. As the first specialist correspondent on the internet for The Times and The Guardian, he became the inventor of the popular term, ‘podcast.’

Ben’s been called upon to advise three governments and countless tech organizations, including a seat on the European Commission High-Level Group on Media Freedom of the European Union. He has a private pilot’s license, is a Rescue Diver, and is a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician in the USA, with an additional wilderness medicine diploma, and he holds qualifications in genomic science, disaster response, and advanced cardiac life support.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How societal norms and social media breakdown without problem guidance
- The future of publishing and media in an age of outreach
- Why Ben thinks we can change politics and we’re both excited about the future for Millenials
- What it’s like as a futurist and why most companies are living in the past
- The effect of GDPR and Europe’s rules and regulations
- Why internet censorship is important and key to democracy
- Is democracy or authoritarianism a better model going forward
- Why Ben isn’t worried about AI and thinks blockchain is overrated
- What happens when China becomes THE economic powerhouse of the world
- How Ben accidentally invented the term podcast and why it’s haunted him ever since
- What it’s like working with Netflix and the future of solo-media companies
- Why Ben believes digital advertising is an enormous bubble]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/27650275Mon, 18 May 2020 11:47:40 +0000Matt WardBen Hammersley (@benhammersley) is a technologist, futurist author and Editor-at-Large of UK’s WIRED magazine. Ben explores the effects of the internet and the digital network on the world’s business, political and social atmospheres. His latest...
Ben explores the effects of the internet and the digital network on the world’s business, political and social atmospheres. His latest book, 64 Things You Need to Know Now For Then gives us the essential guide to the things we need to know for life in the 21st century. He’s the writer, host, and narrator of Netflix and BBC television series Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley that was shot in over six countries across the globe. As the first specialist correspondent on the internet for The Times and The Guardian, he became the inventor of the popular term, ‘podcast.’

Ben’s been called upon to advise three governments and countless tech organizations, including a seat on the European Commission High-Level Group on Media Freedom of the European Union. He has a private pilot’s license, is a Rescue Diver, and is a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician in the USA, with an additional wilderness medicine diploma, and he holds qualifications in genomic science, disaster response, and advanced cardiac life support.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How societal norms and social media breakdown without problem guidance
- The future of publishing and media in an age of outreach
- Why Ben thinks we can change politics and we’re both excited about the future for Millenials
- What it’s like as a futurist and why most companies are living in the past
- The effect of GDPR and Europe’s rules and regulations
- Why internet censorship is important and key to democracy
- Is democracy or authoritarianism a better model going forward
- Why Ben isn’t worried about AI and thinks blockchain is overrated
- What happens when China becomes THE economic powerhouse of the world
- How Ben accidentally invented the term podcast and why it’s haunted him ever since
- What it’s like working with Netflix and the future of solo-media companies
- Why Ben believes digital advertising is an enormous bubble]]>3465advertising,ai,blockchain,censorship,china,communism,democracy,digital,economics,economy,governance,health,iot,media,news,podcast,polittics,socialism,socialmedia,socmedfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/184-investing-in-meditation-mindfulness-psychedelics-for-a-better-mental-health-future-charlie-hartwell--27078011
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Where are headed with consumer health tech and consciousness
- Why Charlie’s afraid our collective ability to live together
- How mindfulness and meditation can help us get through this COVID crisis
- The role of psychedelics in shifting mental health
- Why meditation may just be the next best medic
- Which alternative health practices hold the most promise for the future of healthcare
- What Charlie thinks we should do for a more mentally-sound world
- Why we’re treating patients and health all wrong
- How investment dollars drive innovation
- Why the psychedelic movement of today is much more than a fad
- What’s the future of wearable tech]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/27078011Mon, 11 May 2020 10:49:36 +0000Matt WardCharlie Hartwell (@ShiftIt_Inst) is an Operating Partner at the Bridge Builders Collaborative, a consumer health tech investment group that invested early in Pear Therapeutics, Insight Timer and Headspace, in addition to being a “Change Agent” focused...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Where are headed with consumer health tech and consciousness
- Why Charlie’s afraid our collective ability to live together
- How mindfulness and meditation can help us get through this COVID crisis
- The role of psychedelics in shifting mental health
- Why meditation may just be the next best medic
- Which alternative health practices hold the most promise for the future of healthcare
- What Charlie thinks we should do for a more mentally-sound world
- Why we’re treating patients and health all wrong
- How investment dollars drive innovation
- Why the psychedelic movement of today is much more than a fad
- What’s the future of wearable tech]]>2400alternativehealth,alternatives,brain,consciousness,corona,covid,crisis,health,healthtech,innovation,iot,meditation,mentalhealth,mindfullness,neuroscience,podcast,psychedelics,science,virus,wearablefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/183-cory-doctorow-on-political-fallout-of-covid-19-possible-economic-and-healthcare-changes-and-why-it-s-time-for-a-new-deal-to-overcome--26676606- Little Brother
- Homeland
- Pirate Cinema

Cory also co-founded the open-source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola and serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Open Technology Fund and the Metabrainz Foundation.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Possible geopolitical consequence of the COVID-19 epidemic
- New ways to consider the role of economics and market forces post Corona
- Why Cory thinks much of Europe will push further left after the world normalizes
- The reason Cory isn’t worried about a post-COVID new Patriot Act
- Why today feels a lot like post-WWII oligarchy capitalism
- The five new horsemen of the battle for individual privacy
- How to avoid self-destructive late-stage capitalism
- Why Coronavirus death and fallout may swing the future of US politics
- Why the US is WAY more socialized than citizens think
- How we could fund a successful Green New Deal
- What were the true impacts of Edward Snowden
- Are we headed toward a constant location-based tracking and surveillace
- What worries Cory most about today’s epidemic climate]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/26676606Mon, 04 May 2020 09:08:11 +0000Matt WardCory Doctorow (@doctorow) is the best selling science fiction author, blogger, and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing), a contributor to many magazines, websites, and newspapers and a special consultant to the...- Little Brother
- Homeland
- Pirate Cinema

Cory also co-founded the open-source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola and serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Open Technology Fund and the Metabrainz Foundation.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Possible geopolitical consequence of the COVID-19 epidemic
- New ways to consider the role of economics and market forces post Corona
- Why Cory thinks much of Europe will push further left after the world normalizes
- The reason Cory isn’t worried about a post-COVID new Patriot Act
- Why today feels a lot like post-WWII oligarchy capitalism
- The five new horsemen of the battle for individual privacy
- How to avoid self-destructive late-stage capitalism
- Why Coronavirus death and fallout may swing the future of US politics
- Why the US is WAY more socialized than citizens think
- How we could fund a successful Green New Deal
- What were the true impacts of Edward Snowden
- Are we headed toward a constant location-based tracking and surveillace
- What worries Cory most about today’s epidemic climate]]>3059capitalism,climatechange,corona,coronavirus,covid,covid-19,economics,economy,epidemic,governance,health,healthcare,pandemic,podcast,politics,privacy,sciencefiction,scifi,surveillancefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/182-replay-douglas-rushkoff-avoiding-apocalypse-by-doubling-down-on-team-human-and-reinventing-21st-century-business--26188457
Douglas' work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.

Douglas is the author twenty books including bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus and is releasing his new book Team Human based off his podcast.

He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media.

Douglas is also a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen. Douglas also served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The reason billionaires are planning for the "inevitable" apocalypse and why that's a big problem
- How broken the US political system is and how we can fix it
- The big issue with the stock market and venture capital and how we can reinvent business for the 21st century
- Why our future is in our hands and what we can do about it
- Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign
- The problems with social media and plans to fight back
- How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed
- Why people are pushing back against tech and how it impacts our world
- What Google's walkout means for the future of tech
- Why Douglas thinks companies are the key to changing our world
- The reason Douglas is very worried about growing inequality
- Why capital is the only thing that counts today
- How to redesign our education system for the modern era]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/26188457Mon, 27 Apr 2020 09:43:45 +0000Matt WardDouglas Rushkoff (@rushkoff) is an author, teacher, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. He has been named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT. Douglas' work explores how different technological...
Douglas' work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.

Douglas is the author twenty books including bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus and is releasing his new book Team Human based off his podcast.

He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media.

Douglas is also a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen. Douglas also served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The reason billionaires are planning for the "inevitable" apocalypse and why that's a big problem
- How broken the US political system is and how we can fix it
- The big issue with the stock market and venture capital and how we can reinvent business for the 21st century
- Why our future is in our hands and what we can do about it
- Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign
- The problems with social media and plans to fight back
- How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed
- Why people are pushing back against tech and how it impacts our world
- What Google's walkout means for the future of tech
- Why Douglas thinks companies are the key to changing our world
- The reason Douglas is very worried about growing inequality
- Why capital is the only thing that counts today
- How to redesign our education system for the modern era]]>3232blockchain,business,economics,education,educationsystem,future,google,inequality,monopolies,podcast,politics,regulations,robotics,russia,socialmedia,technology,teh,urbanizationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/181-the-divergence-of-ar-and-vr-and-connectivity-collaboration-and-entertainment-in-a-post-covid-world-tony-parisi--25799246
Today, Tony is has a leading spokesman for the immersive industry and was recently named one of Next Reality’s 30 People to Watch in Augmented Reality in 2019.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Where are we on the AR and VR adoption cycle
- What the future of AR/VR holds and why they will diverge
- How COVID-19 is pushing us towards an immersive future
- The big differences between consumer and enterprise VR adoption
- Why Facebook and Oculus are well-placed to dominate virtual reality
- Which sci-fi inspirations are most realistic for augmented and virtual reality
- What’s the future look like for the entertainment industry
- Why Tony isn’t all that worried about any future tech
- How tech life cycles are accelerating and what it all means
- Why we have reached a tipping point in consumer VR adoption]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/25799246Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:04:42 +0000Matt WardTony Parisi (@auradeluxe) is a virtual reality pioneer, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He co-created several, 3D graphics standards, is Head of AR/VR Ad Innovation at Unity Technologies, and author several O’Reilly Media books on virtual...
Today, Tony is has a leading spokesman for the immersive industry and was recently named one of Next Reality’s 30 People to Watch in Augmented Reality in 2019.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Where are we on the AR and VR adoption cycle
- What the future of AR/VR holds and why they will diverge
- How COVID-19 is pushing us towards an immersive future
- The big differences between consumer and enterprise VR adoption
- Why Facebook and Oculus are well-placed to dominate virtual reality
- Which sci-fi inspirations are most realistic for augmented and virtual reality
- What’s the future look like for the entertainment industry
- Why Tony isn’t all that worried about any future tech
- How tech life cycles are accelerating and what it all means
- Why we have reached a tipping point in consumer VR adoption]]>2372ar,augmentedreality,coronavirus,covid,future,futuretech,futuretechnology,health,healthcare,iot,mobile,podcast,sciencefiction,scifi,tech,technology,virtualreality,virus,voice,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/180-modeling-covid-after-the-polio-epidemic-and-what-a-post-corona-future-looks-like-mary-robinette-kowal--25421680
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How COVD-19 will affect the future of education
- Why the Coronavirus issue is so bad in Italy and not other places
- How looking at Polio and the Spanish flu can give us models of today’s pandemic
- The second-order effects of Corona on the future and economy as a whole
- Best practices for fighting a plague
- The big difference between European and US startups
- Why COVD could end up being a net-positive for the US
- Why quarantining can be huge in reducing epidemic death rates
- How sci-fi helps us build a better future
- How to prepare for a post-automation world
- What is the future of books, publishing and media
- The future of AI, creativity and jobs
- Why Trump is the absolute wrong person at the helm of the US during this crisis]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/25421680Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:05:05 +0000Matt WardMary Robinette Kowal (@robinettekowal) is a Nebula- and Hugo-award winning science fiction and fantasy author, a puppeteer, and podcaster. In addition The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel which was nominated for a Hugo in 2019 (sci-fi book of...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How COVD-19 will affect the future of education
- Why the Coronavirus issue is so bad in Italy and not other places
- How looking at Polio and the Spanish flu can give us models of today’s pandemic
- The second-order effects of Corona on the future and economy as a whole
- Best practices for fighting a plague
- The big difference between European and US startups
- Why COVD could end up being a net-positive for the US
- Why quarantining can be huge in reducing epidemic death rates
- How sci-fi helps us build a better future
- How to prepare for a post-automation world
- What is the future of books, publishing and media
- The future of AI, creativity and jobs
- Why Trump is the absolute wrong person at the helm of the US during this crisis]]>3129ai,biotech,corona,coronavirus,covid,covid-19,crisis,economy,epidemic,future,governance,health,healthcare,pandemic,podcast,politics,robotics,sciencefiction,scifi,virusfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/179-leading-spain-in-paris-accords-and-pushing-climate-policy-today-miguel-arias-canete--24857421
He’s now involved with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation which has launched the Prize for Humanity, an annual €1m award for people or organizations from all over the world focused on mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change.

Miguel has served the Spanish Government as both the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and Minister for Agriculture, Food and Environment before being selected to head his Party List in the European Parliamentary elections.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The unique challenges that went into crafting the Paris Accord
- What the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement means for climate policy
- How hard it is to ensure collective action on big problems
- China’s role in addressing the environment
- Why Miguel thinks the US will rejoin the Paris Accords
- How the EU is leading the effort on decarbonization
- What to think about nuclear energy
- The reason transportation is so hard to go green
- What happens if we don’t reach climate goals
- The problems of bureaucracy and why the EU is actually pretty efficient
- Which agritech areas are most important to reduce global warming
- How business can be used as a force for good
- Are we headed for a future of mass migrations
- Why democracy is a stronger governance system than centralized economies in the long run
- How China’s policy on coal could crush climate goals]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/24857421Sun, 05 Apr 2020 19:49:03 +0000Matt WardMiguel Arias Cañete (@mac_europa) was the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy and led the EU negotiations of the Paris Agreement. He’s now involved with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation which has launched the Prize for Humanity, an...
He’s now involved with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation which has launched the Prize for Humanity, an annual €1m award for people or organizations from all over the world focused on mitigation of, and adaptation to climate change.

Miguel has served the Spanish Government as both the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and Minister for Agriculture, Food and Environment before being selected to head his Party List in the European Parliamentary elections.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The unique challenges that went into crafting the Paris Accord
- What the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement means for climate policy
- How hard it is to ensure collective action on big problems
- China’s role in addressing the environment
- Why Miguel thinks the US will rejoin the Paris Accords
- How the EU is leading the effort on decarbonization
- What to think about nuclear energy
- The reason transportation is so hard to go green
- What happens if we don’t reach climate goals
- The problems of bureaucracy and why the EU is actually pretty efficient
- Which agritech areas are most important to reduce global warming
- How business can be used as a force for good
- Are we headed for a future of mass migrations
- Why democracy is a stronger governance system than centralized economies in the long run
- How China’s policy on coal could crush climate goals]]>2960agritech,china,cleanenergy,cleanmeat,climate,climatechange,climatepolicy,decarbonization,emissions,energy,environment,foodtech,globalwarming,government,parisaccords,podcast,policy,politics,renewableenergy,renewablesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/178-replay-ramez-naam-how-renewable-energy-killed-coal-and-why-radical-life-extension-isn-t-going-to-happen--24624537
His other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement.

He's currently co-chair of energy and the environment at Singularity University and earlier in his career led teams at Microsoft working on Outlook, Internet Explorer and Bing where he co-patented 20 inventions, many alongside Bill Gates.

Ramez has appeared on Sunday morning MSNBC, Yahoo! Finance, The New York Times, WSJ, PopSci, Wired, and many more. Ramez holds more than 20 patents, and many of those are as a co-inventor with Bill Gates.

In today's episode we discuss:
- Why we're at a tipping point for carbon-emitting cars sold
- What it was like working directly with Bill Gates
- What is Ramez predicted about renewable energy and why it's better than even he thought
- How technologists are solving global problems by fixing incentives and driving down costs
- What it's like to be both a bestselling fiction and non-fiction author
- Why Ramez is no longer a big believer in radical life extension
- The brain2.0 movement and why we're becoming cyborgs
- What Ramez thinks about CRISPR and genetically engineering people
- The importance of sci-fi to shift societal attitudes
- How to think about technological trends when tackling big problems
- Why innovation often leaves behind a lot bodies
- The reason Ramez is fundamentally optimist despite all the challenges we face
- Why the secret to a better future is to create it]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/24624537Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:52:59 +0000Matt WardRamez Naam (@ramez) is a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor and award-winning author best known for his Nexus Trilogy: Nexus, Crux and Apex His other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet...
His other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement.

He's currently co-chair of energy and the environment at Singularity University and earlier in his career led teams at Microsoft working on Outlook, Internet Explorer and Bing where he co-patented 20 inventions, many alongside Bill Gates.

Ramez has appeared on Sunday morning MSNBC, Yahoo! Finance, The New York Times, WSJ, PopSci, Wired, and many more. Ramez holds more than 20 patents, and many of those are as a co-inventor with Bill Gates.

In today's episode we discuss:
- Why we're at a tipping point for carbon-emitting cars sold
- What it was like working directly with Bill Gates
- What is Ramez predicted about renewable energy and why it's better than even he thought
- How technologists are solving global problems by fixing incentives and driving down costs
- What it's like to be both a bestselling fiction and non-fiction author
- Why Ramez is no longer a big believer in radical life extension
- The brain2.0 movement and why we're becoming cyborgs
- What Ramez thinks about CRISPR and genetically engineering people
- The importance of sci-fi to shift societal attitudes
- How to think about technological trends when tackling big problems
- Why innovation often leaves behind a lot bodies
- The reason Ramez is fundamentally optimist despite all the challenges we face
- Why the secret to a better future is to create it]]>3328biology,biotech,cleanenergy,climatechange,crispr,dna,energy,gene,geneticengineering,genetics,health,iot,lifeextension,longevity,podcast,renewableenergy,renewables,sciencefiction,solarenergy,windenergyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cynetic-wolf-sci-fi-dystopian-1st-two-chapters-audio-sample--24204376https://api.spreaker.com/episode/24204376Mon, 23 Mar 2020 11:01:10 +0000Matt Ward1951falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cynetic-wolf-1st-two-chapter-audiobook-sample--24204269https://api.spreaker.com/episode/24204269Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:55:53 +0000Matt Ward2054falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/176-replay-bruce-schneier-click-here-to-kill-everybody-security-privacy-social-media-and-politics--23930254
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The difference between the US, Europe, and Asia when it comes to privacy and data, and what it all means
- Why IoT internet security is one of the biggest problems no one is talking about
- Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign
- The problem with social media and ideas on how to solve it
- How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed
- Why voting and elections are so susceptible to manipulation
- How Bruce thinks about privacy in a surveillance capitalist economy
- Why your car could kill you and your fridge won't feed you
- The reason Bruce is optimistic and pessimistic about the future
- Why things are going to get worse before they get better
- The sad truth GDPR and data privacy
- What you need to know about China, Huawei, and surveillance]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23930254Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:09:28 +0000Matt WardBruce Schneier (@schneierblog) is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books--including: Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World...
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- The difference between the US, Europe, and Asia when it comes to privacy and data, and what it all means
- Why IoT internet security is one of the biggest problems no one is talking about
- Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign
- The problem with social media and ideas on how to solve it
- How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed
- Why voting and elections are so susceptible to manipulation
- How Bruce thinks about privacy in a surveillance capitalist economy
- Why your car could kill you and your fridge won't feed you
- The reason Bruce is optimistic and pessimistic about the future
- Why things are going to get worse before they get better
- The sad truth GDPR and data privacy
- What you need to know about China, Huawei, and surveillance]]>2628bigdata,blockchain,capitalism,cyber,cybersecurity,data,economy,future,gdpr,internet,internetsecurity,iot,monopolies,monopoly,podcast,politics,privacy,socialmedia,surveillance,votingfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/175-accelerated-climate-change-the-melt-and-science-fiction-s-role-in-saving-humanity-ke-lanning--23672960

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How sci-fi helps humanity cope and prepare for big societal changes
- What would happen if climate change happened in a generation
- Advantages of self-funding startups
- What would happen if Antarctica became a landgrab
- Why this will be the century of synthetic biology
- How sci-fi futurists could help government anticipate unintended consequences
- What technology is Karen most worried about and why
- More about Matt’s post-gene-editing dystopian sci-fi (get the 1st five chapters FREE here)
- Why we need to build towards better harmony with the world fast
- The enormous potential of fusion power
- Why science and art are two sides of the same coin
- Are we headed towards robot riots]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23672960Mon, 09 Mar 2020 11:27:46 +0000Matt WardKE Lanning (@kelanningauthor) is an astrophysicist and sci-fi/speculative fiction author of The Melt Trilogy, a series of dystopian fiction novels set in in a world where climate came much faster than anticipated. She also interviews notable science...

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How sci-fi helps humanity cope and prepare for big societal changes
- What would happen if climate change happened in a generation
- Advantages of self-funding startups
- What would happen if Antarctica became a landgrab
- Why this will be the century of synthetic biology
- How sci-fi futurists could help government anticipate unintended consequences
- What technology is Karen most worried about and why
- More about Matt’s post-gene-editing dystopian sci-fi (get the 1st five chapters FREE here)
- Why we need to build towards better harmony with the world fast
- The enormous potential of fusion power
- Why science and art are two sides of the same coin
- Are we headed towards robot riots]]>2813airpollution,biology,biotech,climate,climatechange,energy,environment,fiction,future,garbage,government,pollution,power,science,sciencefiction,scifi,technology,waste,waterpollutionfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/174-blockchain-building-recycled-plastic-homes-and-redistributing-wealth-morten-bove--23388955
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How recycled plastic can be used to make sustainable housing
- Why inequality is the driving factor in almost all social unrest
- What does the future of cities look like
- Why Morten is big on blockchain and tokenization
- What happens now that the ICO bubble burst, and where crypto is headed
- The big difference between European and US startups
- Why smaller countries make things simpler
- How to build better triple-bottom-line businesses (here’s a free guide for founders)
- How business can be used as a force for good
- Why it's so hard for startups to raise funding (ps. here’s a free pitch deck guide!)
- The scary truth about surveillance and privacy
- Why Trump pulling out of the Paris accord wasn’t all bad]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23388955Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:34:56 +0000Matt WardMorten Bove (@mbove) is the founder and CEO of Wohn Homes, a Danish startup revolutionizing modular, eco-friendly affordable housing designed with tokenized ownership for students. Morten also runs Block21, a blockchain-focused tech podcast on the...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How recycled plastic can be used to make sustainable housing
- Why inequality is the driving factor in almost all social unrest
- What does the future of cities look like
- Why Morten is big on blockchain and tokenization
- What happens now that the ICO bubble burst, and where crypto is headed
- The big difference between European and US startups
- Why smaller countries make things simpler
- How to build better triple-bottom-line businesses (here’s a free guide for founders)
- How business can be used as a force for good
- Why it's so hard for startups to raise funding (ps. here’s a free pitch deck guide!)
- The scary truth about surveillance and privacy
- Why Trump pulling out of the Paris accord wasn’t all bad]]>2951blockchain,business,climate,climatechange,crypto,eco-friendly,environment,future,housing,ico,inequality,plastics,podcast,pollution,recycle,social-entrepreneurship,startups,surveillance,sustainability,urbanizationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/173-eco-friendly-b-corps-dropping-disposables-and-building-a-more-equitable-world-for-all-carinne-chambers-saini--23130215
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to design more eco-friendly products and businesses
- Why packaged goods and disposables are ruining our world
- Advantages of self-funding startups
- Why funding’s harder for female founders
- Ways Carinne would improve the education system
- The benefits of building a certified B Corp
- Why businesses need to be the ones to drive a better world
- How to build better triple-bottom-line businesses (here’s a free guide for founders)
- The reason Carinne’s more-than-worried about screen time for her kids
- Why social media is such a powerful force for good, and bad
- How DivaCup is addressing inequality in a big way
- What does the future of jobs look like
- Why focus trumps everything for founders and success]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/23130215Mon, 24 Feb 2020 10:31:32 +0000Matt WardCarinne Chambers-Saini (@carinnechambers) is the founder and CEO of DivaCup, an eco-tech startup focused on making feminine health more sustainable. She’s been awarded the EY Entrepreneur of The Year for Sustainable Products and Services, been...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to design more eco-friendly products and businesses
- Why packaged goods and disposables are ruining our world
- Advantages of self-funding startups
- Why funding’s harder for female founders
- Ways Carinne would improve the education system
- The benefits of building a certified B Corp
- Why businesses need to be the ones to drive a better world
- How to build better triple-bottom-line businesses (here’s a free guide for founders)
- The reason Carinne’s more-than-worried about screen time for her kids
- Why social media is such a powerful force for good, and bad
- How DivaCup is addressing inequality in a big way
- What does the future of jobs look like
- Why focus trumps everything for founders and success]]>3180business,climatechange,dispossable,eco,ecofriendly,ecommerce,economics,education,entrepreneur,entrepreneurship,environment,eonomy,future,jobs,podcast,socialmedia,startup,success,sustainability,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/172-energy-the-environment-and-journalistic-integrity-in-a-post-truth-influencer-world-amy-harder--22867009
Amy has appeared on PBS’ NewsHour, CSPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, and NPR, among many other media outlets, and regularly speaks at events and panel on climate change.

In today’s episode we discuss:

- The importance of journalistic neutrality
- What the state of climate change today
- How Trump’s transformed eco policy
- What carbon capture could do to save our future
- Why governmental climate policies are unlikely
- Which areas of cleantech are most promising for future growth
- Why we need more stories on hopeful climate change
- The big difference between European and US startups
- What a more effective Paris Accord could look like
- How to build better triple-bottom-line businesses (here’s a free guide for founders)
- Why sustainability needs economic drivers to success
- The reason Amy’s hopeful about our planet’s future
- Why a carbon tax won’t work and possible alternatives
- Why plastics are ruining the world in more ways than one]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22867009Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:41:43 +0000Matt WardAmy Harder (@AmyAHarder)is one of the top national energy and climate change reporters in the country, distilling complex energy and climate issues to people outside the industry at Axios. Amy has appeared on PBS’ NewsHour, CSPAN, Fox News, MSNBC,...
Amy has appeared on PBS’ NewsHour, CSPAN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, and NPR, among many other media outlets, and regularly speaks at events and panel on climate change.

In today’s episode we discuss:

- The importance of journalistic neutrality
- What the state of climate change today
- How Trump’s transformed eco policy
- What carbon capture could do to save our future
- Why governmental climate policies are unlikely
- Which areas of cleantech are most promising for future growth
- Why we need more stories on hopeful climate change
- The big difference between European and US startups
- What a more effective Paris Accord could look like
- How to build better triple-bottom-line businesses (here’s a free guide for founders)
- Why sustainability needs economic drivers to success
- The reason Amy’s hopeful about our planet’s future
- Why a carbon tax won’t work and possible alternatives
- Why plastics are ruining the world in more ways than one]]>3167alternatives,carboncapture,cleantech,climate,climatechange,earth,economy,ecopolicy,energy,future,government,journalism,oil,parrisaccord,podcast,policies,politics,pollution,sustainability,trumpfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/171-venture-bubbles-the-trade-war-and-tech-investing-in-the-2020s-chip-meakem--22628507
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How quantum computing will change the world forever
- What areas Chip sees as the biggest opportunities to invest in
- Why companies like Uber and DoorDash are such powerful democratizing forces
- What is the future of the ad economy
- Are you in a VC bubble, and what happens next
- Thoughts on triple bottom businesses and social entrepreneurship
- Why education inequality is the scariest thing about the US
- Which tech companies Chip would bet big on
- Thoughts on the trade war and its impact on startups and tech
- The unintended consequences of government regulation
- How technology can transform education for the better
- Why Chip isn’t a fan of encryption and believes platforms should police themselves
- How business can be used as a force for good
- Why Amazon may end up owning healthcare
- Why cybersecurity is such a big deal]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22628507Mon, 10 Feb 2020 19:58:05 +0000Matt WardChip Meakem (@cmeakem) is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Tribeca Venture Partners. Prior to co-founding Tribeca, Chip worked at both Kodiak Venture Partners and DFJ Gotham. Previous notable acquired investments include Appnexus, Ingenio and...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How quantum computing will change the world forever
- What areas Chip sees as the biggest opportunities to invest in
- Why companies like Uber and DoorDash are such powerful democratizing forces
- What is the future of the ad economy
- Are you in a VC bubble, and what happens next
- Thoughts on triple bottom businesses and social entrepreneurship
- Why education inequality is the scariest thing about the US
- Which tech companies Chip would bet big on
- Thoughts on the trade war and its impact on startups and tech
- The unintended consequences of government regulation
- How technology can transform education for the better
- Why Chip isn’t a fan of encryption and believes platforms should police themselves
- How business can be used as a force for good
- Why Amazon may end up owning healthcare
- Why cybersecurity is such a big deal]]>2858advertising,amazon,cyber,cybersecurity,data,economics,economy,education,future,google,government,podcast,privacy,quantum,quantumcomputing,security,socialmedia,surveillance,venturecapital,voicefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/170-derek-sivers-on-minimalism-mastery-and-avoiding-new-technology--22343224
Derek also created a viral TED talk called “How to Start a Movement,” blogs on entrepreneurship, life and stoicism at Sivers.org and is the author of Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why human beings are a competitive advantage over robotics, software and AI
- F*&k yes, or No!… and how to apply it to your life
- Why less is more when it comes to life
- How bootstrapping a business helped Derek Sivers’ CD Baby succeed
- Derek’s best advice for all aspects of life
- Why reading the news and social media is a bad idea
- How to achieve mastery at anything, and why you should
- Why Derek doesn’t get excited about new technology
- Why Derek gave it all away to charity
- How success can fuel depression and loss of self
- Tons of strategies to live a healthier, more fulfilled life
- Why Derek doesn’t ascribe to any -isms]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22343224Sun, 02 Feb 2020 19:42:13 +0000Matt WardDerek Sivers (@sivers) is a serial entrepreneur, blogger, author and musician who revolutionized the music industry pre-Spotify with CDbaby, the largest online distributor of independent music which he founded accidentally sold in 2008 for $22...
Derek also created a viral TED talk called “How to Start a Movement,” blogs on entrepreneurship, life and stoicism at Sivers.org and is the author of Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why human beings are a competitive advantage over robotics, software and AI
- F*&k yes, or No!… and how to apply it to your life
- Why less is more when it comes to life
- How bootstrapping a business helped Derek Sivers’ CD Baby succeed
- Derek’s best advice for all aspects of life
- Why reading the news and social media is a bad idea
- How to achieve mastery at anything, and why you should
- Why Derek doesn’t get excited about new technology
- Why Derek gave it all away to charity
- How success can fuel depression and loss of self
- Tons of strategies to live a healthier, more fulfilled life
- Why Derek doesn’t ascribe to any -isms]]>3248ai,blockchain,cancer,charity,depression,feelings,health,healthcare,life,mastery,mindset,minimalism,podcast,politics,productivity,robotics,socialmedia,software,stoicism,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/169-programming-life-preventing-bioterrorism-and-viruses-that-kill-cancer-andrew-hessel--22118145
Andy has been Singularity University faculty since 2009 and from 2012-2017 was the Distinguished Researcher at Autodesk Life Sciences.

Andy’s goal is to help people better understand and use living systems to meet the needs of society and he has written articles on genetic technology for The Atlantic, Wired UK, and Huffington Post and given over 100 invited talks on next-generation biotechnology.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How we can use viruses to kill cancer
- The reason synthetic biology is THE technology of this century
- Why CRISPR babies we an inevitability and why we didn’t discuss them beforehand
- How we can prevent biotech from becoming problematic
- Why Andrew isn’t all that worried about bioterrorism
- The reason students should study biological systems
- How healthcare and pharma transform as we edit the code of life
- The important differences between our ability to read and write genomes
- What gene drives mean for the future of our species
- Why viruses are the low hanging fruit of fighting disease
- What biotech can mean for the sustainability of our planet
- Why Andrew is fundamentally optimist about our future]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/22118145Mon, 27 Jan 2020 11:39:12 +0000Matt WardAndrew Hessel (@andrewhessel) is the CEO of Humane Genomics Inc., a seed-stage company developing virus-based therapies for cancer, starting with dogs and also co-founded the Genome Project-write, an international scientific effort working to engineer...
Andy has been Singularity University faculty since 2009 and from 2012-2017 was the Distinguished Researcher at Autodesk Life Sciences.

Andy’s goal is to help people better understand and use living systems to meet the needs of society and he has written articles on genetic technology for The Atlantic, Wired UK, and Huffington Post and given over 100 invited talks on next-generation biotechnology.

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:
- How we can use viruses to kill cancer
- The reason synthetic biology is THE technology of this century
- Why CRISPR babies we an inevitability and why we didn’t discuss them beforehand
- How we can prevent biotech from becoming problematic
- Why Andrew isn’t all that worried about bioterrorism
- The reason students should study biological systems
- How healthcare and pharma transform as we edit the code of life
- The important differences between our ability to read and write genomes
- What gene drives mean for the future of our species
- Why viruses are the low hanging fruit of fighting disease
- What biotech can mean for the sustainability of our planet
- Why Andrew is fundamentally optimist about our future]]>3433biology,biotech,biotechnology,bioterrorism,cancer,climatechange,disease,dna,future,genes,genetics,genomics,health,healthcare,life,pharma,podcast,science,synthetic,syntheticbiologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/168-david-heinemeier-hansson-uncensored-on-healthcare-privacy-education-and-inequality--21875505
He's blogged the past two decades at Signal v Noise, been featured on the Tim Ferriss Show, and if that wasn't enough, DHH is a Le Mans & WEC class-winning racing driver.

In today's episode we discuss:
- Why capitalism can't solve society's biggest problems
- What gives David hope (and fear) about the future of privacy and big tech
- The epic issues with education in America
- How being a well-rounded person makes entrepreneurs and employees better
- Why the US healthcare system is so eff'ed up
- What's the future of media and advertising
- Ways to redesign education for the 21st century
- Where the US went wrong from a socialist perspective
- David's thoughts on Trump and transforming government
- Lessons learned from other cultures
- Why the US may have peaked and be headed for collapse
- What parents do wrong when raising and educating kids
- Why the prison system horrifies David
- The reason David became a Le Mans racecar driver]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21875505Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:32:18 +0000Matt WardDavid Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh) is the creator of Ruby on Rails, co-founder and CTO at Basecamp (formerly 37Signals), and the best-selling co-author of Rework and Remote: Office Not Required. He's blogged the past two decades at Signal v Noise, been...
He's blogged the past two decades at Signal v Noise, been featured on the Tim Ferriss Show, and if that wasn't enough, DHH is a Le Mans & WEC class-winning racing driver.

In today's episode we discuss:
- Why capitalism can't solve society's biggest problems
- What gives David hope (and fear) about the future of privacy and big tech
- The epic issues with education in America
- How being a well-rounded person makes entrepreneurs and employees better
- Why the US healthcare system is so eff'ed up
- What's the future of media and advertising
- Ways to redesign education for the 21st century
- Where the US went wrong from a socialist perspective
- David's thoughts on Trump and transforming government
- Lessons learned from other cultures
- Why the US may have peaked and be headed for collapse
- What parents do wrong when raising and educating kids
- Why the prison system horrifies David
- The reason David became a Le Mans racecar driver]]>3707bigtech,business,climatechange,cyber,economics,education,employment,entrepreneursip,future,governance,healthcare,jobs,media,nsa,podcast,politics,privacy,surveillance,technology,trumpfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/167-exploding-space-debris-asteroid-mining-and-geoengineering-us-into-oblivion-moriba-jah--21632674
He previously worked as a spacecraft navigator at the NASA JPL, where he was a navigator for the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Exploration Rover, and his last mission was the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Moriba is a Fellow of multiple organizations: TED, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Astronautical Society, International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), Royal Astronomical Society, and the Air Force Research Lab. He has served on the US delegation to the UN Committee On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS), is an elected Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and has testified to congress on his work as related to Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management. Here’s a fun list of satellites we’re tracking.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The problem of space junk and how to police it
- What EVERYONE needs to know about the risks of geoengineering
- How space mining could ruin Earth’s industries
- Why a Kessler event isn’t likely or inevitable in Moriba’s opinion
- What to do about flat earthers and the anti-science movement
- New models for a more interconnected education system
- The value of being a generalist and an outsider
- What’s the future of space travel and why it’s so important
- Why astronauts shouldn’t be idolized
- How space affects climate change and vice versa
- The biggest problem nobody knows about
- Why history is biased and detrimental to teach
- What does interspace commerce look like going forward
- How aboriginal communities should inform our collective future
- What does the future hold for space piracy
- Why the space goldrush will be a collective commons nightmare]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21632674Mon, 13 Jan 2020 09:01:27 +0000Matt WardMoriba Jah (@moribajah) is a space scientist, aerospace engineer and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously worked as a spacecraft navigator at the NASA JPL, where he was a navigator for the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars...
He previously worked as a spacecraft navigator at the NASA JPL, where he was a navigator for the Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, Mars Exploration Rover, and his last mission was the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Moriba is a Fellow of multiple organizations: TED, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Astronautical Society, International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), Royal Astronomical Society, and the Air Force Research Lab. He has served on the US delegation to the UN Committee On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS), is an elected Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and has testified to congress on his work as related to Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management. Here’s a fun list of satellites we’re tracking.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The problem of space junk and how to police it
- What EVERYONE needs to know about the risks of geoengineering
- How space mining could ruin Earth’s industries
- Why a Kessler event isn’t likely or inevitable in Moriba’s opinion
- What to do about flat earthers and the anti-science movement
- New models for a more interconnected education system
- The value of being a generalist and an outsider
- What’s the future of space travel and why it’s so important
- Why astronauts shouldn’t be idolized
- How space affects climate change and vice versa
- The biggest problem nobody knows about
- Why history is biased and detrimental to teach
- What does interspace commerce look like going forward
- How aboriginal communities should inform our collective future
- What does the future hold for space piracy
- Why the space goldrush will be a collective commons nightmare]]>2734ai,anti-science,artificialintelligence,asteroidmining,climatechange,college,commerce,computing,education,future,gold,goldrush,history,mining,nasa,podcast,science,space,spacetravel,venturecapitalfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/166-solving-the-climate-crisis-by-fixing-the-politics-of-kyoto-protocol-and-paris-accords-gerald-kutney--21401007
Gerald's a frequent contributor to the HuffingtonPost, Canada's National Observer and is the author of the peer-reviewed: Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol - in search for an answer to the failure of the international community to act on climate change.  

In today's episode we discuss:
- The main reasons the Kyoto Protocol failed
- What caused the climate denier movement and how to stop it
- How a carbon tax credit system is working well in Canada
- What propaganda is doing to political discourse
- How everyone can do their part to fighting climate change
- Did social media break democracy
- Unique ideas to change public perception of climate science
- How bad is the state of fake news and propaganda
- Why we still haven't solved the collective action problem
- The importance of arguing against false beliefs
- Gerald's thoughts on authoritarianism and inaction
- How tax breaks could incentivize innovation and investment in green tech
- The scary truth about geoengineering
- Why corporate campaign contributions are one of the biggest issues in America]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21401007Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:37:45 +0000Matt WardGerald Kutney (@geraldkutney) is a climate scientist, professor, journalist/speaker, author and founder/consultant of 6esm, a C-level consulting firm focused on the bio-economy, renewable energy and the politics of the Kyoto Protocol and others like...
Gerald's a frequent contributor to the HuffingtonPost, Canada's National Observer and is the author of the peer-reviewed: Carbon Politics and the Failure of the Kyoto Protocol - in search for an answer to the failure of the international community to act on climate change.  

In today's episode we discuss:
- The main reasons the Kyoto Protocol failed
- What caused the climate denier movement and how to stop it
- How a carbon tax credit system is working well in Canada
- What propaganda is doing to political discourse
- How everyone can do their part to fighting climate change
- Did social media break democracy
- Unique ideas to change public perception of climate science
- How bad is the state of fake news and propaganda
- Why we still haven't solved the collective action problem
- The importance of arguing against false beliefs
- Gerald's thoughts on authoritarianism and inaction
- How tax breaks could incentivize innovation and investment in green tech
- The scary truth about geoengineering
- Why corporate campaign contributions are one of the biggest issues in America]]>3142carbon,carbornemissions,climate,climatechange,climatecrisis,climateissue,climateproblem,climatescience,economics,emissions,environment,geoengineering,geoscience,greentech,issues,politics,pollutants,pollution,science,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/165-creating-healthy-consumer-brands-to-feed-humanity-and-solve-climate-change-filipp-chebotarev-and-polina-chebotareva--21182215
She is a Board Member for The Laguna Art Museum, helps raise awareness and funding for environmental issues and has devoted her time and resources to The Village of Hope Rescue Mission which helps struggling parents restore stability in their lives and the lives of their children.

Filipp Chebotarev is COO and Managing Partner of Cambridge Companies SPG. After working with California Congressman Ed Royce to manage the relationship between business, government, community, and other constituencies, Filipp went on to corporate, later finding impact investing

Filipp is a major donor to Harvesters – Food Bank in Orange County, the JNF, and Actively Involved with Shoes That Fit, a 501C3 empowering children in low-income areas.

The pair emigrated to the US after the USSR’s collapse, and their fund is now investors in the likes of organic and health food/product companies: Once Upon a Farm, Wild Friends Foods, Matchabar, and dozens of others.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How health-focused food and beverage companies are creating a better world
- Why GMOs (specifically the pesticides they enable) are ruining our health
- The future of foodtech and clean meat
- Ways to increase access to organic and quality food
- Why we’re all excited about lab-grown meat
- How impact investing changes the world and drives returns
- The challenges and realities of immigrating to the US, without speaking English
- What tech trends Filipp and Polina are most excited about
- Why IPOs and acquisitions aren’t necessarily the endgame for consumer companies
- The importance of founder-investor alignment
- Why Filipp’s not worried about 23andme or genetic privacy
- The reason there’s not enough money invested in foodtech
- Why millennial consumers are driving better company practices
- What’s the future of e-commerce and it’s relation to retail]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21182215Mon, 30 Dec 2019 06:59:06 +0000Matt WardPolina Chebotareva is a co-founder of Cambridge Companies SPG, a social mission-oriented VC firm on fixing nutrition, farming, and health worldwide. Prior to Cambridge, Polina was an Executive VP and Partner at a real estate investment firm with $350M...
She is a Board Member for The Laguna Art Museum, helps raise awareness and funding for environmental issues and has devoted her time and resources to The Village of Hope Rescue Mission which helps struggling parents restore stability in their lives and the lives of their children.

Filipp Chebotarev is COO and Managing Partner of Cambridge Companies SPG. After working with California Congressman Ed Royce to manage the relationship between business, government, community, and other constituencies, Filipp went on to corporate, later finding impact investing

Filipp is a major donor to Harvesters – Food Bank in Orange County, the JNF, and Actively Involved with Shoes That Fit, a 501C3 empowering children in low-income areas.

The pair emigrated to the US after the USSR’s collapse, and their fund is now investors in the likes of organic and health food/product companies: Once Upon a Farm, Wild Friends Foods, Matchabar, and dozens of others.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How health-focused food and beverage companies are creating a better world
- Why GMOs (specifically the pesticides they enable) are ruining our health
- The future of foodtech and clean meat
- Ways to increase access to organic and quality food
- Why we’re all excited about lab-grown meat
- How impact investing changes the world and drives returns
- The challenges and realities of immigrating to the US, without speaking English
- What tech trends Filipp and Polina are most excited about
- Why IPOs and acquisitions aren’t necessarily the endgame for consumer companies
- The importance of founder-investor alignment
- Why Filipp’s not worried about 23andme or genetic privacy
- The reason there’s not enough money invested in foodtech
- Why millennial consumers are driving better company practices
- What’s the future of e-commerce and it’s relation to retail]]>3608agriculture,agritech,biotech,climatechange,consumer,ecommerce,food,foodtech,future,geneticengineering,genetics,genetictesting,health,healthtech,investing,nongmo,organicfood,pesticides,vc,venturecapitalfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/164-mars-michael-jackson-impeaching-trump-and-the-grand-unified-theory-of-everything-howard-bloom--20993752
Howard is the author of seven books, incl: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism, The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates, The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Gave You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram–or How Muhammad Invented Jihad and others…

He has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,[and] Freud,” by Britain’s Channel4 TV and “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear Magazine, appeared on over 510 radio stations, and was formerly on faculty of NYU.

Howard is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Political Science, and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Howard’s unified theory of everything to understand mass movements and the cosmos
- What Howard learned working with Michael Jackson, Prince, Styx, Billy Joel and dozens of more elite musicians
- What spending 15 bed-ridden years taught Howard about life
- Why space holds the key to humanity’s future
- What we can do to fix music, news, and entertainment
- Is democracy broken beyond repair
- The value of being a generalist and an outsider
- How LSD, psychedelics and the 60’s (which Howard helped kick-off) influenced his views of everything
- Why loneliness and isolation is the biggest threat to humanity
- The biggest problem threatening America today
- How loneliness leads to insanity and depression
- Thoughts on consciousness, the cosmos and why the Simulation Theory is wrong
- Is it possible to overcome evolved instincts
- What’s the future of education and where did it go wrong
- Will the future be one of cyberspace and VR
- Why Howard is so anti-Trump and why impeachment is critical, pre-election]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20993752Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:33:28 +0000Matt WardHoward Bloom (@howardXbloom) is a bestselling polymath, author, ex-music publicist for Styx, Prince and Billy Joel and the Founder of the Space Development Steering Committee, a group focused on space new deal of colonizing the Moon and space-based...
Howard is the author of seven books, incl: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century, The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism, The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates, The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Gave You ISIS, al Qaeda, and Boko Haram–or How Muhammad Invented Jihad and others…

He has been called “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,[and] Freud,” by Britain’s Channel4 TV and “the next Stephen Hawking” by Gear Magazine, appeared on over 510 radio stations, and was formerly on faculty of NYU.

Howard is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Political Science, and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Howard’s unified theory of everything to understand mass movements and the cosmos
- What Howard learned working with Michael Jackson, Prince, Styx, Billy Joel and dozens of more elite musicians
- What spending 15 bed-ridden years taught Howard about life
- Why space holds the key to humanity’s future
- What we can do to fix music, news, and entertainment
- Is democracy broken beyond repair
- The value of being a generalist and an outsider
- How LSD, psychedelics and the 60’s (which Howard helped kick-off) influenced his views of everything
- Why loneliness and isolation is the biggest threat to humanity
- The biggest problem threatening America today
- How loneliness leads to insanity and depression
- Thoughts on consciousness, the cosmos and why the Simulation Theory is wrong
- Is it possible to overcome evolved instincts
- What’s the future of education and where did it go wrong
- Will the future be one of cyberspace and VR
- Why Howard is so anti-Trump and why impeachment is critical, pre-election]]>3383advertising,ai,consciousness,democracy,economics,fakenews,governance,impeachment,lsd,music,neuro,neuroscience,news,podcast,politics,psychedelics,socialmedia,space,trump,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/163-ethics-of-automation-and-utopia-for-human-flourishing-in-world-without-work-john-danaher--20771002
His book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work cuts through some of the hype and pessimism about automation and work, making a rigorous case for techno-utopianism about the future.

On his podcast, he interviews world leaders on the confluence of Society, Ethics and Tech.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to think about purpose in a post-work future
- Why AI automation will lead to a utopia of human flourishing
- The value of philosophy in today’s modern tech world
- Why John says we’ll never have fully autonomous vehicles
- What John thinks about a robot tax
- How robotics and AI will impact jobs and economy
- The evolution of ethics and technology changes
- Why utopia is rarely a top-down system
- How to change tech and social media for the better
- What technology is John most worried about and why
- Why we’ll need a more socialist society to survive automation
- How to deal with AI failures and tech safety
- Why we’re headed for a virtual future
- The importance of space travel and pushing the boundaries]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20771002Sun, 15 Dec 2019 18:41:44 +0000Matt WardJohn Danaher (@johndanaher) is an author, podcaster and academic and lecturer at the National University of Ireland (NUI) focused on ethical, social and legal implications of emerging technologies, and other philosophical topics. His book, Automation...
His book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work cuts through some of the hype and pessimism about automation and work, making a rigorous case for techno-utopianism about the future.

On his podcast, he interviews world leaders on the confluence of Society, Ethics and Tech.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to think about purpose in a post-work future
- Why AI automation will lead to a utopia of human flourishing
- The value of philosophy in today’s modern tech world
- Why John says we’ll never have fully autonomous vehicles
- What John thinks about a robot tax
- How robotics and AI will impact jobs and economy
- The evolution of ethics and technology changes
- Why utopia is rarely a top-down system
- How to change tech and social media for the better
- What technology is John most worried about and why
- Why we’ll need a more socialist society to survive automation
- How to deal with AI failures and tech safety
- Why we’re headed for a virtual future
- The importance of space travel and pushing the boundaries]]>3629ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,automation,biotech,economics,education,job,labor,podcast,politics,robotics,sciencefiction,scifi,socialism,socialmedia,space,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/162-ultralearning-mit-s-4-year-cs-degree-in-12-months-and-future-of-learning-creativity-and-purpose-scott-young--20582369
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How Scott completed a 4-year MIT programming degree in 12 months
- Secrets to learning smarter, and faster
- The reasons MOOCs failed and didn’t
- Ways to redesign education for the 21st century
- How to deal with filter bubbles and bias
- Scott’s thoughts on productivity, purpose, and results
- Lessons learned from travel
- Why Scott’s not convinced about biohacking and brain augmentation
- Was Harvard right in their racial discrimination
- How to increase your comfort zone and creativity
- What Scott’s learned about happiness and internal reflection
- Where should someone today focus their efforts
- Why software is eating the world]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20582369Sun, 08 Dec 2019 19:15:37 +0000Matt WardScott Young (@ScottHYoung) is a blogger, traveler, author, self-experimenter and ultra-learner that took MIT’s entire 4-year programming curriculum in a year. He’s the author of Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How Scott completed a 4-year MIT programming degree in 12 months
- Secrets to learning smarter, and faster
- The reasons MOOCs failed and didn’t
- Ways to redesign education for the 21st century
- How to deal with filter bubbles and bias
- Scott’s thoughts on productivity, purpose, and results
- Lessons learned from travel
- Why Scott’s not convinced about biohacking and brain augmentation
- Was Harvard right in their racial discrimination
- How to increase your comfort zone and creativity
- What Scott’s learned about happiness and internal reflection
- Where should someone today focus their efforts
- Why software is eating the world]]>3202ai,biohacking,biotech,brain,brainaugmentation,creativity,education,future,learning,lessons,mit,podcast,productivity,programming,science,socialmedia,software,tech,technology,ultralearningfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/161-the-mathematics-of-war-and-future-of-us-china-relations-plus-ai-automation-and-mutually-assured-destruction-sean-gourley--20408190
Before that, he was CTO and co-founder of Quid, an augmented-intelligence company and also worked on self-repairing nano-circuits at NASA. Sean was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war which was published on the cover of Nature.

He has served as a political advisor, briefed USCENTCOM at the Pentagon and addressed the United Nations in Vienna, serves on the Board of Directors at Anadarko (NYSE:APC).

Sean is also a two-time New Zealand track and field champion and sits on the Knight Commission focused on reforming collegiate athletics.

In today's episode we discuss:
- The future of the US-China relationship, and possible war
- What differentiates AI creativity from humans
- The automation law that ALWAYS leads to occasional epic consequences
- Should we develop autonomous weapons? Will we
- What are the biggest predictors of war and civil strife
- Why San Francisco is anything but a model city
- Are cyborgs and genetic superhumans inevitable
- How long until we have human-level AI
- Why economic war creates the conditions for actual fighting
- What works well with mutually assured destruction
- How to engineer equality into our economy
- Why Sean is worried about deep fakes breaking democracy
- How to think about dynamic geopolitical decisions
- The importance of education and what its future holds]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20408190Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:37:47 +0000Matt WardSean Gourley (@sgourley) is a physicist, founder and CEO of AI company, Primer, an expert on the mathematics of war, TED Fellow, speaker and political advisor. Before that, he was CTO and co-founder of Quid, an augmented-intelligence company and also...
Before that, he was CTO and co-founder of Quid, an augmented-intelligence company and also worked on self-repairing nano-circuits at NASA. Sean was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford focused on complex systems and the mathematical patterns underlying modern war which was published on the cover of Nature.

He has served as a political advisor, briefed USCENTCOM at the Pentagon and addressed the United Nations in Vienna, serves on the Board of Directors at Anadarko (NYSE:APC).

Sean is also a two-time New Zealand track and field champion and sits on the Knight Commission focused on reforming collegiate athletics.

In today's episode we discuss:
- The future of the US-China relationship, and possible war
- What differentiates AI creativity from humans
- The automation law that ALWAYS leads to occasional epic consequences
- Should we develop autonomous weapons? Will we
- What are the biggest predictors of war and civil strife
- Why San Francisco is anything but a model city
- Are cyborgs and genetic superhumans inevitable
- How long until we have human-level AI
- Why economic war creates the conditions for actual fighting
- What works well with mutually assured destruction
- How to engineer equality into our economy
- Why Sean is worried about deep fakes breaking democracy
- How to think about dynamic geopolitical decisions
- The importance of education and what its future holds]]>3989ai,automation,capitalism,china,computing,economics,economy,education,equality,governance,nuclearwar,podcast,politics,sciencefiction,scifi,socialism,socialmedia,usa,war,weaponsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/160-why-the-us-and-china-are-already-in-a-cold-war-the-economics-of-inequality-and-future-of-capitalism-geoff-colvin--20239267
He’s the author of four books including groundbreaking bestsellers Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else and Humans are Underrated on the future of work and how humans fit into a workplace filled with robots and smart technology.

Geoff has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, Squawk Box, CBS This Morning, ABC’s World News Tonight, CNN, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, and dozens of other programs. He also served as anchor of Wall $treet Week with Fortune on PBS and has moderated panels with or interviewed Jack Welch, Henry Kissinger, Richard Branson, the Prince of Wales, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Steve Case, Tony Blair, Michael Dell, Ted Turner, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and many others.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The US relationship with China and why we’re already in Cold War
- Geoff’s thoughts on the decentralization and breakup of big tech
- What we both think about the separatist movements spreading worldwide
- Why Geoff’s skeptical of long term centralized economies
- What the business roundtable CEO stakeholders memo means
- Thoughts on economics and when the trickle-down effect died
- What does Brexit mean for the economy
- Why loneliness and isolation is the biggest threat to humanity
- How to re-engineer the economy to fight inequality
- Will AI be net positive or negative
- What’s the future of education and where did it go wrong
- Where should students look for the careers of the future
- A public markets debate about incentives and timeframes]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20239267Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:02:44 +0000Matt WardGeoff Colvin is FortuneMagazine’s Senior Editor-at-Large, an award-winning thinker, author, broadcaster, and speaker on the most significant trends and issues impacting business, politics and the economy. Geoff’s work has earned him millions of loyal...
He’s the author of four books including groundbreaking bestsellers Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else and Humans are Underrated on the future of work and how humans fit into a workplace filled with robots and smart technology.

Geoff has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, Squawk Box, CBS This Morning, ABC’s World News Tonight, CNN, PBS’s Nightly Business Report, and dozens of other programs. He also served as anchor of Wall $treet Week with Fortune on PBS and has moderated panels with or interviewed Jack Welch, Henry Kissinger, Richard Branson, the Prince of Wales, Bill Gates, Alan Greenspan, Steve Case, Tony Blair, Michael Dell, Ted Turner, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and many others.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The US relationship with China and why we’re already in Cold War
- Geoff’s thoughts on the decentralization and breakup of big tech
- What we both think about the separatist movements spreading worldwide
- Why Geoff’s skeptical of long term centralized economies
- What the business roundtable CEO stakeholders memo means
- Thoughts on economics and when the trickle-down effect died
- What does Brexit mean for the economy
- Why loneliness and isolation is the biggest threat to humanity
- How to re-engineer the economy to fight inequality
- Will AI be net positive or negative
- What’s the future of education and where did it go wrong
- Where should students look for the careers of the future
- A public markets debate about incentives and timeframes]]>3647ai,bigtech,capitalism,china,coldwar,computing,decentralization,economics,education,future,inequality,loneliness,monopolies,podcast,politics,relationship,socialmedia,trade,us,warfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/159-ai-vr-and-a-world-without-privacy-as-we-explore-the-cosmos-and-what-it-means-to-be-human-august-bradley-of-mind-machine--20085392
He is also a Board Member & Director of the AI & Machine Learning Society, Chairman of the Technarte International Conference, technology series moderator for The Los Angeles World Affairs Council (LAWAC) and head of the Los Angeles Self Driving Car Meetup.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why August and I won’t let voice assistants in our homes
- What happens next with VR and where it is headed
- Which technologies worry August most and why
- What does privacy look like in a more connected world
- Why Facebook and social media are so bad for all of us
- How Amazon helps transform healthcare
- The reason AI and automation will be net-negative on jobs
- What we have to look forward to when it comes to future technologies
- The reason space exploration is so important and exciting
- What do we do about big tech and regulation
- Why August isn’t worried about AI consciousness or superintelligence
- The reason food science and clean meat is such a promising field to pursue
- Why immigration is a stupid topic to focus on when it comes to jobs
- Science fiction as a safety net]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20085392Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:56:16 +0000Matt WardAugust Bradley (@augustbradley) is a futurist business consultant, founder/host of the Mind & Machine podcast and former COO of the pioneering virtual reality company Kite & Lightning. August’s worked with brands including Coke, Xbox, Kia, Gap,...
He is also a Board Member & Director of the AI & Machine Learning Society, Chairman of the Technarte International Conference, technology series moderator for The Los Angeles World Affairs Council (LAWAC) and head of the Los Angeles Self Driving Car Meetup.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why August and I won’t let voice assistants in our homes
- What happens next with VR and where it is headed
- Which technologies worry August most and why
- What does privacy look like in a more connected world
- Why Facebook and social media are so bad for all of us
- How Amazon helps transform healthcare
- The reason AI and automation will be net-negative on jobs
- What we have to look forward to when it comes to future technologies
- The reason space exploration is so important and exciting
- What do we do about big tech and regulation
- Why August isn’t worried about AI consciousness or superintelligence
- The reason food science and clean meat is such a promising field to pursue
- Why immigration is a stupid topic to focus on when it comes to jobs
- Science fiction as a safety net]]>3354agritech,ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,automation,cleanmeat,consciousness,foodtech,health,healthcare,iot,mobile,neuro,neuroscience,sciencefiction,scifi,socialmedia,space,virtualrealityfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/158-elon-musk-s-wrong-driverless-cars-make-things-worse-and-buses-are-the-future-of-transportation-jarrett-walker--19969045
His background integrates an arts and humanities Ph.D. with long technical experience in all aspects of transit and its role in city-building. He is a frequent keynote speaker, teacher, and facilitator of decision-making processes.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to engineer cities so ALMOST everyone wins
- What does the future of urban transit look like
- Why autonomous vehicles actually lead to more traffic
- The reason Uber and Lyft are part of the problem
- The geometric test to any transportation claim
- Why the Boring Company is bogus
- The law of induced demand and its implications
- How tech marketing twists issues and creates bigger problems
- What Jarrett thinks about electric scooters and micro-mobility
- Where we’re at in the IoT hype cycle
- Thoughts on regulating and market distortions
- Why cars are a dead-end future]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19969045Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:59:48 +0000Matt WardJarrett Walker (@humantransit) is an international public transit network design and policy consultant and the author of popular public transit blog HumanTransit.org, and the book Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our...
His background integrates an arts and humanities Ph.D. with long technical experience in all aspects of transit and its role in city-building. He is a frequent keynote speaker, teacher, and facilitator of decision-making processes.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to engineer cities so ALMOST everyone wins
- What does the future of urban transit look like
- Why autonomous vehicles actually lead to more traffic
- The reason Uber and Lyft are part of the problem
- The geometric test to any transportation claim
- Why the Boring Company is bogus
- The law of induced demand and its implications
- How tech marketing twists issues and creates bigger problems
- What Jarrett thinks about electric scooters and micro-mobility
- Where we’re at in the IoT hype cycle
- Thoughts on regulating and market distortions
- Why cars are a dead-end future]]>3472ai,autonomousvehicles,cars,driverlesscars,economics,energy,future,governance,iot,lyft,podcast,publictransit,robotics,scooters,tesla,transitionnetwork,transportaion,uber,urbanization,urbantransitfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/157-why-freedom-of-speech-isn-t-free-and-apple-s-helping-china-crackdown-on-hong-kong-protesters-in-the-name-of-profit-cindy-cohn--19871915
The National Law Journal named Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: “If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn.” She was also named in 2006 for “rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online.” In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2018 Forbes included her as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How censorship leads to authoritarianism
- Why freedom of speech is such a tricky tight rope
- What Apple’s doing to help China crackdown on Hong Kong protesters
- How algorithms and content curation are ruining our lives, and society
- Why tech monopolies and failing markets make privacy so pathetic
- The realistic issues with breaking up big tech and better solutions to tech monopolies
- Why encryption is critical to the future of democracy
- The impossible problem of backdoors and security
- How the US government seeks to Chinese surveillance
- What to do about the Trump Twitter problem
- Why privacy is the big issue going forward
- Which tech giants worry Cindy most
- What to do about the collective action problem
- Why the implications of brain-machine interfaces terrify Cindy]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19871915Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:48:06 +0000Matt WardCindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (@eff) and was the Outside Lead Attorney in Bernstein v. Dept. of Justice, the successful First Amendment challenge to the US export restrictions on cryptography. The National...
The National Law Journal named Cohn one of 100 most influential lawyers in America in 2013, noting: “If Big Brother is watching, he better look out for Cindy Cohn.” She was also named in 2006 for “rushing to the barricades wherever freedom and civil liberties are at stake online.” In 2007 the National Law Journal named her one of the 50 most influential women lawyers in America. In 2018 Forbes included her as one of America’s Top 50 Women in Tech.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How censorship leads to authoritarianism
- Why freedom of speech is such a tricky tight rope
- What Apple’s doing to help China crackdown on Hong Kong protesters
- How algorithms and content curation are ruining our lives, and society
- Why tech monopolies and failing markets make privacy so pathetic
- The realistic issues with breaking up big tech and better solutions to tech monopolies
- Why encryption is critical to the future of democracy
- The impossible problem of backdoors and security
- How the US government seeks to Chinese surveillance
- What to do about the Trump Twitter problem
- Why privacy is the big issue going forward
- Which tech giants worry Cindy most
- What to do about the collective action problem
- Why the implications of brain-machine interfaces terrify Cindy]]>3190ai,apple,bigtech,censorship,china,cyber,data,democracy,freedom,freespeech,governance,iot,podcast,politics,privacy,society,surveillance,tech,techcompanies,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/156-energy-infrastructure-fracking-and-the-future-of-journalism-russell-gold--19730932
He’s the author of The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World and his new book, Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform Energy tells the story of Michael Skelly, who helped created the wind energy industry in the US in a push for sustainability.

In today’s episode we discuss:

- How to speed the transition to renewable energy
- The pros and cons of fracking and why it has a bad rap
- Why the energy industry is so fragmented in the US
- What we need MOST to see renewables replace the grid
- How batteries are holding back cleantech
- The pros and cons of monopolies in public infrastructure
- Why Silicon Valley doesn’t invest much in energy
- How one innovator can change the course of history and energy consumption
- What we NEED to do to combat climate change
- Why Andy thinks going public is the way to go
- Thoughts on Elon, Tesla and the future of transportation
- What will journalism look like in ten years
- Are billionaire-owned media corporations a net positive]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19730932Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:20:48 +0000Matt WardRussell Gold (@russellgold) is an author and award-winning investigative journalist and energy reporter at The Wall Street Journal best known for covering the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill. They were awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for best...
He’s the author of The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World and his new book, Superpower: One Man’s Quest to Transform Energy tells the story of Michael Skelly, who helped created the wind energy industry in the US in a push for sustainability.

In today’s episode we discuss:

- How to speed the transition to renewable energy
- The pros and cons of fracking and why it has a bad rap
- Why the energy industry is so fragmented in the US
- What we need MOST to see renewables replace the grid
- How batteries are holding back cleantech
- The pros and cons of monopolies in public infrastructure
- Why Silicon Valley doesn’t invest much in energy
- How one innovator can change the course of history and energy consumption
- What we NEED to do to combat climate change
- Why Andy thinks going public is the way to go
- Thoughts on Elon, Tesla and the future of transportation
- What will journalism look like in ten years
- Are billionaire-owned media corporations a net positive]]>3085batteries,cleanenergy,cleanmeat,cleantech,climatechange,economics,electricity,energy,governance,infrastructure,journalism,podcast,politics,renewable,renewableenergy,solar,solarenergy,tesla,wind,windenergyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/155-the-gig-economy-and-why-government-and-big-business-are-so-inefficient-rob-biederman--19680461
In today’s episode we discuss:

- How the gig economy is affecting corporations and will unfold
- What the government can and should do about employee rights and work
- The future of work as autonomy looms
- Ways to improve government productivity through incentives
- How the job market changes in the world of outputs
- The issues and importance of universal healthcare
- Why Rob is skeptical on the timeframe for self-driving
- How we need to shift our views on education to support our future
- What are Rob’s thoughts about Uber and gig workers
- Why Rob isn’t that worried about privacy
- What the DMV would do differently if it were a business
- Why corporations are so damn inefficient]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19680461Fri, 25 Oct 2019 04:59:20 +0000Matt WardRob Biederman (@biedermanrob) is the co-founder and CEO of Catalant, a company that connects companies to talent and knowledge in real-time and is focused on rewriting the future of work and helping Fortune 100 keep up with the pace of innovation....
In today’s episode we discuss:

- How the gig economy is affecting corporations and will unfold
- What the government can and should do about employee rights and work
- The future of work as autonomy looms
- Ways to improve government productivity through incentives
- How the job market changes in the world of outputs
- The issues and importance of universal healthcare
- Why Rob is skeptical on the timeframe for self-driving
- How we need to shift our views on education to support our future
- What are Rob’s thoughts about Uber and gig workers
- Why Rob isn’t that worried about privacy
- What the DMV would do differently if it were a business
- Why corporations are so damn inefficient]]>3153ai,corporation,economics,economy,education,future,futureofwork,gig,gigeconomy,governance,government,jobs,platforms,podcast,potilics,socialmedia,startups,uber,venturecapital,workfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/154-andy-rachleff-on-founding-benchmark-wealthfront-and-fixing-f-ed-up-finance-industry-with-big-data--19608102
He teaches courses on technology entrepreneurship at Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, chairman of the board of overseers for its School of Engineering and Applied Science and vice chairman of its endowment investment committee.

He is also a board member of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

NOTE: I use and love Wealthfront for managing my personal finances. Get $5k managed for free with this link!

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to win at investing despite all the contradictory advice
- What makes for an investible landmark business
- Why Matt uses Wealthfront to manage his finances
- Where automation is headed in regards to jobs
- How the finance industry screws you sideways and rigs the game
- The problem with science and biotech research and how Andy’s solving it
- Why data and AI is the biggest thing happening today
- How the venture capital landscape is changing with the rise of SoftBank
- What does the future of blockchain look like
- Why Andy thinks going public is the way to go
- Thoughts on regulating tech monopolies and industries cycles
- What index investing does for average consumers]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19608102Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:04:22 +0000Matt WardAndy Rachleff (@arachleff) is the co-founder and Executive Chairman (prev CEO) of Wealthfront, an automated investment service startup to provide wealth advisor-like management to everyday folks. Andy co-founded Benchmark Capital in 1995 (one of the...
He teaches courses on technology entrepreneurship at Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, chairman of the board of overseers for its School of Engineering and Applied Science and vice chairman of its endowment investment committee.

He is also a board member of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.

NOTE: I use and love Wealthfront for managing my personal finances. Get $5k managed for free with this link!

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to win at investing despite all the contradictory advice
- What makes for an investible landmark business
- Why Matt uses Wealthfront to manage his finances
- Where automation is headed in regards to jobs
- How the finance industry screws you sideways and rigs the game
- The problem with science and biotech research and how Andy’s solving it
- Why data and AI is the biggest thing happening today
- How the venture capital landscape is changing with the rise of SoftBank
- What does the future of blockchain look like
- Why Andy thinks going public is the way to go
- Thoughts on regulating tech monopolies and industries cycles
- What index investing does for average consumers]]>3444ai,artificialintelligence,automation,benchmark,blockchain,crypto,cryptocurrencies,economics,economy,finance,indexfund,investing,monopolies,podcast,startups,uber,vc,venturecapital,wealth,wealthfrontfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/153-former-alexa-head-on-amazon-ai-tech-monopolies-and-future-of-voice-computing-alex-spinelli--19569980
Before joining Amazon, Alex served as CTO of McCann Worldgroup — one of the world’s largest marketing organizations with 24,000 employees across more than 100 countries — and CTO for North America and Asia-Pacific at AXA Technologies, where he built large-scale grid computing for predictive modeling. At Thomson Reuters, he oversaw product and technology for news and media, including real-time, AI-driven news curation for financial professionals. He has also held executive technology leadership positions at TheStreet.com and MTV Networks as CTO of Comedy Central.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How Alex and his team built Alexa into a juggernaut
- What the future of voice computing holds
- Why Alex is more worried about Facebook and Google than Amazon
- What automation will do to jobs and the economy
- How Amazon wins in the markets they attack and why Alex says they aren’t a monopoly
- The issue with IoT and huge security risks
- Why educating consumers/citizens is the MOST important
- Is privacy dead and what do we do about it?
- What do we do about big tech and regulation
- Why Alex is worried about privacy and data transparency
- Thoughts on corporate responsibility
- When will we have a post-money world
- What’s the status of autonomous vehicles in 10 years]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19569980Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:24:01 +0000Matt WardAlex Spinelli (@liveperson) is an AI expert, the former head of Alexa OS for Amazon and current CTO of LivePerson and Maven, an AI-powered conversational commerce company, helping brands like Delta, HSBC, and Home Depot leverage AI bots Before...
Before joining Amazon, Alex served as CTO of McCann Worldgroup — one of the world’s largest marketing organizations with 24,000 employees across more than 100 countries — and CTO for North America and Asia-Pacific at AXA Technologies, where he built large-scale grid computing for predictive modeling. At Thomson Reuters, he oversaw product and technology for news and media, including real-time, AI-driven news curation for financial professionals. He has also held executive technology leadership positions at TheStreet.com and MTV Networks as CTO of Comedy Central.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How Alex and his team built Alexa into a juggernaut
- What the future of voice computing holds
- Why Alex is more worried about Facebook and Google than Amazon
- What automation will do to jobs and the economy
- How Amazon wins in the markets they attack and why Alex says they aren’t a monopoly
- The issue with IoT and huge security risks
- Why educating consumers/citizens is the MOST important
- Is privacy dead and what do we do about it?
- What do we do about big tech and regulation
- Why Alex is worried about privacy and data transparency
- Thoughts on corporate responsibility
- When will we have a post-money world
- What’s the status of autonomous vehicles in 10 years]]>3164ai,alexa,amazon,artificialintelligence,bigtech,chatbots,cyber,ecommerce,economics,governance,iot,podcast,privacy,robotics,security,smarthomes,tech,technology,voice,voicecomputingfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/152-bacteria-for-breaking-down-plastic-improved-health-and-better-beer-fighting-farts-in-the-process-anne-madden--19498015
Anne’s a public speaker (three-time TED/TEDx speaker), frequently consults as an innovation and engagement strategist for various industries and has been mentioned by various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, PBS News Hour, Newsweek, and Scientific American. She’s also a brain trust member of the Helena Group Foundation.

Her research focuses on understanding microbial communities–in the diverse habitats of food, insects, and built environments–and deciphering the human applications of these microbes and has led to the discovery of a new fungal species, novel antibiotics, patented brewing technology, commercially produced beer, new DNA based methods for detecting arthropod communities, licensed technology for the manufacturing of improved breeds, and a greater understanding of the microbial life around us.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How microbes will solve humanity’s biggest challenges in the 21st-century
- What bacteria could do to drastically impact climate change
- The issue Anne has with probiotic and biotech marketing
- Why the anti-bacterial movement has been so harmful to human health
- Why not all germs are good germs
- How microbes make the flavors and smells we love
- What we can (and can’t) do about drug-resistant bacteria, like MERSA
- How bioterrorism may evolve and why Anne’s not that worried
- What Anne thinks about agriculture and possible unintended consequences
- The reason we need to bring science to light
- How industry can partner better with academia to improve our world
- Why nature holds the key to a hundred billion-dollar businesses
- Why data privacy’s more dangerous than ever
- Do we need regulations to protect health data]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19498015Mon, 14 Oct 2019 10:21:48 +0000Matt WardAnne Madden (@AnneAMadden) is a microbiologist, inventor, science communicator and CSO and founder of Lachancea, an innovative foodtech company focused on the science of microorganisms. Anne’s a public speaker (three-time TED/TEDx speaker),...
Anne’s a public speaker (three-time TED/TEDx speaker), frequently consults as an innovation and engagement strategist for various industries and has been mentioned by various media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, National Geographic, PBS News Hour, Newsweek, and Scientific American. She’s also a brain trust member of the Helena Group Foundation.

Her research focuses on understanding microbial communities–in the diverse habitats of food, insects, and built environments–and deciphering the human applications of these microbes and has led to the discovery of a new fungal species, novel antibiotics, patented brewing technology, commercially produced beer, new DNA based methods for detecting arthropod communities, licensed technology for the manufacturing of improved breeds, and a greater understanding of the microbial life around us.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How microbes will solve humanity’s biggest challenges in the 21st-century
- What bacteria could do to drastically impact climate change
- The issue Anne has with probiotic and biotech marketing
- Why the anti-bacterial movement has been so harmful to human health
- Why not all germs are good germs
- How microbes make the flavors and smells we love
- What we can (and can’t) do about drug-resistant bacteria, like MERSA
- How bioterrorism may evolve and why Anne’s not that worried
- What Anne thinks about agriculture and possible unintended consequences
- The reason we need to bring science to light
- How industry can partner better with academia to improve our world
- Why nature holds the key to a hundred billion-dollar businesses
- Why data privacy’s more dangerous than ever
- Do we need regulations to protect health data]]>2858falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/151-tackling-climate-change-with-economic-incentives-and-circular-economics-andrew-winston--19456572
He’s a globally recognized expert on green business and has appeared in WSJ, Time, BusinessWeek, NYTimes, and CNBC. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA.

He’s a respected speaker, served as the Director of Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale’s renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has a weekly column for Harvard Business Online. He was recently named a “Planet Defender” by Rock the Earth.

In today’s episode we discuss:

How to redesign the economy and stock market to incentivize a better future
What are the biggest megatrends affecting our future
Why eating less/clean meat is the biggest thing you can do to fight climate change
Fixing the shareholder value incentive ruining our world
Why short-termism is the route of the most evil
What you should know about the Green New Deal
Why the US doesn’t do enough for infrastructure
The reason the US doesn’t solve the election turnout issues
How close are we to point of no return on environment
Andrew’s thoughts on the future of renewable energy and why it’s inevitable
Why Andrew’s optimistic about fighting climate change
What’s the role of government going forward
Why we need circular economics and to tackle climate change now
The danger of the devices and social media]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19456572Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:47:27 +0000Matt WardAndrew Winston (@andrewwinston) is the founder of Winston Eco-Strategies, author of The Big Pivot and Green Recovery, and coauthored Green to Gold, the best-selling guide to what works — and what doesn’t — when companies go green. He’s a globally...
He’s a globally recognized expert on green business and has appeared in WSJ, Time, BusinessWeek, NYTimes, and CNBC. His clients have included Bank of America, Bayer, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA.

He’s a respected speaker, served as the Director of Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at Yale’s renowned School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has a weekly column for Harvard Business Online. He was recently named a “Planet Defender” by Rock the Earth.

In today’s episode we discuss:

How to redesign the economy and stock market to incentivize a better future
What are the biggest megatrends affecting our future
Why eating less/clean meat is the biggest thing you can do to fight climate change
Fixing the shareholder value incentive ruining our world
Why short-termism is the route of the most evil
What you should know about the Green New Deal
Why the US doesn’t do enough for infrastructure
The reason the US doesn’t solve the election turnout issues
How close are we to point of no return on environment
Andrew’s thoughts on the future of renewable energy and why it’s inevitable
Why Andrew’s optimistic about fighting climate change
What’s the role of government going forward
Why we need circular economics and to tackle climate change now
The danger of the devices and social media]]>2600agriculture,agritech,business,capitalism,cleanmeat,climatechange,eco,economics,energy,environment,future,infrastructure,podcast,politics,regulation,renewableenergy,renewables,socialism,stockmarket,urbanizationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/150-delivery-drones-and-our-robot-future-tessa-lau--19384850
In today’s episode we discuss:
- What makes scaling a robot fleet so hard
- Why Tessa is a big proponent of universal basic income
- How far are we from human-level intelligence
- Why we’ll have full self-driving in ten years
- The risk of building robots that look human
- Why construction is prime for disruption
- The unique challenges of building a hardware robotics company
- What automation will do towards affordable housing
- The state of drone delivery and more
- Why we’re headed towards a future with no privacy
- Where to focus on a career for the future
- The big problem with robot anthropomorphism]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19384850Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:14:33 +0000Matt WardDr. Tessa Lau (@tessalau) is the founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics, a startup whose mission is to address construction industry labor shortages by introducing robotic automation on the jobsite. Prior to Dusty, she was CTO/co-founder at Savioke, where...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- What makes scaling a robot fleet so hard
- Why Tessa is a big proponent of universal basic income
- How far are we from human-level intelligence
- Why we’ll have full self-driving in ten years
- The risk of building robots that look human
- Why construction is prime for disruption
- The unique challenges of building a hardware robotics company
- What automation will do towards affordable housing
- The state of drone delivery and more
- Why we’re headed towards a future with no privacy
- Where to focus on a career for the future
- The big problem with robot anthropomorphism]]>3129ai,ar,architecture,artificialintelligence,autonomous,consciousness,construction,delivery,interfaces,mobile,neuroscience,podcast,robot,robotics,science,sciencefiction,technology,transport,urbanization,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/149-moving-beyond-meat-burning-down-the-amazon-and-business-for-good-paul-shapiro--19350299
He’s been interviewed by hundreds of news outlets from CNN to StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson as an authority on food sustainability issues, and also published hundreds of articles in publications ranging from daily newspapers like the Washington Post to magazines like FORTUNE to academic journals. Prior to co-founding a plant protein company, he spent his career lobbying for better agricultural sustainability policies. Paul’s also the VP of the Humane Society in the US

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How soon you’ll see plant-based meat in stores
- The sad truth about animal agriculture and emissions
- Why Paul thinks we’ll have multiple forms of clean meat
- The food spoilage problem and how to solve it
- Why the Amazon fires are caused by cow herding
- What the daily-free milk movements tells us about the future of food
- How to use business for good
- Lessons learned from Whole Foods
- What’s the future of biotech and GMOs
- The economic incentives that will end animal farming
- Ways Paul organizes his life and focus
- How to feed 10 billion people
- Which runaway climate effects scare Paul most
- Why Paul thinks we’ll have a mix of large and small scale agriculture
- Why business is the best way to change the world]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19350299Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:23:39 +0000Matt WardPaul Shapiro (@paulhshapiro) is the bestselling author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, the CEO and co-founder of The Better Meat Co., a four-time TEDx speaker, the co-host of the Business for...
He’s been interviewed by hundreds of news outlets from CNN to StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson as an authority on food sustainability issues, and also published hundreds of articles in publications ranging from daily newspapers like the Washington Post to magazines like FORTUNE to academic journals. Prior to co-founding a plant protein company, he spent his career lobbying for better agricultural sustainability policies. Paul’s also the VP of the Humane Society in the US

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How soon you’ll see plant-based meat in stores
- The sad truth about animal agriculture and emissions
- Why Paul thinks we’ll have multiple forms of clean meat
- The food spoilage problem and how to solve it
- Why the Amazon fires are caused by cow herding
- What the daily-free milk movements tells us about the future of food
- How to use business for good
- Lessons learned from Whole Foods
- What’s the future of biotech and GMOs
- The economic incentives that will end animal farming
- Ways Paul organizes his life and focus
- How to feed 10 billion people
- Which runaway climate effects scare Paul most
- Why Paul thinks we’ll have a mix of large and small scale agriculture
- Why business is the best way to change the world]]>3290agriculture,agritech,amazon,amazonfire,animals,biotech,business,cleanmeat,climatechange,co2,economics,emmissions,farming,food,foodtech,future,gmo,humanity,plantbasedmeat,podcastfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/148-hunting-habitable-planets-and-an-mit-insiders-take-on-broken-education-system-and-tech-addiction-sara-seager--19306160
Seager was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013 citing her theoretical work on detecting chemical signatures on exoplanet atmospheres and developing low-cost space observatories to observe planetary transits and developed a parallel version of the Drake equation to estimate the number of habitable planets in galaxy to focus on the presence of any alien life detectable from Earth.

In 2012, Sara was named to Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential in Space. She is the author of two textbooks on these topics and has been recognized for her research by Popular Science, Discover Magazine, Nature and TIME Magazine. She was also on the board of asteroid mining company, Planetary Resources before the company folded.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why private space entreprise is our path to the stars
- What is the state of the art in our search for intelligent life
- How to increase public funding and excitement for space and science
- Why asteroid mining is so hard and what’s holding us back
- Ways to fix our broken education system
- Sara’s adaptation of the Drake equation in the search for alien life
- The challenges of finding ET
- Why Mars wouldn’t be such a nice place to live but matters anyways
- How to combat smartphone and social media addiction
- What nano and cube sats mean for future of astronomy
- Why even MIT isn’t immune from education’s woes
- The scary truth about privacy and why Sara’s worried
- What was that deal with that UFO sighting]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19306160Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:16:22 +0000Matt WardSara Seager (@profsaraseager) is an astronomer, planetary scientist and professor at the MIT best known for her work on extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. Seager was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013 citing her theoretical work on...
Seager was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2013 citing her theoretical work on detecting chemical signatures on exoplanet atmospheres and developing low-cost space observatories to observe planetary transits and developed a parallel version of the Drake equation to estimate the number of habitable planets in galaxy to focus on the presence of any alien life detectable from Earth.

In 2012, Sara was named to Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential in Space. She is the author of two textbooks on these topics and has been recognized for her research by Popular Science, Discover Magazine, Nature and TIME Magazine. She was also on the board of asteroid mining company, Planetary Resources before the company folded.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why private space entreprise is our path to the stars
- What is the state of the art in our search for intelligent life
- How to increase public funding and excitement for space and science
- Why asteroid mining is so hard and what’s holding us back
- Ways to fix our broken education system
- Sara’s adaptation of the Drake equation in the search for alien life
- The challenges of finding ET
- Why Mars wouldn’t be such a nice place to live but matters anyways
- How to combat smartphone and social media addiction
- What nano and cube sats mean for future of astronomy
- Why even MIT isn’t immune from education’s woes
- The scary truth about privacy and why Sara’s worried
- What was that deal with that UFO sighting]]>2605ai,alienlife,aliens,asteroidmining,astronomy,bigtech,educatio,education,et,intelligentlife,life,mit,podcast,robotics,science,seti,socialmedia,space,spacex,ufofalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/147-how-sharing-cities-saves-the-world-from-destructive-big-tech-capitalism-and-libertarianism-neal-gorenflo--19258480
Neal’s worked with startups like P2P asset sharing platform Moogul.com, an online DVD exchange, a spinout of Cisco’s corporate asset sharing platform, and Divvy.com. He co-organized The Abundance League monthly salons in SF between 2005 and 2010, consulted with Institute for the Future, Stanford, Lowe’s, and has been featured by The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Sunday Morning, Wired and Fast Company and appeared at SXSW, Sustainable Brands, and SOCAP.

He is co-editor of the books Share or Die: Voices of The Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis and Policies for Shareable Cities, the first sharing economy policy guide and is an adviser to governments and NGO initiatives.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How US zoning policies institutionalized racism
- What participatory budgeting can do for revitalizing civic life
- Why the capitalism experiment of the free market failed
- The power of local networks and connections
- How we should rethink cities and urban planning
- Why Neal isn’t that excited about driverless cars
- The huge problem with America’s suburbs system
- Why the gig economy is eroding our future
- How Neal views the future of government
- Why blockchain isn’t the answer to our problems
- What libertarianism gets massively wrong
- Why big tech is the most dangerous force today
- How hundreds of cities are saving the world through sharing
- Why Airbnb and Uber aren’t sharing companies at all]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19258480Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:03:22 +0000Matt WardNeal Gorenflo (@gorenflo) is the co-founder of Shareable, an award-winning news, action, connection hub for the grassroots sharing transformation. Neal’s worked with startups like P2P asset sharing platform Moogul.com, an online DVD exchange, a...
Neal’s worked with startups like P2P asset sharing platform Moogul.com, an online DVD exchange, a spinout of Cisco’s corporate asset sharing platform, and Divvy.com. He co-organized The Abundance League monthly salons in SF between 2005 and 2010, consulted with Institute for the Future, Stanford, Lowe’s, and has been featured by The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Sunday Morning, Wired and Fast Company and appeared at SXSW, Sustainable Brands, and SOCAP.

He is co-editor of the books Share or Die: Voices of The Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis and Policies for Shareable Cities, the first sharing economy policy guide and is an adviser to governments and NGO initiatives.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How US zoning policies institutionalized racism
- What participatory budgeting can do for revitalizing civic life
- Why the capitalism experiment of the free market failed
- The power of local networks and connections
- How we should rethink cities and urban planning
- Why Neal isn’t that excited about driverless cars
- The huge problem with America’s suburbs system
- Why the gig economy is eroding our future
- How Neal views the future of government
- Why blockchain isn’t the answer to our problems
- What libertarianism gets massively wrong
- Why big tech is the most dangerous force today
- How hundreds of cities are saving the world through sharing
- Why Airbnb and Uber aren’t sharing companies at all]]>3063bigtech,blockchain,capitalism,cities,connections,economics,economy,governance,housing,libertarianism,networks,politics,racism,sharing,socialism,suburb,tech,urbanization,urbanplanning,zoningfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/146-how-universal-basic-income-makes-us-richer-how-to-pay-for-it-and-why-our-economy-is-in-trouble-jim-pugh--19195018
Jim’s also the founder and CEO of ShareProgress, a social-good startup that helps progressive organizations use the power of data and technology to grow their base and win their campaigns.

He previously served as the Director of Analytics and Development for President Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA) and the Democratic National Committee and was the founding Chief Technology Officer at Rebuild the Dream.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why we NEED universal basic income before the robots come
- The true impact of giving people free money
- How to pay for UBI
- The problems and possibilities of universal basic income
- How we should rethink immigration, especially if we enact UBI
- Why America’s two-party system is fundamentally flawed
- The surprising truth about working in politics
- Why Jim thinks we need to fix antitrust
- How grassroots movements and decentralization go forward from here
- Why universal healthcare is so connected to universal income
- The reason governments need to run more pilot programs
- Why Trump broke (and fixed) politics in the US
- What’s the future of capitalism in America]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19195018Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:07:33 +0000Matt WardJim Pugh (@dr_pugh) is a co-founder of the Universal Income Project, a fiscally sponsored organization focused on raising awareness and support for UBI. Jim’s also the founder and CEO of ShareProgress, a social-good startup that helps progressive...
Jim’s also the founder and CEO of ShareProgress, a social-good startup that helps progressive organizations use the power of data and technology to grow their base and win their campaigns.

He previously served as the Director of Analytics and Development for President Obama’s Organizing for America (OFA) and the Democratic National Committee and was the founding Chief Technology Officer at Rebuild the Dream.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why we NEED universal basic income before the robots come
- The true impact of giving people free money
- How to pay for UBI
- The problems and possibilities of universal basic income
- How we should rethink immigration, especially if we enact UBI
- Why America’s two-party system is fundamentally flawed
- The surprising truth about working in politics
- Why Jim thinks we need to fix antitrust
- How grassroots movements and decentralization go forward from here
- Why universal healthcare is so connected to universal income
- The reason governments need to run more pilot programs
- Why Trump broke (and fixed) politics in the US
- What’s the future of capitalism in America]]>3195ai,antitrust,capitalism,democracy,economics,economy,governance,immigration,income,money,monopolies,podcast,politics,poverty,robotics,robots,socialism,ubi,universalbasicincome,welfarefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/145-zipcar-founder-robin-chase-one-lessons-learned-inventing-ridesharing-almost-a-decade-before-uber-and-what-it-means-for-future-of-urban--19159221
Robin is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce and the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.

She lectures widely, is frequently featured in major media and has received many awards including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How Robin invented the ride-sharing market almost a decade before Uber
- What does the future of urban transportation look like
- The important difference between ridesharing and car-sharing, and what that means for climate change
- Why Europe is so far ahead of the US when it comes to livable cities
- The reason decentralization is so valuable and why it doesn’t always work
- How to fix our cities for healthier, happier people
- What will driverless vehicles mean for the future of car ownership
- Why electrics bikes and scooters change everything when it comes to transforming cities
- What Robin thinks about Lyft and Uber’s business models
- Why Robin is intrigued and worried about blockchain and Bitcoin]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19159221Fri, 20 Sep 2019 04:57:57 +0000Matt WardRobin Chase (@rmchase) is the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a carsharing marketplace in France; and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community as well as co-founder of Veniam, a company that moves...
Robin is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce and the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.

She lectures widely, is frequently featured in major media and has received many awards including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How Robin invented the ride-sharing market almost a decade before Uber
- What does the future of urban transportation look like
- The important difference between ridesharing and car-sharing, and what that means for climate change
- Why Europe is so far ahead of the US when it comes to livable cities
- The reason decentralization is so valuable and why it doesn’t always work
- How to fix our cities for healthier, happier people
- What will driverless vehicles mean for the future of car ownership
- Why electrics bikes and scooters change everything when it comes to transforming cities
- What Robin thinks about Lyft and Uber’s business models
- Why Robin is intrigued and worried about blockchain and Bitcoin]]>2728car,carsharing,city,climatechange,co2,decentralization,driverless,economics,emissions,environment,health,iot,lyft,podcast,ridesharing,transit,transportation,ubanization,uber,zipcarfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/144-psychedelics-superhuman-memory-and-evolving-education-as-we-head-towards-jobless-future-jonathan-levi-of-superhuman-academy--19116333
He runs the SuperHuman Academy Podcast (3M+ downloads) and since 2014, has was one of the top instructors (over 60k students) on Udemy, with his course Become a SuperLearner® (now retired), in addition to his Masterclass course.

In addition to his own bestselling book, Becoming a SuperLearner, Jonathan’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, TEDx, Entrepreneur On Fire, Mixergy, Dream. Think. Do and many more.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The science of memory and speed learning
- What’s wrong with the education system and how to fix it
- How LSD transformed Jonathan’s life for the better
- Where we’re headed with brain-machine interfaces and cyborg citizens
- Why we’re headed towards a jobless future
- How to increase creativity and productivity
- The scary future of American democracy
- Why Jonathan is terrified about AI
- How blockchain threats governments and the status quo
- Which life hacks Jonathan’s implemented from his incredible guests
- Why depression and mental health issues are common amongst high performers
- How online education and courses plays into our future]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19116333Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:05:29 +0000Matt WardJonathan Levi (@entreprenewer) is an experienced entrepreneur, angel investor, superlearner and lifehacker from Silicon Valley. He runs the SuperHuman Academy Podcast (3M+ downloads) and since 2014, has was one of the top instructors (over 60k...
He runs the SuperHuman Academy Podcast (3M+ downloads) and since 2014, has was one of the top instructors (over 60k students) on Udemy, with his course Become a SuperLearner® (now retired), in addition to his Masterclass course.

In addition to his own bestselling book, Becoming a SuperLearner, Jonathan’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, TEDx, Entrepreneur On Fire, Mixergy, Dream. Think. Do and many more.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The science of memory and speed learning
- What’s wrong with the education system and how to fix it
- How LSD transformed Jonathan’s life for the better
- Where we’re headed with brain-machine interfaces and cyborg citizens
- Why we’re headed towards a jobless future
- How to increase creativity and productivity
- The scary future of American democracy
- Why Jonathan is terrified about AI
- How blockchain threats governments and the status quo
- Which life hacks Jonathan’s implemented from his incredible guests
- Why depression and mental health issues are common amongst high performers
- How online education and courses plays into our future]]>3064falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/143-john-stossel-on-america-s-debt-and-healthcare-bubbles-and-libertarian-ideals-for-a-better-world-stosseltv--19087694
John’s been a reporter for 50 years, received 19 Emmy Awards and five awards from the National Press Club and written three bestselling books: Give Me a Break, Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity, and No They Can’t! Why Government Fails but Individuals Succeed.

John also started and runs the non-profit Center For Independent Thought to educate young people about free-market ideas, which reaches ~10M students per year.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How John went from government supporter to staunch libertarian
- The sad truth about America’s healthcare system and why it’s so expensive
- Why John says free enterprise is always the answer
- The problems and possibilities of universal basic income
- How we should rethink immigration
- Why the American government could implode due to rising debt
- The reason John’s big on blockchain and bought into Bitcoin earlyish
- What we can (and can’t) do about America’s gun problem, and why John thinks it isn’t a huge problem
- How John’s view on climate change have changed since first being skeptical
- Why John says we need less government regulation
- Pros and cons of European and American systems
- Why John doesn’t think we should fund efforts to fight climate change
- What’s the future of news and media
- The danger of the algorithm]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19087694Fri, 13 Sep 2019 07:52:31 +0000Matt WardJohn Stossel (@johnstossel) is an American consumer television personality, author, and libertarian pundit, known for his career on both ABC News on 20/20 and a weekly news show on Fox for almost a decade. He now runs StosselTV, a Youtube channel to...
John’s been a reporter for 50 years, received 19 Emmy Awards and five awards from the National Press Club and written three bestselling books: Give Me a Break, Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity, and No They Can’t! Why Government Fails but Individuals Succeed.

John also started and runs the non-profit Center For Independent Thought to educate young people about free-market ideas, which reaches ~10M students per year.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How John went from government supporter to staunch libertarian
- The sad truth about America’s healthcare system and why it’s so expensive
- Why John says free enterprise is always the answer
- The problems and possibilities of universal basic income
- How we should rethink immigration
- Why the American government could implode due to rising debt
- The reason John’s big on blockchain and bought into Bitcoin earlyish
- What we can (and can’t) do about America’s gun problem, and why John thinks it isn’t a huge problem
- How John’s view on climate change have changed since first being skeptical
- Why John says we need less government regulation
- Pros and cons of European and American systems
- Why John doesn’t think we should fund efforts to fight climate change
- What’s the future of news and media
- The danger of the algorithm]]>2611basicincome,bitcoin,blockchain,capitalism,climatechange,democracy,economics,economy,education,governance,government,guns,healthcare,libertarian,media,podcast,politics,regulation,socialism,socialmediafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/142-wired-editor-nick-thompson-on-free-speech-fake-news-regulating-big-tech-and-coming-cold-war-with-china--19038673
In today’s episode we discuss:
- The future of media and state of fake news
- A deeper dive into the issues of social media and how to address them
- Why Nick’s optimistic Facebook can become a force for good
- An insider’s perspective on the Huawei debate and China trade war
- Possible ways to redesign democracy
- Nick’s thoughts on AI and its potential to upend existing power structures
- Why Nick is very concerned with prospect of nuclear war
- How Nick thinks about privacy, convenience and future of internet
- Why there’s no impeachment coming from Mueller’s investigation
- An in-depth examination of existential risk
- What the government should do about big tech
- The reason Nick’s not worried about AGI
- How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny
- Why climate change is still the biggest problem to tackle
- Can we save journalism]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19038673Sun, 08 Sep 2019 15:19:48 +0000Matt WardNick Thompson (@nxthompson) is the editor-in-chief of WIRED, the 5th since its founding. Under his leadership, WIRED has broken massive stories about Facebook, cyber-warfare, the Robert Mueller investigation, and numerous other topics. Prior to WIRED,...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- The future of media and state of fake news
- A deeper dive into the issues of social media and how to address them
- Why Nick’s optimistic Facebook can become a force for good
- An insider’s perspective on the Huawei debate and China trade war
- Possible ways to redesign democracy
- Nick’s thoughts on AI and its potential to upend existing power structures
- Why Nick is very concerned with prospect of nuclear war
- How Nick thinks about privacy, convenience and future of internet
- Why there’s no impeachment coming from Mueller’s investigation
- An in-depth examination of existential risk
- What the government should do about big tech
- The reason Nick’s not worried about AGI
- How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny
- Why climate change is still the biggest problem to tackle
- Can we save journalism]]>3747agi,ai,biology,biotech,china,climatechange,democracy,economics,facebook,fakenews,huawei,journalism,news,nuclearwar,podcast,politics,privacy,socialmedia,technology,tradewarfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/141-how-nanotech-tattoos-will-give-us-superhuman-strength-senses-and-merge-with-biotech-carson-bruns--19019195
In today’s episode we discuss:
- The future of implantable computing
- How molecular machinery works and what it means for our future
- Why Carson’s so bullish on tech-enabled tattoos
- The pros and cons of embeddable vs wearable tech
- Augmented reality and wearables
- How far off are we from a Star Trek replicator
- The key difference between nanotech and synthetic biology
- Why Carson went on a 3-day silent Buddhism retreat and studied philosophy
- What Japan taught Carson about life
- The value of being well-rounded in today’s world
- Why diverse teams actually leads to better outcomes
- How Carson thinks about the research funding landscape today
- What technologies most worry and excite Carson most, and why]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19019195Fri, 06 Sep 2019 03:45:01 +0000Matt WardCarson Bruns (@BrunsenBurner) is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he directs the Emergent Nanomaterials Lab, inventing nanomaterials, tech-enabled tattoos and more that Sci-Fi authors have...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- The future of implantable computing
- How molecular machinery works and what it means for our future
- Why Carson’s so bullish on tech-enabled tattoos
- The pros and cons of embeddable vs wearable tech
- Augmented reality and wearables
- How far off are we from a Star Trek replicator
- The key difference between nanotech and synthetic biology
- Why Carson went on a 3-day silent Buddhism retreat and studied philosophy
- What Japan taught Carson about life
- The value of being well-rounded in today’s world
- Why diverse teams actually leads to better outcomes
- How Carson thinks about the research funding landscape today
- What technologies most worry and excite Carson most, and why]]>2558ai,biology,biotech,chemistry,computing,future,genetics,implant,iot,nano,nanotechnology,podcast,science,superhuman,syntheticbiology,tattoos,tech,technology,wearables,wearabletechfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/140-how-to-have-your-meat-and-eat-it-too-while-combatting-climate-change-bruce-friedrich--18977058
Bruce is a TED Fellow (whose TED Talk has been viewed over 1M times), Y Combinator alum, and popular speaker on food innovation. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Wired, and many other publications and appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, TED Radio Hour, and a variety of programs on MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The pros and cons of the various types of clean meat alternatives
- How market dynamics will determine the adoption of plant and cell-based meats
- Why animal agriculture is one of THE BIGGEST contributors to climate change
- Why Bruce believes lab-grown meat will ultimately be the biggest alternative meat
- The reason Bruce started a non-profit rather than a benefit corp
- How effective altruism makes non-profits more impactful
- What YCombinator startups taught Bruce about successful charity organizations
- How to engineering healthier meat
- What does the future of agriculture really look like
- Bruce’s thoughts on GMOs and their future
- Why plastic straws aren’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things
- Why individuals should evaluate their efforts and possible effect before choosing careers]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18977058Mon, 02 Sep 2019 07:35:13 +0000Matt WardBruce Friedrich (@BruceGFriedrich) is co-founder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (@GoodFoodInst), a nonprofit that promotes plant, dairy, and eggs-based meats as well as clean meat (also known as cultured meat and cell-based meat),...
Bruce is a TED Fellow (whose TED Talk has been viewed over 1M times), Y Combinator alum, and popular speaker on food innovation. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Wired, and many other publications and appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, TED Radio Hour, and a variety of programs on MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN

In today’s episode we discuss:
- The pros and cons of the various types of clean meat alternatives
- How market dynamics will determine the adoption of plant and cell-based meats
- Why animal agriculture is one of THE BIGGEST contributors to climate change
- Why Bruce believes lab-grown meat will ultimately be the biggest alternative meat
- The reason Bruce started a non-profit rather than a benefit corp
- How effective altruism makes non-profits more impactful
- What YCombinator startups taught Bruce about successful charity organizations
- How to engineering healthier meat
- What does the future of agriculture really look like
- Bruce’s thoughts on GMOs and their future
- Why plastic straws aren’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things
- Why individuals should evaluate their efforts and possible effect before choosing careers]]>2796agriculture,agritech,alternatives,cleanmeat,climatechange,culturemeat,engineering,farming,foodtech,future,futureoffarming,geneticengineering,genetics,gmo,meat,non-profit,pollution,science,technology,ycombinatorfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/139-the-ai-arms-race-to-build-humanity-s-successor-or-spark-world-war-iii-dan-faggella--18958573
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How human-machine augmentation could help humanity last longer
- The reason humanity’s future is bleak at best
- Is the conflict between China and the US inevitable
- Why the question of consciousness is the most important one we SHOULD be solving
- How AI will impact the future of power, nations and life
- Why Dan thinks we’re all headed to a VR powered matrix of bliss
- The reason Dan’s not too optimistic about our future
- Why building AI is creating our successors
- What happens when we automate more and more jobs
- Why Chinese dominance is almost inevitable
- Is breaking up big tech more dangerous than it’s worth
- Why driverless cars are anything but the most exciting aspects of AI
- How close we are to real-time translation
- Why Dan’s not so sure about UBI]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18958573Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:27:23 +0000Matt WardDan Faggella (@danfaggella) is the Founder and CEO of Emerj Artificial Intelligence Research that helps world-leading organizations like the World Bank, the United Nations, INTERPOL, CERN, Harvard and more navigate the competitive landscape of AI...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How human-machine augmentation could help humanity last longer
- The reason humanity’s future is bleak at best
- Is the conflict between China and the US inevitable
- Why the question of consciousness is the most important one we SHOULD be solving
- How AI will impact the future of power, nations and life
- Why Dan thinks we’re all headed to a VR powered matrix of bliss
- The reason Dan’s not too optimistic about our future
- Why building AI is creating our successors
- What happens when we automate more and more jobs
- Why Chinese dominance is almost inevitable
- Is breaking up big tech more dangerous than it’s worth
- Why driverless cars are anything but the most exciting aspects of AI
- How close we are to real-time translation
- Why Dan’s not so sure about UBI]]>3374ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,biohacker,china,consciousness,driverless,economics,existentialrisk,governance,jobs,neuro,neuroscience,politics,robotics,technology,tradewar,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/138-how-functional-medicine-and-community-health-insurance-cure-chronic-disease-increase-longevity-and-save-money-james-maskell--18915936
In today’s episode we discuss:

- What Western healthcare got wrong with medicine and health
- Ways to fix the healthcare incentive problem, which actually work
- How growing up on a commune influenced James’ life
- The problem with pharma’s quick-fix silver bullet
- Why James decided to reinvent the healthcare system
- How community and belonging can beat out any medicine
- What James thinks about wearables and genetic testing
- The one constant among Blue Zone societies
- Why functional medicine is the solution to health
- How to design health into our societies
- Why we need direct democracy
- The surefire way to avoid regret
- Why AI and brain-machine interfaces worry James
- The scary truth about soil quality
- What you NEED to know about Obamacare and insurance
- Why regenerative agriculture needs more focus now]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18915936Mon, 26 Aug 2019 07:51:20 +0000Matt WardJames Maskell (@mrjamesmaskell) is the founder of Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference and KNEW Health, a transformation alternative health-sharing insurance model. He’s health advocate and entrepreneur, that’s spent a...
In today’s episode we discuss:

- What Western healthcare got wrong with medicine and health
- Ways to fix the healthcare incentive problem, which actually work
- How growing up on a commune influenced James’ life
- The problem with pharma’s quick-fix silver bullet
- Why James decided to reinvent the healthcare system
- How community and belonging can beat out any medicine
- What James thinks about wearables and genetic testing
- The one constant among Blue Zone societies
- Why functional medicine is the solution to health
- How to design health into our societies
- Why we need direct democracy
- The surefire way to avoid regret
- Why AI and brain-machine interfaces worry James
- The scary truth about soil quality
- What you NEED to know about Obamacare and insurance
- Why regenerative agriculture needs more focus now]]>3374agriculture,agritech,biotech,commune,disease,foodtech,functionalmedicine,gene,genetic,genetics,genetictesting,health,healthcare,insurance,longevity,medication,medicine,pharma,science,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/137-nir-eyal-on-habit-forming-products-and-why-tech-is-more-like-cannabis-than-cigarettes--18896436
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why the anti-tech trend is wrong about the big picture
- The ways to incentivize productivity and happiness
- How to overcome habit-forming products and be indistractable
- Why liberals overemphasize tech’s role in electing Trump
- What Nir thinks about surveillance, corporations and government
- The destructive–and constructive–power of social media
- Why regulation isn’t the answer to tech addiction
- Nir’s thoughts on pros and cons of privacy
- The important distinction between regrets and results
- Why Facebook and Google are inherently good and what we can do about it
- Are algorithms to blame for increasing radicalization
- Simple smartphone hacks to make you happier
- Why tech is more like cannabis than cocaine]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18896436Fri, 23 Aug 2019 08:49:03 +0000Matt WardNir Eyal (@nireyal) is a writer, entrepreneur, teacher and investor focused on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business MIT’s Technology Review dubbed “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Nir founded two tech companies since 2003...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why the anti-tech trend is wrong about the big picture
- The ways to incentivize productivity and happiness
- How to overcome habit-forming products and be indistractable
- Why liberals overemphasize tech’s role in electing Trump
- What Nir thinks about surveillance, corporations and government
- The destructive–and constructive–power of social media
- Why regulation isn’t the answer to tech addiction
- Nir’s thoughts on pros and cons of privacy
- The important distinction between regrets and results
- Why Facebook and Google are inherently good and what we can do about it
- Are algorithms to blame for increasing radicalization
- Simple smartphone hacks to make you happier
- Why tech is more like cannabis than cocaine]]>3416ai,artificialintelligence,brain,facebook,google,governance,government,health,neuro,neuroscience,politics,privacy,productivity,science,social,socialmedia,tech,technology,thinking,trendsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/136-bob-metcalfe-on-free-enterprise-why-income-inequality-is-a-good-thing-and-the-evolution-of-an-energy-internet--18854320https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18854320Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:43:17 +0000Matt Ward3053falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/135-aj-jacobs-on-happiness-helping-tim-ferriss-and-answering-the-age-old-question-of-religion--18833435
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How AJ met Tim Ferriss and helped him write a bestseller
- The pros and cons of genetic testing and ancestry
- Is religion net positive or negative on the world
- The secret of happiness
- How to go about fixing media and fake news
- Why AJ’s worried about data privacy and surveillance
- How to deal with existential risk
- Why we need clean meat now
- What AJ learned from following conventional health advice
- The state of the publishing industry today
- What to do when good advice backfires
- How to choose projects to work on
- The reason biology is such a scary medium to manipulate
- Unintended consequences of 23andme]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18833435Fri, 16 Aug 2019 08:57:18 +0000Matt WardAJ Jacobs (@ajjacobs) is an author, journalist, lecturer and human guinea pig and Editor-At-Large at Esquire. He has written four New York Times bestsellers, including Thanks a Thousand–the secret to happiness through gratitude; The Year of Living...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How AJ met Tim Ferriss and helped him write a bestseller
- The pros and cons of genetic testing and ancestry
- Is religion net positive or negative on the world
- The secret of happiness
- How to go about fixing media and fake news
- Why AJ’s worried about data privacy and surveillance
- How to deal with existential risk
- Why we need clean meat now
- What AJ learned from following conventional health advice
- The state of the publishing industry today
- What to do when good advice backfires
- How to choose projects to work on
- The reason biology is such a scary medium to manipulate
- Unintended consequences of 23andme]]>2921ai,arificialintelligence,biology,biotech,cleanmeat,climatechange,family,genetic,genetics,genetictesting,health,longevity,media,nuclearwar,podast,racism,religion,socialmedia,society,tribalismfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/134-augmented-reality-automation-and-life-after-move-fast-and-break-things-galit-ariel--18806461
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Life beyond move fast and break things
- How augmented reality will connect us in unexpected ways
- What Galit thinks about automation, jobs and more…
- Why Galit’s worried about the lack of humanity in tech
- How to tackles society’s biggest challenges through collective action
- When can you expect AR epicness and where will it come from
- The reason the attention economy is so destructive
- Why AR will trump VR and be the next major paradigm
- What Apple means for the future of AR
- Why holograms and AR are already here
- The reason Google Glass failed and visual AR isn’t ready yet
- Why Galit’s worried about privacy and rights going forward]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18806461Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:31:29 +0000Matt WardGalit Ariel (@galitariel) is a transdisciplinary creative and strategic thinker and self-defined Digital Hippie, very focused on augmented reality and experiential tech. Her book Augmenting Alice – The Future of Identity, Experience and Reality...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Life beyond move fast and break things
- How augmented reality will connect us in unexpected ways
- What Galit thinks about automation, jobs and more…
- Why Galit’s worried about the lack of humanity in tech
- How to tackles society’s biggest challenges through collective action
- When can you expect AR epicness and where will it come from
- The reason the attention economy is so destructive
- Why AR will trump VR and be the next major paradigm
- What Apple means for the future of AR
- Why holograms and AR are already here
- The reason Google Glass failed and visual AR isn’t ready yet
- Why Galit’s worried about privacy and rights going forward]]>3648advertising,ai,apple,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreallity,automation,climatechange,economics,future,government,holograms,jobs,podcast,privacy,socialmedia,technology,ubi,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/133-why-blockchain-and-facebook-s-libra-cryptocurrency-threaten-governments-and-what-a-decentralized-renewable-energy-future-looks-like--18761618
In 2014, Abe launched Sun Exchange—a global solar micro-leasing marketplace that closes the funding gap for commercial- and community-scale solar projects in emerging markets, while streaming monetized sunshine all over the world. Sun Exchange has been named Best Bitcoin & Blockchain Business in Africa two years in a row and Abe delivers keynote speeches around the world.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to speed the transition to renewables and why it’s inevitable
- What blockchain and Bitcoin means for governments and commerce
- Why cryptocurrency is the future but the ownership is up for grabs
- What Facebook’s Libra coin means for the rest of the world
- The reason decentralization is so valuable and needed in our world
- Why Africa has a more sophisticated payments system than America
- What crowdfunding infrastructure means for emerging markets
- What areas are most ripe for blockchain-based disruption
- Pros and cons of decentralization
- Why climate change is 100% real regardless of global warming
- What distributed solar really means for the world]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18761618Thu, 08 Aug 2019 10:29:08 +0000Matt WardAbe Cambridge (@abecambridge) is a serial energy entrepreneur who establishes businesses and projects around the world that use solar energy to bring about out major socio-economic shifts. In 2010, he pioneered utility-scale solar in Britain and in...
In 2014, Abe launched Sun Exchange—a global solar micro-leasing marketplace that closes the funding gap for commercial- and community-scale solar projects in emerging markets, while streaming monetized sunshine all over the world. Sun Exchange has been named Best Bitcoin & Blockchain Business in Africa two years in a row and Abe delivers keynote speeches around the world.

In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to speed the transition to renewables and why it’s inevitable
- What blockchain and Bitcoin means for governments and commerce
- Why cryptocurrency is the future but the ownership is up for grabs
- What Facebook’s Libra coin means for the rest of the world
- The reason decentralization is so valuable and needed in our world
- Why Africa has a more sophisticated payments system than America
- What crowdfunding infrastructure means for emerging markets
- What areas are most ripe for blockchain-based disruption
- Pros and cons of decentralization
- Why climate change is 100% real regardless of global warming
- What distributed solar really means for the world]]>3323bitcoin,blockchain,cleanenergy,climatechange,crypto,cryptocurrency,decentalized,decentralization,economics,economy,energy,facebook,future,government,libra,politics,renewableenergy,renewables,socialmedia,solarfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/132-the-failed-drug-war-unintended-consequences-and-future-of-sustainable-agriculture-richard-brion--18722554
In today’s episode we discuss:
- The future of agriculture: both big and small
- How humanity can solve our food shortage going forward
- Politics and realities of eating organic
- How Richard’s deployment in Afghanistan shaped his world outlook
- Why Richard’s worried about GMOs and unintended consequences
- The aquaponics and reinventing the future of food
- Why GMOs have faced such harsh criticism
- What Richard likes about the Swiss system of forced military service
- Why political leaders need more military perspective to govern effectively
- What happened with the Drug War and the law of unintended consequences
- The reason isolationism isn’t a good policy for the US or anyone
- Why AI is more dangerous than we think
- The scary truth about Trump’s rhetoric on Europe and NATO]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18722554Sun, 04 Aug 2019 21:32:52 +0000Matt WardRichard Brion (@richardbrion) is the founder of Revolution Agriculture—a patent-pending solution to the food security challenge—and an ex-US Navy officer focused on making farming more adaptable to a climate change-driven world with less resource 60%...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- The future of agriculture: both big and small
- How humanity can solve our food shortage going forward
- Politics and realities of eating organic
- How Richard’s deployment in Afghanistan shaped his world outlook
- Why Richard’s worried about GMOs and unintended consequences
- The aquaponics and reinventing the future of food
- Why GMOs have faced such harsh criticism
- What Richard likes about the Swiss system of forced military service
- Why political leaders need more military perspective to govern effectively
- What happened with the Drug War and the law of unintended consequences
- The reason isolationism isn’t a good policy for the US or anyone
- Why AI is more dangerous than we think
- The scary truth about Trump’s rhetoric on Europe and NATO]]>3021agriculture,agritech,ai,biotech,cleanmeat,climatechange,farming,food,foodsecurity,foodshortage,foodtech,futureoffood,genetics,gmo,health,military,organic,podcast,politics,warfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/131-68-years-young-and-the-prospects-for-superhuman-longevity-and-a-better-tomorrow-mark-sackler--18697793
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why Mark became a futurist at the age of 66
- Mark’s initial forays in the longevity space, in the 70s
- How the space race galvanized Mark’s initial interest in the future
- Ways to change the way we all think about the future
- The big problems with linear thinking and other traps that cause massive harm
- Why horse manure is a great example of a simply stupid philosophy we all fall for
- Which areas of biotech have Mark more excited and why
- Thought on existential risk and the importance of optimism
- The news paradigm and how to shift the story
- What anti-aging technology will mean for society
- The under-discussed importance of clean meat
- Why diversity is so lacking in tech and futurism
- Ways to change your perspective for better]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18697793Thu, 01 Aug 2019 17:20:59 +0000Matt WardMark Sackler (@marksackler) is a futurist/foresight analyst, the North American Correspondent of The Age of Robots Magazine and the host of the Seeking Delphi podcast where he talks space, sustainable energy, the future of transport and biotech with...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why Mark became a futurist at the age of 66
- Mark’s initial forays in the longevity space, in the 70s
- How the space race galvanized Mark’s initial interest in the future
- Ways to change the way we all think about the future
- The big problems with linear thinking and other traps that cause massive harm
- Why horse manure is a great example of a simply stupid philosophy we all fall for
- Which areas of biotech have Mark more excited and why
- Thought on existential risk and the importance of optimism
- The news paradigm and how to shift the story
- What anti-aging technology will mean for society
- The under-discussed importance of clean meat
- Why diversity is so lacking in tech and futurism
- Ways to change your perspective for better]]>2571ai,anti-aging,artificialintelligence,biology,biotech,cleanmeat,existentialrisk,future,futurism,genetics,health,lifeextension,longevity,media,optimism,podcast,science,society,space,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/bonus-future-snippets-how-china-s-crispr-babies-change-the-game-for-genetic-engineering-paul-root-wolpe--18677801
To listen to the entire episode, visit: https://disruptors.fm/125-the-bioethics-of-engineering-superhuman-crispr-babies-cloning-and-bringing-back-the-t-rex-paul-root-wolpe/

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To listen to the entire episode, visit: https://disruptors.fm/125-the-bioethics-of-engineering-superhuman-crispr-babies-cloning-and-bringing-back-the-t-rex-paul-root-wolpe/

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To listen to the entire episode, visit: https://disruptors.fm/126-why-tech-isnt-the-answer-or-problem-and-society-needs-new-ethics-and-incentives-to-survive-this-century-nikola-danayov/

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To listen to the entire episode, visit: https://disruptors.fm/126-why-tech-isnt-the-answer-or-problem-and-society-needs-new-ethics-and-incentives-to-survive-this-century-nikola-danayov/

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To listen to the entire episode, visit: https://disruptors.fm/123-space-law-piracy-profit-and-militarization-in-age-of-star-wars-frans-von-der-dunk/

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To listen to the entire episode, visit: https://disruptors.fm/123-space-law-piracy-profit-and-militarization-in-age-of-star-wars-frans-von-der-dunk/

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To listen to the entire episode, visit: [https://disruptors.fm/119-sustainability-to-save-ourselves-from-climate-change-automation-and-nuclear-war-mark-diesendorf/](https://disruptors.fm/119-sustainability-to-save-ourselves-from-climate-change-automation-and-nuclear-war-mark-diesendorf/)

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Subscribe to The Disruptors main podcast: [https://disruptors.fm/itunes](https://disruptors.fm/itunes)]]>258argiculture,charles,dna,emissions,environment,farming,food,future,genetically,genetics,genomics,gmo,health,mann,modified,soil,sustainability,tech,technologist,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/130-life-is-pain-and-bs-then-you-die-unless-you-find-a-way-to-make-it-mean-something-keith-kirkland--18668645
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to give sight to the blind
- The state of the haptics industry today
- What you should know about creating
- How to escape bad environments and still make the best of things
- The future of cyborgs and superhuman senses
- How Keith tried to create a suit that taught you kungfu
- Why we’re headed towards a future of sex robots
- The risks of AI if we’re not careful with biases
- Keith’s thoughts on data privacy as it relates to wearables
- When to call it quits and when to push through
- How to find your calling
- The value of asking for help
- Why we should treat robots better now]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18668645Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:59:18 +0000Matt WardKeith Kirkland (@wearworksinc) is a TED resident/speaker, an accessories and industrial designer, accomplished speaker and the co-founder and Head of Haptics of WearWork, a company creating nextgen wearables to help visually impaired folks living in...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- How to give sight to the blind
- The state of the haptics industry today
- What you should know about creating
- How to escape bad environments and still make the best of things
- The future of cyborgs and superhuman senses
- How Keith tried to create a suit that taught you kungfu
- Why we’re headed towards a future of sex robots
- The risks of AI if we’re not careful with biases
- Keith’s thoughts on data privacy as it relates to wearables
- When to call it quits and when to push through
- How to find your calling
- The value of asking for help
- Why we should treat robots better now]]>3857ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,business,consciousness,data,dataprivacy,entrepreneurship,haptics,health,healthcare,iot,mobile,motivation,podcast,robotics,virtualreality,vr,wearablesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/129-why-spacetime-s-doomed-quantum-mechanics-falls-short-and-an-alternative-reality-consciousness-may-be-the-answer-don-hoffman--18647275
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why physics need to replace spacetime to go further as a domain
- What Don’s work’s uncovered about the nature of reality
- Why AI may be impossible given our current struggles to solve consciousness
- Are we living in a simulation
- What to think about the multiverse
- How quantum dynamic properties may play in consciousness
- The way Don’s trying to unify neuroscience and physics in a grand unifying theory
- Why we’re headed for either apocalypse of utopia and Don’s not sure which
- Is free will a choice or an illusion
- Why synthetic biology is the most dangerous technology ever invented
- How the Large Hadron Collider contributes to science while breaking old paradigms
- The reason the US is poorly positioned to combat AI-driven unemployment
- Why consciousness is unsolvable given our current assumptions and how to rewrite them
- How science and religion merge into a mathematically provable model
- Are psychedelics a path to an alternative reality]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18647275Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:13:35 +0000Matt WardDonald Hoffman (@donaldhoffman) is a cognitive scientist, popular author, and Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. He studies how our visual perception, guided by millions of years of natural selection, authors every aspect of our everyday...
In today’s episode we discuss:
- Why physics need to replace spacetime to go further as a domain
- What Don’s work’s uncovered about the nature of reality
- Why AI may be impossible given our current struggles to solve consciousness
- Are we living in a simulation
- What to think about the multiverse
- How quantum dynamic properties may play in consciousness
- The way Don’s trying to unify neuroscience and physics in a grand unifying theory
- Why we’re headed for either apocalypse of utopia and Don’s not sure which
- Is free will a choice or an illusion
- Why synthetic biology is the most dangerous technology ever invented
- How the Large Hadron Collider contributes to science while breaking old paradigms
- The reason the US is poorly positioned to combat AI-driven unemployment
- Why consciousness is unsolvable given our current assumptions and how to rewrite them
- How science and religion merge into a mathematically provable model
- Are psychedelics a path to an alternative reality]]>3974ai,artificialintelligence,biotech,consciousness,genetics,health,multiverse,neuroscience,physics,podcast,psychedelics,psychology,quantum,science,scienceandtechnology,simulation,simulationtheory,space,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/128-saving-lives-and-stopping-disease-through-clean-air-and-startup-innovations-jaya-rao--18609224
In today's episode we discuss:

* The epidemic of air pollution worldwide
* How mold, toxins, and allergies lead to shortened lifespans and disease
* Why we need more women and diversity in tech and government
* Public transit from a public policy perspective
* Why the indoors is often many times more polluted than outside
* Which tech trends most worry Jaya and why
* The power and problems of the smart home movement
* What science-focused startups need to do differently to raise money
* Why competitive entrepreneurs and innovators are the answer to most problems
* The reason hardware is so hard to fund
* Why diversity leads to much better outcomes
* The importance of commercializing university innovations
* The state of health tech today






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=4001Mon, 22 Jul 2019 08:00:44 +0000Matt WardJaya Rao (@molekulair) is the co-founder of Molekule, a transformative SF based startup that's raised $38M+ to tackle the clean air problem worldwide, starting in people's homes to promote a healthier future. Prior to Molekule, Jaya focused with...
In today's episode we discuss:

* The epidemic of air pollution worldwide
* How mold, toxins, and allergies lead to shortened lifespans and disease
* Why we need more women and diversity in tech and government
* Public transit from a public policy perspective
* Why the indoors is often many times more polluted than outside
* Which tech trends most worry Jaya and why
* The power and problems of the smart home movement
* What science-focused startups need to do differently to raise money
* Why competitive entrepreneurs and innovators are the answer to most problems
* The reason hardware is so hard to fund
* Why diversity leads to much better outcomes
* The importance of commercializing university innovations
* The state of health tech today






















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 ]]>3221air,automation,autonomous,cars,change,clean,climate,driverless,environment,future,health,healthcare,iot,medtech,pollution,science,startups,transit,vehicles,wearablesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/127-ai-created-hans-zimmer-compositions-deep-fakes-the-future-of-art-pierre-barreau--18590477








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In today's episode we discuss:




* The future of AI composed music
* How creativity and art evolve with AI inspiration and automation
* Is AGI achievable and what about timelines
* Will automation lead to more or less jobs on net
* The double-edged sword of tech and artificial intelligence
* What to do about deep fakes and fake news
* Why social media and surveillance capitalism are so dangerous
* What Mozart did better than anyone else
* Thoughts about Asimov's three laws and AI containment
* What it takes to create Hans Zimmer quality compositions
* The truth about AI personality
* Is conscious AI inevitable
* Thoughts on the uncanny valley and human values






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3993Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:53:10 +0000Matt WardPierre Barreau (@aivatechnology) is an entrepreneur, computer scientist, composer and director and the CEO of AIVA, an artificial intelligence that composes incredibly emotional and beautiful music and soundtracks. He was nominated for a Gold Panda...








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In today's episode we discuss:




* The future of AI composed music
* How creativity and art evolve with AI inspiration and automation
* Is AGI achievable and what about timelines
* Will automation lead to more or less jobs on net
* The double-edged sword of tech and artificial intelligence
* What to do about deep fakes and fake news
* Why social media and surveillance capitalism are so dangerous
* What Mozart did better than anyone else
* Thoughts about Asimov's three laws and AI containment
* What it takes to create Hans Zimmer quality compositions
* The truth about AI personality
* Is conscious AI inevitable
* Thoughts on the uncanny valley and human values






















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 ]]>3413agi,ai,art,artificial,asimov,automation,automations,bmi,consciousness,intelligence,music,nets,neural,neuro,neuroscience,robot,robotics,science,ted,tedtalksfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/126-why-tech-isn-t-the-answer-or-problem-and-society-needs-new-ethics-and-incentives-to-survive-this-century-nikola-danaylov--18590478
In today's episode we discuss:

* The importance of ethics in today's exponential tech world
* Nikola's fight with Singularity University and organizations that don't live out their values
* Why the singularity isn't all it's cracked up to be
* Will capitalism survive our coming economic upheaval
* The reason philosophy is more important now than ever
* Nikola's thoughts on the war machine and military manufacturers
* Which countries present the best fundamental frameworks going forward
* The technologies and trends that most worry this accomplished thinker
* How to balance incentives and ethics to create a better world
* The reason the US is poorly positioned to combat AI-driven unemployment
* Why humanity always has and will always struggle with the same existential issues
* The reasons Nikola's soured on the techno-optimism movement]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=4094Mon, 15 Jul 2019 14:34:41 +0000Matt WardNikola Danalyov (@singularityblog) is a keynote speaker and futurist, tech philosopher, vegan and the host of Singularity.FM, one of the top tech futurism and ethics podcasts where he's interviewed 200+ of the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs,...
In today's episode we discuss:

* The importance of ethics in today's exponential tech world
* Nikola's fight with Singularity University and organizations that don't live out their values
* Why the singularity isn't all it's cracked up to be
* Will capitalism survive our coming economic upheaval
* The reason philosophy is more important now than ever
* Nikola's thoughts on the war machine and military manufacturers
* Which countries present the best fundamental frameworks going forward
* The technologies and trends that most worry this accomplished thinker
* How to balance incentives and ethics to create a better world
* The reason the US is poorly positioned to combat AI-driven unemployment
* Why humanity always has and will always struggle with the same existential issues
* The reasons Nikola's soured on the techno-optimism movement]]>3835ai,biotech,capitalism,change,climage,economics,ethics,future,futurism,humanity,philosophy,science,singularity,singularityfm,singularity.fm,socialism,society,sustainability,technology,warfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/125-the-bioethics-of-engineering-superhuman-crispr-babies-cloning-and-bringing-back-the-t-rex-paul-root-wolpe--18590479
In today's episode we discuss:

* The most important biotech ethics issues of our day
* How China's CRISPR babies change the game for genetic engineering
* Why synthetic biology is so promising and problematic from an ethics perspective
* How to deal with black swan bioterror risks and rewards
* When we will start to see more in terms of gene therapy
* The prospect of superhumans
* Ways gene therapies can avoid issues of conventional pharma
* Why Ray Kurzweil's wrong about the singularity
* The reason biology and AI will merge into one
* Why AI is more dangerous and uncontrollable than biotech
* The arguments against cloning
* How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny
* What to do about reincarnating wholly mammoth and T-Rex

https://disruptors.fm]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3975Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:15:29 +0000Matt WardPaul Root Wolpe (@parowol) is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Biological Behavior, and Sociology, and the Director of the...
In today's episode we discuss:

* The most important biotech ethics issues of our day
* How China's CRISPR babies change the game for genetic engineering
* Why synthetic biology is so promising and problematic from an ethics perspective
* How to deal with black swan bioterror risks and rewards
* When we will start to see more in terms of gene therapy
* The prospect of superhumans
* Ways gene therapies can avoid issues of conventional pharma
* Why Ray Kurzweil's wrong about the singularity
* The reason biology and AI will merge into one
* Why AI is more dangerous and uncontrollable than biotech
* The arguments against cloning
* How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny
* What to do about reincarnating wholly mammoth and T-Rex

https://disruptors.fm]]>3519ai,artificial,biology,biotech,cloning,crispr,dna,ethics,gene,genetics,genomics,health,intelligence,medicine,neuroscience,science,singularity,startups,synthbio,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/124-how-astrophysicists-understand-our-origins-and-search-for-alien-life-while-building-a-better-world-for-all-of-us-erika-hamden--18590480
* The evolution of astrophysics
* How space exploration advances in today's booming business world
* Why fundamental science and research is so critical to humanity's future
* Which technologies scare Erika the most and why
* The value of astronauts and off-Earth habitats
* What to do about data privacy and our ads-based economy
* Why Erika believes there's intelligent extraterrestrial life out there
* What to think about Trump and the impacts on science and tech
* How do stars form and accidental discoveries occur
* Physics role in military action
* The importance of putting yourself and life first and foremost
* Why we are both more than a little worried about social media
* What most people don't know about funding scientific research]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3972Mon, 08 Jul 2019 08:00:56 +0000Matt WardErika Hamden (@erikahamden) is an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona and Steward Observatory and leads the team building FIREBall, a telescope that hangs from a giant balloon at the very edge of space and looks for clues about how stars are...
* The evolution of astrophysics
* How space exploration advances in today's booming business world
* Why fundamental science and research is so critical to humanity's future
* Which technologies scare Erika the most and why
* The value of astronauts and off-Earth habitats
* What to do about data privacy and our ads-based economy
* Why Erika believes there's intelligent extraterrestrial life out there
* What to think about Trump and the impacts on science and tech
* How do stars form and accidental discoveries occur
* Physics role in military action
* The importance of putting yourself and life first and foremost
* Why we are both more than a little worried about social media
* What most people don't know about funding scientific research]]>3490astrophysics,college,education,elon,facebook,mars,media,military,musk,physics,politics,research,science,seti,social,space,spaceforce,spacex,ted,tedtalksfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/123-space-law-piracy-profit-and-militarization-in-age-of-star-wars-frans-von-der-dunk--18590481








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* The issue of ownership and sovereignty in space
* How regulation helps and hurts our the future of space
* Why current space treaties are anything but adequate for space exploration
* What you need to know about asteroid mining and space settlements
* The brewing issues in space which could provoke war
* Why solving the Kessler crisis NEEDS to be a top priority for space operators
* Thoughts private enterprises role in space exploration
* What Frans thinks about Trump's Space Force
* The realities of extraterrestrial space life and the law
* What technologies most worry Frans most
* Why social media and data privacy are such big issues to contend with
* The scary truth about cyber, and space






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3969Fri, 05 Jul 2019 08:00:06 +0000Matt WardFrans von der Dunk is a Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Director of Black Holes Consultancy, and is generally recognized as one of the world’s leading space law experts. Franz has served as an adviser to a number of...








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In today's episode we discuss:




* The issue of ownership and sovereignty in space
* How regulation helps and hurts our the future of space
* Why current space treaties are anything but adequate for space exploration
* What you need to know about asteroid mining and space settlements
* The brewing issues in space which could provoke war
* Why solving the Kessler crisis NEEDS to be a top priority for space operators
* Thoughts private enterprises role in space exploration
* What Frans thinks about Trump's Space Force
* The realities of extraterrestrial space life and the law
* What technologies most worry Frans most
* Why social media and data privacy are such big issues to contend with
* The scary truth about cyber, and space






















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 ]]>3708asteroidmining,cyber,dataprivacy,energy,extraterrestrial,future,futureofspace,law,militarization,outerspace,podcast,politics,regulation,socialmedia,space,spaceexploration,spaceforce,spacelaw,spacelife,technologiesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/122-a-whole-new-unexplored-world-under-the-sea-karen-lloyd--18590483








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* Life under the sea and what we're learning about the tree of life
* How some organisms and microbes slow down life and seem to live forever
* Why the deep sea is an untapped, unexplored goldmine
* What you should know about climate change, ocean currents, and catastrophe
* The reason the seas may hold the secret to extraterrestrial life
* What Karen thinks about climate change and sustainability
* Why CRISPR was in some ways enabled by oceanic research
* What it's like to dive deep in a submarine and experience warp drive
* The troubling trends of anti-science movement in the US government
* Why we know less about our oceans than we do about space
* The importance of fundamental research and science






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3952Mon, 01 Jul 2019 08:00:40 +0000Matt WardKaren Lloyd (@archaearama) is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee and lead of the Lloyd Lab. She's a deep subsurface microbiologist investigating novel types of microbes in Earth's deep surface biosphere, collecting them from remote...








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In today's episode we discuss:




* Life under the sea and what we're learning about the tree of life
* How some organisms and microbes slow down life and seem to live forever
* Why the deep sea is an untapped, unexplored goldmine
* What you should know about climate change, ocean currents, and catastrophe
* The reason the seas may hold the secret to extraterrestrial life
* What Karen thinks about climate change and sustainability
* Why CRISPR was in some ways enabled by oceanic research
* What it's like to dive deep in a submarine and experience warp drive
* The troubling trends of anti-science movement in the US government
* Why we know less about our oceans than we do about space
* The importance of fundamental research and science






















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 ]]>2671biology,biotech,climatechange,crispr,deepsea,extraterrestriallife,longevity,marinebiology,microbes,microbiology,ocean,oceanicresearch,organisms,podcast,research,science,sea,space,subsurface,unexploredfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/121-eyes-in-the-sky-surveillance-drone-warfare-and-the-future-of-freedom-arthur-holland-michel--18590487








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* Where we are at with the cutting edge of drones
* The pros and cons of drone development
* How militaries are deploying drones and unmanned aircraft today
* Why lethal autonomous weapons are so dangerous but not just around the corner
* Which aspects of surveillance and privacy Arthur is most worried about and why
* The power of the press to keep governments honest
* What to think about consumer drone delivery and Amazon
* Which under-discussed industries will actually be most impacted by drones
* Why China's expertise on facial recognition and surveillance is so troubling
* The formula for a perfect dictatorship
* Is Minority Report inevitable
* Where do our personal freedoms and privacy lie
* How someone shut down one of the world's busiest airports with a little kid's toy
* What Arthur thinks about social media surveillance






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3959Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:00:52 +0000Matt WardArthur Holland Michel (@writeauthor) is a writer and researcher focused on drones, surveillance, artificial intelligence, robots, the arts, immigration, and movies for topnotch publications like Wired, Vice, The Verge, Fast Company, Motherboard, Al...








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In today's episode we discuss:




* Where we are at with the cutting edge of drones
* The pros and cons of drone development
* How militaries are deploying drones and unmanned aircraft today
* Why lethal autonomous weapons are so dangerous but not just around the corner
* Which aspects of surveillance and privacy Arthur is most worried about and why
* The power of the press to keep governments honest
* What to think about consumer drone delivery and Amazon
* Which under-discussed industries will actually be most impacted by drones
* Why China's expertise on facial recognition and surveillance is so troubling
* The formula for a perfect dictatorship
* Is Minority Report inevitable
* Where do our personal freedoms and privacy lie
* How someone shut down one of the world's busiest airports with a little kid's toy
* What Arthur thinks about social media surveillance






















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 ]]>3222ai,artificialintelligence,automation,china,drone,dronewarfare,future,governance,government,nsa,podcast,politics,privacy,robotics,robots,socialmedia,spying,surveillance,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/120-the-epic-battle-between-technologists-and-naturalists-trying-to-stop-climate-change-charles-mann--18590488








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In today's episode we discuss:





* The important distinctions between today's wizards and prophets on the future
* What are the biggest risks of geoengineering
* Why the future of agriculture is inevitably GMOs, and why that's a good thing
* How we can design a better, more 21st-century government
* Ways to change the incentives and structures governing society to automatically attack climate change
* The reason social media is a cesspool and what to do about it
* What are the biggest myths about the history of the Americas
* Thoughts on clean meat, mass agriculture and more...
* How do we handle growing inequality
* Why the West was never won
* The reason libertarianism and communism are two sides of the same coin
* Why there's such a distrust of science to the detriment of all
* What is there to be hopeful about emissions and the environment

























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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=4067Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:42:39 +0000Matt WardCharles Mann (@CharlesCMann) is a science-focused journalist and award-winning author. He's the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus which won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year which he...








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In today's episode we discuss:





* The important distinctions between today's wizards and prophets on the future
* What are the biggest risks of geoengineering
* Why the future of agriculture is inevitably GMOs, and why that's a good thing
* How we can design a better, more 21st-century government
* Ways to change the incentives and structures governing society to automatically attack climate change
* The reason social media is a cesspool and what to do about it
* What are the biggest myths about the history of the Americas
* Thoughts on clean meat, mass agriculture and more...
* How do we handle growing inequality
* Why the West was never won
* The reason libertarianism and communism are two sides of the same coin
* Why there's such a distrust of science to the detriment of all
* What is there to be hopeful about emissions and the environment

























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 ]]>3677agriculture,agritech,biology,biotech,cleanmeat,climatechange,energy,environment,environmentalist,food,foodtech,geoengineering,gmo,green,health,inequality,podcast,politics,socialmedia,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/119-sustainability-to-save-ourselves-from-climate-change-automation-and-nuclear-war-mark-diesendorf--18590490Mark's work with organisations including AusAID, Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Hydrocool Pty Ltd, Minister for Minerals & Energy (Western Australia), StateRail (NSW), Sustainable Energy Development Authority of New South Wales, Sustainable Energy Authority of Victoria, WWF Australia, and various municipal and local governments in Australia and China.
He has been at various times secretary of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science (Canberra), co-founder and vice-president of the Sustainable Energy Industries Council of Australia, co-founder and president of the original Australasian Wind Energy Association, president of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) and vice-president of Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment (APACE). Mark is co-editor of the interdisciplinary book Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future and the author of Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy and Climate Action: A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions and Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change.





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* What the truth of climate change looks like now
* Why we're probably headed for at least a 6-8 deg F increase in global temperatures
* How we can design a better world from the ground up
* Why governments are so incompetent when it comes to handling climate change
* The reason renewables have already won and where we'll be 10 years
* Why AI and automation will displace a ton of jobs and necessitate a totally new economic and societal system
* How nuclear power makes our world less stable and more dangerous
* Where Mark sees the most innovative climate solutions being enacted
* Why we'll still need hydrogen fuel in a green world
* What systems design teaches us about sustainability and economics
* Why the world is as risky as it has ever been with respect to nuclear war




















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He has been at various times secretary of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science (Canberra), co-founder and vice-president of the Sustainable Energy Industries Council of Australia, co-founder and president of the original Australasian Wind Energy Association, president of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE) and vice-president of Appropriate Technology for Community and Environment (APACE). Mark is co-editor of the interdisciplinary book Human Ecology, Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future and the author of Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy and Climate Action: A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions and Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change.





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* What the truth of climate change looks like now
* Why we're probably headed for at least a 6-8 deg F increase in global temperatures
* How we can design a better world from the ground up
* Why governments are so incompetent when it comes to handling climate change
* The reason renewables have already won and where we'll be 10 years
* Why AI and automation will displace a ton of jobs and necessitate a totally new economic and societal system
* How nuclear power makes our world less stable and more dangerous
* Where Mark sees the most innovative climate solutions being enacted
* Why we'll still need hydrogen fuel in a green world
* What systems design teaches us about sustainability and economics
* Why the world is as risky as it has ever been with respect to nuclear war




















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* What it was like as world's youngest Dragon's Den investor
* The future of ecommerce and entrepreneurship
* Why venture capital is so messed up and how to fix it
* How to get more women in tech and more female-led businesses
* The reason today's startup landscape is unsustainable
* How to redesign education for the future
* Why all monopolies eventually fall
* What Michele thinks about the reason crop of tech IPOs and economic future
* How to rethink ride sharing and what it may mean
* What's off with universal basic income
* Why San Francisco isn't necessarily the best place to build a startup
* What Facebook and Google's advertising economy has done to all of us
* The risks of social media and cell phones
* Why Michele is worried about the risk of AI








 















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3832Mon, 17 Jun 2019 08:00:26 +0000Matt WardMichele Romanow (@micheleromanow) is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, the youngest Dragon on Canada's famed Dragon's Den and one of the most badass women in tech. Before that, she co-founded SnapSaves (acquired by Groupon in 11 months),...
 




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* What it was like as world's youngest Dragon's Den investor
* The future of ecommerce and entrepreneurship
* Why venture capital is so messed up and how to fix it
* How to get more women in tech and more female-led businesses
* The reason today's startup landscape is unsustainable
* How to redesign education for the future
* Why all monopolies eventually fall
* What Michele thinks about the reason crop of tech IPOs and economic future
* How to rethink ride sharing and what it may mean
* What's off with universal basic income
* Why San Francisco isn't necessarily the best place to build a startup
* What Facebook and Google's advertising economy has done to all of us
* The risks of social media and cell phones
* Why Michele is worried about the risk of AI








 















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 ]]>3038ai,artificialintelligence,blockchain,businesses,ecommerce,economics,economy,education,entrepreneurship,facebook,future,google,investing,pocast,socialmedia,startup,tech,venturecapital,voice,womenintechfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/117-breaking-up-big-tech-internet-ethics-and-risks-of-trump-s-trade-war-richard-whitt--18590545In particular, he headed up Google’s open Internet policy on a global basis, guided the Company’s participation in the FCC’s 700 MHz auction, helped secure TV White Spaces spectrum allocation, and collaborated on the nationwide launch of Google Fiber.
 

 



 



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* The most important internet ethics issues of our day
* How regulation helps and hurts our privacy future
* Why net neutrality is such a landmark issue and what it means for all of us
* Which tech monopolies Richard is most worried about and why
* The power and promise of 5G
* What do we do about online advertising and data brokering
* Why on-device computing can be a privacy saver, or screwer
* What to think about Huawei, China and Trump's trade war
* Thoughts on breaking up Google and Facebook
* Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes
* The effects of IoT on our collective freedoms
* How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny
* What technologies most worry Richard most








 




 




 




 



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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3878Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:00:50 +0000Matt WardRichard Whitt (@richardswhitt) is an 11-year vet of Google, corporate strategist, technology policy attorney and founder of GLIAnet, an organization, and foundation looking to upend existing surveillance capitalism paradigm with a user-owned and...In particular, he headed up Google’s open Internet policy on a global basis, guided the Company’s participation in the FCC’s 700 MHz auction, helped secure TV White Spaces spectrum allocation, and collaborated on the nationwide launch of Google Fiber.
 

 



 



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* The most important internet ethics issues of our day
* How regulation helps and hurts our privacy future
* Why net neutrality is such a landmark issue and what it means for all of us
* Which tech monopolies Richard is most worried about and why
* The power and promise of 5G
* What do we do about online advertising and data brokering
* Why on-device computing can be a privacy saver, or screwer
* What to think about Huawei, China and Trump's trade war
* Thoughts on breaking up Google and Facebook
* Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes
* The effects of IoT on our collective freedoms
* How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny
* What technologies most worry Richard most








 




 




 




 



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 ]]>39495g,advertising,ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,blockchain,computing,facebook,google,iot,mobile,netneutrality,podcast,politics,regulation,socialmedia,tech,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/116-sleeping-your-way-to-superhuman-lifespan-before-we-become-cyborgs-dan-gartenberg--18590549




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* How wearable and quantified self-movement will change what it means to be human
* The science of sleep, longevity, and disease
* Why Dan's dedicated his life to optimizing sleep and life
* The truth about sleeping hacking and biphasic sleep
* Why your lights and life may be killing you
* How phones and social media are screwing up our kids
* What's the cutting edge of personalized health
* How to live longer and healthier
* The reason we're all going to be cyborgs anyway
* Why it's hard to build a wearable tech company
* The importance of the 90-minute sleep cycle
* What elite biohackers are doing to win






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3828Mon, 10 Jun 2019 08:07:45 +0000Matt WardDan Gartenberg (@dangartenberg) aka Dr. Snooze, is a sleep scientist, TED resident and the co-founder and CEO of Sonic Sleep and also an adjunct assistant professor at Penn State University. With an expertise in psychology, AI, sleep and health, he's...




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In today's episode we discuss:




* How wearable and quantified self-movement will change what it means to be human
* The science of sleep, longevity, and disease
* Why Dan's dedicated his life to optimizing sleep and life
* The truth about sleeping hacking and biphasic sleep
* Why your lights and life may be killing you
* How phones and social media are screwing up our kids
* What's the cutting edge of personalized health
* How to live longer and healthier
* The reason we're all going to be cyborgs anyway
* Why it's hard to build a wearable tech company
* The importance of the 90-minute sleep cycle
* What elite biohackers are doing to win






















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 ]]>3238ai,artificialintelligence,biohackers,biology,biotech,cyborg,disease,health,iot,longevity,neuro,neuroscience,phones,podcast,quantifiedself,science,sleep,socialmedia,superhuman,wearablesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/115-the-scientist-behind-and-inspiration-of-jurassic-park-who-s-also-birthing-a-dino-chicken-jack-horner--18590551




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* Why Steven Spielberg just had to have his Jurassic monsters
* What is was like as the advisor to Jurassic Park
* The little known truths about dinosaurs and our their extinction
* Why Jack is working on creating a dino-chicken
* How to use dormant DNA to rebirth extinct creatures
* The value of sci-fi in forecasting and forewarning the future
* Why the public isn't always so interested in science
* How we shifted our entire understanding of dinosaurs
* What are the big risks of biotech and why Jack's not worried
* Why dinos were probably much more intelligent than we thought
* The actual way radioactive and carbon dating works
* What areas is Jack most excited about and why
* The truth and misconceptions about evolution








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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3825Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:51:30 +0000Matt WardJack Horner (@dustydino) is one of the best-known paleontologists in the world, the inspiration for (and advisor of the Jurassic Park films and Dr. Alan Grant and discovered and named Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs...




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* Why Steven Spielberg just had to have his Jurassic monsters
* What is was like as the advisor to Jurassic Park
* The little known truths about dinosaurs and our their extinction
* Why Jack is working on creating a dino-chicken
* How to use dormant DNA to rebirth extinct creatures
* The value of sci-fi in forecasting and forewarning the future
* Why the public isn't always so interested in science
* How we shifted our entire understanding of dinosaurs
* What are the big risks of biotech and why Jack's not worried
* Why dinos were probably much more intelligent than we thought
* The actual way radioactive and carbon dating works
* What areas is Jack most excited about and why
* The truth and misconceptions about evolution








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 ]]>3522biology,biotech,biotechnology,creatures,dinosaurs,dna,evolution,extinct,extinction,future,genetics,jurassicpark,longevity,paleontology,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scifi,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/114-why-lebron-s-poop-could-help-you-lose-weight-gmos-rock-and-your-gut-gets-last-word-on-disease-zack-abbott-of-zbiotics--18590556





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* Why GMOs are critical to humanity's future
* The reason GMOs (and vaccines) have such a public image problem
* Why probiotics and the gut microbiome are actually are a really big deal
* The secret cause of nearly all chronic and neurological diseases
* Why the best solutions to climate change are almost inevitably GMOs
* How to think about startups and IP in the biotech realm
* The future of personalized medicine
* Why LeBron's poop could help you lose weight
* The real risk of bioterrorism
* What fields of synthetic biology are the most promising






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3687Mon, 03 Jun 2019 09:12:24 +0000Matt WardZack Abbott (@ZBioticsCompany) is the CEO and co-founder of ZBiotics, a company developing bioengineered probiotics for optimum human performance. He holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Michigan and developed ZBiotics’...





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* Why GMOs are critical to humanity's future
* The reason GMOs (and vaccines) have such a public image problem
* Why probiotics and the gut microbiome are actually are a really big deal
* The secret cause of nearly all chronic and neurological diseases
* Why the best solutions to climate change are almost inevitably GMOs
* How to think about startups and IP in the biotech realm
* The future of personalized medicine
* Why LeBron's poop could help you lose weight
* The real risk of bioterrorism
* What fields of synthetic biology are the most promising






















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 ]]>3432biology,biotech,bioterrorism,brain,climatechange,diseases,foodtech,future,genetics,gmo,guthealth,health,longevity,medicine,microbiome,neuro,podcast,probiotics,startups,syntheticbiologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/113-what-minority-report-got-right-and-wrong-and-the-future-of-the-surveillance-state-shaun-moore-of-trueface--18590558
Prior to TrueFace, Shaun co-founded two startups in the content and mobile apps space and he's spoken frequently on the possibilities and possible pitfalls of facial recognition and AI.







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* The risk and reward of the social credit system
* What Minority Report got right, and wrong
* Why Shaun's not too worried about mass government surveillance
* The reason Matt's worried about the slippery slope of safety
* Which monopoly scares Shaun the most
* How society should think about regulating facial recognition
* Ways to improve public discourse
* How facial recognition can hugely decrease crime
* Why it's really freaking important who you take money from as a startup
* How hard it is for an entrepreneur to handle taxes and health insurance
* Why Shaun is super excited about moving beyond meat





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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3447Fri, 31 May 2019 08:05:22 +0000Matt WardShaun Moore (@shaunpmoore) the founder and CEO of TrueFace, the 500Startups funded computer vision and facial recognition startup focused on making the world safer and smarter by transforming cameras into data. Prior to TrueFace, Shaun co-founded two...
Prior to TrueFace, Shaun co-founded two startups in the content and mobile apps space and he's spoken frequently on the possibilities and possible pitfalls of facial recognition and AI.







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* The risk and reward of the social credit system
* What Minority Report got right, and wrong
* Why Shaun's not too worried about mass government surveillance
* The reason Matt's worried about the slippery slope of safety
* Which monopoly scares Shaun the most
* How society should think about regulating facial recognition
* Ways to improve public discourse
* How facial recognition can hugely decrease crime
* Why it's really freaking important who you take money from as a startup
* How hard it is for an entrepreneur to handle taxes and health insurance
* Why Shaun is super excited about moving beyond meat





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Donate]]>3495ai,artificialintelligence,cleanmeat,crime,cyber,entrepreneur,facialrecognition,future,governance,government,health,iot,monopoly,podcast,politics,safety,socialcreditsystem,society,startup,surveillancefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/112-how-to-save-social-media-and-livestreaming-from-itself-and-why-podcasting-is-the-future-geoff-cook--18590553On the side, Geoff's also a children’s book author and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller Center and leads Podcoin, the podcast player that pays you for listening.








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* How Facebook and social media have screwed up and what they could have done to avoid the problem
* The future of dating, and online dating
* Why Geoff is worried about screentime and constant notifications clashing with our humanity
* How to build a $100M company with your brother and sister...
* The reason Geoff's excited about livestreaming, 5G, and future of video
* Why podcasting may be the biggest growth platform of immediate future
* How to reimagine social media for a better future
* While existential AI is worth worrying about
* The brain drain going to advertising and attention economy
* What the commoditization of sex is doing to our species








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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3648Tue, 28 May 2019 19:36:46 +0000Matt WardGeoff Cook (@geoffcook) is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and livestreaming company with a $400+ million market cap. He started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for...On the side, Geoff's also a children’s book author and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller Center and leads Podcoin, the podcast player that pays you for listening.








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* How Facebook and social media have screwed up and what they could have done to avoid the problem
* The future of dating, and online dating
* Why Geoff is worried about screentime and constant notifications clashing with our humanity
* How to build a $100M company with your brother and sister...
* The reason Geoff's excited about livestreaming, 5G, and future of video
* Why podcasting may be the biggest growth platform of immediate future
* How to reimagine social media for a better future
* While existential AI is worth worrying about
* The brain drain going to advertising and attention economy
* What the commoditization of sex is doing to our species








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 ]]>36675g,ar,augmentedreality,commoditization,computer,economics,economy,facebook,future,google,livestreaming,mobile,monopoly,podcast,podcasting,politics,screentime,socialmedia,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/111-a-career-fair-for-the-future-of-work-as-we-shift-to-a-post-automation-system-focused-society-nancy-giordano--18590554Nancy's been recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and guiding a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands through her work with Play Big Inc.
She's also frequent panelist at South by Southwest (where she produced the first Career Fair For the Future to help college + high schools more actively design the future of their work), is global keynote speaker, Singularity University guest lecturer and world’s first TEDx licensee.








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* How Nancy thinks about the future of work
* Why the mental health epidemic is a bigger deal than we think
* The power of system thinking
* Why GDP's an awful measure of progress and how to replace it
* What can we do to fix politics
* The ways we can redesign education for the 21st century
* Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes
* The UBI question and how to reframe it
* What will be AI's actual impact
* How organizations like Singularity University inspire change
* What technologies most worry Nancy
* Why we can engineer the future of our choosing
* The pesky problems of incentives ruining our world
* What to think about social media and blockchain








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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3610Sat, 25 May 2019 17:36:24 +0000Matt WardNancy Giordano (@nancygiordano) is an entrepreneur, futurist, consultant and techno-optimist committed to building societal structures and behaviors that keep up with tech to ensure a safe and thriving future for us all... Nancy's been recognized as...Nancy's been recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and guiding a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands through her work with Play Big Inc.
She's also frequent panelist at South by Southwest (where she produced the first Career Fair For the Future to help college + high schools more actively design the future of their work), is global keynote speaker, Singularity University guest lecturer and world’s first TEDx licensee.








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* How Nancy thinks about the future of work
* Why the mental health epidemic is a bigger deal than we think
* The power of system thinking
* Why GDP's an awful measure of progress and how to replace it
* What can we do to fix politics
* The ways we can redesign education for the 21st century
* Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes
* The UBI question and how to reframe it
* What will be AI's actual impact
* How organizations like Singularity University inspire change
* What technologies most worry Nancy
* Why we can engineer the future of our choosing
* The pesky problems of incentives ruining our world
* What to think about social media and blockchain








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 ]]>3404ai,artificialintelligence,automation,blockchain,career,economics,education,future,futureofwork,health,healthcare,jobs,mentalhealth,podcast,politics,socialmedia,society,system,ubi,workfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/110-a-biotech-solution-to-pesticide-free-food-to-feed-the-world-and-mars-colonies-fatma-kaplan--18590559Fatma's an accomplished scientist with experience in both biology and chemistry focused on isolating biologically active compounds. She discovered the first sex pheromone of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and published in Nature and discovered that pheromones regulate other behaviors in both parasitic and beneficial nematodes.
She's been published in numerous high impact publications, her dissertation was cited in textbooks and Fatma's worked as a scientist at NASA, the National Magnetic Field Laboratory and the US Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service.





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* How sex hormones can save us from soil microbiome depletion and why that matters
* The secret to pesticide-free agriculture
* How to use agritech to combat climate change
* What we need to do to combat global hunger
* The trouble with biotech fundraising
* What risks Fatma's most worried about from a biotech perspective
* How to improve education for the better and make science cool
* Why Fatma's working with NASA and the ISS to grow veggies in space
* The future of clean meat and why it still requires plants
* How to go about getting a grant to commercialize IP
* Ways to fight the anti-science movement
* Why GMOs will play an increasingly large role in humanity's future






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3616Mon, 20 May 2019 08:00:05 +0000Matt WardDr. Fatma Kaplan (@KaplanSchiller) is the co-founder and CEO/CSO of Pheronym, a company trying to help solve world food crisis and feed the growing world population, farmers need for a non-toxic way to control pests. Fatma's an accomplished scientist...Fatma's an accomplished scientist with experience in both biology and chemistry focused on isolating biologically active compounds. She discovered the first sex pheromone of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and published in Nature and discovered that pheromones regulate other behaviors in both parasitic and beneficial nematodes.
She's been published in numerous high impact publications, her dissertation was cited in textbooks and Fatma's worked as a scientist at NASA, the National Magnetic Field Laboratory and the US Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service.





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* How sex hormones can save us from soil microbiome depletion and why that matters
* The secret to pesticide-free agriculture
* How to use agritech to combat climate change
* What we need to do to combat global hunger
* The trouble with biotech fundraising
* What risks Fatma's most worried about from a biotech perspective
* How to improve education for the better and make science cool
* Why Fatma's working with NASA and the ISS to grow veggies in space
* The future of clean meat and why it still requires plants
* How to go about getting a grant to commercialize IP
* Ways to fight the anti-science movement
* Why GMOs will play an increasingly large role in humanity's future






















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 ]]>3906agriculture,agritech,biology,biotech,biotechnology,cleanmeat,climatechange,education,farming,food,foodproduction,foodtech,future,geneticengineering,genetics,gmo,podcast,science,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/109-neuroscience-bioelectric-biohacking-and-the-future-of-ai-isy-goldwasser--18590561




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In today's episode we discuss:

* The future of self-enhancement and why much of it will be mechatronic
* Why humanity will NEVER be able to keep up with AI
* What happens as we automate away jobs and why Isy's not worried
* Why we have so many issues adjusting to technology and societal change
* The neuroscience of performance and optimization
* Why AI is a really good thing for the human race
* How social media and AI can lead to a dictatorial state
* The importance of emotion in our daily lives and future
* Possible alternatives to the pharmaceutical industry
* Why Isy doesn't think AI will ever be conscious
* The reason AI will be a distributed technology which makes it safer
* Why venture capital can become a major hassle
* How to improve healthcare and bring down costs
* What Isy thinks about gene editing
























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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3714Sat, 18 May 2019 18:44:45 +0000Matt WardIsy Goldwasser (@isythync) is the founder of Thync, a startup creating breakthrough bioelectronic therapies to advance a frontier and create a consumer category that will impact billions of people. Prior to founding Thync, Isy was CEO and on the...




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In today's episode we discuss:

* The future of self-enhancement and why much of it will be mechatronic
* Why humanity will NEVER be able to keep up with AI
* What happens as we automate away jobs and why Isy's not worried
* Why we have so many issues adjusting to technology and societal change
* The neuroscience of performance and optimization
* Why AI is a really good thing for the human race
* How social media and AI can lead to a dictatorial state
* The importance of emotion in our daily lives and future
* Possible alternatives to the pharmaceutical industry
* Why Isy doesn't think AI will ever be conscious
* The reason AI will be a distributed technology which makes it safer
* Why venture capital can become a major hassle
* How to improve healthcare and bring down costs
* What Isy thinks about gene editing
























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 ]]>3474ai,artificialintelligence,automation,bioelectric,biohacking,biology,biotech,future,jobs,nano,nanotech,nanotechnology,neuro,neuroscience,podcast,science,self-enhancement,socialmedia,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/108-a-deeper-diver-into-ubi-automation-and-the-economy-of-tomorrow-martin-ford--18590563Martin's written about the implications for future tech for publications including The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review and dozens more and has appeared on shows like NPR, CNBC, CNN, Fox Business and PBS. He's a frequent keynote speaker on the subject of accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligence—and what these advances mean for the economy, job market and society of the future.








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* How will automation affect capitalism, the economy, and society as a whole
* Is UBI the answer or a NEEDED solution to an increasingly automated world
* Why AI has the possibility to solve so many of the world's largest problems
* Will AI create or destroy more jobs in the long run
* Why a universal basic income necessitates a more isolationist world
* Could climate change and automation be the recipe for disaster
* How do people find meaning in a jobless world
* Is China's social credit system an inevitable future for us all
* How should we think about lethal autonomous weapons which save lives
* Is AI bias actually a big deal
* Which technologies is Martin most worried about




















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3603Mon, 13 May 2019 10:20:39 +0000Matt WardMartin Ford (@MFordFuture) is a futurist and the author of the bestselling, award-winning Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building It and The Lights in...Martin's written about the implications for future tech for publications including The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review and dozens more and has appeared on shows like NPR, CNBC, CNN, Fox Business and PBS. He's a frequent keynote speaker on the subject of accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligence—and what these advances mean for the economy, job market and society of the future.








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In today's episode we discuss:




* How will automation affect capitalism, the economy, and society as a whole
* Is UBI the answer or a NEEDED solution to an increasingly automated world
* Why AI has the possibility to solve so many of the world's largest problems
* Will AI create or destroy more jobs in the long run
* Why a universal basic income necessitates a more isolationist world
* Could climate change and automation be the recipe for disaster
* How do people find meaning in a jobless world
* Is China's social credit system an inevitable future for us all
* How should we think about lethal autonomous weapons which save lives
* Is AI bias actually a big deal
* Which technologies is Martin most worried about




















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 ]]>3723ai,artificialintelligence,automatedworld,automation,capitalism,china,climatechange,economics,economy,future,income,iot,jobs,podcast,politics,society,tech,technology,ubi,universalbasicincomefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/107-ai-a-societal-transformation-like-no-other-and-how-we-can-handle-50-automation-steve-brown--18590562




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* Which jobs computers are not suited to handle
* What happens as automation automates away a ton of jobs
* How we can design a better, more 21st century government
* Why is 5G so important
* The reason Steve is bullish on blockchain, but not cryptocurrencies
* Why AI will be the biggest technology transformation of all time
* How do we restructure society as jobs disappear
* What technologies Steve is most excited about and how they'll transform our world
* The less talked about but equal important impacts of driverless cars
* Why wearables haven't quite taken off as expected
* Why Sci-Fi sometimes holds back tech innovation
* How should we deal with bias and failure in AI






















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3624Fri, 10 May 2019 15:15:50 +0000Matt WardSteve Brown (@baldfuturist) is a speaker, author, strategist, advisor with over 30 years of experience in high tech and is the former futurist and chief evangelist at Intel Corporation. Steve's been featured on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, ABC News, Wired,...




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In today's episode we discuss:




* Which jobs computers are not suited to handle
* What happens as automation automates away a ton of jobs
* How we can design a better, more 21st century government
* Why is 5G so important
* The reason Steve is bullish on blockchain, but not cryptocurrencies
* Why AI will be the biggest technology transformation of all time
* How do we restructure society as jobs disappear
* What technologies Steve is most excited about and how they'll transform our world
* The less talked about but equal important impacts of driverless cars
* Why wearables haven't quite taken off as expected
* Why Sci-Fi sometimes holds back tech innovation
* How should we deal with bias and failure in AI






















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 ]]>34855g,ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,automation,blockchain,computers,cryptocurrencies,driverlesscars,economics,government,jobs,mobile,podcast,society,technology,virtualreality,vr,wearablesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/106-education-inflation-a-new-aristocracy-and-peak-employment-and-equality-bryan-alexander--18590564




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* Bryan's thoughts on the future and flaws of higher education
* The big problem with GDP and measuring the economy to track prosperity
* Why Bryan's incredibly worried about climate change and inequality
* Which bubble pops first: higher education or healthcare
* The problem with too many kids going to college and the possibility of an apprentice model
* Why we may have reached peak higher education in America
* How we can better align incentives to create a fairer, more sustainable society going forward
* What is the future of jobs, work, and continued education
* Why teaching truck drivers to code isn't feasible or effective
* What is the future of surveillance capitalism
* Why we may be entering a new era of aristocratic titans
* Why Europe is better positioned than the US to handle automation
* The danger of celebrity and worshipping success








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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3562Mon, 06 May 2019 08:00:30 +0000Matt WardBryan Alexander (@bryanalexander) is a futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher with an unconventional background in English and Romantic-era literature working in the field of how technology transforms education and blogging at...




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In today's episode we discuss:




* Bryan's thoughts on the future and flaws of higher education
* The big problem with GDP and measuring the economy to track prosperity
* Why Bryan's incredibly worried about climate change and inequality
* Which bubble pops first: higher education or healthcare
* The problem with too many kids going to college and the possibility of an apprentice model
* Why we may have reached peak higher education in America
* How we can better align incentives to create a fairer, more sustainable society going forward
* What is the future of jobs, work, and continued education
* Why teaching truck drivers to code isn't feasible or effective
* What is the future of surveillance capitalism
* Why we may be entering a new era of aristocratic titans
* Why Europe is better positioned than the US to handle automation
* The danger of celebrity and worshipping success








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 ]]>3571ai,artificialintelligence,automation,biotech,capitalism,collegeeducation,crispr,economics,education,equality,future,geentics,inequality,jobs,podcast,politics,sciencefiction,scifi,socialism,surveillancefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/105-george-church-on-synthetic-biology-climate-change-and-the-superhuman-genome-project--18590565It is NO exaggeration to say George's innovations have contributed to nearly all "next generation" DNA sequencing methods and companies; plus his lab's work on chip-DNA-synthesis, gene editing, and stem cell engineering resulted in founding additional application-based companies spanning fields of medical diagnostics and synthetic biology/therapeutics (all of which has led to the creation of over 14 biotech companies he's helped co-found
George is the director of the IARPA BRAIN Project and NIH Center for Excellence in Genomic Science and his many honors include election to NAS and NAE and Franklin Bower Laureate for Achievement in Science.
George is the author of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves and now spends his free time trying to revive the Wholly Mammoth to combat climate change and save the world while remaining the foremost pioneer in the future of synthetic biology and genetic engineering.








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* The beginnings of the Human Genome Project and why in a lot of ways George thinks it was a waste of money
* The future of genome sequencing and writing and where it's headed
* Why George isn't hugely worried about genetic engineering leading to greater inequality
* What scares George most in a world of synthetic biology
* Why the best solutions to climate change are inevitably bio-based
* How George's team is working to revive mammoths to combat climate change
* The importance of being guinea pig number one
* Why we should be inspired but not limited by nature
* The real risk of bioterrorism
* How to get benefits from your DNA without exposing your results
* The importance of gene editing on getting humanity to space





 



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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3602Mon, 29 Apr 2019 08:00:20 +0000Matt WardGeorge Church @geochurch) is a professor of genetics at Harvard & MIT, director of the Personal Genome Project, co-author of 509 papers, 143 patent publications and developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & million-fold cost...It is NO exaggeration to say George's innovations have contributed to nearly all "next generation" DNA sequencing methods and companies; plus his lab's work on chip-DNA-synthesis, gene editing, and stem cell engineering resulted in founding additional application-based companies spanning fields of medical diagnostics and synthetic biology/therapeutics (all of which has led to the creation of over 14 biotech companies he's helped co-found
George is the director of the IARPA BRAIN Project and NIH Center for Excellence in Genomic Science and his many honors include election to NAS and NAE and Franklin Bower Laureate for Achievement in Science.
George is the author of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves and now spends his free time trying to revive the Wholly Mammoth to combat climate change and save the world while remaining the foremost pioneer in the future of synthetic biology and genetic engineering.








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In today's episode we discuss:




* The beginnings of the Human Genome Project and why in a lot of ways George thinks it was a waste of money
* The future of genome sequencing and writing and where it's headed
* Why George isn't hugely worried about genetic engineering leading to greater inequality
* What scares George most in a world of synthetic biology
* Why the best solutions to climate change are inevitably bio-based
* How George's team is working to revive mammoths to combat climate change
* The importance of being guinea pig number one
* Why we should be inspired but not limited by nature
* The real risk of bioterrorism
* How to get benefits from your DNA without exposing your results
* The importance of gene editing on getting humanity to space





 



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Donate]]>4107biology,biotech,bioterrorism,climatechange,crispr,dna,future,genes,geneticengineering,genetics,genome,health,healthcare,inequality,longevity,podcast,space,syntheticbiology,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/104-how-to-avoid-dystopian-future-of-climate-change-and-mass-unemployment-by-evolving-democracy-and-education-tom-cheesewright--18590571Tom is a frequent presence on TV and radio on the BBC, Newsround and World Business Report, and as a regular contributor to BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4. He's also shared his thoughts on the future with Channel 4?s Sunday Brunch, Sky News, The Guardian, London Evening Standard, Entrepreneur, Stuff, and MSN. Tom's also the author of High Frequency Change: Why We Feel Like Change Happens Faster Now, and What to Do About It.





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In today's episode we discuss:




* Why we're all cyborgs and what it means for humanity
* The future of climate change and why the answer is probably local
* Why Tom is only remotely worried about automation and unemployment
* What technologies Tom's most scared of and why
* The future of television, entertainment and Apple's role
* How Amazon and monopolies of the future evolve and the role of voice
* What the future of education needs to be to save humanity
* How big corporations can adapt and evolve without dying
* The difference between a smart city and a living city and where we're headed
* Why economics and incentives create almost all the problems
* How to revalue work in a post-GDP world





 



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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3566Fri, 26 Apr 2019 08:00:27 +0000Matt WardTom Cheesewright (@bookofthefuture) is a futurist, speaker, engineer and founder of applied futurism practice, Book of the Future and creator of the Futurist’s Toolkit, a suite of tools for agile organizations. He has a degree in mechatronic...Tom is a frequent presence on TV and radio on the BBC, Newsround and World Business Report, and as a regular contributor to BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4. He's also shared his thoughts on the future with Channel 4?s Sunday Brunch, Sky News, The Guardian, London Evening Standard, Entrepreneur, Stuff, and MSN. Tom's also the author of High Frequency Change: Why We Feel Like Change Happens Faster Now, and What to Do About It.





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In today's episode we discuss:




* Why we're all cyborgs and what it means for humanity
* The future of climate change and why the answer is probably local
* Why Tom is only remotely worried about automation and unemployment
* What technologies Tom's most scared of and why
* The future of television, entertainment and Apple's role
* How Amazon and monopolies of the future evolve and the role of voice
* What the future of education needs to be to save humanity
* How big corporations can adapt and evolve without dying
* The difference between a smart city and a living city and where we're headed
* Why economics and incentives create almost all the problems
* How to revalue work in a post-GDP world





 



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 ]]>3950ai,amazon,apple,artificialintelligence,automation,climatechange,democracy,ecommerce,economics,education,future,futureofwork,governance,media,podcast,politics,sciencefiction,scifi,tv,unemploymentfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/103-legos-in-space-blockchain-vs-big-tech-and-the-uber-that-ultimately-failed-steve-sammartino--18590568


He has had multiple tech startups and launched one of the first sharing-economy startups Rentoid.com, before Uber or Airbnb, and sold the company to a public company. Steve now invests in emerging technologies and has multiple advisory board positions. He is heavily involved in the startup scene in Shanghai, a passion for the culture and even speaks Mandarin.



Steve collaborated with Raul Oiada to launch the world’s first Lego Space Shuttle into space to an altitude of about 35,000 meters and developed the world's first life-sized, drive-able Lego car with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. He's also the author of The Lessons School Forgot and The Great Transition, both books which examine the future of technology, work and jobs., both books which examine the future of technology and work.








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In today's episode we discuss:




* How Steve sent a LEGO space shuttle into space on a shoestring budget with help from a random Skype connection
* The power of problem-solving and learning on the fly to disrupt education
* Why Steve is incredibly bullish on blockchain
* What technologies Steve is most excited about and how they'll transform our world
* The importance of Amara's Law and understanding technological adoption
* Why social media is pushing our farther and farther apart and probably the biggest threat of all
* Is AI good, bad or indifferent to humanity's goals
* Why space is the next frontier and the proliferation of smartphones makes new things possible
* Why venture capital is such a negative and destructive force on the world
* How Steve started the first sharing-economy startup and why it ultimately wasn't a huge success
* What Steve's daughter learned growing a pizza
* Which investment will pay the biggest dividends in the long run








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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3334Mon, 22 Apr 2019 08:00:22 +0000Matt WardSteve Sammartino (@sammartino) is an entrepreneur, futurist, author and public speaker focused on finding the truth and creating the future. He has had multiple tech startups and launched one of the first sharing-economy startups Rentoid.com,...


He has had multiple tech startups and launched one of the first sharing-economy startups Rentoid.com, before Uber or Airbnb, and sold the company to a public company. Steve now invests in emerging technologies and has multiple advisory board positions. He is heavily involved in the startup scene in Shanghai, a passion for the culture and even speaks Mandarin.



Steve collaborated with Raul Oiada to launch the world’s first Lego Space Shuttle into space to an altitude of about 35,000 meters and developed the world's first life-sized, drive-able Lego car with a compressed air-powered Lego engine. He's also the author of The Lessons School Forgot and The Great Transition, both books which examine the future of technology, work and jobs., both books which examine the future of technology and work.








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In today's episode we discuss:




* How Steve sent a LEGO space shuttle into space on a shoestring budget with help from a random Skype connection
* The power of problem-solving and learning on the fly to disrupt education
* Why Steve is incredibly bullish on blockchain
* What technologies Steve is most excited about and how they'll transform our world
* The importance of Amara's Law and understanding technological adoption
* Why social media is pushing our farther and farther apart and probably the biggest threat of all
* Is AI good, bad or indifferent to humanity's goals
* Why space is the next frontier and the proliferation of smartphones makes new things possible
* Why venture capital is such a negative and destructive force on the world
* How Steve started the first sharing-economy startup and why it ultimately wasn't a huge success
* What Steve's daughter learned growing a pizza
* Which investment will pay the biggest dividends in the long run








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 ]]>3677ai,artificialintelligence,bitcoin,blockchain,economics,economy,education,future,globalism,humanity,investment,podcast,politics,smartphones,soceity,socialmedia,space,startup,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/102-resetting-governments-and-getting-a-new-deal-on-democracy-and-market-driven-dystopian-bliss-robin-hanson--18590567




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In today's episode we discuss:




* Unconventional approaches to legal reform which just might work
* How Robin proposes we fix America's immigration problem
* The sadistic yet serious future where your insurance company enforces the law
* Ways to use prediction markets to create better outcomes
* Why governments are outdated and often need a reset switch
* The reason social signaling is one of the biggest problems in society
* Separating facts and values and why it's almost impossible
* How true libertarianism could lead to Soviet like surveillance and oppression
* The truth about isolationism and innovation
* Why governmental structure is making society more ineffective
* An interesting approach to end the prison system






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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3560Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:10:17 +0000Matt WardRobin Hanson (@robinhanson)is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University with a doctorate in social science from CalTech, master's degrees in physics...




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In today's episode we discuss:




* Unconventional approaches to legal reform which just might work
* How Robin proposes we fix America's immigration problem
* The sadistic yet serious future where your insurance company enforces the law
* Ways to use prediction markets to create better outcomes
* Why governments are outdated and often need a reset switch
* The reason social signaling is one of the biggest problems in society
* Separating facts and values and why it's almost impossible
* How true libertarianism could lead to Soviet like surveillance and oppression
* The truth about isolationism and innovation
* Why governmental structure is making society more ineffective
* An interesting approach to end the prison system






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 ]]>3801ai,artificialintelligence,economics,economy,governance,government,governmentalstructure,governmentsystem,immigration,innovation,insurance,isolationism,libertarianism,podcast,politics,prediction,prison,society,surveillance,valuesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/101-engineering-the-economy-out-of-its-debt-fueled-destructive-spiral-and-towards-a-sustainable-system-that-also-solves-climate-change-ja--18590569


 













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* The big problem with a Fed-controlled interest rate and economy
* How to incentivize solutions to climate change while increasing the cost of pollution as well
* Why debt-based banking is such a damaging and unsustainable model for our future
* The cause of economic recessions and how we can engineer our economy to avoid it
* Why the US wins with today's debt-based USD banking system
* What Jarl thinks about the future of healthcare and how to fix it
* How banks have come to create a self-destructing model where they always win
* Jarl's unconventional approach to universal basic income and why it just might work
* Why Jarl isn't optimistic about blockchain
* How automation will affect jobs and economic growth
* Why greed is a result of the system and not an inherent human quality
* The probable causes of the impending recession if we don't change things fast






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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3471Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:00:28 +0000Matt WardJarl Jensen (@jarljensen) is an inventor, entrepreneur and best selling author. He served as President and CEO of EuroMed, Inc. from 2004 to 2009, has nine issued patents, with many more pending for medical devices which have grossed over $500 million...


 













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* The big problem with a Fed-controlled interest rate and economy
* How to incentivize solutions to climate change while increasing the cost of pollution as well
* Why debt-based banking is such a damaging and unsustainable model for our future
* The cause of economic recessions and how we can engineer our economy to avoid it
* Why the US wins with today's debt-based USD banking system
* What Jarl thinks about the future of healthcare and how to fix it
* How banks have come to create a self-destructing model where they always win
* Jarl's unconventional approach to universal basic income and why it just might work
* Why Jarl isn't optimistic about blockchain
* How automation will affect jobs and economic growth
* Why greed is a result of the system and not an inherent human quality
* The probable causes of the impending recession if we don't change things fast






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 ]]>4087ai,artificialintelligence,automation,banking,bankingsystem,banks,blockchain,economics,economy,future,governance,health,healthcare,income,medtech,podcast,politics,pollution,recessions,systemfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/100-why-crispr-is-overrated-and-gene-drives-are-terrifyingly-powerful-gabriel-licina--18590572


In 2015 Gabriel chemically induced night vision in his eyes with a controversial, yet successful experiment and is very active in the self-DIY movement. He's also been very involved in the ecology and sustainable development spaces, serving as Biologist in Residence at Exosphere HQ.



 













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* Why CRISPR's overhyped and still has a long way to go
* The reason genetic engineering is so hard and yet so promising
* Why Gabriel is hopeful, respectful and somewhat scared of gene drives
* Where we are headed with gene editing and designer babies
* How Gabriel and his team chemically induced night vision by studying deep sea fish
* A CRISPR solution to climate change and why all the tech in the world may not be enough
* What Gabriel thinks about bioterrorism and its risks
* How venture capital pollutes hobbyists and innovation
* The problem with open-source biology and funding
* What the future of healthcare looks like and where the power will rest
* Why the FDA helps and hurts innovation and progress
* How biohackers drive biotech and health science
* The problem with the university route to fundamental science




















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3438Fri, 12 Apr 2019 08:00:34 +0000Matt WardGabriel Licina (@glimsd) is a Molecular Biologist, Research Consultant, hardcore biohacker and the Chief Research Officer of Scihouse, a research-focused makerspace working to make science and technology accessible for everyone with a variety of...


In 2015 Gabriel chemically induced night vision in his eyes with a controversial, yet successful experiment and is very active in the self-DIY movement. He's also been very involved in the ecology and sustainable development spaces, serving as Biologist in Residence at Exosphere HQ.



 













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Today we discuss:




* Why CRISPR's overhyped and still has a long way to go
* The reason genetic engineering is so hard and yet so promising
* Why Gabriel is hopeful, respectful and somewhat scared of gene drives
* Where we are headed with gene editing and designer babies
* How Gabriel and his team chemically induced night vision by studying deep sea fish
* A CRISPR solution to climate change and why all the tech in the world may not be enough
* What Gabriel thinks about bioterrorism and its risks
* How venture capital pollutes hobbyists and innovation
* The problem with open-source biology and funding
* What the future of healthcare looks like and where the power will rest
* Why the FDA helps and hurts innovation and progress
* How biohackers drive biotech and health science
* The problem with the university route to fundamental science




















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 ]]>4034agritech,biohackers,biology,biotech,bioterrorism,climatechange,crispr,dna,education,future,genes,geneticengineering,genetics,healthcare,innovation,longevity,molecularbiology,science,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/99-why-hacking-and-cyberwarfare-is-big-business-for-russia-the-mafia-and-cia-eric-cole--18590573
Eric is an expert in information technology, with a focus on secure network design, perimeter defense, penetration testing, vulnerability discovery, and intrusion detection systems. He has also authored many books, including Online Danger, Advanced Persistent Threat and many more, an inventor with more than 20 patents and the founder of Secure Anchor, an elite cybersecurity consulting firm.





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Today we discuss:

* The importance of cybersecurity and why hacking always gets easier
* What the CIA does when it comes to cyberwarfare
* Why the US is actually one of the biggest perpetrators of hacking worldwide
* What is the future of politics in a post-Trump world
* Which monopoly scares Eric the most and why
* How Alexa and smart home devices drive even greater surveillance and tyranny
* Why Eric is terrified of autonomous vehicles and thinks they're overhyped
* How Eric views social media and our future
* Why politicians probably can't fix the cybersecurity threat
* How to think about increased polarization
* What Russia taught us about social media and influence
* Is Huawei actually a threat to US infrastructure






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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3492Mon, 08 Apr 2019 18:01:05 +0000Matt WardEric Cole (@drericcole) is arguably the #1 cyber security expert in the US with a resume including the Obama administration, the CIA, the Gates Foundation and CTO of McAfee and was inducted into the 2014 InfoSecurity Hall of Fame. Eric is an expert...
Eric is an expert in information technology, with a focus on secure network design, perimeter defense, penetration testing, vulnerability discovery, and intrusion detection systems. He has also authored many books, including Online Danger, Advanced Persistent Threat and many more, an inventor with more than 20 patents and the founder of Secure Anchor, an elite cybersecurity consulting firm.





You can listen right here on iTunes

Today we discuss:

* The importance of cybersecurity and why hacking always gets easier
* What the CIA does when it comes to cyberwarfare
* Why the US is actually one of the biggest perpetrators of hacking worldwide
* What is the future of politics in a post-Trump world
* Which monopoly scares Eric the most and why
* How Alexa and smart home devices drive even greater surveillance and tyranny
* Why Eric is terrified of autonomous vehicles and thinks they're overhyped
* How Eric views social media and our future
* Why politicians probably can't fix the cybersecurity threat
* How to think about increased polarization
* What Russia taught us about social media and influence
* Is Huawei actually a threat to US infrastructure






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Donate]]>2908ai,amazon,artificialintelligence,autonomousvehicles,cia,cyber,cybersecurity,cyberwarfare,facebook,future,google,governance,hacking,iot,monopoly,podcast,polarization,socilamedia,surveillance,voicefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/98-becoming-an-opportunistic-optimist-and-saving-our-kids-from-soul-crushing-effects-of-school-john-doran--18590574John's passionate about the transformative power of education to disrupt poverty, and help young people succeed. He's a board member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a TEDx speaker and frequently called on to speak all levels of organizations, government, and educational institutions.




In today's episode we discuss:

* The performance-enhancing drugs available to anyone with no negative side effects
* Ways to recreate the school system to lead to happier, healthier adults
* How John became a Board Member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and what you can learn from his experience
* The effects of social media and connectedness on depression and mental health
* Why we're living longer, more miserable lives than ever
* How debate could create a class of critical thinkers
* The importance of mindfulness and positive self talk on health and happiness
* What John would overhaul with existing schools power of a purposeful teacher in transforming kids lives
* How to solve hate on social media
* Why purpose and passion is the most important force there is
* The way parents, schools and society limit kids creativity and optimism
* How to become an opportunistic optimist
* Strategies to reunify our isolated, polarized world

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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3399Fri, 05 Apr 2019 08:00:26 +0000Matt WardJohn Doran(@awaytowellbeing) has been a teacher and guidance counselor for over 24 years and is the author Ways to Wellbeing,. a book about creating a positive educational experience in the 21st century which taught in over 140 schools worldwide....John's passionate about the transformative power of education to disrupt poverty, and help young people succeed. He's a board member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a TEDx speaker and frequently called on to speak all levels of organizations, government, and educational institutions.




In today's episode we discuss:

* The performance-enhancing drugs available to anyone with no negative side effects
* Ways to recreate the school system to lead to happier, healthier adults
* How John became a Board Member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation and what you can learn from his experience
* The effects of social media and connectedness on depression and mental health
* Why we're living longer, more miserable lives than ever
* How debate could create a class of critical thinkers
* The importance of mindfulness and positive self talk on health and happiness
* What John would overhaul with existing schools power of a purposeful teacher in transforming kids lives
* How to solve hate on social media
* Why purpose and passion is the most important force there is
* The way parents, schools and society limit kids creativity and optimism
* How to become an opportunistic optimist
* Strategies to reunify our isolated, polarized world

You can listen right here on iTunes
 












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Donate]]>3063consciousness,creativity,depression,drugs,education,facebook,happiness,health,healthcare,mentalhealth,mindfullness,neuro,neuroscience,podcast,politics,schoolsystem,science,socialmedia,society,twitterfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/97-the-most-important-non-obvious-technologies-and-trends-of-2019-and-beyond-rohit-bhargava--18590576
He has delivered sold-out keynote presentations and workshops to business leaders in 32 countries.  Rohit has been invited to share his insights at some of the most forward-looking organizations in the world including Intel, NASA, Disney, JP Morgan Chase, LinkedIn, Microsoft, American Express, BP, the World Bank, Coca-Cola and hundreds of others.

Outside of his consulting work, Rohit also teaches a popular course on storytelling and marketing at Georgetown. For the past 14 years, Rohit has written his personal “Influential Marketing Blog” and he has been featured in publications including Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, and NPR.





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Today we discuss:

* The importance of likeability and why it actually trumps competence
* What are the non-obvious technologies and trends of 2019
* Why Rohit thinks Facebook will be broken up and likely fall
* Ways to fight fake news and why it may be impossible
* Which monopoly scares Rohit the most today
* How marketing and commerce change in an age of Alexa
* Why Trump may have changed politics forever
* How Rohit thinks about the future of social media
* Why the future and the past are both right and wrong
* How to think about and remedy increased polarization in our world
* Why Rohit is most worried about facial recognition and AI






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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2329Mon, 01 Apr 2019 08:00:33 +0000Matt WardRohit Bhargava (@rohitbhargava) is an innovation and marketing expert and the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of five books on topics as wide-ranging as the future of business and building a brand with personality. His signature book...
He has delivered sold-out keynote presentations and workshops to business leaders in 32 countries.  Rohit has been invited to share his insights at some of the most forward-looking organizations in the world including Intel, NASA, Disney, JP Morgan Chase, LinkedIn, Microsoft, American Express, BP, the World Bank, Coca-Cola and hundreds of others.

Outside of his consulting work, Rohit also teaches a popular course on storytelling and marketing at Georgetown. For the past 14 years, Rohit has written his personal “Influential Marketing Blog” and he has been featured in publications including Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, and NPR.





You can listen right here on iTunes

Today we discuss:

* The importance of likeability and why it actually trumps competence
* What are the non-obvious technologies and trends of 2019
* Why Rohit thinks Facebook will be broken up and likely fall
* Ways to fight fake news and why it may be impossible
* Which monopoly scares Rohit the most today
* How marketing and commerce change in an age of Alexa
* Why Trump may have changed politics forever
* How Rohit thinks about the future of social media
* Why the future and the past are both right and wrong
* How to think about and remedy increased polarization in our world
* Why Rohit is most worried about facial recognition and AI






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Donate]]>3171ai,artificialintelligence,business,ecommerce,facebook,future,futureottechnology,futurism,google,governance,government,marketing,monopoly,podcast,polarization,politics,socialmedia,startups,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/96-polarization-powerful-billionaires-and-the-eroding-effects-of-inequality-rahaf-harfoush--18590578


You can listen right here on iTunes

 

Today we discuss:

* The polarizing problem of social media and sharing
* Why inequality is such a big deal
* What Obama and Trump did effectively in their campaigns
* The reason ADD is killing creativity
* Why social media's perfect for information warfare
* How billionaires are breaking the world
* Why protesting and media mobs may be the new norm
* How to think about worker rights
* What's wrong with the gig economy and where it heads
* How privacy is eroding faster that we realize
* Why AI and automation could ruin society




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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3506Fri, 29 Mar 2019 08:06:26 +0000Matt WardRahaf Harfoush (@rahafharfoush) is a digital anthropologist, bestselling author and speaker researching the impacts of emerging technologies on our society and is focused on deep (and often hidden) behavioral shifts that are taking place within...


You can listen right here on iTunes

 

Today we discuss:

* The polarizing problem of social media and sharing
* Why inequality is such a big deal
* What Obama and Trump did effectively in their campaigns
* The reason ADD is killing creativity
* Why social media's perfect for information warfare
* How billionaires are breaking the world
* Why protesting and media mobs may be the new norm
* How to think about worker rights
* What's wrong with the gig economy and where it heads
* How privacy is eroding faster that we realize
* Why AI and automation could ruin society




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Donate]]>3755ai,artificialintelligence,automation,climatechange,consciousness,economics,econommy,facebook,gig-economy,governance,government,inequality,media,obama,podcast,politics,productivity,socialmedia,trump,wealthfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/95-how-to-fix-politics-redesign-education-and-stop-climate-change-cold-mark-stevenson--18590577


He is the author of An Optimist's Tour of the Future and We Do Things Differently, is an occasional comedy writer and his first play, the farce Octopus Soup (co-authored with Jack Milner) tours the UK in Spring 2019. He is also one half of The Futurenauts. His parents still have no idea what he does.













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In today’s episode we discuss:




* A better way to think about and tackle climate change
* Ways Mark and I would like to reform the education system
* Richard Branson and Al Gore's profitable plan to save the world
* The reason we're becoming more politicized and possible solutions
* Why we're already saving the world but just don't know it yet
* How Mark thinks we can redesign government for the 21st century
* The effect of comedy on fixing societal issues
* How the arts impacts and often drives innovation and progress
* The problem with optimism and bigger issue of cynism
* Why Brazil may be beating the US when it comes to governmental innovation
* The reason future literacy and systems thinking is the most important skill for the future














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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3294Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:10:32 +0000Matt WardMark Stevenson (@optimistontour) is a reluctant futurist, bestselling author, frequent speaker and occasional comedian. He's one of the world’s most respected thinkers on the connection between technology and society, helping governments, NGOs and...


He is the author of An Optimist's Tour of the Future and We Do Things Differently, is an occasional comedy writer and his first play, the farce Octopus Soup (co-authored with Jack Milner) tours the UK in Spring 2019. He is also one half of The Futurenauts. His parents still have no idea what he does.













You can listen right here on iTunes



 
In today’s episode we discuss:




* A better way to think about and tackle climate change
* Ways Mark and I would like to reform the education system
* Richard Branson and Al Gore's profitable plan to save the world
* The reason we're becoming more politicized and possible solutions
* Why we're already saving the world but just don't know it yet
* How Mark thinks we can redesign government for the 21st century
* The effect of comedy on fixing societal issues
* How the arts impacts and often drives innovation and progress
* The problem with optimism and bigger issue of cynism
* Why Brazil may be beating the US when it comes to governmental innovation
* The reason future literacy and systems thinking is the most important skill for the future














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Donate]]>3155biotech,cleanmeat,climatechange,economics,economy,education,educationsystem,environment,future,futurism,governance,government,innovation,podcast,politics,savingtheworld,society,systems,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/94-how-renewable-energy-killed-coal-and-why-radical-life-extension-isn-t-going-to-happen-ramez-naam-of-singularity-university--18590579


His other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement.



He's currently co-chair of energy and the environment at Singularity University and earlier in his career led teams at Microsoft working on Outlook, Internet Explorer and Bing where he co-patented 20 inventions, many alongside Bill Gates.



Ramez has appeared on Sunday morning MSNBC, Yahoo! Finance, The New York Times, WSJ, PopSci, Wired, and many more. Ramez holds more than 20 patents, and many of those are as a co-inventor with Bill Gates.













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In today's episode we discuss:




* Why we're at a tipping point for carbon-emitting cars sold
* What it was like working directly with Bill Gates
* What is Ramez predicted about renewable energy and why it's better than even he thought
* How technologists are solving global problems by fixing incentives and driving down costs
* What it's like to be both a bestselling fiction and non-fiction author
* Why Ramez is no longer a big believer in radical life extension
* The brain2.0 movement and why we're becoming cyborgs
* What Ramez thinks about CRISPR and genetically engineering people
* The importance of sci-fi to shift societal attitudes
* How to think about technological trends when tackling big problems
* Why innovation often leaves behind a lot bodies
* The reason Ramez is fundamentally optimist despite all the challenges we face
* Why the secret to a better future is to create it




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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3030Fri, 22 Mar 2019 08:00:17 +0000Matt WardRamez Naam (@ramez) is a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor and award-winning author best known for his Nexus Trilogy: Nexus, Crux and Apex His other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite...


His other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement.



He's currently co-chair of energy and the environment at Singularity University and earlier in his career led teams at Microsoft working on Outlook, Internet Explorer and Bing where he co-patented 20 inventions, many alongside Bill Gates.



Ramez has appeared on Sunday morning MSNBC, Yahoo! Finance, The New York Times, WSJ, PopSci, Wired, and many more. Ramez holds more than 20 patents, and many of those are as a co-inventor with Bill Gates.













You can listen right here on iTunes



In today's episode we discuss:




* Why we're at a tipping point for carbon-emitting cars sold
* What it was like working directly with Bill Gates
* What is Ramez predicted about renewable energy and why it's better than even he thought
* How technologists are solving global problems by fixing incentives and driving down costs
* What it's like to be both a bestselling fiction and non-fiction author
* Why Ramez is no longer a big believer in radical life extension
* The brain2.0 movement and why we're becoming cyborgs
* What Ramez thinks about CRISPR and genetically engineering people
* The importance of sci-fi to shift societal attitudes
* How to think about technological trends when tackling big problems
* Why innovation often leaves behind a lot bodies
* The reason Ramez is fundamentally optimist despite all the challenges we face
* Why the secret to a better future is to create it




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Donate]]>3326biotech,brainmachineinterface,cleanenergy,climatechange,crispr,energy,genes,geneticengineering,genetics,health,iot,lifeextension,longevity,podcast,renewableenergy,science,sciencefiction,scifi,solarenergy,windenergyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/93-the-importance-of-internet-censorship-power-of-authoritarianism-and-collapse-of-digital-advertising-ben-hammersley-of-wired-uk--18590580


Ben explores the effects of the internet and the digital network on the world’s business, political and social atmospheres. His latest book, 64 Things You Need to Know Now For Then gives us the essential guide to the things we need to know for life in the 21st century. He's the writer, host and narrator of Netflix and BBC television series Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley that was shot in over six countries across the globe. As the first specialist correspondent on the internet for The Times and The Guardian, he became the inventor of the popular term, ‘podcast.’



Ben's been called upon to advise three governments and countless tech organizations, including a seat on the European Commission High Level Group on Media Freedom of the European Union. He has a private pilot’s license, is a Rescue Diver, and is a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician in the USA, with an additional wilderness medicine diploma, and he holds qualifications in genomic science, disaster response, and advanced cardiac life support








You can listen right here on iTunes



In today's episode we discuss:




* How societal norms and social media breakdown without problem guidance
* The future of publishing and media in an age of outreach
* Why Ben thinks we can change politics and we're both excited about the future for millenials
* What it's like as a futurist and why most companies are living in the past
* The effect of GDPR and Europe's rules and regulations
* Why internet censorship is important and key to democracy
* Is democracy or authoritarianism a better model going forward
* Why Ben isn't worried about AI and thinks blockchain is overrated
* What happens when China becomes THE economic powerhouse of the world
* How Ben accidentally invented the term podcast and why it's haunted him ever since
* What it's like working with Netflix and the future of solo-media companies
* Why Ben believes digital advertising is an enormous bubble








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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3129Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:00:17 +0000Matt WardBen Hammersley (@benhammersley) is a technologist, futurist author and Editor-at-Large of UK’s WIRED magazine. Ben explores the effects of the internet and the digital network on the world’s business, political and social atmospheres. His latest...


Ben explores the effects of the internet and the digital network on the world’s business, political and social atmospheres. His latest book, 64 Things You Need to Know Now For Then gives us the essential guide to the things we need to know for life in the 21st century. He's the writer, host and narrator of Netflix and BBC television series Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley that was shot in over six countries across the globe. As the first specialist correspondent on the internet for The Times and The Guardian, he became the inventor of the popular term, ‘podcast.’



Ben's been called upon to advise three governments and countless tech organizations, including a seat on the European Commission High Level Group on Media Freedom of the European Union. He has a private pilot’s license, is a Rescue Diver, and is a nationally registered Emergency Medical Technician in the USA, with an additional wilderness medicine diploma, and he holds qualifications in genomic science, disaster response, and advanced cardiac life support








You can listen right here on iTunes



In today's episode we discuss:




* How societal norms and social media breakdown without problem guidance
* The future of publishing and media in an age of outreach
* Why Ben thinks we can change politics and we're both excited about the future for millenials
* What it's like as a futurist and why most companies are living in the past
* The effect of GDPR and Europe's rules and regulations
* Why internet censorship is important and key to democracy
* Is democracy or authoritarianism a better model going forward
* Why Ben isn't worried about AI and thinks blockchain is overrated
* What happens when China becomes THE economic powerhouse of the world
* How Ben accidentally invented the term podcast and why it's haunted him ever since
* What it's like working with Netflix and the future of solo-media companies
* Why Ben believes digital advertising is an enormous bubble








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Donate]]>3550advertising,ai,artificialintelligence,blockchain,censorship,china,communism,democracy,economics,economy,governance,government,health,iot,media,news,podcast,politics,socialism,socialmediafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/92-education-isolationism-and-power-of-clayton-christensen-s-market-creating-innovations-karen-dillon--18590581





In today's episode we discuss:




* How innovation and entrepreneurship both alleviate and income inequality and abject poverty
* The three types of innovation and how they impact our economy and world
* Why we're not living in a new age of robber barons
* The reason Karen thinks today's top tech giants will ultimately be disrupted
* How to combat the growing education crisis
* The dangers of increasing isolationism and why sometimes it is actually beneficial.
* Why individuals need to be thinking about their goals and futures now more than ever
* What's the real future of publishing and media
* Why Karen thinks we'll all be working more, not less, in 20 years time

 








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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3061Fri, 15 Mar 2019 08:25:28 +0000Matt WardKaren Dillon (@kardillon) is the former editor of Harvard Business Review magazine and co-author of the three books with Clayton Christensen, including the forthcoming The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty and...





In today's episode we discuss:




* How innovation and entrepreneurship both alleviate and income inequality and abject poverty
* The three types of innovation and how they impact our economy and world
* Why we're not living in a new age of robber barons
* The reason Karen thinks today's top tech giants will ultimately be disrupted
* How to combat the growing education crisis
* The dangers of increasing isolationism and why sometimes it is actually beneficial.
* Why individuals need to be thinking about their goals and futures now more than ever
* What's the real future of publishing and media
* Why Karen thinks we'll all be working more, not less, in 20 years time

 








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Donate]]>3213ai,artificialintelligence,economics,economy,education,educationcrisis,entrepreneurship,future,governance,government,harvard,innovation,isolationism,media,podcast,politics,poverty,tech,techgiants,technologiesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/91-coal-is-dead-climate-change-is-real-and-bezos-and-alexa-for-president-nikolas-badminton--18590582
Nikolas regularly appears on the BBC, CBC, CTV, Global News, Fast Company, VICE, and writes for the Techcrunch, Huffington Post, Forbes, Venturebeat, Betakit, TechVibes, Business.com, and other media.

 

 





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In today's episode we discuss:

* The reason the world's most valuable company has yet to be created
* Why we need to start taking climate change seriously and saying screw you to lobbyists
* The biggest problems with the traditional education and a few creative ways to solve them
* Why China is making such fast technological and economic progress and what it means for the future of the West
* The future of energy and why it is renewables all the way
* What Amazon Alexa and voice assistants mean for the future of work and parenting
* How agritech and AI will change the future of cities and supply chains
* Why the singularity is and isn't almost here
* The reason some companies and kids dominate the world while others die out
* Why genetic engineering and CRISPR based designer babies aren't something that worries Nikolas
* How to address the issues social media
* Why the future is never really knowable and rarely predictable





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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=3087Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:00:15 +0000Matt WardNikolas Badminton (@nikolasfuturist) is a world-respected futurist speaker, author, and researcher. He wows audiences with keynote speeches on the impact of exponential technologies including: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality; Work Productivity;...
Nikolas regularly appears on the BBC, CBC, CTV, Global News, Fast Company, VICE, and writes for the Techcrunch, Huffington Post, Forbes, Venturebeat, Betakit, TechVibes, Business.com, and other media.

 

 





You can listen right here on iTunes

In today's episode we discuss:

* The reason the world's most valuable company has yet to be created
* Why we need to start taking climate change seriously and saying screw you to lobbyists
* The biggest problems with the traditional education and a few creative ways to solve them
* Why China is making such fast technological and economic progress and what it means for the future of the West
* The future of energy and why it is renewables all the way
* What Amazon Alexa and voice assistants mean for the future of work and parenting
* How agritech and AI will change the future of cities and supply chains
* Why the singularity is and isn't almost here
* The reason some companies and kids dominate the world while others die out
* Why genetic engineering and CRISPR based designer babies aren't something that worries Nikolas
* How to address the issues social media
* Why the future is never really knowable and rarely predictable





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Donate]]>3642ai,artificialintelligence,biotech,china,climatechange,economy,education,energy,food,foodtech,genes,genetics,health,healthcare,iot,podcast,politics,tech,technology,voicefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/90-smart-cities-that-function-like-startups-and-ayesha-khanna--18590584
Her clients have included SMRT, Singapore's largest public transport company; Singtel, Singapore's largest telco; SOMPO, Japan's largest insurance firm; Habib Bank, Pakistan's largest bank; and Smart Dubai, the government agency tasked to transform Dubai into a leading smart city.

Prior to founding ADDO AI, Ayesha spent more than a decade on Wall Street developing large scale trading, risk management and data analytics systems and was co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research advisory group established to analyze the social and economic impact of accelerating technologies.

Ayesha is the co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization. She has been published or quoted in most major publications and presented at major financial, technology and other industry conferences, provided high level government briefings, chaired symposiums such as AI Asia, and spoken at TEDx events.

Ayesha is also the Founder of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and on the Board of Advisors for Humanity+ and directed the Future Cities Group at the London School of Economics, and has been a Faculty Advisor at Singularity University.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Singapore's government operates like a startup to promote innovation
* What the future of smart cities holds and why it should be citizen-centric
* Why data privacy and governmental policies are so important to the future of all of us
* The ways changing transportation systems will affect our physical cities, beyond what's normally discussed
* How to design the cities, city-states and nations of the future
* The reason Ayesha is working to overhaul education and how we should structure it instead
* Why the future will increasingly be defined by the East
* What the jobs of the future look like and how governments can cope
* Why Ayesha is optimist and a little worried about AI and society




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Her clients have included SMRT, Singapore's largest public transport company; Singtel, Singapore's largest telco; SOMPO, Japan's largest insurance firm; Habib Bank, Pakistan's largest bank; and Smart Dubai, the government agency tasked to transform Dubai into a leading smart city.

Prior to founding ADDO AI, Ayesha spent more than a decade on Wall Street developing large scale trading, risk management and data analytics systems and was co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute, a research advisory group established to analyze the social and economic impact of accelerating technologies.

Ayesha is the co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization. She has been published or quoted in most major publications and presented at major financial, technology and other industry conferences, provided high level government briefings, chaired symposiums such as AI Asia, and spoken at TEDx events.

Ayesha is also the Founder of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding and artificial intelligence classes to girls in Singapore, a Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and on the Board of Advisors for Humanity+ and directed the Future Cities Group at the London School of Economics, and has been a Faculty Advisor at Singularity University.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Singapore's government operates like a startup to promote innovation
* What the future of smart cities holds and why it should be citizen-centric
* Why data privacy and governmental policies are so important to the future of all of us
* The ways changing transportation systems will affect our physical cities, beyond what's normally discussed
* How to design the cities, city-states and nations of the future
* The reason Ayesha is working to overhaul education and how we should structure it instead
* Why the future will increasingly be defined by the East
* What the jobs of the future look like and how governments can cope
* Why Ayesha is optimist and a little worried about AI and society




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Douglas' work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.

Douglas is the author twenty books including bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus and is releasing his new book Team Human based off his podcast.

He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media.

Douglas is also a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen. Douglas also served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reason billionaires are planning for the "inevitable" apocalypse and why that's a big problem
* How broken the US political system is and how we can fix it
* The big issue with the stock market and venture capital and how we can reinvent business for the 21st century
* Why our future is in our hands and what we can do about it
* Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign
* The problems with social media and plans to fight back
* How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed
* Why people are pushing back against tech and how it impacts our world
* What Google's walkout means for the future of tech
* Why Douglas thinks companies are the key to changing our world
* The reason Douglas is very worried about growing inequality
* Why capital is the only thing that counts today
* How to redesign our education system for the modern era






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Douglas' work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media” and “social currency,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice.

Douglas is the author twenty books including bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus and is releasing his new book Team Human based off his podcast.

He has written and hosted three award-winning PBS Frontline documentaries – The Merchants of Cool looked at the influence of corporations on youth culture, The Persuaders, about the cluttered landscape of marketing, and new efforts to overcome consumer resistance, and Digital Nation, about life on the virtual frontier. Most recently, he made Generation Like, an exploration of teens, marketers, and social media.

Douglas is also a research fellow of the Institute for the Future, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics, Ecstasy Club, A.D.D, and Aleister & Adolf, are all being developed for the screen. Douglas also served as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture and regularly appears on TV shows from NBC Nightly News and Larry King to the Colbert Report and Bill Maher.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reason billionaires are planning for the "inevitable" apocalypse and why that's a big problem
* How broken the US political system is and how we can fix it
* The big issue with the stock market and venture capital and how we can reinvent business for the 21st century
* Why our future is in our hands and what we can do about it
* Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign
* The problems with social media and plans to fight back
* How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed
* Why people are pushing back against tech and how it impacts our world
* What Google's walkout means for the future of tech
* Why Douglas thinks companies are the key to changing our world
* The reason Douglas is very worried about growing inequality
* Why capital is the only thing that counts today
* How to redesign our education system for the modern era






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He helped develop soundproof drywall with lower carbon footprints and more energy-efficient windows to completely retrofit the Empire State Building and NYSE in record time and under budget, was the co-inventor of multivariate reverse auctions and has now turned his attention back to AI As CEO of Appvance.ai, Surace’s company is now disrupting the software testing industry by eliminating the need for human testers.



He has a life outside technology as well and in his latest project “Big, Bold, and, Brassy,” Surace serves as conductor for a 28-piece orchestra featuring international jazz star Nicole Henry where they play selections of broadway and pop tunes for corporate events.



Surace’s work has been featured in Businessweek, Time, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, and FOX News. He has keynoted hundreds of events, from INC5000 to 15 TED Talks to the US Congress and even been awarded 28 patents.













You can listen right here on iTunes



In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:




* How artificial intelligence will actually impact work
* The earliest forms of digital assistants and why they weren't entirely successful
* Why Kevin is passionate about reducing construction emissions, and why it is literally 1/2 the problem
* Where we are headed with respect to climate change
* The reason we're both worried about social media and political polarization
* What is the future of work and will we have jobs
* How to think about tariffs and trade
* Who owns the autonomous vehicles of the future
* Which companies win the autonomous vehicle race
* Why AI will actually make our lives awesome
* Why you may soon have a robotic chef in your kitchen




















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 ]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2507Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:00:40 +0000Matt WardKevin Surace (@kevinsurace) is a futurist and disruptive innovation speaker, creator of the first smartphone and digital assistant and innovator of the decade. Surace has disrupted every industry he has entered from communications to A.I. to clean...




He helped develop soundproof drywall with lower carbon footprints and more energy-efficient windows to completely retrofit the Empire State Building and NYSE in record time and under budget, was the co-inventor of multivariate reverse auctions and has now turned his attention back to AI As CEO of Appvance.ai, Surace’s company is now disrupting the software testing industry by eliminating the need for human testers.



He has a life outside technology as well and in his latest project “Big, Bold, and, Brassy,” Surace serves as conductor for a 28-piece orchestra featuring international jazz star Nicole Henry where they play selections of broadway and pop tunes for corporate events.



Surace’s work has been featured in Businessweek, Time, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, ABC, MSNBC, and FOX News. He has keynoted hundreds of events, from INC5000 to 15 TED Talks to the US Congress and even been awarded 28 patents.













You can listen right here on iTunes



In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:




* How artificial intelligence will actually impact work
* The earliest forms of digital assistants and why they weren't entirely successful
* Why Kevin is passionate about reducing construction emissions, and why it is literally 1/2 the problem
* Where we are headed with respect to climate change
* The reason we're both worried about social media and political polarization
* What is the future of work and will we have jobs
* How to think about tariffs and trade
* Who owns the autonomous vehicles of the future
* Which companies win the autonomous vehicle race
* Why AI will actually make our lives awesome
* Why you may soon have a robotic chef in your kitchen




















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 ]]>4057ai,artificialintelligence,automation,autonomousvehicles,climmatechange,digital,economics,energy,future,governance,intelligence,jobs,machine,podcast,politics,robotics,robots,socialmedia,trade,workfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/87-atheism-evolution-and-the-future-of-pz-myers--18590587


His primary blog, Pharyngula went on to be acquired by National Geographic and he currently blogs at FreeThoughtBlogs.com where he criticizes creationism, supports feminism and writes about topics and trends important to the future of all of us.











You can listen right here on iTunes



In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:



* The problem with religion and creationism clouding public discord* Why evolution is so important to understand and how conservatives have created fake doubt* How embryos evolve and why understanding the stages is actually quite important* Why PZ's more than a little worried about CRISPR and genetic engineering* The truth about Gattica and designer babies* Why Buddhism's not much better than other religions in PZ's book* How religion came to be and why we're still a long way off from eradicating it* Why fake news mirrors religious beliefs and is caused by many of the same human flaws* What scientists should learn from preachers and priests* How to think about education and reforming communitiies* Why the world is so divided and what we can do about it* The science of gene testing and why we know a lot less than we think we do















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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2583Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:18:11 +0000Matt WardPZ Myers (@pzmyers) is a well-known atheist blogger, science popularizer and an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris. His primary blog, Pharyngula went on to be acquired by National Geographic and he currently blogs...


His primary blog, Pharyngula went on to be acquired by National Geographic and he currently blogs at FreeThoughtBlogs.com where he criticizes creationism, supports feminism and writes about topics and trends important to the future of all of us.











You can listen right here on iTunes



In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:



* The problem with religion and creationism clouding public discord* Why evolution is so important to understand and how conservatives have created fake doubt* How embryos evolve and why understanding the stages is actually quite important* Why PZ's more than a little worried about CRISPR and genetic engineering* The truth about Gattica and designer babies* Why Buddhism's not much better than other religions in PZ's book* How religion came to be and why we're still a long way off from eradicating it* Why fake news mirrors religious beliefs and is caused by many of the same human flaws* What scientists should learn from preachers and priests* How to think about education and reforming communitiies* Why the world is so divided and what we can do about it* The science of gene testing and why we know a lot less than we think we do















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Donate]]>3765atheism,biotech,climatechange,crispr,dna,evolution,fakenews,genetesting,geneticengineering,genetics,podcast,politics,religion,research,science,sciencefiction,scifi,scineceandtechnology,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/86-why-we-re-basically-just-bonobos-monkeys-with-better-tech-rebecca-costa--18590588Costa was the founder and CEO of one of the largest technology marketing firms in California, where she developed an extensive track record of introducing disruptive, bleeding edge technologies for industry leaders like HP, Apple Computer, Oracle, Siebel Systems, General Electric, 3M, and others.
Rebecca spent six years researching and writing the international bestseller The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse and her follow-on book On the Verge shot to the top of Amazon's #1 New Business Releases. The success of The Watchman's Rattle led to a popular weekly news program called The Costa Report which was syndicated throughout the United States until 2018.


You can listen right here on iTunes
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How AI and predictive analytics shifts the balance of power
* Why the future is becoming increasingly knowable
* The truth about complexity and what it means for all of us
* How evolution has primed people to fail today's challenges
* The big problems facing society and how to solve them
* Why terrorism inevitably leads to Minority Report
* The effect of CRISPR on human nature
* How nano-bots will impact the future of healthcare and pharma
* The reason Rebecca isn't that worried about the existential risk
* How to think about the future of politics and governments
* Why we basically bonobos monkeys with better tech
























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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1634Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:00:54 +0000Matt WardRebecca D Costa (@rebeccacosta) is an American sociobiologist and futurist and a recipient of the prestigious Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Award. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian,...Costa was the founder and CEO of one of the largest technology marketing firms in California, where she developed an extensive track record of introducing disruptive, bleeding edge technologies for industry leaders like HP, Apple Computer, Oracle, Siebel Systems, General Electric, 3M, and others.
Rebecca spent six years researching and writing the international bestseller The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse and her follow-on book On the Verge shot to the top of Amazon's #1 New Business Releases. The success of The Watchman's Rattle led to a popular weekly news program called The Costa Report which was syndicated throughout the United States until 2018.


You can listen right here on iTunes
In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How AI and predictive analytics shifts the balance of power
* Why the future is becoming increasingly knowable
* The truth about complexity and what it means for all of us
* How evolution has primed people to fail today's challenges
* The big problems facing society and how to solve them
* Why terrorism inevitably leads to Minority Report
* The effect of CRISPR on human nature
* How nano-bots will impact the future of healthcare and pharma
* The reason Rebecca isn't that worried about the existential risk
* How to think about the future of politics and governments
* Why we basically bonobos monkeys with better tech
























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Donate]]>3476ai,artificialintelligence,bigdata,biology,biotech,crispr,data,economics,economy,genetics,governance,government,health,nano,nanotech,nanotechnology,podcast,politics,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/85-a-new-story-for-climate-change-and-creating-a-better-world-charles-eisenstein--18590586
His online writings have built a tremendous following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. He has been called “one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time” in Ode magazine’s “25 Intelligent Optimists” issue.

He is the author of several books including:

* The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
* Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
* The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
* Climate Change: A New Story

On his podcast: A New and Ancient Story, Charles interviews a series of extraordinary guests: activists and healers, scientists and spiritual teachers, artists and entrepreneurs, indigenous people and those from the elite. Topics revolve around concepts of interbeing and “technologies of reunion”





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The myth of separation and of self
* Why our existing stories are destroying our planet
* How consciousness and Eastern medicine can teach us about the nature of reality
* Which technologies Charles is most worried about
* The problem with the stories society tells itself
* Why past technologies and practices are needed for future progress
* How psychedelics can shift the human consciousness forward
* Why we are likely headed to a new structure for civilization
* How to make miracles happen
* Why Charles is worried about soil health and the future of our planet
* The reason science is sometimes wrong and often late
* Why we need to reimagine climate change now
* The power of individual actions

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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1889Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:57:47 +0000Matt WardCharles Eisenstein (@ceisenstein) is an author, podcaster and public speaker focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His online writings have built a tremendous following; he speaks frequently at...
His online writings have built a tremendous following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. He has been called “one of the up-and-coming great minds of our time” in Ode magazine’s “25 Intelligent Optimists” issue.

He is the author of several books including:

* The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
* Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
* The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
* Climate Change: A New Story

On his podcast: A New and Ancient Story, Charles interviews a series of extraordinary guests: activists and healers, scientists and spiritual teachers, artists and entrepreneurs, indigenous people and those from the elite. Topics revolve around concepts of interbeing and “technologies of reunion”





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The myth of separation and of self
* Why our existing stories are destroying our planet
* How consciousness and Eastern medicine can teach us about the nature of reality
* Which technologies Charles is most worried about
* The problem with the stories society tells itself
* Why past technologies and practices are needed for future progress
* How psychedelics can shift the human consciousness forward
* Why we are likely headed to a new structure for civilization
* How to make miracles happen
* Why Charles is worried about soil health and the future of our planet
* The reason science is sometimes wrong and often late
* Why we need to reimagine climate change now
* The power of individual actions

https://youtu.be/gFp_w-d6lo4




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Donate]]>3126agritech,civilization,climate,climatechange,consciousness,economics,economy,energy,future,health,healthcare,longevity,naturalmedicine,planet,podcast,politics,pollution,psychedelics,tech,technologiesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/84-consistently-predicting-tech-trends-decades-before-they-happen-daniel-burrus--18590589
Daniel is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, GE, American Express, Google, Deloitte, Procter & Gamble, Honda, and IBM etc..., helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight, as well as the international best-seller Technotrends. His latest book, The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage is an Amazon #1 Hot New Release for Business

Daniel has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on programs such as CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg, and is quoted in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, and Forbes and is a featured writer with millions of monthly readers on the topics of innovation, change and the future. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Wired, CNBC, and Huffington Post to name a few.

Daniel has founded six businesses, four of which were national leaders in the United States in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How hard and soft trends change theworld
* Why Daniel was able to predict major consumer tech breakthroughs decades before they happened
* What areas of technology Daniel is most excited about and why
* The reason Daniel is somewhat worried about CRISPR
* How to think about disruption and positive disruption specifically
* The reason some companies die and others thrive
* How to spot big tech trends
* Why Daniel avoids competition to crush it
* Why not all trends pan out
* The biggest mistake big companies make
* Why Daniel thinks Apple has something big planned soon






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1830Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:00:17 +0000Matt WardDaniel Burrus (@danielburrus) is considered one of the world’s leading futurist speakers on global trends and innovation and The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the highest demand as a speaker. Daniel is a...
Daniel is a strategic advisor to executives from Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, GE, American Express, Google, Deloitte, Procter & Gamble, Honda, and IBM etc..., helping them to develop game-changing strategies based on his proven methodologies for capitalizing on technology innovations and their future impact. He is the author of seven books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Flash Foresight, as well as the international best-seller Technotrends. His latest book, The Anticipatory Organization: Turn Disruption and Change Into Opportunity and Advantage is an Amazon #1 Hot New Release for Business

Daniel has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on programs such as CNN, Fox Business, and Bloomberg, and is quoted in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, and Forbes and is a featured writer with millions of monthly readers on the topics of innovation, change and the future. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Wired, CNBC, and Huffington Post to name a few.

Daniel has founded six businesses, four of which were national leaders in the United States in the first year. He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How hard and soft trends change theworld
* Why Daniel was able to predict major consumer tech breakthroughs decades before they happened
* What areas of technology Daniel is most excited about and why
* The reason Daniel is somewhat worried about CRISPR
* How to think about disruption and positive disruption specifically
* The reason some companies die and others thrive
* How to spot big tech trends
* Why Daniel avoids competition to crush it
* Why not all trends pan out
* The biggest mistake big companies make
* Why Daniel thinks Apple has something big planned soon






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Donate]]>2929ai,apple,artificialintelligence,bigcompanies,bigtech,business,crispr,disruption,economics,economy,forecast,future,globaltrends,podcast,predictions,research,tech,techconsumer,technology,trendsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/83-studying-ants-emergent-behavior-to-advance-ai-robotics-and-even-neuroscience-deborah-gordon--18590592
She is also a partner in the “Ants in Space” project designed to learn more about how ants search and coordinate, information that may be useful in designing robot search algorithms and possibly colonizing extraterrestrial bodies like Mars, the Moon or other planetary objects.

Deborah's the author of Ants at Work and has given two well-received talks at TED in 2003 and 2014 on the ingenious intelligence of ants and swarms which each received 1M+ views to date





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The emergent intelligence of ants and what humanity can learn from it
* Why intelligence isn't always clean and is usually simple
* How ant colonies help AI researchers program robots
* What we can learn from ants about expansion into space
* Why ants' utilitarian society is so effective yet also inefficient
* The system of task allocation that allows all ants to contribute
* How to solve complex problems with simple incentives
* Deborah's thoughts on blockchain and decentralization
* How researchers use ants to think about neuroscience and the brain
* The we're headed towards a utilitarian system and why it may not work
* Why we're probably going about building AGI all wrong





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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2371Mon, 11 Feb 2019 08:00:18 +0000Matt WardDeborah Gordon is a Professor of Biology at Stanford University studying the evolution of collective behavior using ant colonies as a model. Her research focuses on how ant colonies regulate their behavior in response to environmental changes, and how...
She is also a partner in the “Ants in Space” project designed to learn more about how ants search and coordinate, information that may be useful in designing robot search algorithms and possibly colonizing extraterrestrial bodies like Mars, the Moon or other planetary objects.

Deborah's the author of Ants at Work and has given two well-received talks at TED in 2003 and 2014 on the ingenious intelligence of ants and swarms which each received 1M+ views to date





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The emergent intelligence of ants and what humanity can learn from it
* Why intelligence isn't always clean and is usually simple
* How ant colonies help AI researchers program robots
* What we can learn from ants about expansion into space
* Why ants' utilitarian society is so effective yet also inefficient
* The system of task allocation that allows all ants to contribute
* How to solve complex problems with simple incentives
* Deborah's thoughts on blockchain and decentralization
* How researchers use ants to think about neuroscience and the brain
* The we're headed towards a utilitarian system and why it may not work
* Why we're probably going about building AGI all wrong





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Donate]]>2928ai,animals,ants,artificialintelligence,climatechange,consciousness,economics,economy,emergentbehaviour,humanity,insects,intelligence,nature,neuro,neuroscience,podcast,robotics,science,search,spacefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/82-why-who-is-more-important-than-how-for-leadership-business-and-happiness-lolly-daskal--18590593
Of her many awards and accolades, Lolly was designated a
Top-50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc.com, 100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next by Inc. magazine and Huffington Post's The Most Inspiring Woman in the World.

Lolly's writing has appeared in HBR, Inc.com, Fast Company (Ask The Expert), Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and others.

She is the author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness and previous bestseller Thoughts Spoken From the Heart.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How some leaders achieve exponentially more results
* The dichotomy of productivity and creativity, and how to game it
* Why self-development and actualization are the keys to productivity and happiness
* How and why Lolly reads a book a day, without skimming
* Why education is broken and how to fix it
* The reason Lolly thinks automation won't negatively impact jobs
* How organizations and leaders can prepare for the world of tomorrow
* The exciting potential of AI and why Lolly's clients are worried
* How social media separates us and cause negative comparisons
* Why we're both scared about the state of politics and politicians
* What we need to consider to create a sustainable society
* Why there is no right answer and who trumps how






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=2048Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:00:32 +0000Matt WardLolly Daskal (@lollydaskal) is one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world with extensive cross-cultural expertise spans 14 countries, six languages and hundreds of companies. Of her many awards and accolades, Lolly was...
Of her many awards and accolades, Lolly was designated a
Top-50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc.com, 100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next by Inc. magazine and Huffington Post's The Most Inspiring Woman in the World.

Lolly's writing has appeared in HBR, Inc.com, Fast Company (Ask The Expert), Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and others.

She is the author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller: The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness and previous bestseller Thoughts Spoken From the Heart.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How some leaders achieve exponentially more results
* The dichotomy of productivity and creativity, and how to game it
* Why self-development and actualization are the keys to productivity and happiness
* How and why Lolly reads a book a day, without skimming
* Why education is broken and how to fix it
* The reason Lolly thinks automation won't negatively impact jobs
* How organizations and leaders can prepare for the world of tomorrow
* The exciting potential of AI and why Lolly's clients are worried
* How social media separates us and cause negative comparisons
* Why we're both scared about the state of politics and politicians
* What we need to consider to create a sustainable society
* Why there is no right answer and who trumps how






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Donate]]>3220ai,artificialintelligence,business,coaching,consciousness,creativity,education,happiness,jobs,leaders,leadership,organizations,passion,personaldevelopment,podcast,politics,productivity,purpose,soceity,socialmediafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/81-blockchain-isolationism-space-exploration-and-the-future-of-nations-david-orban-of-singularity-university--18590598
An early adopter of blockchain and an active Bitcoin investor since 2010, he was the first to own Ether during the Ethereum launch in 2014. He also led the adoption of Bitcoin and blockchain in start-ups and is an advisor and investor in numerous blockchain companies and funds, such as Blockchain Capital, Bancor, Swarm Fund, and others. David was the keynote speaker at the first Ethereal Summit in May 2017 in New York and is the Founder and a Trustee of Network Society Research, a London-based global think tank present in over 40 countries focused on decentralized exponential technologies disrupting governments and corporations.

He is a mentor for the Thiel Fellowship, a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Lifeboat Foundation on the Faculty of and an advisor to the Singularity University, an investor in the Singularity University Labs Accelerator Fund (now SU Ventures), President of SingularityU Italy Summit and an advisor to Humanity+.

David is a sought-after speaker, he has given over 100 keynote addresses and speeches around the world for organizations including Abbvie, Cisco, Oracle, Roche, Ernst & Young, Accenture, Gilead, TEDx Academy, Alphabet and others and blogs at davidorban.com





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of blockchains and cryptocurrency
* Why David invested in Bitcoin when it was under $10
* Which industries blockchain has the biggest potential to disrupt
* The reason government and governance will be radically changed in the coming years
* How regulations affect the blockchain industry and are primarily protectionist
* Why David thinks on a 1000 year time horizon and might just live to see it happen
* How David thinks about isolationism and the future of nation-states
* The future of micro-payments and money
* How robots will interact with economy and colonize galaxy
* The model for a sustainable Mars colony and what needs to happen
* Why David is bullish on clean meat and hydroponics for the future of food
* How to forecast the future and predict timing
* What you need to know about China and cryptocurrency






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1873Mon, 04 Feb 2019 08:00:07 +0000Matt WardDavid Orban (@davidorban) is an entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker and the Founder and Managing Partner of Network Society Ventures, a seed stage global investment firm focused on innovative startups at the intersection of exponential technologies...
An early adopter of blockchain and an active Bitcoin investor since 2010, he was the first to own Ether during the Ethereum launch in 2014. He also led the adoption of Bitcoin and blockchain in start-ups and is an advisor and investor in numerous blockchain companies and funds, such as Blockchain Capital, Bancor, Swarm Fund, and others. David was the keynote speaker at the first Ethereal Summit in May 2017 in New York and is the Founder and a Trustee of Network Society Research, a London-based global think tank present in over 40 countries focused on decentralized exponential technologies disrupting governments and corporations.

He is a mentor for the Thiel Fellowship, a Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Lifeboat Foundation on the Faculty of and an advisor to the Singularity University, an investor in the Singularity University Labs Accelerator Fund (now SU Ventures), President of SingularityU Italy Summit and an advisor to Humanity+.

David is a sought-after speaker, he has given over 100 keynote addresses and speeches around the world for organizations including Abbvie, Cisco, Oracle, Roche, Ernst & Young, Accenture, Gilead, TEDx Academy, Alphabet and others and blogs at davidorban.com





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of blockchains and cryptocurrency
* Why David invested in Bitcoin when it was under $10
* Which industries blockchain has the biggest potential to disrupt
* The reason government and governance will be radically changed in the coming years
* How regulations affect the blockchain industry and are primarily protectionist
* Why David thinks on a 1000 year time horizon and might just live to see it happen
* How David thinks about isolationism and the future of nation-states
* The future of micro-payments and money
* How robots will interact with economy and colonize galaxy
* The model for a sustainable Mars colony and what needs to happen
* Why David is bullish on clean meat and hydroponics for the future of food
* How to forecast the future and predict timing
* What you need to know about China and cryptocurrency






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Donate]]>4417bitcoin,blockchain,cleanmeat,crypto,cryptocurrency,decentralization,food,foodtech,genetics,governance,government,iot,money,podcast,politics,regulations,singularityuniversity,space,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/80-gigaom-ceo-byron-reese-on-ai-consciousness-tech-progress-and-4th-age-of-humanity--18590597
Byron holds a number of technology patents and hosts two podcasts about artificial intelligence. He gives talks around the world about how technology is changing work, education, and culture to combined audiences well in excess of 100,000.

His newest book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity tackles the issues of artificial intelligence, robots, automation, and the future of work. Byron is also the author of Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War.

Bloomberg Businessweek credits Byron with having “quietly pioneered a new breed of media company.” The Financial Times of London reported that he “is typical of the new wave of internet entrepreneurs out to turn the economics of the media industry on its head.”

Byron and his work have been featured in hundreds of news outlets, including New York Times, Washington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, NPR, and the LA Times Magazine.

“The biggest problems of tomorrow will not be a lack of jobs but a shortage of humans to take advantage of all of the opportunities technology will offer.” – byronreese.com



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why the world is fundamentally improving and Byron is an optimistic realist
* How AI will transform the labor market and economy, leading to better jobs
* The reason optimism and pessimism are incredibly important to humanity's survival, and evolution
* Why forecasting artificial general intelligence is just silly
* Will AI become conscious
* Why we're entering a fourth era of humanity
* The reason Byron is a little worried about the prospect of bioterrorism
* How 25 years in the internet industry has evolved Byron's view of the future
* Why the news drives fear and separation among us
* What to say to naysayers about technological progress
* Why social media will ultimately be a net positive to society







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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1710Fri, 01 Feb 2019 08:00:21 +0000Matt WardByron Reese (@byronreese) is the CEO and publisher of Gigaom, an industry-leading technology research company. Byron's also an award-winning author, speaker and futurist with a strong conviction that technology will help bring about a new golden age...
Byron holds a number of technology patents and hosts two podcasts about artificial intelligence. He gives talks around the world about how technology is changing work, education, and culture to combined audiences well in excess of 100,000.

His newest book, The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity tackles the issues of artificial intelligence, robots, automation, and the future of work. Byron is also the author of Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War.

Bloomberg Businessweek credits Byron with having “quietly pioneered a new breed of media company.” The Financial Times of London reported that he “is typical of the new wave of internet entrepreneurs out to turn the economics of the media industry on its head.”

Byron and his work have been featured in hundreds of news outlets, including New York Times, Washington Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, NPR, and the LA Times Magazine.

“The biggest problems of tomorrow will not be a lack of jobs but a shortage of humans to take advantage of all of the opportunities technology will offer.” – byronreese.com



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why the world is fundamentally improving and Byron is an optimistic realist
* How AI will transform the labor market and economy, leading to better jobs
* The reason optimism and pessimism are incredibly important to humanity's survival, and evolution
* Why forecasting artificial general intelligence is just silly
* Will AI become conscious
* Why we're entering a fourth era of humanity
* The reason Byron is a little worried about the prospect of bioterrorism
* How 25 years in the internet industry has evolved Byron's view of the future
* Why the news drives fear and separation among us
* What to say to naysayers about technological progress
* Why social media will ultimately be a net positive to society







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Donate]]>3043abundance,agi,ai,artificialgeneralintelligence,artificialintelligence,automation,biotech,computing,consciousness,futureofwork,innovation,jobs,neuro,neuroscience,podcast,progress,robotics,science,sciencefiction,scififalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/79-the-science-of-brain-aging-basis-of-consciousness-and-future-of-neuroscience-dr-brynn-winegard--18590595
Coupled with over a decade in corporate marketing working for Pfizer Inc., Nestle Inc., and Johnson & Johnson Inc., she brings an interesting real-world perspective to high-performance brain science.

Brynn is on the faculty at Schulich School of Business, DeGroote School of Business, and University of Guelph but is now more focused on helping others through speaking about ‘Building Better Business Brains’ to clients ranging from the Alberta Canadian government, the largest Canadian telecoms, Coca-Cola, Crayola, Deloitte and dozens more.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The science of brain aging and expertise
* Why your brain loses neurons but gain skills
* The advances in sensor technology driving neuroscience
* What Brynn has learned about differences and brain shape and function
* The actual percentage your conscious brain use
* What myths most folks have about the brain
* How nutrition and epigenetics affect brain performance and health
* The science behind the five closest friends phenomenon
* The reason meditation and mindfulness are so valuable
* Why it is so hard to change a habit or break an addiction
* The 6 types of brain aging and what to know
* Why you are what you think




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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1987Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:00:31 +0000Matt Ward Dr. Brynn Winegard (@drbrynnwinegard) is a neuroscience, psychology and marketing expert, award-winning professor, speaker, and expert. She speaks frequently on the topics of persuasion, productivity, the neuroscience of leadership, motivation and...
Coupled with over a decade in corporate marketing working for Pfizer Inc., Nestle Inc., and Johnson & Johnson Inc., she brings an interesting real-world perspective to high-performance brain science.

Brynn is on the faculty at Schulich School of Business, DeGroote School of Business, and University of Guelph but is now more focused on helping others through speaking about ‘Building Better Business Brains’ to clients ranging from the Alberta Canadian government, the largest Canadian telecoms, Coca-Cola, Crayola, Deloitte and dozens more.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The science of brain aging and expertise
* Why your brain loses neurons but gain skills
* The advances in sensor technology driving neuroscience
* What Brynn has learned about differences and brain shape and function
* The actual percentage your conscious brain use
* What myths most folks have about the brain
* How nutrition and epigenetics affect brain performance and health
* The science behind the five closest friends phenomenon
* The reason meditation and mindfulness are so valuable
* Why it is so hard to change a habit or break an addiction
* The 6 types of brain aging and what to know
* Why you are what you think




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Donate]]>3485brain,brainaging,brainloss,consciousness,epigenetics,health,healthcare,knowledge,meditation,mind,mindfulness,neuro,neurons,neuroscience,nutrition,podcast,science,scienceandtechnology,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/78-catching-the-most-notorious-spy-in-us-history-and-why-james-bond-s-just-a-hacker-eric-o-neill--18590596
Eric has worked as an FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence operative, a national security attorney, as a corporate security consultant and founded The Georgetown Group, a premier investigative and security services firm.

In February 2001 Eric helped capture the most notorious spy in United States history, Robert Phillip Hanssen. In the three months preceding Hanssen’s arrest, Eric was selected to work with the spy, charged with gaining Hanssen’s trust and slowly drawing the traitor out of deep cover. They caught the traitor, thanks to Eric's James Bond-esque skill which we'll of course discuss.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How espionage has evolved since the Cold War
* Why cyber warfare is the spying of today
* How Eric and his team were able to catch the most notorious spy in US history
* The reason terrorism has such an outsized effect on public policy and society
* How to prevent the US from becoming a surveillance state
* The effects of Edward Snowden
* Why IoT means security will become even more vital
* What's really going on between the US and China
* Why Hollywood isn't exactly ghost hunting spies
* The truth about Huawei









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Eric has worked as an FBI counterterrorism and counterintelligence operative, a national security attorney, as a corporate security consultant and founded The Georgetown Group, a premier investigative and security services firm.

In February 2001 Eric helped capture the most notorious spy in United States history, Robert Phillip Hanssen. In the three months preceding Hanssen’s arrest, Eric was selected to work with the spy, charged with gaining Hanssen’s trust and slowly drawing the traitor out of deep cover. They caught the traitor, thanks to Eric's James Bond-esque skill which we'll of course discuss.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How espionage has evolved since the Cold War
* Why cyber warfare is the spying of today
* How Eric and his team were able to catch the most notorious spy in US history
* The reason terrorism has such an outsized effect on public policy and society
* How to prevent the US from becoming a surveillance state
* The effects of Edward Snowden
* Why IoT means security will become even more vital
* What's really going on between the US and China
* Why Hollywood isn't exactly ghost hunting spies
* The truth about Huawei









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David serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and has published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals including Archives of Neurology, Neurosurgery and The Journal of Applied Nutrition. He is also a frequent symposium lecturer at institutions like the World Bank and IMF, Columbia University, Scripps Institute, New York University, and Harvard University and serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

David books have been published in 34 languages and include the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain, The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar which sold over 1 million copies. Other New York Times bestsellers include Brain Maker, The Grain Brain Cookbook and The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan.

He is also the editor of the upcoming collection The Microbiome and the Brain that will be authored by top experts in the field and will be published in late 2019 by CRC Press and has been frequently interviewed on programs such as 20/20, Larry King Live, CNN, Fox News, The Today Show, Oprah, Dr. Oz and The CBS Early Show.

Dr. Perlmutter is also the recipient of numerous awards, including: the Linus Pauling Award for his innovative approaches to neurological disorders; the National Nutritional Foods Association Clinician of the Year Award and the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the American College of Nutrition.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How what you eat affects how you feel and perform
* Why air pollution lowers your IQ
* What is wrong with our global food supply and why it may be a ticking time bomb
* How climate change is affecting our culture and where it will get worse
* Strategies to save yourself and future from degenerative diseases
* Why David is worried about GMOs and the future of farming
* The brain-bacteria connection and how your gut gets the last word
* What David says about clean meat and lab-grown food
* Why we need to own up to our pollution problem before destroying the planet
* How genetic diversity drives resiliency and abundance
* Why antibiotics may actually be killing you in the long term
* The reason Alzheimer's drugs actually speed mental decline











Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support The Disruptors]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2206Mon, 21 Jan 2019 08:00:10 +0000Matt WardDr. David Perlmutter (@davidperlmutter) is a Board-Certified Neurologist, four-time New York Times bestselling author and serves on the Board of Directors at the American College of Nutrition. David serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the...
David serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and has published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals including Archives of Neurology, Neurosurgery and The Journal of Applied Nutrition. He is also a frequent symposium lecturer at institutions like the World Bank and IMF, Columbia University, Scripps Institute, New York University, and Harvard University and serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

David books have been published in 34 languages and include the #1 New York Times bestseller Grain Brain, The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar which sold over 1 million copies. Other New York Times bestsellers include Brain Maker, The Grain Brain Cookbook and The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan.

He is also the editor of the upcoming collection The Microbiome and the Brain that will be authored by top experts in the field and will be published in late 2019 by CRC Press and has been frequently interviewed on programs such as 20/20, Larry King Live, CNN, Fox News, The Today Show, Oprah, Dr. Oz and The CBS Early Show.

Dr. Perlmutter is also the recipient of numerous awards, including: the Linus Pauling Award for his innovative approaches to neurological disorders; the National Nutritional Foods Association Clinician of the Year Award and the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the American College of Nutrition.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How what you eat affects how you feel and perform
* Why air pollution lowers your IQ
* What is wrong with our global food supply and why it may be a ticking time bomb
* How climate change is affecting our culture and where it will get worse
* Strategies to save yourself and future from degenerative diseases
* Why David is worried about GMOs and the future of farming
* The brain-bacteria connection and how your gut gets the last word
* What David says about clean meat and lab-grown food
* Why we need to own up to our pollution problem before destroying the planet
* How genetic diversity drives resiliency and abundance
* Why antibiotics may actually be killing you in the long term
* The reason Alzheimer's drugs actually speed mental decline











Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support The Disruptors]]>3683agriculture,agritech,ai,alzheimers,artificialintelligence,brain,climatechange,disease,farming,genetics,health,healthcare,inflammation,keto,neuro,neuroscience,nutrition,podccast,science,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/76-climate-change-mass-extinctions-and-the-doom-of-the-dinosaurs-peter-brannen--18590600
Peter is a 2018 Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, was a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Duke University, and a 2011 Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA. Peter got his start as a reporter for the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, MA.

Peter is particularly interested in ocean science, deep time, astrobiology and the carbon cycle.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why climate change isn't new but is accelerating
* The history of mass extinctions on Earth
* When 90% of species on the planet died off and what caused it
* The problem with public perception of climate change
* How species evolve and climate shifts cause adaptations
* What life was like during the Ice Ages
* Why we may be headed towards a mass extinction
* Would humanity survive another Ice Age
* Why whales are so darn big
* The reason we need to all act now
* Why global warming is a likely Fermi Paradox solution
* The truth about evolution and it's origins
* Why the dinosaurs were the dominant lifeform for 135M years
* What happens to the Earth without humans











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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2337Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:10:12 +0000Matt WardPeter Brannen (@peterbrannen1) is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Wired, Aeon, The Boston Globe, Slate and The Guardian among other publications. His book, The Ends...
Peter is a 2018 Scripps Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, was a 2015 journalist-in-residence at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Duke University, and a 2011 Ocean Science Journalism Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA. Peter got his start as a reporter for the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, MA.

Peter is particularly interested in ocean science, deep time, astrobiology and the carbon cycle.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why climate change isn't new but is accelerating
* The history of mass extinctions on Earth
* When 90% of species on the planet died off and what caused it
* The problem with public perception of climate change
* How species evolve and climate shifts cause adaptations
* What life was like during the Ice Ages
* Why we may be headed towards a mass extinction
* Would humanity survive another Ice Age
* Why whales are so darn big
* The reason we need to all act now
* Why global warming is a likely Fermi Paradox solution
* The truth about evolution and it's origins
* Why the dinosaurs were the dominant lifeform for 135M years
* What happens to the Earth without humans











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Donate]]>2904ai,artificialintelligence,cleanmeat,climatechange,co2,dinosaurs,earth,energy,evolution,extinction,food,foodtech,globalwarming,icaage,planet,podcast,pollution,survival,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/75-designer-babies-reviving-the-neanderthals-and-funding-fundamental-science-prosanta-chakrabarty--18590601
Prosanta is an Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Science at Louisiana State University and is also a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

He has gone on research trips to Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Madagascar, Panama, Kuwait, and many other countries and discovered over a dozen new species including new anglerfishes and cavefishes in the process.

His latest books include A Guide to Academia: Getting into and surviving grad school, postdocs and a research job and Making a Big Splash with Louisiana Fishes. He is also a former Program Director at the National Science Foundation and was named a TED Fellow in 2016, and a TED Senior Fellow in 2018.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How the attitude towards science and scientific research has changed in DC since Trump
* What happens when science discover completely new species
* Why Prosanta is optimistic about the direction the world is headed
* What happens if and when we revive the Neanderthals
* How a fisherman found humanity's closing living fish relative thought extinction 65 million years ago
* Why biology is shifting away from the organismal view and towards biotech
* The reason Prosanta is pretty terrified about CRISPR
* How soon until we start to see newly engineered species of human
* The problems with containing CRISPR and gene editing
* Ways to redesign education for a more well-rounded individual
* What we can learn from fundamental scientific research why it needs more money
* When should we consider genetically editing humans and why it's probably inevitable
* Why evolution might be more complex than we think






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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2212Mon, 14 Jan 2019 08:00:41 +0000Matt WardProsanta Chakrabarty (@preaux_fish) is a systematist and an ichthyologist studying the evolution and biogeography of both freshwater and marine fishes. His work includes studies of Neotropical (Central and South America, Caribbean) and Indo-West...
Prosanta is an Associate Professor and Curator of Fishes at the Museum of Natural Science and Department of Biological Science at Louisiana State University and is also a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.

He has gone on research trips to Japan, Australia, Taiwan, Madagascar, Panama, Kuwait, and many other countries and discovered over a dozen new species including new anglerfishes and cavefishes in the process.

His latest books include A Guide to Academia: Getting into and surviving grad school, postdocs and a research job and Making a Big Splash with Louisiana Fishes. He is also a former Program Director at the National Science Foundation and was named a TED Fellow in 2016, and a TED Senior Fellow in 2018.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How the attitude towards science and scientific research has changed in DC since Trump
* What happens when science discover completely new species
* Why Prosanta is optimistic about the direction the world is headed
* What happens if and when we revive the Neanderthals
* How a fisherman found humanity's closing living fish relative thought extinction 65 million years ago
* Why biology is shifting away from the organismal view and towards biotech
* The reason Prosanta is pretty terrified about CRISPR
* How soon until we start to see newly engineered species of human
* The problems with containing CRISPR and gene editing
* Ways to redesign education for a more well-rounded individual
* What we can learn from fundamental scientific research why it needs more money
* When should we consider genetically editing humans and why it's probably inevitable
* Why evolution might be more complex than we think






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Donate]]>3042ai,animals,artificialintelligence,biotech,climatechange,crispr,dna,education,evolution,geneediting,genes,geneticengineering,genetics,health,healthcare,nature,nsf,podcast,science,scientificresearchfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/74-megashifts-ai-and-why-the-future-is-more-unknowable-than-ever-gerd-leonhard--18590603
Gerd addresses topics such as what it means to be human in a world of machines and algorithms, the coming redefinition of human-machine relationships, the future of work and jobs and much more. He is a much sought-after speaker, having presented at more than 1700 events in 60+ countries since 2004. His clients include Google, Sony, UBS, Mastercard, Unilever, Lloyds Bank, WWF, Nokia, The Guardian, Siemens, BBC, France Telecom, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, MTN, The Financial Times, , The EU Commission, VISA, and many others.

Gerd is a member of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA, London), an advisory board member of the Indian and Canadian research institutes and the author of Technology vs. Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine.



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The evolution of AI and dangers of AGI
* Why Europe has to lead the way on privacy, data and consumer rights
* Why Gerd believes we need a moratorium on the future of artificial general intelligence
* The problem with capitalism and creating a better future
* How tech giants may end up owning our future
* Why Facebook and Zuckerberg didn't really do anything wrong, at least according to the rules
* How Gerd thinks about megashifts and the future of humanity
* Why we may all be living a lot longer thanks to biotech
* The reason technology isn't the the answer or means to an end
* Why the future is more unknowable than ever
* The reason Gerd isn't that excited about space travel
* What you need to know robotics and future of work




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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1851Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:00:11 +0000Matt WardGerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) is a futurist, keynote speaker and author and listed by Wired Magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in Europe (2015). Gerd’s work focuses on the future of humanity, technology and digital transformation;...
Gerd addresses topics such as what it means to be human in a world of machines and algorithms, the coming redefinition of human-machine relationships, the future of work and jobs and much more. He is a much sought-after speaker, having presented at more than 1700 events in 60+ countries since 2004. His clients include Google, Sony, UBS, Mastercard, Unilever, Lloyds Bank, WWF, Nokia, The Guardian, Siemens, BBC, France Telecom, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, MTN, The Financial Times, , The EU Commission, VISA, and many others.

Gerd is a member of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA, London), an advisory board member of the Indian and Canadian research institutes and the author of Technology vs. Humanity: The Coming Clash Between Man and Machine.



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The evolution of AI and dangers of AGI
* Why Europe has to lead the way on privacy, data and consumer rights
* Why Gerd believes we need a moratorium on the future of artificial general intelligence
* The problem with capitalism and creating a better future
* How tech giants may end up owning our future
* Why Facebook and Zuckerberg didn't really do anything wrong, at least according to the rules
* How Gerd thinks about megashifts and the future of humanity
* Why we may all be living a lot longer thanks to biotech
* The reason technology isn't the the answer or means to an end
* Why the future is more unknowable than ever
* The reason Gerd isn't that excited about space travel
* What you need to know robotics and future of work




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Donate]]>2937ai,artificialintelligence,biotech,cleanmeat,climatechange,computing,economics,energy,genetics,podcast,politics,quantum,quantumcomputing,robotics,robotsfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/73-how-to-live-longer-healthier-lives-and-rewrite-the-rules-of-news-peter-bowes-of-live-long-and-master-aging-podcast--18590605
On the podcast Peter interviews world-renowned scientists, future thinkers and biohackers focused on how we can live longer and healthier lives and talks a great deal about food, fasting, exercise, brain science and human performance.

As a reporter, Peter has interviewed many Hollywood celebrities, including Cher, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Harrison Ford and he has covered every Oscars ceremony since 1996.

Peter has produced and presented radio and TV documentaries and special features on a wide range of topics including: Religion in Silicon Valley, Michael Jackson and Living Longer in Lovely Hill, which explores the links between a meat-free diet, exercise and faith.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Peter became interested in aging and increased longevity
* The reason Peter fasts to live a longer, healthier life
* How the media industry is transforming and where it goes from here
* Why community is key to health and happiness
* How Peter plans to live to at least 100
* Why the world is better than ever but appears to be worse
* Lessons learned from the world's oldest, healthiest populations
* How lifespan and healthspan differ and where healthcare goes wrong
* What the rise of podcasts and personal media outlets means for society
* The purpose of purpose and why it leads to longer lives
* How the BBC maintains such a high standard of excellence
* Why learning is something you never stop doing






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=2039Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:00:01 +0000Matt WardPeter Bowes (@peterbowes) is BBC Correspondent, biohacker and hosting of the Live Long and Master Aging Podcast where he explores the science and stories behind human longevity. On the podcast Peter interviews world-renowned scientists, future...
On the podcast Peter interviews world-renowned scientists, future thinkers and biohackers focused on how we can live longer and healthier lives and talks a great deal about food, fasting, exercise, brain science and human performance.

As a reporter, Peter has interviewed many Hollywood celebrities, including Cher, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Harrison Ford and he has covered every Oscars ceremony since 1996.

Peter has produced and presented radio and TV documentaries and special features on a wide range of topics including: Religion in Silicon Valley, Michael Jackson and Living Longer in Lovely Hill, which explores the links between a meat-free diet, exercise and faith.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Peter became interested in aging and increased longevity
* The reason Peter fasts to live a longer, healthier life
* How the media industry is transforming and where it goes from here
* Why community is key to health and happiness
* How Peter plans to live to at least 100
* Why the world is better than ever but appears to be worse
* Lessons learned from the world's oldest, healthiest populations
* How lifespan and healthspan differ and where healthcare goes wrong
* What the rise of podcasts and personal media outlets means for society
* The purpose of purpose and why it leads to longer lives
* How the BBC maintains such a high standard of excellence
* Why learning is something you never stop doing






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Donate]]>3188ads,aging,brain,education,happiness,health,healthcare,healthspan,lifeextension,lifespan,livelonger,longevity,media,neuro,neuroscience,news,podcast,purpose,retirement,sciencefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/72-seth-shostak-on-seti-space-and-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-life-big-picture-science--18590602
Seth has degrees in physics and astronomy from Princeton University and Caltech and a long history of research in radio astronomy and in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI. He has written more than 500 popular articles on science and technology and has authored four books including: Life in the Universe and Confessions of an Alien Hunter.

Seth is a frequent guest and commentator on radio and television. His TV appearances include Larry King Live, Colbert Report, Nightline, and countless Discovery, History Channel, and National Geographic Channel programs.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why Seth first fell in love with astronomy
* The history of SETI and how Seth got involved
* Which answers to Fermi's Paradox Seth finds most probable
* The problem with public support for space research
* How the race for space and ET has evolved over the years
* What happened when SETI detected an alien signal, only to be wrong
* Why artificial intelligence is a bad idea to create
* Would the government actually hide proof of alien contact
* Why the search for ET is more exciting and promising than ever
* The reason Seth thinks space exploration will mainly be a robotic endeavor
* Why Seth is somewhat worried about weaponized biotech
* The sad truth about a society on Mars
* Where life may have originated and is panspermia credible






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1885Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:00:44 +0000Matt WardSeth Shostak (@sethshostak) is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute and host of the popular weekly science radio show Big Picture Science which connect the latest research to identify emerging trends - and why they matter. Seth has degrees in...
Seth has degrees in physics and astronomy from Princeton University and Caltech and a long history of research in radio astronomy and in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI. He has written more than 500 popular articles on science and technology and has authored four books including: Life in the Universe and Confessions of an Alien Hunter.

Seth is a frequent guest and commentator on radio and television. His TV appearances include Larry King Live, Colbert Report, Nightline, and countless Discovery, History Channel, and National Geographic Channel programs.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why Seth first fell in love with astronomy
* The history of SETI and how Seth got involved
* Which answers to Fermi's Paradox Seth finds most probable
* The problem with public support for space research
* How the race for space and ET has evolved over the years
* What happened when SETI detected an alien signal, only to be wrong
* Why artificial intelligence is a bad idea to create
* Would the government actually hide proof of alien contact
* Why the search for ET is more exciting and promising than ever
* The reason Seth thinks space exploration will mainly be a robotic endeavor
* Why Seth is somewhat worried about weaponized biotech
* The sad truth about a society on Mars
* Where life may have originated and is panspermia credible






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Donate]]>2643ai,aliens,artificialintelligence,biotech,elonmusk,extraterrestrial,jeffbezos,mars,podcast,robotics,science,sciencefiction,scifi,seti,space,spaceexploration,spacerace,spacex,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/71-solving-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness-with-a-mathematical-god-and-messed-up-perception-of-reality-donald-hoffman--18590614
Don has co-authored two technical books: Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception which offers a theory of consciousness and its relationship to physics and Automotive Lighting and Human Vision which applies vision science to vehicle lighting.

His newest book Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See presents the modern science of visual perception to a broad audience. His new book, tentatively titled Do We See Reality?, to appear at the end of 2017, expands on his 2015 TED Talk and explains how our perceptions have evolved to hide reality from us.

Hoffman has won the Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award of the National Academy of Sciences and the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How our perception differs from reality, big time
* The nature of consciousness
* Why we are what we see and believe
* How your brain constructs an alternate universe
* Possible problems with Darwin's Theory of Evolution
* Don's mathematical definition of god
* Why evolution doesn't optimize for intelligence
* How psychedelics actually impact our subjective reality
* The hard problem and how to maybe solve it
* Understanding the inner workings of science
* Why physics is probably wrong and confused
* What we can learn from VR about real life
* Why Don believed humans were just machines, and what he thinks now







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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=2045Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:00:01 +0000Matt Ward Donald Hoffman (@donaldhoffman) is a cognitive scientist, popular author and Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. He studies how our visual perception, guided by millions of years of natural selection, authors every aspect of our everyday...
Don has co-authored two technical books: Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception which offers a theory of consciousness and its relationship to physics and Automotive Lighting and Human Vision which applies vision science to vehicle lighting.

His newest book Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See presents the modern science of visual perception to a broad audience. His new book, tentatively titled Do We See Reality?, to appear at the end of 2017, expands on his 2015 TED Talk and explains how our perceptions have evolved to hide reality from us.

Hoffman has won the Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award of the National Academy of Sciences and the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How our perception differs from reality, big time
* The nature of consciousness
* Why we are what we see and believe
* How your brain constructs an alternate universe
* Possible problems with Darwin's Theory of Evolution
* Don's mathematical definition of god
* Why evolution doesn't optimize for intelligence
* How psychedelics actually impact our subjective reality
* The hard problem and how to maybe solve it
* Understanding the inner workings of science
* Why physics is probably wrong and confused
* What we can learn from VR about real life
* Why Don believed humans were just machines, and what he thinks now







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Donate]]>4174ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,belief,brain,consciousness,evolution,gametheory,god,interfaces,mobile,neuro,neuroscience,perception,podcast,psychedelics,science,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/70-the-end-of-oceans-and-life-as-we-know-it-carl-safina--18590608
Carl is founding president of the Safina Center, and an endowed research professor at Stony Brook University where he is active both in ocean sciences and co-chair of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.

He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina and his writing appears in The New York Times, Audubon, Orion, and other periodicals and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why we're much less different from animals than we think
* How overfishing could lead to a complete ocean die off
* Why Carl's so worried about climate change and unforeseen consequences
* What animals can teach us about ourselves
* The reason consciousness isn't only limited to people
* Why so many animals and superhuman abilities
* The reason a vegetarian like Carl is excited about clean meat
* Why there probably won't be any commercially viable fish in the ocean by 2050
* Why kids are becoming less creative
* The harmful effects without nature
* What might an alien or artificial intelligence actually look like
* The why we actually love dogs, its not what you think
* Why wind and solar could possibly save our species






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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2209Fri, 28 Dec 2018 08:00:13 +0000Matt WardCarl Safina (@carlsafina) is author of various books and many other writings about how the ocean is changing, lives of free-living animals, and the human relationship with the natural world. His books include among others the award-winning Song for...
Carl is founding president of the Safina Center, and an endowed research professor at Stony Brook University where he is active both in ocean sciences and co-chair of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science.

He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina and his writing appears in The New York Times, Audubon, Orion, and other periodicals and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why we're much less different from animals than we think
* How overfishing could lead to a complete ocean die off
* Why Carl's so worried about climate change and unforeseen consequences
* What animals can teach us about ourselves
* The reason consciousness isn't only limited to people
* Why so many animals and superhuman abilities
* The reason a vegetarian like Carl is excited about clean meat
* Why there probably won't be any commercially viable fish in the ocean by 2050
* Why kids are becoming less creative
* The harmful effects without nature
* What might an alien or artificial intelligence actually look like
* The why we actually love dogs, its not what you think
* Why wind and solar could possibly save our species






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Donate]]>3628agritech,animals,cleanenergy,cleanmeat,climatechange,consciousness,ecology,energy,farming,fishing,foodtech,marinebiology,nature,ocean,oceananimals,oceanlife,overfishing,podcast,pollution,solarfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/69-bio-inspired-robotics-drones-on-battlefield-and-building-realworld-c3po-auke-ijspeert--18590609
His popular TED Talk of the robot that runs and swims like a salamander has been viewed nearly 2M times and he has won close to 20 awards, including the University of Edinburgh "robot-rugby" competition 1996, the best paper award at the IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2007 conference and the Overall Best Paper Award (out of 1,172 submitted, 689 accepted papers) at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002).

He is member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, and associate editor for Soft Robotics and for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. He has acted as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2009-2013) and as a guest editor for the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and Biological Cybernetics. He has been the organizer of 6 international conferences and been a program committee member of over 50 conferences.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The purpose and value of biomicking robots
* Why Auke is worried about drones and robots in future battlefields
* The difference between theory and practice for robot design
* Why Auke works with AI researchers but not that closely
* How we should think about regulating robotics
* Why Auke thinks we're still a long way off from AGI
* The problem with scientists and researchers forgetting to think about ethics
* When we can expect large scale robotics in modern life
* Why C3PO isn't an ideal answer to home robotics
* How hype cycles drive robotics and tech development and
* Why AI research and progress may in fact be slowing down
* The reason Auke is so excited and optimistic about autonomous vehicles
* Why scientists are fascinated and frustrated with Boston Dynamics






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1878Wed, 26 Dec 2018 08:00:10 +0000Matt WardAuke Ijspeert is a professor at the EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne), and head of the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob). Auke is interested in using numerical simulations and robots to get a better understanding of animal...
His popular TED Talk of the robot that runs and swims like a salamander has been viewed nearly 2M times and he has won close to 20 awards, including the University of Edinburgh "robot-rugby" competition 1996, the best paper award at the IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2007 conference and the Overall Best Paper Award (out of 1,172 submitted, 689 accepted papers) at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002).

He is member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, and associate editor for Soft Robotics and for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. He has acted as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2009-2013) and as a guest editor for the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and Biological Cybernetics. He has been the organizer of 6 international conferences and been a program committee member of over 50 conferences.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The purpose and value of biomicking robots
* Why Auke is worried about drones and robots in future battlefields
* The difference between theory and practice for robot design
* Why Auke works with AI researchers but not that closely
* How we should think about regulating robotics
* Why Auke thinks we're still a long way off from AGI
* The problem with scientists and researchers forgetting to think about ethics
* When we can expect large scale robotics in modern life
* Why C3PO isn't an ideal answer to home robotics
* How hype cycles drive robotics and tech development and
* Why AI research and progress may in fact be slowing down
* The reason Auke is so excited and optimistic about autonomous vehicles
* Why scientists are fascinated and frustrated with Boston Dynamics






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Donate]]>2937agi,ai,artificialgeneralintelligence,artificialintelligence,automation,autonomousvehicles,driverlesscars,drones,future,futureoftech,machine,modernlife,podcast,robot,robotics,robots,science,tech,techdevelopment,technologiesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/68-hillary-clinton-s-top-advisor-on-technology-innovation-biotech-and-future-of-politics-alec-ross--18590604


He recently served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and acted as the diplomatic lead on issues including cybersecurity, Internet Freedom, disaster response and the use of network technologies in conflict zones. Previously, Alec served as the Convener for the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.



In 2000, he and three colleagues co-founded the technology-focused nonprofit organization One Economy and grew it from modest origins in a basement into a global organization serving millions of low-income people, with programs on four continents.



His many awards include: Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine, U.S. Department of State Distinguished Honor Award, Oxford University Internet and Society Award, Huffington Post’s 10 Game Changers in Politics and Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Award. Alec has served as a guest lecturer at numerous institutions including the United Nations, Oxford University, Harvard Law School, Stanford Business School and a number of parliamentary bodies and his writing has appeared in academic publications including the Johns Hopkins SAIS Review of International Affairs and the NATO Review.











You can listen right here on iTunes



In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:



* The reason Obama was such a special, charismatic leader and what other leaders can learn from him* Why Alec left a successful entrepreneurial career to help Obama on his first campaign* The possibly existential problem with social media* How politics changes post-Trump and where we are headed* Why Alec isn't that worried about tech monopolies* How the US government thinks about and promotes innovation, here and abroad* Which industries Alec believes become $1T markets* Why biotech and human enhancement are inevitable* The big difference between CEOs and politicians* Why health, genomics and personalized medicine as passions of Alec* The reason the US trumps China in long term innovation and growth* Why Hiliary's loss felt inevitable, and drawn out















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Donate]]>https://disruptors.fm/?p=2846Mon, 24 Dec 2018 08:00:13 +0000Matt WardAlec serves as an advisor to investors, corporations and government leaders to help them understand the implication of factors emerging at the intersection of geopolitics, markets and increasingly disruptive network technologies and is on the board of...


He recently served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and acted as the diplomatic lead on issues including cybersecurity, Internet Freedom, disaster response and the use of network technologies in conflict zones. Previously, Alec served as the Convener for the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.



In 2000, he and three colleagues co-founded the technology-focused nonprofit organization One Economy and grew it from modest origins in a basement into a global organization serving millions of low-income people, with programs on four continents.



His many awards include: Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine, U.S. Department of State Distinguished Honor Award, Oxford University Internet and Society Award, Huffington Post’s 10 Game Changers in Politics and Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Award. Alec has served as a guest lecturer at numerous institutions including the United Nations, Oxford University, Harvard Law School, Stanford Business School and a number of parliamentary bodies and his writing has appeared in academic publications including the Johns Hopkins SAIS Review of International Affairs and the NATO Review.











You can listen right here on iTunes



In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:



* The reason Obama was such a special, charismatic leader and what other leaders can learn from him* Why Alec left a successful entrepreneurial career to help Obama on his first campaign* The possibly existential problem with social media* How politics changes post-Trump and where we are headed* Why Alec isn't that worried about tech monopolies* How the US government thinks about and promotes innovation, here and abroad* Which industries Alec believes become $1T markets* Why biotech and human enhancement are inevitable* The big difference between CEOs and politicians* Why health, genomics and personalized medicine as passions of Alec* The reason the US trumps China in long term innovation and growth* Why Hiliary's loss felt inevitable, and drawn out















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Donate]]>3493ai,artificialintelligence,biotech,clinton,genetics,genomics,governance,government,health,healthcare,humanenhancement,leaders,longevity,medicine,monopolies,obama,podcast,politics,socialmedia,techmonopoliesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/67-the-future-of-digital-health-personalized-medicine-and-possible-immortality-bertalan-mesko-the-medical-futurist--18590610
Bertalan envisions the impact of digital health technologies on the future of health, and helps patients, doctors, government regulators and companies make it a reality.

With 500+ presentations including courses at Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities, Singularity University’s Futuremed course at NASA Ames campus and organizations including the 10 biggest pharmaceutical companies, he is one of the top voices globally on healthcare technology.

Dr. Meskó has been featured by dozens of top publications, including CNN, the World Health Organization, National Geographic, Forbes, TIME magazine, BBC, and the New York Times.







You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of digital health and medical technology in the next 10 and 25 years
* What Bertalan does when it comes to biohacking and quantified self to live longer and healthier
* How Google, Amazon and the other tech giants are trying to own healthcare
* Why Bertalan thinks immortality is a sci-fi dream
* The future of personalized medicine and self managed health
* Why Bertalan wants to prevent disease, not catch it early
* How genetic testing and microbiome samples shape Bertalan's actions and future health
* Why AI is such a scary and unstoppable technology
* What under the table experiments are happening on human augmentation and enhancement
* How 3D printed tissues and organs affect all of us
* Why the DIY citizen science/healthcare movement is changing the landscape of healthcare






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1363Fri, 21 Dec 2018 10:32:34 +0000Matt WardDr. Bertalan Meskó (@berci) is The Medical Futurist, one of the world’s leading biotech thinkers and keynote speakers. A self-described geek physician with a PhD in genomics, Bertalan is an Amazon Top 100 author and host of the popular Youtube channel...
Bertalan envisions the impact of digital health technologies on the future of health, and helps patients, doctors, government regulators and companies make it a reality.

With 500+ presentations including courses at Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities, Singularity University’s Futuremed course at NASA Ames campus and organizations including the 10 biggest pharmaceutical companies, he is one of the top voices globally on healthcare technology.

Dr. Meskó has been featured by dozens of top publications, including CNN, the World Health Organization, National Geographic, Forbes, TIME magazine, BBC, and the New York Times.







You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of digital health and medical technology in the next 10 and 25 years
* What Bertalan does when it comes to biohacking and quantified self to live longer and healthier
* How Google, Amazon and the other tech giants are trying to own healthcare
* Why Bertalan thinks immortality is a sci-fi dream
* The future of personalized medicine and self managed health
* Why Bertalan wants to prevent disease, not catch it early
* How genetic testing and microbiome samples shape Bertalan's actions and future health
* Why AI is such a scary and unstoppable technology
* What under the table experiments are happening on human augmentation and enhancement
* How 3D printed tissues and organs affect all of us
* Why the DIY citizen science/healthcare movement is changing the landscape of healthcare






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Donate]]>2946ai,artificialintelligence,biohacking,biotech,digitalhealth,dna,genes,geneticengineering,genetics,genetictesting,genomics,health,healthcare,iot,lifeextension,longevity,podcast,science,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/66-inventing-tv-on-the-internet-a-tad-bit-too-early-scott-klososky--18590613
After the acquisition, he served as VP of Production for iBEAM and led a 150-person team that had innovations including being the first music CD to launch to the Internet, the first interactive CD-ROM to be used to lobby Congress, and the first CD-ROM/Web-based product designed to generate donations for a non-profit organization. Their clients included IBM, Compaq, AOL, Hewlett-Packard, Conoco Inc., and BMG Music, among others.

In 1988, at the age of 26, Scott founded one of the first profitable Soviet/American joint ventures, ParaGraph, Inc., with Russian partners including Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion. ParaGraph designed the original handwritten text-recognition software for the Apple Newton and was later sold to Silicon Graphics. The ParaGraph software standard is now commonly used in personal digital assistants.

Prior to founding webcasts.com's predecessor company in 1994 Scott work with former Nixon's protege and chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, on "The Haldeman Diaries," a New York Times bestseller which was also one of Sony's first profitable CD-ROM products in 1994.

Scott is the author of several books, including Did God Create the Internet?: The Impact of Technology on Humanity and The Velocity Manifesto: Harnessing Technology, Vision, and Culture to Future-Proof your Organization and today runs TriCorp Technologies, a strategic advisory firm for the Fortune 500.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reason Scott went to the USSR during the Cold War and how he teamed up with chess champion Gary Kasparov
* What Scott learned about capitalism, communism and building businesses
* Why Scott "invented" TV on the internet, a tad bit too early
* The reason AI and cybersecurity are the two most important/interesting technologies in Scott's mind
* How regulations can help save our cybersecurity problem
* What Scott does to understand his place in the world
* How working with Nixon's Chief of Staff led to a transformation in the publishing industry
* Why cyberwarfare is so freaking scary and hard to fight
* The things to look for when creating disruptive innovation
* Why things are looking up and Scott is an optimist
* How we can reinvent education for the future




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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1861Wed, 19 Dec 2018 08:00:06 +0000Matt WardScott Klososky (@sklososky) is a technologist, entrepreneur and thought leader that specializes in helping leaders see the world in new ways. He has built and sold multiple companies, the largest being webcasts.com which was ultimately acquired by...
After the acquisition, he served as VP of Production for iBEAM and led a 150-person team that had innovations including being the first music CD to launch to the Internet, the first interactive CD-ROM to be used to lobby Congress, and the first CD-ROM/Web-based product designed to generate donations for a non-profit organization. Their clients included IBM, Compaq, AOL, Hewlett-Packard, Conoco Inc., and BMG Music, among others.

In 1988, at the age of 26, Scott founded one of the first profitable Soviet/American joint ventures, ParaGraph, Inc., with Russian partners including Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion. ParaGraph designed the original handwritten text-recognition software for the Apple Newton and was later sold to Silicon Graphics. The ParaGraph software standard is now commonly used in personal digital assistants.

Prior to founding webcasts.com's predecessor company in 1994 Scott work with former Nixon's protege and chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, on "The Haldeman Diaries," a New York Times bestseller which was also one of Sony's first profitable CD-ROM products in 1994.

Scott is the author of several books, including Did God Create the Internet?: The Impact of Technology on Humanity and The Velocity Manifesto: Harnessing Technology, Vision, and Culture to Future-Proof your Organization and today runs TriCorp Technologies, a strategic advisory firm for the Fortune 500.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reason Scott went to the USSR during the Cold War and how he teamed up with chess champion Gary Kasparov
* What Scott learned about capitalism, communism and building businesses
* Why Scott "invented" TV on the internet, a tad bit too early
* The reason AI and cybersecurity are the two most important/interesting technologies in Scott's mind
* How regulations can help save our cybersecurity problem
* What Scott does to understand his place in the world
* How working with Nixon's Chief of Staff led to a transformation in the publishing industry
* Why cyberwarfare is so freaking scary and hard to fight
* The things to look for when creating disruptive innovation
* Why things are looking up and Scott is an optimist
* How we can reinvent education for the future




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Donate]]>2758ai,artificialintelligence,business,capitalism,cyber,cybersecurity,cyberwar,cyberwarfare,education,future,futureoftechnology,internet,iot,machinelearning,podcast,politics,privacy,security,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/65-artificial-intelligence-for-good-xprize-adivsor-oliver-christie--18590615
Oliver works closely with the X Prize as their AI Advocate, Heads Data Science for OpusAI and advises half dozen other AI startups. In 2009 Oliver and his firm Foxy Machine were a GoogleX Moonshot award winner with The Optimized Self, the ultimate health database for optimized health and he's won an IBM Watson Prize for his work on the Watson Bridge Team.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How artificial intelligence for good can change the world
* The problem with advertising, incentives and the internet
* Why Oliver is excited about AGI and quantum computing
* The X Prize and how it inspires innovation
* What AI means be enterprises and startups alike
* Oliver's project that won GoogleX's Moonshot and the future of healthcare
* How to create a jetlag-free airport
* The reason Oliver isn't worried about AI monopolies
* Why the AI leader of tomorrow hasn't been created yet
* What issues most scare Oliver
* Why personalized advertising may have changed politics forever
* The reason long-form discussions are needed on the future of technology
* How travelling and new perspectives put Oliver in a position to succeed






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1812Mon, 17 Dec 2018 08:00:21 +0000Matt WardOliver Christie (@oliverchristie) is the founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence consulting firm Foxy Machine. He works across multiple industries to help integrate Artificial Intelligence into companies and organizations, leveraging data for...
Oliver works closely with the X Prize as their AI Advocate, Heads Data Science for OpusAI and advises half dozen other AI startups. In 2009 Oliver and his firm Foxy Machine were a GoogleX Moonshot award winner with The Optimized Self, the ultimate health database for optimized health and he's won an IBM Watson Prize for his work on the Watson Bridge Team.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How artificial intelligence for good can change the world
* The problem with advertising, incentives and the internet
* Why Oliver is excited about AGI and quantum computing
* The X Prize and how it inspires innovation
* What AI means be enterprises and startups alike
* Oliver's project that won GoogleX's Moonshot and the future of healthcare
* How to create a jetlag-free airport
* The reason Oliver isn't worried about AI monopolies
* Why the AI leader of tomorrow hasn't been created yet
* What issues most scare Oliver
* Why personalized advertising may have changed politics forever
* The reason long-form discussions are needed on the future of technology
* How travelling and new perspectives put Oliver in a position to succeed






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Donate]]>3261agi,ai,artificialgeneralintelligence,artificialintelligence,computing,economics,economy,future,governance,government,health,healthcare,podcast,politics,quantum,quantumcomputing,science,tech,technology,xprizefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/64-the-dangers-of-ai-and-safety-of-mutually-assured-destruction-george-dvorsky--18590616
George is a founding member of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, he is Chair of the Board and is the founder and program director for its Rights of Non-Human Persons program. In addition, George is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for Humanity+ for two terms.

George's work has been featured in such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, CBC, Forbes, the New York Times, Slate, Radio Free Europe, and al-Jazeera. Outside of work he is also an avid CrossFitter, an ancestral health enthusiast, and an accomplished music performer, composer, and recording engineer.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How life extension and longevity affect society and the technologies ending aging
* The dangers of AI and problems with containment
* Why consciousness is such a hard problem and what it means for all of us
* How George's study of the past influences his views on the future
* Why mutually assured destruction could become a thing again
* The reason AI regulation is harder than it seems
* Which technologies have George most excited today and why
* Why tech ethics are so important going forward
* What happens if and when we invent AGI
* The problems and possibilities of exponential technology in today's world







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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1714Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:00:20 +0000Matt WardGeorge Dvorsky (@dvorsky) is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist that has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and...
George is a founding member of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, he is Chair of the Board and is the founder and program director for its Rights of Non-Human Persons program. In addition, George is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for Humanity+ for two terms.

George's work has been featured in such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, CBC, Forbes, the New York Times, Slate, Radio Free Europe, and al-Jazeera. Outside of work he is also an avid CrossFitter, an ancestral health enthusiast, and an accomplished music performer, composer, and recording engineer.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How life extension and longevity affect society and the technologies ending aging
* The dangers of AI and problems with containment
* Why consciousness is such a hard problem and what it means for all of us
* How George's study of the past influences his views on the future
* Why mutually assured destruction could become a thing again
* The reason AI regulation is harder than it seems
* Which technologies have George most excited today and why
* Why tech ethics are so important going forward
* What happens if and when we invent AGI
* The problems and possibilities of exponential technology in today's world







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Donate]]>3237agi,ai,artificialgeneralintelligence,artificialintelligence,automation,biotech,consciousness,ethics,future,governance,lifeextension,longevity,podcast,robotics,robots,science,society,tech,technology,transhumanismfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/63-understanding-the-adoption-curve-of-vr-and-mixed-reality-sam-watts--18590618
Sam's passion for VR shows throughout his previous work with BBC, Channel 4, Sky and PlayStation. He has 20+ years in software and game development and project management and now spends his days focused on creating the epic immersive experiences of the future.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How psychedelics started the virtual reality movement
* Why dystopian VR is unlikely in Sam's opinion
* What areas of are advancing rapidly and causing VR's progress
* The reason a single company probably won't own the VR market
* Why immersive experiences change the equation for entertainment of the future
* The problem with consumer VR today and what needs to change to spur adoption
* What is the experience escape velocity and why is it so important?
* When we can expect to see consumer VR takeoff
* The chicken and the egg problem of content and cost
* Why 5G will drive adoption of VR
* The reason the future is likely mixed reality






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1823Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:00:03 +0000Matt WardSam Watts (@vr_sam) is one of the foremost thinkers on VR and the Director of Immersive Technologies at MakeReal, a company that believes that immersive digital products are transforming the way we work, play and learn. MakeReal makes virtual reality...
Sam's passion for VR shows throughout his previous work with BBC, Channel 4, Sky and PlayStation. He has 20+ years in software and game development and project management and now spends his days focused on creating the epic immersive experiences of the future.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How psychedelics started the virtual reality movement
* Why dystopian VR is unlikely in Sam's opinion
* What areas of are advancing rapidly and causing VR's progress
* The reason a single company probably won't own the VR market
* Why immersive experiences change the equation for entertainment of the future
* The problem with consumer VR today and what needs to change to spur adoption
* What is the experience escape velocity and why is it so important?
* When we can expect to see consumer VR takeoff
* The chicken and the egg problem of content and cost
* Why 5G will drive adoption of VR
* The reason the future is likely mixed reality






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Donate]]>2686ar,augmentedreality,computing,digital,future,futureoftechnology,magicleap,mobile,oculusvr,podcast,science,sciencefiction,scifi,tech,technologies,technology,virtualreality,vive,vr,vrmarketfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/62-combatting-climate-change-2m-subscribers-at-a-time-alex-reich-of-minuteearth--18590617
He is also editor of the popular channel Hot Mess, a show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves which has over 67k subscribers.



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reality of climate change and what we can do about it
* Why we knew about climate change for years and did nothing
* How a trip to the Artic transformed Alex's life for the better
* The problem with politics degrading facts and science
* How information is power and able to improve the world
* Why Youtube is a great way to build a following and disseminate information
* How Alex thinks about the environment and our future
* Why farming and food production are some of our biggest polluters
* The reason Alex is optimistic about the future






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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1857Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:00:20 +0000Matt WardAlex Reich (@alexhreich) is the co-founder of MinuteEarth, an incredibly successful Youtube channel with over 2M subscribers focused on sharing bit-sized science and stories about our amazing planet. He helped start the channel and today serves as...
He is also editor of the popular channel Hot Mess, a show about how climate change impacts all of us, and about how we can create a better future for our planet and ourselves which has over 67k subscribers.



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reality of climate change and what we can do about it
* Why we knew about climate change for years and did nothing
* How a trip to the Artic transformed Alex's life for the better
* The problem with politics degrading facts and science
* How information is power and able to improve the world
* Why Youtube is a great way to build a following and disseminate information
* How Alex thinks about the environment and our future
* Why farming and food production are some of our biggest polluters
* The reason Alex is optimistic about the future






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Donate]]>2668agritech,cleanmeat,climate,climatechange,eco,education,environment,farming,food,foodproduction,future,green,podcast,politics,pollution,science,scienceandtechnology,society,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/61-arduino-co-founder-david-cuartielles-on-the-open-source-movement-and-future-of-education--18590619
David's work spans the fields of programming, education, research and product development and since the late nineties he has developed robotic, mobile and net-based interactive art installations and open source tools for live performance and education. He is a passionate speaker on the how we can reform education through practically enabling children and young people to play and test, engineering ideas in partnership with peers and experts others. David works to enable such learning to take place through various initiatives including the Institute Of Interactive Objects laboratory at Malmö University, the Arduino community and his academic research and forthcoming Ph.D. at Malmö University



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How opensource is affecting education and improving lives worldwide
* Why open source software is different than open source hardware
* What makes hardware so hard
* How to recreate the education system for the modern era
* The reason edtech startups so often fail
* Why Arduino took forever to finally make money
* What David thinks about Sweden's political system and the importance of healthcare
* Why technology is not good or bad
* The reason cities make more sense than nation-states for governance






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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1815Fri, 07 Dec 2018 07:00:25 +0000Matt WardDavid Cuartielles (@dcuartielles) is the co-founder and co-creator of Arduino the open hardware platform Arduino, which has become a leading platform for DIY electronics and which earned the team an Honorary Mention at the Ars Electronica Digital...
David's work spans the fields of programming, education, research and product development and since the late nineties he has developed robotic, mobile and net-based interactive art installations and open source tools for live performance and education. He is a passionate speaker on the how we can reform education through practically enabling children and young people to play and test, engineering ideas in partnership with peers and experts others. David works to enable such learning to take place through various initiatives including the Institute Of Interactive Objects laboratory at Malmö University, the Arduino community and his academic research and forthcoming Ph.D. at Malmö University



 



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* How opensource is affecting education and improving lives worldwide
* Why open source software is different than open source hardware
* What makes hardware so hard
* How to recreate the education system for the modern era
* The reason edtech startups so often fail
* Why Arduino took forever to finally make money
* What David thinks about Sweden's political system and the importance of healthcare
* Why technology is not good or bad
* The reason cities make more sense than nation-states for governance






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 ]]>2856ai,arduino,artificialintelligence,diy,education,educationsystem,governance,hardware,health,healthcare,iot,money,opensource,opensourcesoftware,podcast,politicalsystem,politics,programming,research,softwarefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/60-the-future-of-commerce-customer-service-and-personalization-blake-morgan--18590621
Blake is adjunct faculty at the Rutgers executive education MBA program, contributes to Forbes, the Harvard Business Review and Hemispheres Magazine and is the host of The Modern Customer Podcast and a weekly customer experience video series on YouTube. She has worked with Accor Hotels, Accenture, Adobe, Parker Hannifin, Ericsson, Verizon and many more and has a wealth of knowledge on the future of commerce and customer relations/experiences, something not often enough talked about. You can find out more about Blake at blakemichellemorgan.com.



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How customer service can make or break companies
* Why augmented reality and virtual reality are such exciting technologies for Blake
* What to look out for when building a business
* The future of ecommerce and competing with Amazon
* How the future of work is changing faster than we can react
* The scary reality of data, privacy and personalization
* Why AI will be such a transformational tool for customer service
* What Blake thinks about startups and Silicon Valley
* Why business will look very different in the future
* The issues and advantages of robots in our homes
* How AI evolves into love and relationships






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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1819Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:00:03 +0000Matt WardBlake Morgan (@blakemichellem) is an author, keynote speaker and customer experience futurist currently working on her second book with HarperCollins on customer experience technology. Her first book is More is More: How The Best Companies Work Harder...
Blake is adjunct faculty at the Rutgers executive education MBA program, contributes to Forbes, the Harvard Business Review and Hemispheres Magazine and is the host of The Modern Customer Podcast and a weekly customer experience video series on YouTube. She has worked with Accor Hotels, Accenture, Adobe, Parker Hannifin, Ericsson, Verizon and many more and has a wealth of knowledge on the future of commerce and customer relations/experiences, something not often enough talked about. You can find out more about Blake at blakemichellemorgan.com.



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How customer service can make or break companies
* Why augmented reality and virtual reality are such exciting technologies for Blake
* What to look out for when building a business
* The future of ecommerce and competing with Amazon
* How the future of work is changing faster than we can react
* The scary reality of data, privacy and personalization
* Why AI will be such a transformational tool for customer service
* What Blake thinks about startups and Silicon Valley
* Why business will look very different in the future
* The issues and advantages of robots in our homes
* How AI evolves into love and relationships






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 ]]>2648ai,amazon,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,business,customerservice,data,ecommerce,economics,economy,future,governance,mobile,podcast,privacy,tech,technology,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/59-why-the-us-has-the-worst-voting-system-in-the-world-aaron-hamlin-of-the-center-for-election-science--18590622
Aaron's written articles for publications such as Deadspin, The Telegram, Democracy Chronicles, Independent Voter Network, Bust Magazine and been featured in Popular Mechanics, NPR, Inside Philanthropy, Reason, and MSNBC for his expertise on voting methods.

On contraceptive topics, Aaron's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, The New Statesman, Salon, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, and dozens of others. You can also follow him on Medium where he writes about topics relating to voting, contraception, nonprofits, and philanthropy.

 



 



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* How US elections work and why the system is so bad
* Why approval voting is the best system possible, and science to back it up
* The reason today's voting system leads to worse candidates and worse outcomes
* What Trump did to influence the election and how it changes politics forever
* Why winner take all voting increases extremism and reduce voter turnout
* How other countries think about democracy and better ways to do it
* Would random elections lead to better outcomes
* Why politics get corrupted with corporate money
* What you can do to make your vote count
* The reason Aaron is excited about clean meat
* Why better voting really is the most important problem






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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=2113Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:00:47 +0000Matt WardAaron Hamlin (@aaronfhamlin) is the executive director of The Center for Election Science, a non-profit focused on advancing better voting methods so the people can more meaningfully impact and benefit the world through democracy. Guess what, the US...
Aaron's written articles for publications such as Deadspin, The Telegram, Democracy Chronicles, Independent Voter Network, Bust Magazine and been featured in Popular Mechanics, NPR, Inside Philanthropy, Reason, and MSNBC for his expertise on voting methods.

On contraceptive topics, Aaron's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, The New Statesman, Salon, Scientific American, Smithsonian Magazine, and dozens of others. You can also follow him on Medium where he writes about topics relating to voting, contraception, nonprofits, and philanthropy.

 



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How US elections work and why the system is so bad
* Why approval voting is the best system possible, and science to back it up
* The reason today's voting system leads to worse candidates and worse outcomes
* What Trump did to influence the election and how it changes politics forever
* Why winner take all voting increases extremism and reduce voter turnout
* How other countries think about democracy and better ways to do it
* Would random elections lead to better outcomes
* Why politics get corrupted with corporate money
* What you can do to make your vote count
* The reason Aaron is excited about clean meat
* Why better voting really is the most important problem






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 ]]>3221cleanmeat,democracy,economics,election,election-system,money,podcast,political,politicians,politics,politocalscience,polsci,science,tech,technology,trump,uselections,vote,voter,votingfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/58-glenn-loury-on-the-intellectual-dark-web-affirmative-action-and-social-policy--18590620
Glenn has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Vice President of the American Economics Association, and President of the Eastern Economics Association. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Scholarship to support his work.

As a prominent social critic and public intellectual, writing mainly on the themes of racial inequality and social policy, Professor Loury has published over 200 essays and reviews in journals of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor at The Boston Review, and was for many years a contributing editor at The New Republic.

Professor Loury’s books include One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (winner of the American Book Award and the Christianity Today Book Award), The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK and, Race, Incarceration and American Values.

Glenn's a member of the Intellectual Dark Web, a group of prominent public individuals like Sam Harris and Jordan B Peterson focused on truth, transparency and open dialogues in today's rocky political climate.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The problems with and purpose of affirmative action and what we can do about it
* Why Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web have built such a following
* The Harvard race problem with admissions and what it means
* What identity politics does to social cohesion
* Why science has become so politicized
* Glenn's views on equality and race
* Why logic trumps emotion when it comes to policy and reporting
* The problem with the prison system, especially for African Americans
* How genetic engineering can create an even less equal society
* How to think about immigration and the issues it creates
* Why some environments are conducive to success and others are not
* The issue with race differences and science and how society can handle them
* Why climate change has become so political

https://youtu.be/B6PT2Pn6OOQ

 




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Glenn has been elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, Member of the American Philosophical Society, Vice President of the American Economics Association, and President of the Eastern Economics Association. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Scholarship to support his work.

As a prominent social critic and public intellectual, writing mainly on the themes of racial inequality and social policy, Professor Loury has published over 200 essays and reviews in journals of public affairs in the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing editor at The Boston Review, and was for many years a contributing editor at The New Republic.

Professor Loury’s books include One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America (winner of the American Book Award and the Christianity Today Book Award), The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and the UK and, Race, Incarceration and American Values.

Glenn's a member of the Intellectual Dark Web, a group of prominent public individuals like Sam Harris and Jordan B Peterson focused on truth, transparency and open dialogues in today's rocky political climate.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The problems with and purpose of affirmative action and what we can do about it
* Why Jordan Peterson and the Intellectual Dark Web have built such a following
* The Harvard race problem with admissions and what it means
* What identity politics does to social cohesion
* Why science has become so politicized
* Glenn's views on equality and race
* Why logic trumps emotion when it comes to policy and reporting
* The problem with the prison system, especially for African Americans
* How genetic engineering can create an even less equal society
* How to think about immigration and the issues it creates
* Why some environments are conducive to success and others are not
* The issue with race differences and science and how society can handle them
* Why climate change has become so political

https://youtu.be/B6PT2Pn6OOQ

 




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Due to 20 years of health challenges, Jason dove into the reality behind his symptoms and through the process, he began working remotely with individuals around the world to provide solutions for those suffering from complex health issues that their doctors were unable to resolve.

In 2016, Jason transitioned from working in integrative disease care model to a model of health optimization and lifestyle medicine. These lessons were culminated in a free online documentary film series called, "The Human Longevity Project", which uncovers the complex mechanisms of chronic disease & aging and the true nature of longevity in our modern world. Topics include: Sleep, Diet & Nutrition, Gut Health, DNA & Epigenetics, Environmental Toxins, Biohacking and much more and thanks to dozens of interviews with leaders in all major health fields, both Jason and the film are a wealth of knowledge on the cutting edge of longevity research.



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The lessons learned from talking to bluezone centenarians
* Why medications often make you less healthy
* What Jason learned about farming and feeding your family
* The problem with conventional agriculture
* How genetics and environment influence your life and health span
* The scary truth about our soil supply
* Why Jason is excited about the potential of psychedelics
* How trauma affects and often causes disease and psychological problems
* Why Americans are getting sicker than ever
* The reason Jason is worried about clean meat
* Why happy people live longer
* The importance of community and simplicity to health






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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1988Wed, 28 Nov 2018 08:00:45 +0000Matt WardJason Prall (@jasonprall) is an anti-aging expert ad the co-founder of The Human Longevity Project, an upcoming documentary film series filmed over 2 years, in over 50 locations, in 9 countries, on 3 continents that will take you on an exciting...
Due to 20 years of health challenges, Jason dove into the reality behind his symptoms and through the process, he began working remotely with individuals around the world to provide solutions for those suffering from complex health issues that their doctors were unable to resolve.

In 2016, Jason transitioned from working in integrative disease care model to a model of health optimization and lifestyle medicine. These lessons were culminated in a free online documentary film series called, "The Human Longevity Project", which uncovers the complex mechanisms of chronic disease & aging and the true nature of longevity in our modern world. Topics include: Sleep, Diet & Nutrition, Gut Health, DNA & Epigenetics, Environmental Toxins, Biohacking and much more and thanks to dozens of interviews with leaders in all major health fields, both Jason and the film are a wealth of knowledge on the cutting edge of longevity research.



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The lessons learned from talking to bluezone centenarians
* Why medications often make you less healthy
* What Jason learned about farming and feeding your family
* The problem with conventional agriculture
* How genetics and environment influence your life and health span
* The scary truth about our soil supply
* Why Jason is excited about the potential of psychedelics
* How trauma affects and often causes disease and psychological problems
* Why Americans are getting sicker than ever
* The reason Jason is worried about clean meat
* Why happy people live longer
* The importance of community and simplicity to health






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 ]]>3722aging,agritech,bluezones,cleanmeat,diet,dna,food,foodtech,future,genes,genetics,happiness,health,longevity,nutrition,podcast,psychedelics,science,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/56-what-science-fiction-teaches-us-about-morality-and-existential-risk-andrew-maynard--18590626
Andrew is widely published in the academic press and in public media and stretch from physics and nanotechnology, to toxicology, risk perception, governance, and policy. He writes regularly for the journal Nature Nanotechnology, and is a frequent contributor of The Conversation. He also directs and produces the YouTube science education channel “Risk Bites” and blogs at 2020science.org.

Andrew’s science training is in nanoparticle analysis – and for many years he conducted and led research on aerosol exposure in occupational settings. In the early 2000’s he became increasingly involved in guiding US federal initiatives supporting nanotechnology research and development, and in addressing potential risks. In 2005 he became Chief Science Advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (and later the Synthetic Biology Project) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and for five years helped inform national and global initiatives addressing the responsible development of nanotechnology. Over this period, he became increasingly interested in science communication and science policy, and began working closely with academics, policy makers, industry, non-government organizations, and journalists, on science-informed decision making. This interest continued between 2010 - 2015 as Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, and Chair of the Environmental Health Sciences Department. In 2015 he joined the faculty of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University to continue his work and collaborations on socially responsible, responsible and beneficial research and development.

In the course of his work, Andrew has testified before congressional committees, has served on National Academy panels, and has worked closely with organizations such as the World Economic Forum and the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) that promote public-private partnerships.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The biggest risks to humanity's future
* Why Andrew is excited and terrified about AI and synthetic biology
* Which areas of technology are most susceptible to negative consequences
* The reason Ex Machina is such a terrifying example of artificial intelligence
* How we can use science fiction to ask deep philosophical questions about society
* Why Andrew is that worried about the killer AI scenario
* The big difference between corporations and universities when it comes to technological innovation
* How Andrew thinks about risk and why it is different than most
* Why man's reach exceeds his grasp and what to do about it
* The reason Andrew is optimistic and pessimistic about the future
* Why nanotechnology has disappointed to date and where we go from here
* Is China or the US a more surveillance driven country?]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1854Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:00:12 +0000Matt WardAndrew Maynard (@2020science) is the Director of the Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University, a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the author of Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi...
Andrew is widely published in the academic press and in public media and stretch from physics and nanotechnology, to toxicology, risk perception, governance, and policy. He writes regularly for the journal Nature Nanotechnology, and is a frequent contributor of The Conversation. He also directs and produces the YouTube science education channel “Risk Bites” and blogs at 2020science.org.

Andrew’s science training is in nanoparticle analysis – and for many years he conducted and led research on aerosol exposure in occupational settings. In the early 2000’s he became increasingly involved in guiding US federal initiatives supporting nanotechnology research and development, and in addressing potential risks. In 2005 he became Chief Science Advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (and later the Synthetic Biology Project) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and for five years helped inform national and global initiatives addressing the responsible development of nanotechnology. Over this period, he became increasingly interested in science communication and science policy, and began working closely with academics, policy makers, industry, non-government organizations, and journalists, on science-informed decision making. This interest continued between 2010 - 2015 as Director of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, and Chair of the Environmental Health Sciences Department. In 2015 he joined the faculty of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University to continue his work and collaborations on socially responsible, responsible and beneficial research and development.

In the course of his work, Andrew has testified before congressional committees, has served on National Academy panels, and has worked closely with organizations such as the World Economic Forum and the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) that promote public-private partnerships.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The biggest risks to humanity's future
* Why Andrew is excited and terrified about AI and synthetic biology
* Which areas of technology are most susceptible to negative consequences
* The reason Ex Machina is such a terrifying example of artificial intelligence
* How we can use science fiction to ask deep philosophical questions about society
* Why Andrew is that worried about the killer AI scenario
* The big difference between corporations and universities when it comes to technological innovation
* How Andrew thinks about risk and why it is different than most
* Why man's reach exceeds his grasp and what to do about it
* The reason Andrew is optimistic and pessimistic about the future
* Why nanotechnology has disappointed to date and where we go from here
* Is China or the US a more surveillance driven country?]]>2962ai,artificialintelligence,biology,biotech,dna,existentialrisk,gene,genes,governance,government,nano,nanotech,nanotechnology,podccast,politics,risk,sciencefiction,scifi,syntheticbiology,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/55-the-5-trends-transforming-future-of-work-jacob-morgan--18590624
His latest book, The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization, explores how the workplace is changing and was endorsed by business leaders such as the Chairman of KPMG, CEO of Whirlpool, CEO of Intuit, CEO of SAP, CEO of Schneider Electric, Gary Hamel, and many others.

Jacob also co-founded the FOW Community which is a network of the world’s most forward thinking organizations who come together to explore the future of work. He frequently speaks at conferences and events all over the world and contributes to media publications such as Forbes, the WSJ, USA Today, INC Magazine, CNN, and many others.

He is also the author of The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How AI and automation affect the jobs of tomorrow
* The five big trends transforming the future of work
* Why Jacob is optimist about the direction of the economy and workforce
* How China's social scoring system works and why it may be Minority Report
* Why the future isn't set in stone and what we can do about it
* When we'll be working full time in VR
* How companies and work policies are adapting to the modern world
* Is college still necessary and relevant today?
* Which countries are best poised to succeed in future
* Why the social system may need to change and why UBI isn't the answer







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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1755Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:00:02 +0000Matt WardJacob Morgan (@jacobm) is an author, speaker, futurist and host of the Future of Work podcast His latest book, The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization, explores how the workplace is changing...
His latest book, The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization, explores how the workplace is changing and was endorsed by business leaders such as the Chairman of KPMG, CEO of Whirlpool, CEO of Intuit, CEO of SAP, CEO of Schneider Electric, Gary Hamel, and many others.

Jacob also co-founded the FOW Community which is a network of the world’s most forward thinking organizations who come together to explore the future of work. He frequently speaks at conferences and events all over the world and contributes to media publications such as Forbes, the WSJ, USA Today, INC Magazine, CNN, and many others.

He is also the author of The Employee Experience Advantage: How to Win the War for Talent by Giving Employees the Workspaces they Want, the Tools they Need, and a Culture They Can Celebrate





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How AI and automation affect the jobs of tomorrow
* The five big trends transforming the future of work
* Why Jacob is optimist about the direction of the economy and workforce
* How China's social scoring system works and why it may be Minority Report
* Why the future isn't set in stone and what we can do about it
* When we'll be working full time in VR
* How companies and work policies are adapting to the modern world
* Is college still necessary and relevant today?
* Which countries are best poised to succeed in future
* Why the social system may need to change and why UBI isn't the answer







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 ]]>3294ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,automation,ecommerce,economics,economy,education,employment,future,futureorwork,jobs,podcast,politics,robotics,robots,virtualreality,vr,workfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/54-gad-saad-on-science-logic-and-reason-in-an-age-of-hysteria--18590627
In addition to this, Gad's the prolific author of:

* The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
* Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences
* The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption

Gad is no stranger to media. He has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post, been mentioned in The Economist, Forbes, Chatelaine, Time, and The New York Times. He appeared on #WeThePeople Podcast with Josh Zepps, Waking Up Podcast with Sam Harris, was featured on four episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, appeared Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria and has been interviewed on The Rubin Report.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How college and post-modernism are creating a generation unable to think and reason
* The reason science and fact are so important yet so often misrepresented
* How confirmation bias can create a terrible mono-culture
* Why fake news is more damaging than it initially appears
* The way companies and social media hijack our biological drives to drive consumerism
* The problem with universities and education and ideas on how to fix them
* Rewriting government to fit human psychology
* Why Gad is passionate about animal rights but not a vegan or vegetarian
* The problem with polarizing issues and failure to discuss them
* Why the US is so isolationist and extreme in its political views
* Communism vs capitalism and the future of society
* Biological differences between men and women
* The problem with taboo topics in culture






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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1783Wed, 21 Nov 2018 08:00:24 +0000Matt WardGad Saad (@gadsaad) is an evolutionary behavioural scientist at the John Molson School of Business who is known for applying evolutionary psychology to marketing and consumer behaviour. He holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Evolutionary...
In addition to this, Gad's the prolific author of:

* The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature
* Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences
* The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption

Gad is no stranger to media. He has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post, been mentioned in The Economist, Forbes, Chatelaine, Time, and The New York Times. He appeared on #WeThePeople Podcast with Josh Zepps, Waking Up Podcast with Sam Harris, was featured on four episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience, appeared Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria and has been interviewed on The Rubin Report.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How college and post-modernism are creating a generation unable to think and reason
* The reason science and fact are so important yet so often misrepresented
* How confirmation bias can create a terrible mono-culture
* Why fake news is more damaging than it initially appears
* The way companies and social media hijack our biological drives to drive consumerism
* The problem with universities and education and ideas on how to fix them
* Rewriting government to fit human psychology
* Why Gad is passionate about animal rights but not a vegan or vegetarian
* The problem with polarizing issues and failure to discuss them
* Why the US is so isolationist and extreme in its political views
* Communism vs capitalism and the future of society
* Biological differences between men and women
* The problem with taboo topics in culture






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 ]]>3847agritech,capitalism,college,education,fakenews,future,gender,genes,genetics,governance,governement,podcast,politics,psychology,religion,science,sex,socialmedia,society,universityfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/53-designing-the-mars-one-colony-and-mining-asteroids-in-space-bryan-versteeg-of-deep-space-industries--18590629
Bryan is responsible for the conceptual designs for the Mars One mission. A not for profit that aims to develop a permanent human settlement on Mars. An act that would instantly double the number of planets that humans can call home.





 

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why asteroid mining is critical to space exploration
* The stroke that changed Bryan's life and outlook on living
* How artistic expression inspires creativity and innovation in tech
* Why space is so hard and launches cost so crucial
* The importance of visualizing space habitats
* The Bryan is worried and excited about AI
* How farming of the future works and importance of self-sustainability
* Why VR will transform our ability to explore everything
* How 3d printing will put its mark on humanity
* The problem starting a Mars colony and how to solve it
* Understanding water and its importance in space
* Why Elon Musk is so important for humanity's space-faring future





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1778Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:00:03 +0000Matt WardBryan Versteeg (@spacehabs) is a conceptual designer at spacehabs.com and the co-founder of Deep Space Industries (@GoDeepSpace), an asteroid mining company striving toward the effective and efficient development of space resources to propel human...
Bryan is responsible for the conceptual designs for the Mars One mission. A not for profit that aims to develop a permanent human settlement on Mars. An act that would instantly double the number of planets that humans can call home.





 

You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why asteroid mining is critical to space exploration
* The stroke that changed Bryan's life and outlook on living
* How artistic expression inspires creativity and innovation in tech
* Why space is so hard and launches cost so crucial
* The importance of visualizing space habitats
* The Bryan is worried and excited about AI
* How farming of the future works and importance of self-sustainability
* Why VR will transform our ability to explore everything
* How 3d printing will put its mark on humanity
* The problem starting a Mars colony and how to solve it
* Understanding water and its importance in space
* Why Elon Musk is so important for humanity's space-faring future





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 ]]>37633d,3dprinting,ai,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,elonmusk,foodtech,fuelcell,mars,mobile,podcast,sciencefiction,scifi,space,spaceexploration,spacehabitat,spacex,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/52-music-as-medicine-and-performance-enhancement-alex-doman--18590625
The third generation in a family of pioneers dedicated to improving brain performance for over seventy-five years, Alex is founder & CEO of Advanced Brain Technologies, founder & Chief Product Officer of Vital Neuro, founder & Chief Scientist of Sleep Genius, founder of The Movement Program, Ltd., and bestselling co-author of Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives.

Alex has been interviewed for NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, Today, NPR Marketplace, Wall Street Journal, Self, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Fast Company, CBS Moneywatch, ESPN Radio, Hearing Health Magazine, popular podcasts and other media.

His writing has been published in several magazines, journals and books. He is also a blogger and host of the Advanced Brain Podcast with guests including NY Times bestselling authors, health personalities, and other thought leaders.

An advisor to several companies and organizations and Board Member for Autism Hope Alliance, he is a keynote speaker and frequent presenter at online summits and on international stages.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How music makes your brainer smarter, or stupider
* The reason music is such a part of what it means to be human
* Why it is easier to be in flow when listening to certain types of music
* How neuroscientists and marketers can use music to manipulate you
* What the future of neurotech and brain-machine interfaces looks like
* Why IQ is a bad measure of someone's potential
* The way to supercharge meditation and relieve stress
* How to optimize sleep and overall performance
* Understanding the quantified self-movement and where it is headed
* Why Alex is excited about blockchain and cryptocurrency







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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1751Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:02:56 +0000Matt WardAlex Doman (@alexdoman) is an author, entrepreneur, public speaker and product creator, who has 25 years of experience in leadership in the brain health, neurotechnology and therapeutic music markets. He was named one of the top 50 human behavior...
The third generation in a family of pioneers dedicated to improving brain performance for over seventy-five years, Alex is founder & CEO of Advanced Brain Technologies, founder & Chief Product Officer of Vital Neuro, founder & Chief Scientist of Sleep Genius, founder of The Movement Program, Ltd., and bestselling co-author of Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives.

Alex has been interviewed for NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, Today, NPR Marketplace, Wall Street Journal, Self, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Fast Company, CBS Moneywatch, ESPN Radio, Hearing Health Magazine, popular podcasts and other media.

His writing has been published in several magazines, journals and books. He is also a blogger and host of the Advanced Brain Podcast with guests including NY Times bestselling authors, health personalities, and other thought leaders.

An advisor to several companies and organizations and Board Member for Autism Hope Alliance, he is a keynote speaker and frequent presenter at online summits and on international stages.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How music makes your brainer smarter, or stupider
* The reason music is such a part of what it means to be human
* Why it is easier to be in flow when listening to certain types of music
* How neuroscientists and marketers can use music to manipulate you
* What the future of neurotech and brain-machine interfaces looks like
* Why IQ is a bad measure of someone's potential
* The way to supercharge meditation and relieve stress
* How to optimize sleep and overall performance
* Understanding the quantified self-movement and where it is headed
* Why Alex is excited about blockchain and cryptocurrency







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 ]]>2862bmi,brain,health,iot,iq,medicine,meditation,mentalhealth,music,neuro,neuroscience,neurotech,performance,podcast,research,science,sleep,sounds,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/51-cannabis-and-psychedelics-to-cure-chronic-illness-and-mental-health-issues-dr-michele-ross--18590632
In 2013 Michele founded the “Endocannabinoid Deficiency Foundation,” later known as IMPACT Network, which was the first nonprofit to provide research and advocacy on cannabis for women’s health. In 2017 she founded Infused Health, an online platform for cannabis education and health coaching.

Dr. Ross has authored several bestselling books including Vitamin Weed and Train Your Brain To Get Thin.

Michele has been a guest expert on TV and radio shows including The Doctors, The Ricki Lake Show, and KFI, sits on the Medical Advisory Board of several companies and is active in drug policy and works to decriminalize cannabis, kratom, and psychedelics around the world as a founding board member of the Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform and Education.

Dr. Ross has been featured as a speaker at conferences all over the world, including CannX in Israel, O’Cannabiz in Canada, Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, and Cannabis Science Conference in Portland where she educates on cannabis and psychedelics for a broad range of health benefits and she became well-known as the first scientist to star on reality television in the world, starring on the #1 hit summer show, Big Brother on CBS, in 2009.  She used her 15 minutes of fame to support several charitable events supporting cancer patients, including Stand Up to Cancer, Reality Rally, and Hearts of Reality.



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The true cost of illegal cannabis
* What Michele learned about addiction, mental health and healing
* America's drug problems, thanks to pharma
* How the prison system incentivizes evil
* The reason convicts can't escape the prison grind
* How cannabis can be used to cure a great many ailments
* Why psychedelics could shift our entire understanding of the brain and mental health
* How the cannabinoid system is changing our understanding of everything
* Why pharma and synthetic drugs are often not the answer
* The sad truth about school shootings





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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1748Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:00:48 +0000Matt Ward Dr. Michele Ross, Ph.D., MBA (@drmicheleross) is a neuroscientist and health coach with a passion to help patients with chronic illness live their best life ever. She is both a cannabinoid medicine researcher and became a cannabis patient after being...
In 2013 Michele founded the “Endocannabinoid Deficiency Foundation,” later known as IMPACT Network, which was the first nonprofit to provide research and advocacy on cannabis for women’s health. In 2017 she founded Infused Health, an online platform for cannabis education and health coaching.

Dr. Ross has authored several bestselling books including Vitamin Weed and Train Your Brain To Get Thin.

Michele has been a guest expert on TV and radio shows including The Doctors, The Ricki Lake Show, and KFI, sits on the Medical Advisory Board of several companies and is active in drug policy and works to decriminalize cannabis, kratom, and psychedelics around the world as a founding board member of the Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform and Education.

Dr. Ross has been featured as a speaker at conferences all over the world, including CannX in Israel, O’Cannabiz in Canada, Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, and Cannabis Science Conference in Portland where she educates on cannabis and psychedelics for a broad range of health benefits and she became well-known as the first scientist to star on reality television in the world, starring on the #1 hit summer show, Big Brother on CBS, in 2009.  She used her 15 minutes of fame to support several charitable events supporting cancer patients, including Stand Up to Cancer, Reality Rally, and Hearts of Reality.



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The true cost of illegal cannabis
* What Michele learned about addiction, mental health and healing
* America's drug problems, thanks to pharma
* How the prison system incentivizes evil
* The reason convicts can't escape the prison grind
* How cannabis can be used to cure a great many ailments
* Why psychedelics could shift our entire understanding of the brain and mental health
* How the cannabinoid system is changing our understanding of everything
* Why pharma and synthetic drugs are often not the answer
* The sad truth about school shootings





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Donate]]>3212addiction,brain,cannabinoidsystem,cannabis,cbd,drugs,genes,genetics,health,marijuana,medicine,mentalhealth,neuro,neuroscience,pharma,podcast,politics,psychedelics,science,thcfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/50-click-here-to-kill-everybody-security-privacy-social-media-and-politics-bruce-schneier--18590630
Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog) is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books--including:

* Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
* Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

In addition to his books, Bruce has hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers, his influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" is read by over 250,000 people.

Bruce has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org; and a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer at IBM Resilient.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The difference between the US, Europe and Asia when it comes to privacy and data, and what it all means
* Why IoT internet security is one of the biggest problems no one is talking about
* Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign
* The problem with social media and ideas on how to solve it
* How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed
* Why voting and elections are so succeptible to manipulation
* How Bruce thinks about privacy in a surveillance capitalism economy
* Why your car could kill you and your fridge won't feed you
* The reason Bruce is optimistic and pessimistic about the future
* Why things are going to get worse before they get better
* The sad truth GDPR and data privacy
* What you need to know about China, Huawei and surveillance






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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1739Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:00:31 +0000Matt Ward  Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog) is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books--including: * Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your...
Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog) is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books--including:

* Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
* Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

In addition to his books, Bruce has hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers, his influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" is read by over 250,000 people.

Bruce has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org; and a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer at IBM Resilient.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The difference between the US, Europe and Asia when it comes to privacy and data, and what it all means
* Why IoT internet security is one of the biggest problems no one is talking about
* Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign
* The problem with social media and ideas on how to solve it
* How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed
* Why voting and elections are so succeptible to manipulation
* How Bruce thinks about privacy in a surveillance capitalism economy
* Why your car could kill you and your fridge won't feed you
* The reason Bruce is optimistic and pessimistic about the future
* Why things are going to get worse before they get better
* The sad truth GDPR and data privacy
* What you need to know about China, Huawei and surveillance






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 ]]>2574ai,artificialintelligence,automation,bigdata,blockchain,cybersecurity,data,dataprivacy,economics,economy,gdpr,iot,podcast,politics,privacy,science,surveillance,tech,technology,votingfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/49-why-21st-century-will-be-defined-by-biotech-ramphis-castro-of-sciencevest--18590631
In 2016 Ramphis was invited by the White House and was part of the US delegation with President Obama on his historic visit to Cuba.

Ramphis has a diversified personal investment portfolio of companies ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Wearables, EdTech, Productivity Software, eCommerce, MarketPlaces, FinTech to Consumer Apps. He also designed and is on the investment committee for Parallel 18, a global accelerator based in Puerto Rico with a portfolio of 100+ seed/series A companies from over 40 countries across multiple verticals that have collectively raised over $40M in venture capital funding from investors from Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond.

 



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How trade and politics affect economies
* Why AI is so important in biotech
* What areas of synthetic biology are most promising for investors
* The reason impact investing will dominate next generation of investing
* How Cuba's embracing capitalism and the future of startup ecosystems
* The reason science and deep tech is underfunded
* Why biotech will be the driving force of 21st century
* Why CRISPR is such a promising technology to cure incurable diseases
* Why Ramphis will probably live forever
* The sad truth about startup investing






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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1740Fri, 09 Nov 2018 08:00:24 +0000Matt Ward Ramphis Castro (@jramphis) is the co-founder of ScienceVest, a venture capital fund for hard-tech and life science companies, and Impact Science Angels, an angel group focused on investing in companies that can impact 1MM+ lives. Ramphis is a...
In 2016 Ramphis was invited by the White House and was part of the US delegation with President Obama on his historic visit to Cuba.

Ramphis has a diversified personal investment portfolio of companies ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Wearables, EdTech, Productivity Software, eCommerce, MarketPlaces, FinTech to Consumer Apps. He also designed and is on the investment committee for Parallel 18, a global accelerator based in Puerto Rico with a portfolio of 100+ seed/series A companies from over 40 countries across multiple verticals that have collectively raised over $40M in venture capital funding from investors from Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond.

 



 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How trade and politics affect economies
* Why AI is so important in biotech
* What areas of synthetic biology are most promising for investors
* The reason impact investing will dominate next generation of investing
* How Cuba's embracing capitalism and the future of startup ecosystems
* The reason science and deep tech is underfunded
* Why biotech will be the driving force of 21st century
* Why CRISPR is such a promising technology to cure incurable diseases
* Why Ramphis will probably live forever
* The sad truth about startup investing






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 ]]>2520ai,artificialintelligence,biology,biotech,crispr,dna,economics,economy,genes,genetics,health,impact-investing,life-sciences,longevity,podcast,politics,science,space,syntheticbiology,techfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/48-why-elon-musk-is-wrong-about-electric-vehicles-and-future-of-energy-garry-golden--18590637
Garry teaches an online course on The Future of Energy & Environment through the University of Houston Futures Studies program, and was Founding Editor of The Energy Roadmap.com Garry is co-author of Designing Your Future (2008) a Fast Futures / ASAE publication, and has co-written several business white papers including the Future of the Social Web and the Future of Green as a Business Strategy published by Future Think.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of energy consumption and the grid
* Why Garry isn't sold on electric vehicles and battery technology
* The 4 types of futures and what they mean for society
* How we save the planet while still using fuel
* Why consciousness could be a problem with AI
* The reason politicians pull progress backward
* How futurists help society evolve
* Why Garry is quite enthusiastic about automation and AI
* Where the US is falling behind the rest of the world







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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1703Mon, 05 Nov 2018 12:00:32 +0000Matt WardGarry Golden (@garrygolden) is a professionally trained futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on complex issues shaping society and business in the 21st century. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, governmental agencies and the US Army on...
Garry teaches an online course on The Future of Energy & Environment through the University of Houston Futures Studies program, and was Founding Editor of The Energy Roadmap.com Garry is co-author of Designing Your Future (2008) a Fast Futures / ASAE publication, and has co-written several business white papers including the Future of the Social Web and the Future of Green as a Business Strategy published by Future Think.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of energy consumption and the grid
* Why Garry isn't sold on electric vehicles and battery technology
* The 4 types of futures and what they mean for society
* How we save the planet while still using fuel
* Why consciousness could be a problem with AI
* The reason politicians pull progress backward
* How futurists help society evolve
* Why Garry is quite enthusiastic about automation and AI
* Where the US is falling behind the rest of the world







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 ]]>2975ai,artificialintelligence,automation,battery,batterytechnology,cleanenergy,consciousness,driverless-vehiicles,electrivehicles,energy,future,futureofenergy,podcast,renewableenergy,robotics,science,solar,tech,technology,transportationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/47-why-automation-equals-more-jobs-former-presidential-advisor-pippa-malmgren--18590635
Pippa anticipated the Financial Crisis in 2007, the slowdown in China, Brexit, Trump and the return of inflation. She is ranked in the top 25 Most Influential Economists in the World and one of the top 10 of global experts on Geopolitics and she was ranked in the top 5 on the Most Powerful Women in Finance list, all in 2017.

As an economist, she focuses on how new technologies solve old problems and generate new forms of growth. In 2015 she won the Intelligence Squared Debate on Robotics alongside Walter Isaacson, which was broadcast by the BBC to 80 million homes worldwide, has been published in Wired Magazine, Monocle, The International Economy and other publications and is a regular guest anchor for CNBC, Bloomberg and often on the BBC (radio and TV).

In 2016, her book Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy became a best-seller on Amazon in four categories after being crowd-funded on Indiegogo. She also wrote Geopolitics for Investors which was commissioned by the CFA:

She is a Non-Executive Board Member of the Department of International Trade in the UK, advising on Brexit. She also serves on the British Ministry of Defence Working Group on Global Strategic Trends and briefs Britain’s top Generals at Sandhurst. She serves on several advisory boards and working groups: She Chairs the Lewis PR Advisory Board (LAB) and is on the Advisory Boards at Real Vision TV, the Ditchley Foundation and Indiana University’s School of Public Policy and Environmental Affairs as well as the Indiana University Manufacturing Initiative.

Pippa founded DRPM Group, an economic advisory firm that helps global firms understand the economic landscape and before that was the Deputy Head of Strategy for UBS and the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust, ran Bankers Trust’s Asset Management business in Asia from Hong Kong and was named a Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How automation equals more jobs
* The reason Pippa is optimistic about the world economy
* Why China is investing heavily in Mexico
* How the 21st century is flipping leadership and business on its head
* Why entrepreneurship is the future and education is broken
* The reason our world is becoming more polarized, separated and populist
* How drones and autonomy will impact our economy
* The problem with healthcare and technological solutions to fix it
* Understanding ways of rewriting government
* Why capitalism is the best system we have
* What Pippa learned from advising George W Bush





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FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1704Fri, 02 Nov 2018 08:00:41 +0000Matt WardDr Pippa Malmgren (@DrPippaM) is a futurist trend spotter, public speaker, best selling author and advisor to investors and governments about macroeconomic policy and investment strategy. She is a former Presidential Advisor who served on The National...
Pippa anticipated the Financial Crisis in 2007, the slowdown in China, Brexit, Trump and the return of inflation. She is ranked in the top 25 Most Influential Economists in the World and one of the top 10 of global experts on Geopolitics and she was ranked in the top 5 on the Most Powerful Women in Finance list, all in 2017.

As an economist, she focuses on how new technologies solve old problems and generate new forms of growth. In 2015 she won the Intelligence Squared Debate on Robotics alongside Walter Isaacson, which was broadcast by the BBC to 80 million homes worldwide, has been published in Wired Magazine, Monocle, The International Economy and other publications and is a regular guest anchor for CNBC, Bloomberg and often on the BBC (radio and TV).

In 2016, her book Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy became a best-seller on Amazon in four categories after being crowd-funded on Indiegogo. She also wrote Geopolitics for Investors which was commissioned by the CFA:

She is a Non-Executive Board Member of the Department of International Trade in the UK, advising on Brexit. She also serves on the British Ministry of Defence Working Group on Global Strategic Trends and briefs Britain’s top Generals at Sandhurst. She serves on several advisory boards and working groups: She Chairs the Lewis PR Advisory Board (LAB) and is on the Advisory Boards at Real Vision TV, the Ditchley Foundation and Indiana University’s School of Public Policy and Environmental Affairs as well as the Indiana University Manufacturing Initiative.

Pippa founded DRPM Group, an economic advisory firm that helps global firms understand the economic landscape and before that was the Deputy Head of Strategy for UBS and the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust, ran Bankers Trust’s Asset Management business in Asia from Hong Kong and was named a Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How automation equals more jobs
* The reason Pippa is optimistic about the world economy
* Why China is investing heavily in Mexico
* How the 21st century is flipping leadership and business on its head
* Why entrepreneurship is the future and education is broken
* The reason our world is becoming more polarized, separated and populist
* How drones and autonomy will impact our economy
* The problem with healthcare and technological solutions to fix it
* Understanding ways of rewriting government
* Why capitalism is the best system we have
* What Pippa learned from advising George W Bush





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In today's episode we discuss:

- Uber, Waymo, Tesla and who wins self-driving

- How autonomy will transform cities and lives

- Unintended consequences of autonomous cars

- What happens when location becomes variable

 

And much much more...

 

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity.

Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more...

Be sure to tune in every Wednesday & Sunday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.

 





 

 





 

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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=2011Wed, 31 Oct 2018 15:44:19 +0000Matt WardDriverless cars are coming, faster than anyone anticipates. Today we discuss AI and autonomy and how self-driving cars will transform society and life and we know it.   In today's episode we discuss: - Uber, Waymo, Tesla and who wins self-driving...
 

In today's episode we discuss:

- Uber, Waymo, Tesla and who wins self-driving

- How autonomy will transform cities and lives

- Unintended consequences of autonomous cars

- What happens when location becomes variable

 

And much much more...

 

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity.

Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more...

Be sure to tune in every Wednesday & Sunday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.

 





 

 





 

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David has a knack for building user communities and is currently the Vice President of Community for REvolution Computing, David focuses on promoting and supporting the commercial use of the open-source data analysis software system R.

David is a co-author of the tutorial manual An Introduction to R, one of the originating developers of ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics and is also a member of the board of the R Consortium.



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The ethical problems of analyzing data
* Why AI will affect so many massive industries
* How governments need to start thinking about AI/ML
* The reason David thinks artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it destroys
* Why we're still decades off from artificial general intelligence
* The tech giant effect on AI and data science
* How Microsoft is leading the way towards tech future
* David's thoughts on the future of tech monopolies
* Why the battle for the future is based on attracting developers
* Where cloud computing is headed from here
* Why open ecosytems and opensource almost always wins







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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1638Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:00:08 +0000Matt WardDavid Smith (@revodavid) is the Cloud Developer Advocate and R Community Lead at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, David was the Chief Community Officer (and is current editor-in-chief) of Revolution Analytics, a daily news about using open source R for...
David has a knack for building user communities and is currently the Vice President of Community for REvolution Computing, David focuses on promoting and supporting the commercial use of the open-source data analysis software system R.

David is a co-author of the tutorial manual An Introduction to R, one of the originating developers of ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics and is also a member of the board of the R Consortium.



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The ethical problems of analyzing data
* Why AI will affect so many massive industries
* How governments need to start thinking about AI/ML
* The reason David thinks artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it destroys
* Why we're still decades off from artificial general intelligence
* The tech giant effect on AI and data science
* How Microsoft is leading the way towards tech future
* David's thoughts on the future of tech monopolies
* Why the battle for the future is based on attracting developers
* Where cloud computing is headed from here
* Why open ecosytems and opensource almost always wins







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 ]]>2543ai,amazon,ar,artificialintelligence,augmentedreality,bigdata,blockchain,cloud,computing,datascience,facebook,google,microsoft,podcast,science,socialmedia,tech,technology,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/45-bioengineering-food-to-feed-humanity-s-future-kevin-folta-of-the-talking-biotech-podcast--18590636
He has faced harsh criticism from many in the anti-GMO crowd over his industry connections and past consulting arrangements with big agriculture, yet brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the areas of farming, food production, ecologies and ecological change and much more.

He is very passionate about feeding the world and see GMO as the best, most effective way to feed a growing world population struggling to survive. Should be a fun one.







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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why GMOs are necessary for humanity's future
* The big prospects of genetic engineering
* Where the the agritech industry messed up
* How food production of the future will look like
* Why Kevin is excited about biotech
* The crazy science of super-engineered foods
* What happens to humanity as we evolve ourselves
* How regulation affects innovation
* Why the anti-GMO movement is so strong
* What safety guidelines are needed for gene editing
* Why you are what you eat
* Why big tech isn't all bad
* How to help fight starvation and hunger
* What we eat when we expand into space





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1587Fri, 26 Oct 2018 08:00:43 +0000Matt WardKevin Folta (@kevinfolta) is a professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida and host of the Talking Biotech Podcast. He is a plant scientist who has researched how plants react to light, and he started...
He has faced harsh criticism from many in the anti-GMO crowd over his industry connections and past consulting arrangements with big agriculture, yet brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the areas of farming, food production, ecologies and ecological change and much more.

He is very passionate about feeding the world and see GMO as the best, most effective way to feed a growing world population struggling to survive. Should be a fun one.







You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why GMOs are necessary for humanity's future
* The big prospects of genetic engineering
* Where the the agritech industry messed up
* How food production of the future will look like
* Why Kevin is excited about biotech
* The crazy science of super-engineered foods
* What happens to humanity as we evolve ourselves
* How regulation affects innovation
* Why the anti-GMO movement is so strong
* What safety guidelines are needed for gene editing
* Why you are what you eat
* Why big tech isn't all bad
* How to help fight starvation and hunger
* What we eat when we expand into space





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 ]]>2833agritech,biology,biotech,food,foodproduction,foodtech,future,geneediting,genes,geneticengineering,genetics,gmo,health,horticultural,plants,plantscience,podcast,science,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tech-talks-8-the-ultimate-guide-to-alexa-and-the-future-of-voice-computing--18590633
We're diving into the evolution of smart home/smart speaker voice computing market and considering the implications and effects of where we're headed from here.

 

And much much more...

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity. Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more...

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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1841Wed, 24 Oct 2018 20:16:00 +0000Matt WardInterested in computing and the future of phones, laptops and voice assistants like Alexa, Google Home and Siri? We're diving into the evolution of smart home/smart speaker voice computing market and considering the implications and effects of where...
We're diving into the evolution of smart home/smart speaker voice computing market and considering the implications and effects of where we're headed from here.

 

And much much more...

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity. Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more...

Be sure to tune in every Wednesday & Sunday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.

 





 

 





 

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Donate]]>1377falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/44-psychiatry-2-0-the-biochemical-basis-of-depression-autism-saddistic-serial-killers-and-school-shootings-dr-bill-walsh-of-the-walsh--18590641
After working with over 30,000 patients, Dr. Walsh has achieved some incredible results, including groundbreaking studies reporting reduced violent behavior following nutrient therapy, the 1999 discovery of undermethylation and copper/zinc imbalances in autism, the 2000 finding of metallothionein protein depletion in autism, the 2007 published study linking copper overload and post-partum depression, the identification of five biochemical subtypes of clinical depression, the 2011 development of the Walsh Theory of Schizophrenia and the direction of the Beethoven Research Project that revealed that the composer suffered from severe lead poisoning.

Dr. Walsh has been called in to conduct chemical analyses of more than 25 serial killers and mass murderers, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, James Oliver Huberty, Patrick Sherrill and Arthur Shawcross to diagnose causes while also assisted medical examiners, coroners, Scotland Yard, and the FBI in these forensics studies. But mental health/performance isn't limited, Bill has designed nutritional programs for Olympic athletes, NBA players, major league baseball players, a heavyweight boxing champion, PGA and LPGA golfers and continues to make a difference.

In addition to his ongoing research, Dr Walsh leads medical practitioner training programs in advanced, drug-free biochemical/nutrient therapies in Australia, Ireland, Norway, the United States and is a frequently invited guest lecturer having given more than 200 presentations at regional, national and international conferences and symposiums, including the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Senate, and the National Institutes of Mental Health.

On top of all that, he has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and scientific reports, been granted five patents and is the author Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain which describes the evidence-based nutrient therapy system.





 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The true cause of mental health issues
* Why medications often make you less health
* What Dr Walsh learned from analyzing Charles Manson's brain
* The problem with conventional psychiatry
* How nutrients and epigenetics affect gene expression and our personality
* The reason convicts can't escape the prison grind
* How the Walsh Institute operates outside conventional medical system
* Why CRISPR is such a promising technology to cure incurable diseases
* The 5 major causes of depression and how to fix them
* Why we're entering a new era of mental health
* The sad truth about serial killers




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FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1536Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:26:43 +0000Matt WardDr. Bill Walsh is the president of the Walsh Research Institute (@WalshResearch), a non-profit focused on improving human psychiatry and mental health conditions with nutrient based therapies, rather than drugs. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Walsh has...
After working with over 30,000 patients, Dr. Walsh has achieved some incredible results, including groundbreaking studies reporting reduced violent behavior following nutrient therapy, the 1999 discovery of undermethylation and copper/zinc imbalances in autism, the 2000 finding of metallothionein protein depletion in autism, the 2007 published study linking copper overload and post-partum depression, the identification of five biochemical subtypes of clinical depression, the 2011 development of the Walsh Theory of Schizophrenia and the direction of the Beethoven Research Project that revealed that the composer suffered from severe lead poisoning.

Dr. Walsh has been called in to conduct chemical analyses of more than 25 serial killers and mass murderers, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, James Oliver Huberty, Patrick Sherrill and Arthur Shawcross to diagnose causes while also assisted medical examiners, coroners, Scotland Yard, and the FBI in these forensics studies. But mental health/performance isn't limited, Bill has designed nutritional programs for Olympic athletes, NBA players, major league baseball players, a heavyweight boxing champion, PGA and LPGA golfers and continues to make a difference.

In addition to his ongoing research, Dr Walsh leads medical practitioner training programs in advanced, drug-free biochemical/nutrient therapies in Australia, Ireland, Norway, the United States and is a frequently invited guest lecturer having given more than 200 presentations at regional, national and international conferences and symposiums, including the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Senate, and the National Institutes of Mental Health.

On top of all that, he has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and scientific reports, been granted five patents and is the author Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain which describes the evidence-based nutrient therapy system.





 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The true cause of mental health issues
* Why medications often make you less health
* What Dr Walsh learned from analyzing Charles Manson's brain
* The problem with conventional psychiatry
* How nutrients and epigenetics affect gene expression and our personality
* The reason convicts can't escape the prison grind
* How the Walsh Institute operates outside conventional medical system
* Why CRISPR is such a promising technology to cure incurable diseases
* The 5 major causes of depression and how to fix them
* Why we're entering a new era of mental health
* The sad truth about serial killers




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Before co-founding Nomics, Clay founded Leadpages, where he drove growth to over 48K paying customers (and 175 employees), led the company’s acquisition of Drip, and raised $38M in venture capital financing.







You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How blockchain and cryptocurrency threatens current political order
* The big problem with government fiat money
* Where Clay sees us headed in terms of the internet
* How your privacy is bought and sold, well beyond what you already know
* Why Clay would bet it all on Bitcoin
* The future of governance and governments
* How IoT will affect all of us
* Why building a venture funded tech startup is harder than almost anything else
* How libertarians want to recreate the internet
* Why blockchain is still a long ways off from mass market success
* What futures Clay is most worried about
* Why AI won't be replacing all jobs soon





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1197Fri, 19 Oct 2018 08:00:27 +0000Matt WardClay Collins (@claycollins) is currently the CEO and Co-founder at Nomics and Board Chair at Drip/Leadpages which produces a free crypto market data API for enterprise level crypto investors and runs Flippening, a top 3 crypto podcast. Before...
Before co-founding Nomics, Clay founded Leadpages, where he drove growth to over 48K paying customers (and 175 employees), led the company’s acquisition of Drip, and raised $38M in venture capital financing.







You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How blockchain and cryptocurrency threatens current political order
* The big problem with government fiat money
* Where Clay sees us headed in terms of the internet
* How your privacy is bought and sold, well beyond what you already know
* Why Clay would bet it all on Bitcoin
* The future of governance and governments
* How IoT will affect all of us
* Why building a venture funded tech startup is harder than almost anything else
* How libertarians want to recreate the internet
* Why blockchain is still a long ways off from mass market success
* What futures Clay is most worried about
* Why AI won't be replacing all jobs soon





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 ]]>2564ai,artificialintelligence,bitcoin,blockchain,btc,crypto,cryptocurrencies,cryptocurrency,economics,economy,future,futuretech,futuretechnology,governance,government,podcast,startup,tech,technology,venturecapitalfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/42-the-accidental-invention-of-graphene-and-what-it-means-for-humanity-joseph-meany--18590642
Imagine a material stronger than steel and thinner than paper, that's graphene - at least what it is supposed to one day be. We welcome one of the foremost experts on the topics of graphene and nanomaterials to examine the issues and implications on our future and much more.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The accidental invention of graphene
* Why theory and practice aren't always perfectly aligned
* How material science and nanotechnology will transform life as we know it
* What graphene means for human's expansion into space
* Why Joseph is optimistic about reducing plastic and pollution
* The limiting factors hold humanity back from sustainable space colonization
* How AI affects nanotech research
* The science seems to happen by chance
* How nanotechnology will impact human longevity and medical efficacy
* The reason science is often slower than expected
* Can humanity actually build a functional space elevator
* Which industries will most benefit from graphene





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=962Mon, 15 Oct 2018 08:00:46 +0000Matt Ward Joseph Meany (@crimsonalkemist) is the Founder of The Crimson Alkemist and co-author of Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World. Together with his co-author Les Johnson, the two make a...
Imagine a material stronger than steel and thinner than paper, that's graphene - at least what it is supposed to one day be. We welcome one of the foremost experts on the topics of graphene and nanomaterials to examine the issues and implications on our future and much more.

​



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The accidental invention of graphene
* Why theory and practice aren't always perfectly aligned
* How material science and nanotechnology will transform life as we know it
* What graphene means for human's expansion into space
* Why Joseph is optimistic about reducing plastic and pollution
* The limiting factors hold humanity back from sustainable space colonization
* How AI affects nanotech research
* The science seems to happen by chance
* How nanotechnology will impact human longevity and medical efficacy
* The reason science is often slower than expected
* Can humanity actually build a functional space elevator
* Which industries will most benefit from graphene





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 ]]>3360ai,artificialintelligence,biology,biotech,colonization,graphene,humanlongevity,longevity,materials,nano,nanotech,nanotechnology,podcast,science,scieneandtechnology,scientists,space,spacecolonization,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/41-the-ultimate-guide-to-quantum-computing-eric-ladizinsky-of-d-wave-systems--18590643
D-Wave's systems are being used by world-class organizations like Lockheed Martin, Google, NASA, USC, USRA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Volkswagen, and many others and they have been granted over 160 U.S. patents and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals.

As a leader in the space, Eric is often called upon to evangelize on all aspects of quantum computing.Prior to D-Wave, Eric was a principal investigator at Northrop Grumman Space Technology (formerly TRW, Inc.) where he ran a multi-million dollar DARPA program in Quantum Computing using superconducting integrated circuit technology.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How quantum computing unlocks new paradigms
* The reason quantum computers are a race akin to AI
* Why countries are investing heavily in quantum
* How to simulate the future with perfect accuracy
* Why reality isn't what you think and physicists often get it wrong too
* The reason we may all be living in a quantum computer simulation
* How quantum computing can help solve many of the world's impossible problems
* Understanding the origins of life
* When quantum computers will pass conventional computing in terms of price efficiency






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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1198Thu, 11 Oct 2018 08:00:54 +0000Matt WardEric Ladizinsky is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of D-Wave Systems (@dwavesys), the world's first quantum computing company and the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems and software. Their mission is to use quantum...
D-Wave's systems are being used by world-class organizations like Lockheed Martin, Google, NASA, USC, USRA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Volkswagen, and many others and they have been granted over 160 U.S. patents and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals.

As a leader in the space, Eric is often called upon to evangelize on all aspects of quantum computing.Prior to D-Wave, Eric was a principal investigator at Northrop Grumman Space Technology (formerly TRW, Inc.) where he ran a multi-million dollar DARPA program in Quantum Computing using superconducting integrated circuit technology.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How quantum computing unlocks new paradigms
* The reason quantum computers are a race akin to AI
* Why countries are investing heavily in quantum
* How to simulate the future with perfect accuracy
* Why reality isn't what you think and physicists often get it wrong too
* The reason we may all be living in a quantum computer simulation
* How quantum computing can help solve many of the world's impossible problems
* Understanding the origins of life
* When quantum computers will pass conventional computing in terms of price efficiency






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 ]]>3404advancetechnology,computers,computing,future,futuretechnology,moderntechnology,nature,physicists,physics,podcast,quantum,quantumcomputers,quantumcomputing,reality,relativity,science,scienceandtechnology,startups,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tech-talks-7-the-future-of-blockchain-and-cryptocurrency-without-all-the-hype--18590645
Be sure to add any questions to the live chat and we'll cover those on the stream!

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity. Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more... Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.

 





 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1690Wed, 10 Oct 2018 09:00:14 +0000Matt WardInterested in bitcoin, blockchain and crypto? Today we're diving into the crypto rabbit hole to explore Ethereum, ICOs, the future of money, governance, non-governmental digital currencies and a whole lot more. Be sure to add any questions to the...
Be sure to add any questions to the live chat and we'll cover those on the stream!

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity. Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more... Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.

 





 

 

 





 

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Prior to joining YC as a Partner, Geoff was the CEO of Lala Media, a music startup which was acquired by Apple for $80M in 2009. He also spent 9 years at Yahoo and was the Former Chief Product Officer a decade before the company became irrelevant.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The major problems with America's education system
* How startups and YC are working to redesign education
* Is college still necessary?
* How venture capitalists can make outsized differences in the world
* Why education and healthcare as so expensive and slow to adapt
* What angel investors need to know to avoid losing money
* How Geoff thinks about industries and investment philosophies
* Why Geoff started an edtech accelerator and merged with YCombinator
* The reason Geoff is incredibly optimistic about biotech and AI
* The ethical issues of education and access and how we can fix them
* Why education NEEDS to be personalized
* How to hone your craft and becoming worldclass
* Which industries Geoff is most excited about





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1346Mon, 08 Oct 2018 08:00:25 +0000Matt WardGeoff Ralston (@gralston) is the founder of Imagine K12, an education focused vertical within the super successful startup accelerator YCombinator. Collectively, Y Combinator and Imagine K12 have backed over 100 education technology startups. In...
Prior to joining YC as a Partner, Geoff was the CEO of Lala Media, a music startup which was acquired by Apple for $80M in 2009. He also spent 9 years at Yahoo and was the Former Chief Product Officer a decade before the company became irrelevant.

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You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The major problems with America's education system
* How startups and YC are working to redesign education
* Is college still necessary?
* How venture capitalists can make outsized differences in the world
* Why education and healthcare as so expensive and slow to adapt
* What angel investors need to know to avoid losing money
* How Geoff thinks about industries and investment philosophies
* Why Geoff started an edtech accelerator and merged with YCombinator
* The reason Geoff is incredibly optimistic about biotech and AI
* The ethical issues of education and access and how we can fix them
* Why education NEEDS to be personalized
* How to hone your craft and becoming worldclass
* Which industries Geoff is most excited about





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 ]]>2876accelerator,ai,angelinvestor,artificialintelligence,college,economy,ectech,education,future,healthcare,investing,investor,podcast,startups,tech,technology,vc,verturecapital,yc,ycombinatorfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/39-the-5-most-impactful-technologies-of-21st-century-dr-james-canton--18590647
In addition, James is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Research in Innovation at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, on the advisory board of the Corporate Eco Forum and has advised three White House Administrations, the National Science Foundation and MIT’s Media Lab, Europe.

Dr Canton is the author of the following books:

* The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the 21st Century (2006)
* Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World (2015)
* Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Technology Will Transform Business in the 21st Century (2004)

And James is no stranger to media. He was named “the Digital Guru” by CNN and “Dr. Future” by Yahoo, is a commentator on CNN and has been featured on/in CNBC, Fox, PBS, ABC, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg Report, The New York Times, US News and World Report, CEO, CIO and CFO Magazines.

And finally, Dr. Canton serves as Co-chairman of the Futures and Forecasting Track at Singularity University.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How the pace of technology acceleration is accelerating
* The 5 most impactful areas of tech
* How government surveillance and privacy as balanced in the future
* Why James is optimistic about the future
* The future of work, even including AI
* How humanity needs to reinvent healthcare
* What it is like working in a governmental think tank
* Why quantum computing will change the world
* How James advises government and corporations about change and the future
* What James learned working at Apple Computer
* How systems thinking changes can solve most of the world's problems
* Why our education system is broken and how to fix it





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In addition, James is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Research in Innovation at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, on the advisory board of the Corporate Eco Forum and has advised three White House Administrations, the National Science Foundation and MIT’s Media Lab, Europe.

Dr Canton is the author of the following books:

* The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the 21st Century (2006)
* Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World (2015)
* Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Technology Will Transform Business in the 21st Century (2004)

And James is no stranger to media. He was named “the Digital Guru” by CNN and “Dr. Future” by Yahoo, is a commentator on CNN and has been featured on/in CNBC, Fox, PBS, ABC, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg Report, The New York Times, US News and World Report, CEO, CIO and CFO Magazines.

And finally, Dr. Canton serves as Co-chairman of the Futures and Forecasting Track at Singularity University.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How the pace of technology acceleration is accelerating
* The 5 most impactful areas of tech
* How government surveillance and privacy as balanced in the future
* Why James is optimistic about the future
* The future of work, even including AI
* How humanity needs to reinvent healthcare
* What it is like working in a governmental think tank
* Why quantum computing will change the world
* How James advises government and corporations about change and the future
* What James learned working at Apple Computer
* How systems thinking changes can solve most of the world's problems
* Why our education system is broken and how to fix it





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In today's episode we discuss:

- Asimov's Laws of Robotics

- The evolution of robots in society

- The effects of automation and robotics on jobs and economy

- The unexpected implications of artificial intelligence

 

And much more...

 

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity.

Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more...

Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.





 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1661Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:00:05 +0000Matt WardInterested in robotics and the future of AI? In today's episode we discuss: - Asimov's Laws of Robotics - The evolution of robots in society - The effects of automation and robotics on jobs and economy - The unexpected implications of artificial...
In today's episode we discuss:

- Asimov's Laws of Robotics

- The evolution of robots in society

- The effects of automation and robotics on jobs and economy

- The unexpected implications of artificial intelligence

 

And much more...

 

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity.

Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more...

Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.





 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>1799falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/38-bitcoin-blockchain-and-building-a-better-future-travis-scher-of-digital-currency-group--18590650
DCG is world's the most prolific investor in blockchain startups. They have invested in over 100 companies in 30 different countries, including market leaders like Coinbase, Blockchain, Ledger, and Ripple and they have also invested directly in crypto-assets, including Bitcoin, Decentraland, Ethereum Classic, and Zcash.

Digital Currency Group is not a traditional venture capital fund, instead they also build and buy companies. DCG has three wholly owned subsidiaries: CoinDesk, the leading independent source of blockchain news, research, and events, Genesis Trading, a full-service institutional trading firm focused on digital currencies, and Grayscale Investments, the world's largest digital currency asset manager.



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
* Why blockchain builds perfectly upon VR
* How non-governmental money will impact society
* The big problem with custody and control of money
* Why we're still a few years off from widespread crypto adoption
* The importance of AI in cryptocurrency
* How Travis thinks we can rewrite democracy
* The effects of utility tokens on internet monopolies
* Travis' thoughts on user experience and product adoption
* The reason Travis is still bullish on Bitcoin
* The effects of ICOs on venture capital ecosystem
* Why our banking system is totally broken





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=677Mon, 01 Oct 2018 08:00:31 +0000Matt WardTravis Scher (@travisscher) leads venture capital and new cryptoasset investing at Digital Currency Group (DCG), a blockchain investment firm with a mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system. DCG is world's the most...
DCG is world's the most prolific investor in blockchain startups. They have invested in over 100 companies in 30 different countries, including market leaders like Coinbase, Blockchain, Ledger, and Ripple and they have also invested directly in crypto-assets, including Bitcoin, Decentraland, Ethereum Classic, and Zcash.

Digital Currency Group is not a traditional venture capital fund, instead they also build and buy companies. DCG has three wholly owned subsidiaries: CoinDesk, the leading independent source of blockchain news, research, and events, Genesis Trading, a full-service institutional trading firm focused on digital currencies, and Grayscale Investments, the world's largest digital currency asset manager.



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
* Why blockchain builds perfectly upon VR
* How non-governmental money will impact society
* The big problem with custody and control of money
* Why we're still a few years off from widespread crypto adoption
* The importance of AI in cryptocurrency
* How Travis thinks we can rewrite democracy
* The effects of utility tokens on internet monopolies
* Travis' thoughts on user experience and product adoption
* The reason Travis is still bullish on Bitcoin
* The effects of ICOs on venture capital ecosystem
* Why our banking system is totally broken





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 ]]>3512ar,augmentedreality,bitcoin,blockchain,crypto,cryptocurrencies,cryptocurrency,economics,ethereum,finance,financialtechnology,fintech,mobile,money,podcast,politics,tech,technology,virtualreality,vrfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tech-talks-5-the-future-of-biotech-gene-editing-and-the-human-species--18590648
Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST for our Tech Talk livestreams where we also do live Q&As
We'll discuss:
- Gene drives and the societal implications

- How and when we'll start genetically engineering ourselves

- Promising life extension technologies

- The ethics of superhuman enhancement

And much much more...

 





 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1513Sun, 30 Sep 2018 16:25:46 +0000Matt WardInterested in biotech, CRISPR, genetic engineering and human longevity? If so this is the episode for you. Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST for our Tech Talk livestreams where we also do live Q&As We'll discuss: - Gene drives and the...
Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST for our Tech Talk livestreams where we also do live Q&As
We'll discuss:
- Gene drives and the societal implications

- How and when we'll start genetically engineering ourselves

- Promising life extension technologies

- The ethics of superhuman enhancement

And much much more...

 





 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>1663falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/37-the-end-of-college-and-era-of-automation-thomas-frey--18590651
At the Institute, Thomas works to develop original research studies in areas not normally addressed by futurists and has predicted the end of traditional colleges and printed books, but not of libraries.

As a highly accomplished/sought after speaker, Thomas has shared the stage with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Tom Peters and Jack Welch, though most of his work is speaking to audiences of high-level government or Fortune 500 leaders like NASA, IBM, AT&T, First Data, Boeing, Capital One, Visa, Ford and more.

Thomas has been interviewed in numerous publications including the New York Times, Huffington Post, Times of India, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, The Futurist Magazine and a dozen or more smaller publications.

In addition to his accomplishments as a speaker and forecast, Thomas is also the author of: Communicating with the Future: How Re-engineering Intentions Will Alter the Master Code of Our Future and Epiphany Z: Eight Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future.



 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How the education system is undergoing enormous change
* Why college will soon be irrelevant
* Why Thomas believes we will have too many jobs for everyone
* Which careers have the most promise for the future
* How to use the future to think about the present
* Why driverless cars will be the most impactful invention ever
* The reason automation is additive rather than destructive to jobs
* What happens after peak oil
* How to avoid killing creativity by being productive
* The reason the healthcare system is so screwed up
* What are the real biggest problems Thomas sees
* Why fixing toilets is a surefire skill for the future
* Why micro-colleges are the future of eduction
* The future of the gig/freelance economy




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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1469Fri, 28 Sep 2018 08:00:50 +0000Matt WardThomas Frey (@thomasfrey) is Google's top rated futurist, a celebrity/accomplished keynote speaker and the co-founder and executive director of the DaVinci Institute, a Colorado based tech startup incubator ecosystem, before which he spent 15 years at...
At the Institute, Thomas works to develop original research studies in areas not normally addressed by futurists and has predicted the end of traditional colleges and printed books, but not of libraries.

As a highly accomplished/sought after speaker, Thomas has shared the stage with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Tom Peters and Jack Welch, though most of his work is speaking to audiences of high-level government or Fortune 500 leaders like NASA, IBM, AT&T, First Data, Boeing, Capital One, Visa, Ford and more.

Thomas has been interviewed in numerous publications including the New York Times, Huffington Post, Times of India, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, The Futurist Magazine and a dozen or more smaller publications.

In addition to his accomplishments as a speaker and forecast, Thomas is also the author of: Communicating with the Future: How Re-engineering Intentions Will Alter the Master Code of Our Future and Epiphany Z: Eight Radical Visions for Transforming Your Future.



 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How the education system is undergoing enormous change
* Why college will soon be irrelevant
* Why Thomas believes we will have too many jobs for everyone
* Which careers have the most promise for the future
* How to use the future to think about the present
* Why driverless cars will be the most impactful invention ever
* The reason automation is additive rather than destructive to jobs
* What happens after peak oil
* How to avoid killing creativity by being productive
* The reason the healthcare system is so screwed up
* What are the real biggest problems Thomas sees
* Why fixing toilets is a surefire skill for the future
* Why micro-colleges are the future of eduction
* The future of the gig/freelance economy




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 ]]>3641ai,artificialintelligence,auto,automation,autonomousvehicles,climatechange,college,driverlesscars,education,future,futurism,governance,government,health,podcast,robotics,science,scienceandtechnology,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tech-talks-4-3d-printing-and-the-future-of-manufacturing--18590654
But there are big challenges, way too much hype and other factors to consider. Interested in the future and how manufacturing and jobs evolve? If so, this is the episode for you.

 

In today's episode we discuss:
- The future of the global supply chain

- How personalized medicine is poised to change society

- Why 3D printing has taken so long to mature

- When 3D printers will become a big thing and much much more...
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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1561Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:08:34 +0000Matt Ward3D printing has the ability to transform our world, well beyond the obvious implications. From trade to transport, innovation to product adoption, 3D printers are poised to propel humanity forward, possibly even to space. But there are big...
But there are big challenges, way too much hype and other factors to consider. Interested in the future and how manufacturing and jobs evolve? If so, this is the episode for you.

 

In today's episode we discuss:
- The future of the global supply chain

- How personalized medicine is poised to change society

- Why 3D printing has taken so long to mature

- When 3D printers will become a big thing and much much more...
Or watch the Youtube version



 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>1396falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tech-talks-3-vr-and-life-in-the-matrix--18590653
If so you'll love this discussion where we dive deep in the economic, societal and technological implications of virtual reality, including Ready Player One, the military, adult entertainment, Second Life and much much more.



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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1559Wed, 26 Sep 2018 08:00:10 +0000Matt WardAre you interested in VR and future of mixed reality computing (AR/VR)? If so you'll love this discussion where we dive deep in the economic, societal and technological implications of virtual reality, including Ready Player One, the military, adult...
If so you'll love this discussion where we dive deep in the economic, societal and technological implications of virtual reality, including Ready Player One, the military, adult entertainment, Second Life and much much more.



Or watch the Youtube version



 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>1393falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tech-talks-2-the-future-of-clean-meat-farming-and-animal-agriculture--18590652
In today's video, Matt discusses biotech and the clean meat revolution, something he's incredibly excited and passionate about as an investor and ex-vegetarian
Specifically we talk about:
- The clean meat industry and hurdles it has to overcome

- Why and when clean meat will become inevitable

- How lab grown meat has potential to drastically reduce emissions and climate change

- The unintended and possibly scary consequences of switching away from animal agriculture

And much much more. We hope you enjoy this 2nd experimental episode of Tech Talks on all things ecommerce.

If you do, please leave a comment and subscribe to our channel. It let's us know to continue to produce these weekly livestreams, which as we grow will feature listener Q&A, interactions and discussions and a whole lot more - in addition to the regular Fringe.FM podcast.
Or watch the Youtube version



 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1553Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:12:53 +0000Matt WardWelcome to the 2nd ever Tech Talk Livestream, where serial entrepreneur, angel investor, futurist and host of Fringe.FM podcast Matt Ward discusses one specific industry or technology, weighing in with his opinions and sharing overviews and...
In today's video, Matt discusses biotech and the clean meat revolution, something he's incredibly excited and passionate about as an investor and ex-vegetarian
Specifically we talk about:
- The clean meat industry and hurdles it has to overcome

- Why and when clean meat will become inevitable

- How lab grown meat has potential to drastically reduce emissions and climate change

- The unintended and possibly scary consequences of switching away from animal agriculture

And much much more. We hope you enjoy this 2nd experimental episode of Tech Talks on all things ecommerce.

If you do, please leave a comment and subscribe to our channel. It let's us know to continue to produce these weekly livestreams, which as we grow will feature listener Q&A, interactions and discussions and a whole lot more - in addition to the regular Fringe.FM podcast.
Or watch the Youtube version



 

 

 





 

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Donate]]>1279falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/36-the-4-main-hurdles-holding-humanity-back-from-space-colonization-eric-ward--18590660
At Odyne, Eric and the team are working on phase one: launch, and run a large scale nano and micro satellite launch program to allow more satellite tech companies easier access to space.

Aten Engineering on the other hand deals with what to do once we get there and is an asteroid mining company to provide humanity with inexpensive access to the materials we need to become a space-faring civilization.

Eric recently received a Master's degree in Systems Design and Management from MIT, has published multiple technical documents on Systems Architecture and the Space Industry, has been featured in Fast Company, and co-founded the MIT New Space Age Conference.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The main hurdles holding humanity back from becoming space faring civilization
* Why now is the time for space tech startups
* How politics and economics must evolve to suit space
* The reason holds the key to space travel
* Why we're still a few years off from a moon or Mars colony
* The big problem with propulsion for space sustainability
* How economics will drive our current space race
* The reason governments won't play much of a role in space exploration
* Eric's thoughts on the ethics of space
* The unique challenges space tech startups face
* Political challenges associate with space travel
* Why the pace of innovation is constantly accelerating
* How AI will create a new breed of human





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=696Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:00:43 +0000Matt WardEric Ward(@AeroSigma) is the co-founder and CEO of both Odyne Space and Aten Engineering, two space tech startups with a ton of promise for the future. Eric is an experienced systems architect who sees growing the space industry as the next step to...
At Odyne, Eric and the team are working on phase one: launch, and run a large scale nano and micro satellite launch program to allow more satellite tech companies easier access to space.

Aten Engineering on the other hand deals with what to do once we get there and is an asteroid mining company to provide humanity with inexpensive access to the materials we need to become a space-faring civilization.

Eric recently received a Master's degree in Systems Design and Management from MIT, has published multiple technical documents on Systems Architecture and the Space Industry, has been featured in Fast Company, and co-founded the MIT New Space Age Conference.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The main hurdles holding humanity back from becoming space faring civilization
* Why now is the time for space tech startups
* How politics and economics must evolve to suit space
* The reason holds the key to space travel
* Why we're still a few years off from a moon or Mars colony
* The big problem with propulsion for space sustainability
* How economics will drive our current space race
* The reason governments won't play much of a role in space exploration
* Eric's thoughts on the ethics of space
* The unique challenges space tech startups face
* Political challenges associate with space travel
* Why the pace of innovation is constantly accelerating
* How AI will create a new breed of human





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 ]]>3810ai,asteroidmining,economics,foodtech,future,governance,government,mars,podcast,politics,rockets,science,scienceandtechnology,space,spaceexploration,spacetech,spacetravel,sustainability,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/35-effective-altruism-a-better-way-to-judge-charity-work-isabel-arjmand-of-givewell--18590655
Unlike charity evaluators that focus solely on financials, assessing administrative or fundraising costs, we conduct in-depth research aiming to determine how much good a given program accomplishes (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent. Rather than try to rate as many charities as possible, we focus on the few charities that stand out most (by their criteria: 1) evidence of effectiveness, 2) cost-effectiveness, 3) room for more funding and 4) transparency) in order to find and confidently recommend high-impact giving opportunities.

Their top ranking charities include:

* Against Malaria Foundation
* Malaria Consortium (SEASONAL MALARIA CHEMOPREVENTION PROGRAM ONLY)
* Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
* Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative
* END Fund (DEWORMING PROGRAM ONLY)
* Sightsavers (DEWORMING PROGRAM ONLY)
* Helen Keller International (VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAM ONLY)
* Evidence Action's No Lean Season
* GiveDirectly




 

You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How GiveWell quantifies different charities world impact
* The importance of economics and statistical analysis on decision making
* Analyzing complex problems
* Why the way we think about charities is all wrong and how to fix it
* How the nonprofit world works and what you should know
* Why things that get measured get managed
* Where we are when it comes to solving the world's biggest problems
* How to think about low-hanging fruit vs long term change
* The analogies between startup and nonprofit fundraising
* Why doers don't have time to focus on technology
* The economists view of the world and ways to improve it





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1100Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:37:06 +0000Matt WardIsabel Arjmand is a research analyst at GiveWell (@givewell), a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of charity worldwide, ie Effective Altruism. GiveWell is focused on finding the most impactful giving opportunities and publish the...
Unlike charity evaluators that focus solely on financials, assessing administrative or fundraising costs, we conduct in-depth research aiming to determine how much good a given program accomplishes (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent. Rather than try to rate as many charities as possible, we focus on the few charities that stand out most (by their criteria: 1) evidence of effectiveness, 2) cost-effectiveness, 3) room for more funding and 4) transparency) in order to find and confidently recommend high-impact giving opportunities.

Their top ranking charities include:

* Against Malaria Foundation
* Malaria Consortium (SEASONAL MALARIA CHEMOPREVENTION PROGRAM ONLY)
* Schistosomiasis Control Initiative
* Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative
* END Fund (DEWORMING PROGRAM ONLY)
* Sightsavers (DEWORMING PROGRAM ONLY)
* Helen Keller International (VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION PROGRAM ONLY)
* Evidence Action's No Lean Season
* GiveDirectly




 

You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How GiveWell quantifies different charities world impact
* The importance of economics and statistical analysis on decision making
* Analyzing complex problems
* Why the way we think about charities is all wrong and how to fix it
* How the nonprofit world works and what you should know
* Why things that get measured get managed
* Where we are when it comes to solving the world's biggest problems
* How to think about low-hanging fruit vs long term change
* The analogies between startup and nonprofit fundraising
* Why doers don't have time to focus on technology
* The economists view of the world and ways to improve it





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 ]]>3136altruism,charities,charity,donations,economics,economists,economy,givewell,governance,government,health,impact,nonprofit,podcast,politics,poverty,research,startups,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/tech-talks-1-the-future-of-ecommerce-shopping--18590658
In today's video, Matt discusses ecommerce, something near and dear to his heart as an ex-ecommerce seller.
In today's livestream we discuss:
- How Amazon is transforming ecommerce & shopping experience
- Why Alexa and voice technology will destroy retail
- The death of brand as a differentiating factor for most products
- Where the opportunities exist to make money in ecomm

And much much more. We hope you enjoy this first experimental episode of Tech Talks on all things ecommerce.

If you do, please leave a comment and subscribe to our channel. It let's us know to continue to produce these weekly livestreams, which as we grow will feature listener Q&A, interactions and discussions and a whole lot more - in addition to the regular Fringe.FM podcast.
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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1373Thu, 20 Sep 2018 10:36:05 +0000Matt WardWelcome to the 1st ever Tech Talk Livestream, where serial entrepreneur, angel investor, futurist and host of Fringe.FM Matt Ward discusses one specific industry or technology, weighing in with his opinions and sharing overviews and predictions of...
In today's video, Matt discusses ecommerce, something near and dear to his heart as an ex-ecommerce seller.
In today's livestream we discuss:
- How Amazon is transforming ecommerce & shopping experience
- Why Alexa and voice technology will destroy retail
- The death of brand as a differentiating factor for most products
- Where the opportunities exist to make money in ecomm

And much much more. We hope you enjoy this first experimental episode of Tech Talks on all things ecommerce.

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Donate]]>1397falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/34-how-graphene-transforms-the-industries-of-the-future-and-why-the-time-is-now-john-lettow-of-vorbeck--18590656
NOTE: Vorbeck's proprietary graphene material Vor-x® was developed in the Chemical Engineering Laboratories of Princeton University. The Princeton team's pioneering work enables large-scale production of graphene, of which Vorbeck owns an exclusive license on the patented graphene technology.

Prior to Vorbeck, John was a cofounder and manager of core technology development for H2Gen Innovations. John has also performed extensive research on nano-materials and materials process development while doing his PhD at MIT, Masters at Cambridge and undergrad at Princeton.



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How graphene is poised to transform numerous industries
* Why graphene has taken awhile to come to market and where science fails
* The exciting advances in meta-materials and material science and what it means for society
* Why better tires trumps better batteries for fuel efficiency
* How to commercialize university research
* The future of wearable tech clothing and when it will happen
* Why John is tired of today's consumer waste economy, and how to fix it
* How lifecycle design can decrease waste and increase function
* Why John is a bit worried about privacy in today's social media era





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=778Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:00:22 +0000Matt WardJohn Lettow is the co-founder and President of Vorbeck (@vorbeck), a high tech graphene materials startup that's raised over $20.7M to bring the promising future of graphene to today. Today they have several product lines focused on antennas, RFIDs,...
NOTE: Vorbeck's proprietary graphene material Vor-x® was developed in the Chemical Engineering Laboratories of Princeton University. The Princeton team's pioneering work enables large-scale production of graphene, of which Vorbeck owns an exclusive license on the patented graphene technology.

Prior to Vorbeck, John was a cofounder and manager of core technology development for H2Gen Innovations. John has also performed extensive research on nano-materials and materials process development while doing his PhD at MIT, Masters at Cambridge and undergrad at Princeton.



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How graphene is poised to transform numerous industries
* Why graphene has taken awhile to come to market and where science fails
* The exciting advances in meta-materials and material science and what it means for society
* Why better tires trumps better batteries for fuel efficiency
* How to commercialize university research
* The future of wearable tech clothing and when it will happen
* Why John is tired of today's consumer waste economy, and how to fix it
* How lifecycle design can decrease waste and increase function
* Why John is a bit worried about privacy in today's social media era





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 ]]>3120climatechange,energy,facebook,future,graphene,material-sciene,meta-materials,nanotech,nanotechnology,podcast,privacy,research,science,scienceandtechnology,socialmedia,space,startup,tech,technology,wearablesfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/33-the-ultimate-guide-to-nanotechnology-steve-burgess-of-foresight-institute--18590657
Steve is a nanotechnology activist, tech writer & speaker, startup mentor, and an internationally recognized computer forensics consultant. Steve helped found the data recovery industry in the 80s, is a pioneer in today’s growing computer forensics and electronic  industry and is active as a digital forensic specialist who oftens testifies as an expert witness in the field.

Steve has reported on Japan’s space programs, contributed various Nanotech Glossaries, is the author of “The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance,” contributor to the text, “Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases,” and regularly writes on topics surrounding his passions and expertise at burgessforensics.com



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The science of nanotechnology and progress to date
* How the boom and bust cycle in nanotech play out
* Why Steve is passionate about exponential hope
* How AI will impact the future of jobs and economy, beyond the obvious answers
* The problem with existential risk and inspiring action
* Why Foresight Institute focuses on converging exponential technologies
* The implications of biotech and self enhancement
* What manufacturing will mean in an era of abundance
* The wealth divide and what happens next
* How technological innovation will impact our evolution
* The reason capitalist incentive structures drive many of our most pressing problems
* Why changing policy and law is challenging and grass roots movements matter





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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=896Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:08:59 +0000Matt WardSteve Burgess (@steveburgess01) is the president of Foresight Institute, a nonprofit think tank that researches technologies of important to the future of humanity, focusing on nanotechnology, cybersecurity, and AI and rewards grants to lead...
Steve is a nanotechnology activist, tech writer & speaker, startup mentor, and an internationally recognized computer forensics consultant. Steve helped found the data recovery industry in the 80s, is a pioneer in today’s growing computer forensics and electronic  industry and is active as a digital forensic specialist who oftens testifies as an expert witness in the field.

Steve has reported on Japan’s space programs, contributed various Nanotech Glossaries, is the author of “The (Needed) New Economics of Abundance,” contributor to the text, “Scientific Evidence in Civil and Criminal Cases,” and regularly writes on topics surrounding his passions and expertise at burgessforensics.com



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The science of nanotechnology and progress to date
* How the boom and bust cycle in nanotech play out
* Why Steve is passionate about exponential hope
* How AI will impact the future of jobs and economy, beyond the obvious answers
* The problem with existential risk and inspiring action
* Why Foresight Institute focuses on converging exponential technologies
* The implications of biotech and self enhancement
* What manufacturing will mean in an era of abundance
* The wealth divide and what happens next
* How technological innovation will impact our evolution
* The reason capitalist incentive structures drive many of our most pressing problems
* Why changing policy and law is challenging and grass roots movements matter





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Donate]]>2820ai,artificialintelligence,biotech,capitalism,economics,evolution,existential-risk,future,futureoftechnology,futurism,nano,nanotech,nanotechnology,podcast,robotics,robots,science,scienceandtechnology,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/32-the-future-of-biotech-and-humanity-livestream-panel-exploring-gene-editing-longevity-clean-meat-and-more--18590662
Our Expert Panelists:
Aubrey de Grey is a Cambridge researcher and Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation focused on aging and extending human longevity. He proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born. In addition to his research, Aubrey is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging(2007). De Grey’s research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage.
Mike Selden is co-founder and CEO of Finless Foods, a food startup that uses cutting-edge cellular-agriculture technologies to grow marine-animal cells, creating fish and seafood products enjoyed around the world. They are working toward a sci-fi, soon-here world where everyone has access to healthy, delectable seafood, without the environmental devastation or the health hazards of traditional fishing and aquatic farming.
Jenny Rooke is the founder and managing partner or Genoa Ventures (formerly 5 Prime Ventures) where she funds and builds companies that change the way science gets done with new tools and technologies. She has a PhD in Genetics, a Bachelors in physics, and a background in computer science and works closely with early-stage life science start-ups on issues of fundraising, market and product strategy, and business development.
We cover a wide range of topics from genetic engineering and human longevity to personalized medicine, pharma, manufactured meats and much more...


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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=1192Mon, 10 Sep 2018 08:00:38 +0000Matt WardAre you interested in space travel, genetic engineering and other futurist tech trends transforming our world/society? If so you will love this.  Our Expert Panelists: Aubrey de Grey is a Cambridge researcher and Chief Science Officer of SENS...
Our Expert Panelists:
Aubrey de Grey is a Cambridge researcher and Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation focused on aging and extending human longevity. He proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born. In addition to his research, Aubrey is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging(2007). De Grey’s research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage.
Mike Selden is co-founder and CEO of Finless Foods, a food startup that uses cutting-edge cellular-agriculture technologies to grow marine-animal cells, creating fish and seafood products enjoyed around the world. They are working toward a sci-fi, soon-here world where everyone has access to healthy, delectable seafood, without the environmental devastation or the health hazards of traditional fishing and aquatic farming.
Jenny Rooke is the founder and managing partner or Genoa Ventures (formerly 5 Prime Ventures) where she funds and builds companies that change the way science gets done with new tools and technologies. She has a PhD in Genetics, a Bachelors in physics, and a background in computer science and works closely with early-stage life science start-ups on issues of fundraising, market and product strategy, and business development.
We cover a wide range of topics from genetic engineering and human longevity to personalized medicine, pharma, manufactured meats and much more...


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Donate]]>3382aging,biology,biotech,clean-meat,dna,foodtech,gene,gene-editing,geneticengineering,genetics,health,humanity,lifesciences,longevity,podcast,research,science,scienceandtechnology,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/31-overcoming-existential-risks-by-redesigning-civilization-daniel-schmachtenberger-of-neurohacker-collective--18590667
Daniel is particularly focused on personalized medicine, adequate approaches to complex illness, and deepening our knowledge of how the human regulatory systems function, how they break down, and how they can be supported to function with greater resilience and blogs at civilizationemerging.com

Growing up home-schooled, Daniel had early exposure to design science (Buckminster Fuller, Jacques Fresco, Permaculture, etc.), systems science and complexity (Fritjof Capra, Stuart Kauffman, etc.), philosophy and psychology (eastern and western approaches), and activism (animal rights, environmental issues, social justice, etc.) His passion has always been at the intersection of these topics – specifically, facilitating the emergence into a mature civilization – that can prevent otherwise impending catastrophes, remediate existing damage, make possible a radically higher quality of life for all sustainably, and support greater realization of our individual and collective potential.

NOTE: Daniel's company Neurohacker Collective produces Qualia, a top-notch nootropic mental/physical enhancement supplement. You can get 10% off your 1st order of 15% off subscription using code FRINGEFM

 





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Daniel thinks about civilization design and fixing current political and economic problems
* The importance of systems thinking in an age of interconnectedness
* Why humanity is destined to destroy itself if we can't fix our incentive structures
* How exponential technology impacts existential risks of our species
* Why the governments of today are not set up to handle the challenges of tomorrow
* The Uber-ification of society and how it could save us
* How to achieve abundance for all by rewriting our society
* Why scarcity is such a destructive force
* The problems with profits and ways to change capitalism
* Why Daniel is worried about exponential technology
* How functional medicine and nutrient-based therapies have transformed Daniel's life





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Daniel is particularly focused on personalized medicine, adequate approaches to complex illness, and deepening our knowledge of how the human regulatory systems function, how they break down, and how they can be supported to function with greater resilience and blogs at civilizationemerging.com

Growing up home-schooled, Daniel had early exposure to design science (Buckminster Fuller, Jacques Fresco, Permaculture, etc.), systems science and complexity (Fritjof Capra, Stuart Kauffman, etc.), philosophy and psychology (eastern and western approaches), and activism (animal rights, environmental issues, social justice, etc.) His passion has always been at the intersection of these topics – specifically, facilitating the emergence into a mature civilization – that can prevent otherwise impending catastrophes, remediate existing damage, make possible a radically higher quality of life for all sustainably, and support greater realization of our individual and collective potential.

NOTE: Daniel's company Neurohacker Collective produces Qualia, a top-notch nootropic mental/physical enhancement supplement. You can get 10% off your 1st order of 15% off subscription using code FRINGEFM

 





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Daniel thinks about civilization design and fixing current political and economic problems
* The importance of systems thinking in an age of interconnectedness
* Why humanity is destined to destroy itself if we can't fix our incentive structures
* How exponential technology impacts existential risks of our species
* Why the governments of today are not set up to handle the challenges of tomorrow
* The Uber-ification of society and how it could save us
* How to achieve abundance for all by rewriting our society
* Why scarcity is such a destructive force
* The problems with profits and ways to change capitalism
* Why Daniel is worried about exponential technology
* How functional medicine and nutrient-based therapies have transformed Daniel's life





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Joe was awarded the SFWA Grand Master for career achievements and in 2012 he was inducted as a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He's a member of Author's Guild, Writer's Guild, Science Fiction Writers of America, National Space Society (on Board of Advisors), Space Studies Institute and was President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1992-1994.

Many of Haldeman's works, including his debut novel War Year and his second novel The Forever War, were inspired by his experiences related to serving in the Vietnam War. Wounded in combat, he struggled to adjust to civilian life after returning home.

During Joe's prolific career, he's authored 30 books, 7 short fiction novels a set of comics and even a poem.

You can grab a copy of The Forever War here or a free audiobook download here.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The evolution of science fiction
* How author's like Joe research, describe and often help create technology
* Routines for increasing creativity
* How astronomy and a curiosity for space pushed Joe into his passion
* What goes into creating a compelling story
* Why many authors and creatives resort to alcohol and hard drugs to create masterpieces
* How exercises inspires creativity
* Why Joe is optimistic about extraterrestrial life
* The reason Joe writes and importance of obsession
* How to stay humble in face of success
* The reason Joe's worried about starvation and the incentive structures of society
* When to be a kid and when it is time to be an adult
* How the shift from public to private space companies is transforming industry
* Why sci fi is the lifeblood of technologists and creativity
* How to hone your craft and becoming worldclass
* Which industries Joe's most excited about





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=958Mon, 03 Sep 2018 08:00:42 +0000Matt WardJoe Haldeman is a famed American science fiction author best known for his novel The Forever War (1974). That novel, and other of his works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards, including...
Joe was awarded the SFWA Grand Master for career achievements and in 2012 he was inducted as a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He's a member of Author's Guild, Writer's Guild, Science Fiction Writers of America, National Space Society (on Board of Advisors), Space Studies Institute and was President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1992-1994.

Many of Haldeman's works, including his debut novel War Year and his second novel The Forever War, were inspired by his experiences related to serving in the Vietnam War. Wounded in combat, he struggled to adjust to civilian life after returning home.

During Joe's prolific career, he's authored 30 books, 7 short fiction novels a set of comics and even a poem.

You can grab a copy of The Forever War here or a free audiobook download here.

​



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The evolution of science fiction
* How author's like Joe research, describe and often help create technology
* Routines for increasing creativity
* How astronomy and a curiosity for space pushed Joe into his passion
* What goes into creating a compelling story
* Why many authors and creatives resort to alcohol and hard drugs to create masterpieces
* How exercises inspires creativity
* Why Joe is optimistic about extraterrestrial life
* The reason Joe writes and importance of obsession
* How to stay humble in face of success
* The reason Joe's worried about starvation and the incentive structures of society
* When to be a kid and when it is time to be an adult
* How the shift from public to private space companies is transforming industry
* Why sci fi is the lifeblood of technologists and creativity
* How to hone your craft and becoming worldclass
* Which industries Joe's most excited about





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 ]]>3347ai,artificialintelligence,asimov,consciousness,eduation,future,podcast,research,robotics,robots,science,scienceandtechnology,sciencefiction,scifi,space,spacestudies,tech,technology,theforeverwar,warfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/29-why-we-are-entering-a-new-space-race-and-where-we-go-from-here-with-fraser-cain-of-astronomy-cast--18590664




You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* What's been happening in space since the space race
* How advances in reusable rockets, materials science and hardware have revolutionized the future of space
* Why Fraser thinks Earth is far and away the best place in solar system to live
* How the new space race may unfold and the political implications
* The health problems associated with living in space and living in low gravity
* Why asteroid mining and space manufacturing may hold humanity's key to the stars
* The changes in space technology since the space race
* How space exploration may impact our evolution
* Why Earth should be focused as only our home
* Why space is a possible answer to our climate change and pollution problems
* The reason economics of space are starting to become viable
* What is really the future for life in space
* Why space is key to overcoming existential risk





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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=906Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:00:07 +0000Matt WardFraser Cain (@fcain) is the founder of Universe Today, one of the most popular space and astronomy sites on online with over 3 million space focused visitors a month. In addition to Universe Today, Fraser co-hosts Astronomy Cast, a fact-based weekly...




You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* What's been happening in space since the space race
* How advances in reusable rockets, materials science and hardware have revolutionized the future of space
* Why Fraser thinks Earth is far and away the best place in solar system to live
* How the new space race may unfold and the political implications
* The health problems associated with living in space and living in low gravity
* Why asteroid mining and space manufacturing may hold humanity's key to the stars
* The changes in space technology since the space race
* How space exploration may impact our evolution
* Why Earth should be focused as only our home
* Why space is a possible answer to our climate change and pollution problems
* The reason economics of space are starting to become viable
* What is really the future for life in space
* Why space is key to overcoming existential risk





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Donate]]>3342asteroidmining,astronomy,blue-origin,climate,climatechange,earth,evolution,future,futureforlife,futureofspace,nasa,podcast,science,scienceandtechnology,solarsystem,space,space-exploration,spacerace,spacex,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/28-cory-doctorow-on-the-future-of-surveillance-capitalism-and-how-to-solve-it--18590665
His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books, Head of Zeus (UK), Titan Books (UK) and HarperCollins (UK). He has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.

Several of his award winning novels include:

* Little Brother
* Homeland
* Pirate Cinema

Cory also co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, and serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Open Technology Fund and the Metabrainz Foundation.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How GDPR helps and hurts the future of the internet
* The big problem with government regulation
* Where the US and Europe differ when it comes to civil liberties
* How your privacy is bought and sold, well beyond what you already know
* Why governments support corporate spying on citizens
* The future of surveillance capitalism and how to solve it
* Why corruption and special interests are jeopardizing our future
* How copyright law could crush the internet
* Why Cory is optimistic about our collective future
* How to be a prolific author, as a side-gig
* How and why citizens need to rebel/react in times of trouble





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=451Mon, 27 Aug 2018 08:00:20 +0000Matt WardCory Doctorow (@doctorow) is a best selling science fiction author, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing), a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers and a special consultant to the...
His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books, Head of Zeus (UK), Titan Books (UK) and HarperCollins (UK). He has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.

Several of his award winning novels include:

* Little Brother
* Homeland
* Pirate Cinema

Cory also co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola, and serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Open Technology Fund and the Metabrainz Foundation.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How GDPR helps and hurts the future of the internet
* The big problem with government regulation
* Where the US and Europe differ when it comes to civil liberties
* How your privacy is bought and sold, well beyond what you already know
* Why governments support corporate spying on citizens
* The future of surveillance capitalism and how to solve it
* Why corruption and special interests are jeopardizing our future
* How copyright law could crush the internet
* Why Cory is optimistic about our collective future
* How to be a prolific author, as a side-gig
* How and why citizens need to rebel/react in times of trouble





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 ]]>2650future,gdpr,governance,internet,iot,law,monopoly,net-neutrality,podcast,politics,privacy,regulations,science,scienceandtechnology,science-fiction,scifi,spying,surveillance,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/27-iter-s-23b-fusion-project-to-provide-cheap-virtually-free-energy-for-the-world-director-general-bernard-bigot--18590661
Bernard has a long and distinguished career and has held senior positions in research, higher education and government. Prior to his appointment at ITER he completed two terms (2009-2012 and 2012-2015) as Chairman and CEO of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, CEA. This government-funded technological research organization—with ten research centres in France, a workforce of 16,000 and an annual budget of EUR 4.3 billion—is active in low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies, and health technologies.

From 2003 to 2009 Bernard Bigot served as France's High commissioner for atomic energy, an independent scientific authority whose mission is to advise the French President and the French government on nuclear and renewable energy policy and in all the other scientific and technological domains where the CEA intervenes.

In his career as educator/researcher, Bernard also authored over 70 publications in theoretical chemistry and led research at the Ecole normale supérieure and Director of the Institut de recherche sur la catalyse, a CNRS laboratory specializing in catalysis research.

Bernard Bigot is a Commandeur in the French Order of the Legion of Honour, a Commandeur in the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star, and an Officer the French Order of the National Merit. In October 2014 he received the Gold and Silver Star in the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun..

"I've always been concerned with energy issues. Energy is the key to mankind's social and economic development. Today, 80 percent of the energy consumed in the world comes from fossil fuels and we all know that this resource will not last forever. With fusion energy, we have a potential resource for millions of years. Harnessing it is an opportunity we cannot miss."

You can listen right here on iTunes



In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of fusion and where we are headed
* Why nuclear fusion still has not achieved net energy creation
* How ITER is building the fusion reactor (tokamak) of the future to supply safe, clean energy for the world
* The climate change problem and potential solutions to save us
* Why fusion technology has taken so long see the light of day
* The importance of governmental collaboration in large-scale scientific research
* How fusion differs from "typical" nuclear power, ie fission
* The implications of nearly free energy
* Bernard's thoughts on creating a star
* Why fusion may be the most exciting technology that no one is talking about
* The reason the US and Russia collaborated during the Cold War on fusion research
* Why nearly all energy in the solar system isn't accessible by conventional means





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Bernard has a long and distinguished career and has held senior positions in research, higher education and government. Prior to his appointment at ITER he completed two terms (2009-2012 and 2012-2015) as Chairman and CEO of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, CEA. This government-funded technological research organization—with ten research centres in France, a workforce of 16,000 and an annual budget of EUR 4.3 billion—is active in low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies, and health technologies.

From 2003 to 2009 Bernard Bigot served as France's High commissioner for atomic energy, an independent scientific authority whose mission is to advise the French President and the French government on nuclear and renewable energy policy and in all the other scientific and technological domains where the CEA intervenes.

In his career as educator/researcher, Bernard also authored over 70 publications in theoretical chemistry and led research at the Ecole normale supérieure and Director of the Institut de recherche sur la catalyse, a CNRS laboratory specializing in catalysis research.

Bernard Bigot is a Commandeur in the French Order of the Legion of Honour, a Commandeur in the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star, and an Officer the French Order of the National Merit. In October 2014 he received the Gold and Silver Star in the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun..

"I've always been concerned with energy issues. Energy is the key to mankind's social and economic development. Today, 80 percent of the energy consumed in the world comes from fossil fuels and we all know that this resource will not last forever. With fusion energy, we have a potential resource for millions of years. Harnessing it is an opportunity we cannot miss."

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of fusion and where we are headed
* Why nuclear fusion still has not achieved net energy creation
* How ITER is building the fusion reactor (tokamak) of the future to supply safe, clean energy for the world
* The climate change problem and potential solutions to save us
* Why fusion technology has taken so long see the light of day
* The importance of governmental collaboration in large-scale scientific research
* How fusion differs from "typical" nuclear power, ie fission
* The implications of nearly free energy
* Bernard's thoughts on creating a star
* Why fusion may be the most exciting technology that no one is talking about
* The reason the US and Russia collaborated during the Cold War on fusion research
* Why nearly all energy in the solar system isn't accessible by conventional means





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With over a decade of experience in leading scientific research, publishing research articles and presenting scientific findings at conferences, he has a talent for simplifying and communicating complex scientific data in a way that both experts in the field and a non-scientific audience can appreciate them. Ashwin spends much of his time thinking about the dynamics of the future and how this research will impact humanity, especially those unfamiliar with its profound effects.

In addition to his research, Ashwin is also passionate about training people to communicate more powerfully and offers powerful tools and training at the highest quality to empower people to articulate their ideas and vision in a powerful and persuasive manner.

​



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of CRISPR and genetic engineering
* Why personalized medicine is closer than you would think
* How CRISPR and gene drive technology can have butterfly effect like unintended consequences
* The problem and solution with causing and treating cancer
* Why we need to discuss ethical implications of genetic editing
* The importance of DNA based edits and therapies to advance humanity
* How to shift the public perception on future technologies
* The reason humanity may evolve into multiple species
* Ashwin's thoughts on ethics of great power
* The reason Ashwin is cautious with CRISPR technology
* How researchers are fighting and will likely eradicate malaria carrying mosquitoes
* Why research is now focused on systems vs individual genes
* The importance of epigenetics in understanding biological processes
* Why we may have a "cure" to aging on the horizon





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=683Mon, 20 Aug 2018 08:00:30 +0000Matt WardAshwin Seetharaman is a molecular genetics and cell/developmental researcher at the University of Toronto focused on understanding life at its most fundamental level. He is currently focused on unraveling genetic interaction networks underlying human...
With over a decade of experience in leading scientific research, publishing research articles and presenting scientific findings at conferences, he has a talent for simplifying and communicating complex scientific data in a way that both experts in the field and a non-scientific audience can appreciate them. Ashwin spends much of his time thinking about the dynamics of the future and how this research will impact humanity, especially those unfamiliar with its profound effects.

In addition to his research, Ashwin is also passionate about training people to communicate more powerfully and offers powerful tools and training at the highest quality to empower people to articulate their ideas and vision in a powerful and persuasive manner.

​



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of CRISPR and genetic engineering
* Why personalized medicine is closer than you would think
* How CRISPR and gene drive technology can have butterfly effect like unintended consequences
* The problem and solution with causing and treating cancer
* Why we need to discuss ethical implications of genetic editing
* The importance of DNA based edits and therapies to advance humanity
* How to shift the public perception on future technologies
* The reason humanity may evolve into multiple species
* Ashwin's thoughts on ethics of great power
* The reason Ashwin is cautious with CRISPR technology
* How researchers are fighting and will likely eradicate malaria carrying mosquitoes
* Why research is now focused on systems vs individual genes
* The importance of epigenetics in understanding biological processes
* Why we may have a "cure" to aging on the horizon





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 ]]>3390advancehumanity,biology,biotech,cas9,crispr,crisprtechnology,dna,education,epigenetics,future,futuretechnology,gene,geneticengineering,genetics,health,humanenhancement,longevity,podcast,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/25-rewriting-asimov-s-3-laws-of-robotics-prof-joanna-bryson--18590666
In 2010 Bryson published her most controversial work, "Robots Should Be Slaves" and has helped the EPSRC to define the Principles of Robotics in 2010. She has also consulted The Red Cross on autonomous weapons and is a member of an All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.

Joanna is focused on "Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems". In 2017 she won an Outstanding Achievement award from Cognition X. She regularly appears in national media, talking about human-robot relationships and the ethics of AI

EPSRC's Laws of Robotics:

* Robots should not be designed as weapons, except for national security reasons
* Robots should be designed and operated to comply with existing law, including privacy
* Robots are products: as with other products, they should be designed to be safe and secure
* Robots are manufactured artifacts: the illusion of emotions and intent should not be used to exploit vulnerable users
* It should be possible to find out who is responsible for any robot



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why robots and AI should not resemble people
* How Joanna helped the British replace Asimov’s laws of robotics
* How people confuse consciousness and intelligence and likely problems this creates
* Why Joanna is skeptical we'll achieve AI superintelligence
* The big problem with conflicting interests creating filter bubbles, disinformation and overly aggressive Facebook
* Why robots cannot be liable/punished for their actions
* How people should think about ethics of robot design
* The ethical dilemmas with AI and robots in society
* How psychology, neuroscience, ethics and AI are merging
* The problems with control and governing AI usage
* How bad incentives create bad artificial intelligences





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=470Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:00:29 +0000Matt WardJoanna Bryson (@j2bryson) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and collaborative cognition. In 2010 Bryson published her most controversial work, "Robots...
In 2010 Bryson published her most controversial work, "Robots Should Be Slaves" and has helped the EPSRC to define the Principles of Robotics in 2010. She has also consulted The Red Cross on autonomous weapons and is a member of an All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence.

Joanna is focused on "Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems". In 2017 she won an Outstanding Achievement award from Cognition X. She regularly appears in national media, talking about human-robot relationships and the ethics of AI

EPSRC's Laws of Robotics:

* Robots should not be designed as weapons, except for national security reasons
* Robots should be designed and operated to comply with existing law, including privacy
* Robots are products: as with other products, they should be designed to be safe and secure
* Robots are manufactured artifacts: the illusion of emotions and intent should not be used to exploit vulnerable users
* It should be possible to find out who is responsible for any robot



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why robots and AI should not resemble people
* How Joanna helped the British replace Asimov’s laws of robotics
* How people confuse consciousness and intelligence and likely problems this creates
* Why Joanna is skeptical we'll achieve AI superintelligence
* The big problem with conflicting interests creating filter bubbles, disinformation and overly aggressive Facebook
* Why robots cannot be liable/punished for their actions
* How people should think about ethics of robot design
* The ethical dilemmas with AI and robots in society
* How psychology, neuroscience, ethics and AI are merging
* The problems with control and governing AI usage
* How bad incentives create bad artificial intelligences





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 ]]>2617advancedtechnology,ai,artificialintelligence,automation,consciousness,ethics,intelligence,isaacasimov,moderntechnology,neuroscience,podcast,psychology,robotics,robots,science,sciencefiction,scifi,superintelligence,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/24-ai-ar-education-and-the-future-of-jobs-brad-waid--18590670
Brad is a consultant to industry, education and government and is often called on by industry to assist in marketing and telling the story of a product or a company. He also assists school districts and educational conferences in applying technology into education, and he works with government agencies to improve education for all students.

​As a consultant to start-ups from Silicon Valley to New York and government agencies, Brad has a unique perspective on the evolution of the tech landscape.

He has been honored by the National School Board Association as one of the “20 to Watch” in Educational Technology. Brad’s knowledge of educational technology, his ability to assist industry and government and his passion to inspire educational change, makes him a highly sought after speaker and influencer who makes an impact where ever he goes.



 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How augmented reality has changed in the past decade
* What is on the near-term horizon in terms of holograms, VR and AR
* How technology transforms society and cultural norms
* The ways education is being rewritten for the modern world
* Why Brad is so bullish on AI and machine learning
* The problems with AI and AR for freedom and personal privacy
* How Brad thinks about the future of work
* The reason Brad thinks college is a collapsing system
* What Brad believes is necessary to save the education system
* The societal struggles to change education
* Which of today's top tech companies will lead the future of tech
* Why Minority Report isn't that far off
* Ways technology transforms society more than we realize
* Why Brad is big on space travel





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=579Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:00:18 +0000Matt WardBrad Waid (@techbradwaid) is an international speaker, influencer and educator with over 15 years of classroom and industry experience. Brad is an industry leader in the fields of educational technology, 21st century learning, culture and innovation...
Brad is a consultant to industry, education and government and is often called on by industry to assist in marketing and telling the story of a product or a company. He also assists school districts and educational conferences in applying technology into education, and he works with government agencies to improve education for all students.

​As a consultant to start-ups from Silicon Valley to New York and government agencies, Brad has a unique perspective on the evolution of the tech landscape.

He has been honored by the National School Board Association as one of the “20 to Watch” in Educational Technology. Brad’s knowledge of educational technology, his ability to assist industry and government and his passion to inspire educational change, makes him a highly sought after speaker and influencer who makes an impact where ever he goes.



 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How augmented reality has changed in the past decade
* What is on the near-term horizon in terms of holograms, VR and AR
* How technology transforms society and cultural norms
* The ways education is being rewritten for the modern world
* Why Brad is so bullish on AI and machine learning
* The problems with AI and AR for freedom and personal privacy
* How Brad thinks about the future of work
* The reason Brad thinks college is a collapsing system
* What Brad believes is necessary to save the education system
* The societal struggles to change education
* Which of today's top tech companies will lead the future of tech
* Why Minority Report isn't that far off
* Ways technology transforms society more than we realize
* Why Brad is big on space travel





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 ]]>3347advancetechnology,ai,artificial,artificialintelligence,ar/vr,augmentedreality,college,education,future,futureoftech,governance,intelligence,mobile,moderntechnology,podcast,science,space,tech,technology,virtualrealityfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/23-robots-that-could-beat-world-cup-champs-and-how-governments-can-work-with-and-plan-for-artificial-intelligence-and-effect-of-ai-on-jobs--18590668
He is also the President, COO, and co-founder of Cogitai, a startup company building AIs that learn continually from interaction with the real world - ie brains or continual-learning AI sof tware.

Peter's main research interest is understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents and focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. Prof Stone has worked with modeling/creating robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, autonomic computing and social agents.

In 2007 he received the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, given biannually to the top AI researcher under the age of 35, and in 2016 he was awarded the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award.

 



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why the general public is confused about artificial intelligence
* What is cutting edge in the space of robotics and AI
* How Peter and his team are perfecting soccer robotically
* The big problem with government action/inaction when it comes to AI
* The different types of AI and machine learning and advantages of each
* How Peter and others think about consciousness with machines
* The problems Peter sees with hype and fear mongering
* The implications to healthcare and quality of life in an society with increased automation
* Peter's recommendations to governments and regulators on AI
* Why Peter believes we are still a long way off from AGI
* Why AI is overhyped and underhyped

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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=531Fri, 10 Aug 2018 09:00:39 +0000Matt WardProf Peter Stone is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as associate department chair...
He is also the President, COO, and co-founder of Cogitai, a startup company building AIs that learn continually from interaction with the real world - ie brains or continual-learning AI sof tware.

Peter's main research interest is understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents and focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. Prof Stone has worked with modeling/creating robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, autonomic computing and social agents.

In 2007 he received the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, given biannually to the top AI researcher under the age of 35, and in 2016 he was awarded the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award.

 



 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why the general public is confused about artificial intelligence
* What is cutting edge in the space of robotics and AI
* How Peter and his team are perfecting soccer robotically
* The big problem with government action/inaction when it comes to AI
* The different types of AI and machine learning and advantages of each
* How Peter and others think about consciousness with machines
* The problems Peter sees with hype and fear mongering
* The implications to healthcare and quality of life in an society with increased automation
* Peter's recommendations to governments and regulators on AI
* Why Peter believes we are still a long way off from AGI
* Why AI is overhyped and underhyped

Here's the AI 100 Report we discussed







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 ]]>2693agi,ai,artificial,automation,consciousness,economics,government,intelligence,jobs,machine,machinelearning,podcast,politics,research,robot,robotics,science,software,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/22-software-is-eating-the-world-and-ai-is-eating-software-amir-husain--18590672
Since its founding in April 2013, SparkCognition has received widespread recognition, including the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50, being named the fastest-growing company in Central Texas by Austin Business Journal in 2017, and ranking on the CB Insights AI 100 list in both 2017 and 2018.

Husain is a prolific inventor with 27 U.S. patents awarded and over 40 pending applications. His work has been featured in outlets such as Foreign Policy, Fox Business News, and Proceedings from the U.S. Naval Institute. His book “The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence” was published in 2017.

Husain served as a founding member of the Board of Advisors for IBM Watson and serves on the Board of Advisors for The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for a New American Security Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security.

Amir is also the author of The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence which you can get from Amazon here or FREE here from Audible.

"Software is eating the world, and A.I. is eating software"

​



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The nature of intelligence
* Why we need to start having mature discussions around artificial intelligence to avoid disaster
* How Amir and AI researchers think about consciousness and ethics
* What people are not talking about when it comes to AI
* Why Amir is optimistic about the future
* The reason technological progress is inevitable
* How humanity may (or may not) interact and co-exist with AI
* The reason we must try to embed human values into AI/robotics
* How the shift from public to private space companies is transforming industry
* The other political and economic systems which autonomy may necessitate
* How AI and big data have the tendency to accelerate inequality
* Why the term artificial intelligence doesn't really mean anything
* Which industries will most benefit from AI





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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=702Mon, 06 Aug 2018 08:00:16 +0000Matt WardAmir Husain(@amirhusain_tx) is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and author based in Austin, Texas. He was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2018 Award, has been named Austin's Top Technology Entrepreneur of the Year, and...
Since its founding in April 2013, SparkCognition has received widespread recognition, including the 2017 CNBC Disruptor 50, being named the fastest-growing company in Central Texas by Austin Business Journal in 2017, and ranking on the CB Insights AI 100 list in both 2017 and 2018.

Husain is a prolific inventor with 27 U.S. patents awarded and over 40 pending applications. His work has been featured in outlets such as Foreign Policy, Fox Business News, and Proceedings from the U.S. Naval Institute. His book “The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence” was published in 2017.

Husain served as a founding member of the Board of Advisors for IBM Watson and serves on the Board of Advisors for The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Science. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for a New American Security Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and National Security.

Amir is also the author of The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence which you can get from Amazon here or FREE here from Audible.

"Software is eating the world, and A.I. is eating software"

​



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The nature of intelligence
* Why we need to start having mature discussions around artificial intelligence to avoid disaster
* How Amir and AI researchers think about consciousness and ethics
* What people are not talking about when it comes to AI
* Why Amir is optimistic about the future
* The reason technological progress is inevitable
* How humanity may (or may not) interact and co-exist with AI
* The reason we must try to embed human values into AI/robotics
* How the shift from public to private space companies is transforming industry
* The other political and economic systems which autonomy may necessitate
* How AI and big data have the tendency to accelerate inequality
* Why the term artificial intelligence doesn't really mean anything
* Which industries will most benefit from AI





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Donate]]>3422advanced,advancetechnology,ai,artificial,bigdata,consciousness,data,economics,future,government,intelligence,iot,modern,moderntechnology,podcast,policy,robotics,science,tech,technologyfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/21-the-science-of-meditation-and-superhuman-brain-performance-ariel-garten-of-interaxon--18590676
Ariel has researched at the Krembil Neuroscience Institute studying hippocampal neurogenesis, displayed work at the Art Gallery of Ontario, DeLeon White Gallery and opened Toronto Fashion Week. The intersections of these diverse interests have culminated into various lectures with topics such as “The Neuroscience of Aesthetics” and “The Neuroscience of Conflict”, featured on TVO’s Big Ideas.

Referred to as the “Brain Guru”, Garten has also run a successful real estate business, spent time as the designer of a Canadian fashion boutique, and is a practicing psychotherapist.

Garten regularly lectures at MIT, Singularity University and FutureMed. Her lecture on Ted.com has over 400k views and she gave this year’s opening keynote at Le Web (plus numerous times previously), Europe’s biggest tech conference.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The science of meditation and how it affects your brain
* Why Ariel is passionate about neuroscience and its ability to evolve our species
* How IoT and technical enhancements will shape humans of the future
* The mental health problem we're facing and how to overcome it
* Why elite performers tend to be meditators
* The ways to consciously control and hack your brain
* How technological innovation will impact our evolution
* What brain scientists are just starting to understand
* The reason capitalist incentive structures drive many of our most pressing problems
* What is really the future for wearables

Get 15% OFF Muse when you use this link!





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Ariel: I said this is the work of Dr Elizabeth Blackburn. She's a Nobel Prize winning scientist and she actually talks about and this sounds [Inaudible] which is why reference at this is a Nobel Prize winning scientist and this is her Nobel Prize. In that voice and so her work talks about the fact that negative thoughts actually lead to cellular aging. So, when we have a negative perception of the world in a negative sort of viewpoint what ends up happening is we create cellular stress in one of the ways that you measure the cellular stress is the length of your telomeres. So telomeres are kind of like the shoelaces the little plastic knobs on the end of our DNA. They're there to protect the DNA. When your cells are in a state of cellular stress those little telomeres those names decrease in size and see your DNA is much more readily subjective subjected to a damage through reproduction or through general copying. So when we meditate [Inaudible] work shows that meditators actually have increased length of their telomeres so their processes of cellular aging have actually been slowed.

 

 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=522Fri, 03 Aug 2018 08:00:01 +0000Matt WardAriel Garten (@ariel_garten) is the Founder of InteraXon, makers of Muse: the brain sensing headband. Muse is the award-winning headband that makes meditation easier. During guided exercises, Muse senses your brain activity and sends that information...
Ariel has researched at the Krembil Neuroscience Institute studying hippocampal neurogenesis, displayed work at the Art Gallery of Ontario, DeLeon White Gallery and opened Toronto Fashion Week. The intersections of these diverse interests have culminated into various lectures with topics such as “The Neuroscience of Aesthetics” and “The Neuroscience of Conflict”, featured on TVO’s Big Ideas.

Referred to as the “Brain Guru”, Garten has also run a successful real estate business, spent time as the designer of a Canadian fashion boutique, and is a practicing psychotherapist.

Garten regularly lectures at MIT, Singularity University and FutureMed. Her lecture on Ted.com has over 400k views and she gave this year’s opening keynote at Le Web (plus numerous times previously), Europe’s biggest tech conference.





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The science of meditation and how it affects your brain
* Why Ariel is passionate about neuroscience and its ability to evolve our species
* How IoT and technical enhancements will shape humans of the future
* The mental health problem we're facing and how to overcome it
* Why elite performers tend to be meditators
* The ways to consciously control and hack your brain
* How technological innovation will impact our evolution
* What brain scientists are just starting to understand
* The reason capitalist incentive structures drive many of our most pressing problems
* What is really the future for wearables

Get 15% OFF Muse when you use this link!





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Ariel: I said this is the work of Dr Elizabeth Blackburn. She's a Nobel Prize winning scientist and she actually talks about and this sounds [Inaudible] which is why reference at this is a Nobel Prize winning scientist and this is her Nobel Prize. In that voice and so her work talks about the fact that negative thoughts actually lead to cellular aging. So, when we have a negative perception of the world in a negative sort of viewpoint what ends up happening is we create cellular stress in one of the ways that you measure the cellular stress is the length of your telomeres. So telomeres are kind of like the shoelaces the little plastic knobs on the end of our DNA. They're there to protect the DNA. When your cells are in a state of cellular stress those little telomeres those names decrease in size and see your DNA is much more readily subjective subjected to a damage through reproduction or through general copying. So when we meditate [Inaudible] work shows that meditators actually have increased length of their telomeres so their processes of cellular aging have actually been slowed.

 

 ]]>3222falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/20-isaac-arthur-on-colonizing-space-the-fermi-paradox-and-future-of-genetic-engineering--18590675
Isaac's popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans, including his own sub-Reddit. Arthur covers a wide range of futurist and science fiction ideas including cyborgs, androids and artificial intelligence, the Fermi paradox and interstellar warfare, Dyson spheres and megascale engineering, quantum teleportation and faster-than-light travel—typically exploring hypothetical scenarios extending to the distant future.

 



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of interplanetary travel
* What you didn't know about the Fermi paradox
* How humanity will likely evolve as we explore space
* The reason we probably won't terraform planets and where we'll live instead
* Why material science and meta-materials may be the most important technology of this decade
* The effects of genetic engineering on society
* Two paths to free energy for all
* The reason Isaac thinks we are close to a post-scarcity world
* Why Isaac thinks cybernetics/mechanical human enhancement is more likely than gene editing
* How Isaac build the top Science channel on Youtube
* The reason manmade structures are the habitats of the future
* How AI is likely to evolve and play out in society
* Why our education system is failing and how we can fix it





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Isaac: My usual philosophy on the simulation hypothesis is that the question isn't whether or not we live in a simulation but whether or not it matters. Now I tend to think that the rules for simulation will likely be self-consistent you would have physical laws in that simulation that you would expect the simulation to tend to follow because otherwise kind of gives away the game and you know you divorce the rules we observe whether this is the view of us or not we probably should be assuming that me most about how likely life is to evolve, to begin with, and to get to intelligence and technology. Oh, we're just a lot less probable than we think they are and I I don't see us trying to tell from all as much you know forming and people think of it as oh we take this planet make it livable this process that is inherently destructive and I mean seriously. Mountain changing type of procedures that takes centuries to take place whereas while it sounds strange building your own habitats building giant orbital habitats like an O sound or might turn out to be much cheaper than trying to tear form an equal amount of space and then most importantly you've got the entire planet moaning. It's a table form that entire plan to make a livable something like an O sound it's just an island in space you build and expand or add another one as need requires and you can perfectly tail them if you know you can get the same gravity the same weather temperature lighting etc

Matt: If you're a bit of a nerd excited about space explorat...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=494Mon, 30 Jul 2018 08:00:11 +0000Matt WardIsaac Arthur (@isaac_a_arthur) is a physicist and futurist who runs popular YouTube channel Featured Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. Isaac's popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans,...
Isaac's popular channel has over 270k subscribers and 20M+ views and a legion of loyal, insightful fans, including his own sub-Reddit. Arthur covers a wide range of futurist and science fiction ideas including cyborgs, androids and artificial intelligence, the Fermi paradox and interstellar warfare, Dyson spheres and megascale engineering, quantum teleportation and faster-than-light travel—typically exploring hypothetical scenarios extending to the distant future.

 



 



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* What you didn't know about the Fermi paradox
* How humanity will likely evolve as we explore space
* The reason we probably won't terraform planets and where we'll live instead
* Why material science and meta-materials may be the most important technology of this decade
* The effects of genetic engineering on society
* Two paths to free energy for all
* The reason Isaac thinks we are close to a post-scarcity world
* Why Isaac thinks cybernetics/mechanical human enhancement is more likely than gene editing
* How Isaac build the top Science channel on Youtube
* The reason manmade structures are the habitats of the future
* How AI is likely to evolve and play out in society
* Why our education system is failing and how we can fix it





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Isaac: My usual philosophy on the simulation hypothesis is that the question isn't whether or not we live in a simulation but whether or not it matters. Now I tend to think that the rules for simulation will likely be self-consistent you would have physical laws in that simulation that you would expect the simulation to tend to follow because otherwise kind of gives away the game and you know you divorce the rules we observe whether this is the view of us or not we probably should be assuming that me most about how likely life is to evolve, to begin with, and to get to intelligence and technology. Oh, we're just a lot less probable than we think they are and I I don't see us trying to tell from all as much you know forming and people think of it as oh we take this planet make it livable this process that is inherently destructive and I mean seriously. Mountain changing type of procedures that takes centuries to take place whereas while it sounds strange building your own habitats building giant orbital habitats like an O sound or might turn out to be much cheaper than trying to tear form an equal amount of space and then most importantly you've got the entire planet moaning. It's a table form that entire plan to make a livable something like an O sound it's just an island in space you build and expand or add another one as need requires and you can perfectly tail them if you know you can get the same gravity the same weather temperature lighting etc

Matt: If you're a bit of a nerd excited about space explorat...]]>3728falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/19-the-end-of-capitalism-redesign-of-society-and-rise-of-resource-based-economy-roxanne-meadows-of-the-venus-project--18590673
The Venus Project offers society a broader spectrum of choices based on the scientific possibilities directed toward a new era of peace and sustainability for all. Through the global Resourced Based Economy, and many other innovative and environmentally friendly technologies directly applied to the social system, The Venus Project plans to dramatically reduce crime, poverty, hunger, homelessness, and many other pressing problems that are common throughout the world today.

By training Roxanne is a technical illustrator , architect, model creator and scientist. Since 1985 she has worked on models and designs to improve architectural development in the United States, in addition to numerous films and publications.

The Venus Project has been featured in dozens of publications, news outlets and podcasts and Roxanne personally has presented at conferences and seminars in over 25 countries including joint presentation with with Mr Fresco to the United Nations.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How we can transition from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance
* The possibilities of a post-capitalist world
* Why universal basic income is a bandaid rather than a solution to the world's problems
* How and why we need to address climate change
* Why The Venus Project is re-engineering society to suit modern life
* How government perpetuates inequality
* Why Roxanne believes in a Resource Based Economy
* Where we are headed with urban planning and future of cities
* The reason utopia and "too good to be true" are bullshit terms
* How the future looks like in a multi-planetary civilization

 





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Roxanne: Eliminate boundaries and then if people decide to do that, then go into outer space but we have so much to do here first that it's a waste of time and a waste of money at this point in our stage of evolution. I don't know if you've ever heard the saying “We're kind of like cannibals in Cadillacs”. We don't know how to use our technology wisely and it's dangerous ‘cos sure as hell we probably, if we don't already, we'll have nuclear weapons going around in outer space ‘cos we're so infantile.

Matt: What is it about science fiction that so captivates us and makes us consider the future? Is it the fact that so few of us live in the future and are focused on the here and now? It's hard to even imagine how things can change. I don't know but I think today's interview really dives into some of these topics. Today we've got Roxanne Meadows on the program. Roxanne’s a co-founder of ‘The Venus Project’.]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=420Fri, 27 Jul 2018 08:00:28 +0000Matt WardRoxanne Meadows (@roxmeadows) is the co-founder The Venus Project (@thevenusproject), an ambitious project looking to find alternative solutions to the many problems that confront the world today and ultimately build an experimental city to design the...
The Venus Project offers society a broader spectrum of choices based on the scientific possibilities directed toward a new era of peace and sustainability for all. Through the global Resourced Based Economy, and many other innovative and environmentally friendly technologies directly applied to the social system, The Venus Project plans to dramatically reduce crime, poverty, hunger, homelessness, and many other pressing problems that are common throughout the world today.

By training Roxanne is a technical illustrator , architect, model creator and scientist. Since 1985 she has worked on models and designs to improve architectural development in the United States, in addition to numerous films and publications.

The Venus Project has been featured in dozens of publications, news outlets and podcasts and Roxanne personally has presented at conferences and seminars in over 25 countries including joint presentation with with Mr Fresco to the United Nations.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How we can transition from a world of scarcity to a world of abundance
* The possibilities of a post-capitalist world
* Why universal basic income is a bandaid rather than a solution to the world's problems
* How and why we need to address climate change
* Why The Venus Project is re-engineering society to suit modern life
* How government perpetuates inequality
* Why Roxanne believes in a Resource Based Economy
* Where we are headed with urban planning and future of cities
* The reason utopia and "too good to be true" are bullshit terms
* How the future looks like in a multi-planetary civilization

 





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Roxanne: Eliminate boundaries and then if people decide to do that, then go into outer space but we have so much to do here first that it's a waste of time and a waste of money at this point in our stage of evolution. I don't know if you've ever heard the saying “We're kind of like cannibals in Cadillacs”. We don't know how to use our technology wisely and it's dangerous ‘cos sure as hell we probably, if we don't already, we'll have nuclear weapons going around in outer space ‘cos we're so infantile.

Matt: What is it about science fiction that so captivates us and makes us consider the future? Is it the fact that so few of us live in the future and are focused on the here and now? It's hard to even imagine how things can change. I don't know but I think today's interview really dives into some of these topics. Today we've got Roxanne Meadows on the program. Roxanne’s a co-founder of ‘The Venus Project’.]]>2675falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/18-aubrey-de-grey-on-the-end-of-aging-increased-human-longevity-and-living-to-1000-years--18590674
In addition to his research, Aubrey is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007).  De Grey's research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage.

He has been interviewed by most major news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, the BBC, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, The Washington Post, TED, Popular Science, The Colbert Report, Time and the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why Aubrey switched from studying AI to the science of human longevity
* The causes of aging and how we can "cure" them
* Why prevention is orders of magnitude more effective than intervention
* The reason Aubrey believes some humans today will live to be 1000 years old
* Why there isn't enough funding or support currently for fighting aging
* The reason stem cell research is progressing rapidly and proving fruitful
* How caloric restriction effects metabolism and aging
* Why SENS often spins out businesses to further their aims
* The science of immortality
* How mainstream media has reacted to prospect of increasing lifespan





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AUBREY DE GREY:  Well I do think it’s very probable. In fact, I think it’s quite likely that the first person to live to a thousand is already in their forties or fifties—or, and perhaps even older.  So the question is, “Why do I think that?” And a lot of people misunderstand this. Some people think that the reason I’m saying this is because I think that we are within a small number of decades of developing therapies that completely, one hundred percent eliminate aging by repairing every single aspect of the damage that the body accumulates as  a side effect of its normal operation. I don’t say that at all. I never have, and I never shall.

 

MATT:  Survival of the fittest—Darwin realized evolution is merely the process of survival.  Nothing has been more driving a force as survival. Nothing wants to die. I don’t want to die.  You don’t want to die—even if you’ve accepted death. When there’s a way around it, we would give anything.  Today we’ve got Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey’s the Cambridge researcher and chief science officer of th...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=299Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:00:32 +0000Matt WardAubrey de Grey (@aubreydegrey) is Cambridge researcher and Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation focused on aging and extending human longevity. He proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been...
In addition to his research, Aubrey is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007).  De Grey's research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage.

He has been interviewed by most major news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, the BBC, The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, The Washington Post, TED, Popular Science, The Colbert Report, Time and the Skeptics' Guide to the Universe.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why Aubrey switched from studying AI to the science of human longevity
* The causes of aging and how we can "cure" them
* Why prevention is orders of magnitude more effective than intervention
* The reason Aubrey believes some humans today will live to be 1000 years old
* Why there isn't enough funding or support currently for fighting aging
* The reason stem cell research is progressing rapidly and proving fruitful
* How caloric restriction effects metabolism and aging
* Why SENS often spins out businesses to further their aims
* The science of immortality
* How mainstream media has reacted to prospect of increasing lifespan





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AUBREY DE GREY:  Well I do think it’s very probable. In fact, I think it’s quite likely that the first person to live to a thousand is already in their forties or fifties—or, and perhaps even older.  So the question is, “Why do I think that?” And a lot of people misunderstand this. Some people think that the reason I’m saying this is because I think that we are within a small number of decades of developing therapies that completely, one hundred percent eliminate aging by repairing every single aspect of the damage that the body accumulates as  a side effect of its normal operation. I don’t say that at all. I never have, and I never shall.

 

MATT:  Survival of the fittest—Darwin realized evolution is merely the process of survival.  Nothing has been more driving a force as survival. Nothing wants to die. I don’t want to die.  You don’t want to die—even if you’ve accepted death. When there’s a way around it, we would give anything.  Today we’ve got Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey’s the Cambridge researcher and chief science officer of th...]]>2525falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/17-ai-education-and-role-of-women-in-tech-and-venture-ann-miura-ko-general-partner-at-floodgate--18590677
Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Refinery29, JoyRun, TaskRabbit, and Modcloth. Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists.

 





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How the space race and a NASA dad lead Ann to venture capital
* How the venture ecosystem has evolved, especially for women, since 2001
* The importance of living through and experiencing an economic downturn
* What Ann believes needs to be changed about our education system to adapt to the coming changes
* How AI will impact the job market/economy and why Ann is fundamentally optimism
* Why we need more women and diversity in tech
* How Ann sees developments in blockchain and cryptocurrency affect our society
* Why Ann passed on investing in Airbnb
* The little known truth about startup success

 





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Ann: So, let's take a company like AirBnb when we saw it. It was called Air Bed and Breakfast. They had sold you know tens of thousands of dollars worth of cereal boxes McCain scrunchies and Obama owes to finance their business. They had sold only a small number of air bed space but could show that that was working to some extent but the business was selling air bed space not even a room not a couch and not definitely not a house and especially crowded locations where hotels had sold out. And so it's a very different business from what you see today. And you have to make that dotted line from what do I see today. What's different about this and where will it go. And sometimes you're wildly wrong on where will it go. But you're trying to figure out how this entrepreneur takes this idea there. Can she make it a reality? And what I found was that every time we bad on founders where we say absolutely they can make that a reality it doesn't matter if we were wrong on our hypothesis of where it would go. They would make something interesting happen.

 

Matt: As a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. I'm of the belief that startups and early-stage companies change and define the world. I've seen a world and I believe many of us have corporations and governments have failed to innovate and change things that truly need changing and oftentimes it is a startup or a business incumbent that comes in and creates meaning lasting change in the world. The examples are numerous but I think monetary incentives can be the driving force often to create a better world.

Today we've got someone that I and many look up to Ann Miura-ko who has been called the most powerful women in startups by Forbes and is also a lecturer in entrepr...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=448Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:00:24 +0000Matt WardAnn Miura-Ko (@annimaniac) has been called “the most powerful woman in startups” by Forbes and is a lecturer in entrepreneurship at Stanford. The child of a rocket scientist at NASA, Ann is a Palo Alto native and has been steeped in technology...
Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Refinery29, JoyRun, TaskRabbit, and Modcloth. Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists.

 





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How the space race and a NASA dad lead Ann to venture capital
* How the venture ecosystem has evolved, especially for women, since 2001
* The importance of living through and experiencing an economic downturn
* What Ann believes needs to be changed about our education system to adapt to the coming changes
* How AI will impact the job market/economy and why Ann is fundamentally optimism
* Why we need more women and diversity in tech
* How Ann sees developments in blockchain and cryptocurrency affect our society
* Why Ann passed on investing in Airbnb
* The little known truth about startup success

 





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Ann: So, let's take a company like AirBnb when we saw it. It was called Air Bed and Breakfast. They had sold you know tens of thousands of dollars worth of cereal boxes McCain scrunchies and Obama owes to finance their business. They had sold only a small number of air bed space but could show that that was working to some extent but the business was selling air bed space not even a room not a couch and not definitely not a house and especially crowded locations where hotels had sold out. And so it's a very different business from what you see today. And you have to make that dotted line from what do I see today. What's different about this and where will it go. And sometimes you're wildly wrong on where will it go. But you're trying to figure out how this entrepreneur takes this idea there. Can she make it a reality? And what I found was that every time we bad on founders where we say absolutely they can make that a reality it doesn't matter if we were wrong on our hypothesis of where it would go. They would make something interesting happen.

 

Matt: As a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. I'm of the belief that startups and early-stage companies change and define the world. I've seen a world and I believe many of us have corporations and governments have failed to innovate and change things that truly need changing and oftentimes it is a startup or a business incumbent that comes in and creates meaning lasting change in the world. The examples are numerous but I think monetary incentives can be the driving force often to create a better world.

Today we've got someone that I and many look up to Ann Miura-ko who has been called the most powerful women in startups by Forbes and is also a lecturer in entrepr...]]>3125falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/16-launching-a-space-hotel-200-miles-above-earth-at-792-000-per-night-frank-bunger-of-orion-span--18590678
Outside of Orion Span, Frank has extensive experience building early stage companies, having gone from zero to eight digit revenue in a previous venture. Frank has a multi-disciplinary background across several industries, including software, hardware, and manufacturing. Most recently, he was Vice President at UpGuard, a firm focused on software automation, where his division performed in the top 3% of SaaS groups - worldwide - by sales and retention.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of interstellar space travel
* Why now is the time for space tech startups
* How Frank's company plans to put a profitable hotel in orbit
* The big problem with putting people into space
* Why we're still a few years off from a moon or Mars colony
* The importance of sci-fi in technology and invention
* How the shift from public to private space companies is transforming industry
* The effects of ownership and asteroid mining in space
* Frank's thoughts on the evolution and transformation of humans in space
* The reason Frank views space exploration as merely amplified globalization
* The awesome effects of space technology on the rest of the economy
* What life is like is 200 miles above earth





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=469Mon, 16 Jul 2018 08:00:57 +0000Matt WardFrank Bunger (@frankbunger) is a veteran technology executive, serial entrepreneur and Founder/CEO at Orion Span - the company that's building a space hotel (second space station) and looking bring down the cost of visiting and living in space by...
Outside of Orion Span, Frank has extensive experience building early stage companies, having gone from zero to eight digit revenue in a previous venture. Frank has a multi-disciplinary background across several industries, including software, hardware, and manufacturing. Most recently, he was Vice President at UpGuard, a firm focused on software automation, where his division performed in the top 3% of SaaS groups - worldwide - by sales and retention.

​



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of interstellar space travel
* Why now is the time for space tech startups
* How Frank's company plans to put a profitable hotel in orbit
* The big problem with putting people into space
* Why we're still a few years off from a moon or Mars colony
* The importance of sci-fi in technology and invention
* How the shift from public to private space companies is transforming industry
* The effects of ownership and asteroid mining in space
* Frank's thoughts on the evolution and transformation of humans in space
* The reason Frank views space exploration as merely amplified globalization
* The awesome effects of space technology on the rest of the economy
* What life is like is 200 miles above earth





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 ]]>3082falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/15-nature-of-consciousness-power-of-psychedelics-and-future-of-humanity-mike-gilliland-and-euvie-ivanoka-of-the-future-thinkers-podcast--18590680
A self-described “consciousness explorer”, “artist” and “digital nomad”, Euvie is on a mission to investigate technology, society and consciousness in ways that promote successful adaption to the future.

“We want to be active participants in building the kind of future where all of us get to work less, learn more, play more, explore more, express ourselves more…in a way that is sustainable for the rest of humanity and our planet” - Euvie Ivanova



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The nature of consciousness and how Mike and Euvie explore it
* The role of psychedelics and self-actualization
* Why the world operates in quantum confusion
* How to increase your level of sovereignty (control) in your life
* Why Euvie and Mike got excited about Bitcoin and blockchain
* How traveling affects and changes you
* Why Mike is optimistic and realist about the future
* Where we are headed with AI and automation
* The complexities of the universe and understanding or accepting them
* What leading experts believe when it comes to the future





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Most of the the kind of Eastern religions are going to say that you know,  once you do some investigation, you discover, you are God you are the the connected consciousness to every living being in every inanimate object in the universe.

 

Matt: Warning, if you're afraid of going deep on controversial fringe topics and potentially exploring the nature of reality in today's episode we'll throw you in a twist today. We've got Euvie Ivanova and Mike Gillian on the program host of the future thinkers podcast a show on the evolution of technology society and consciousness they've co-founded positive digital innovation hub and startup incubator for technologies like blockchain, VR. May I and also run a cutting machinery a blog and app focused on meditation and consciousness the two are also very bullish on crypto and blockchain running the crypto radio show and [Inaudible] I find these two to be very interesting futurists and explorers of the human experience.

 

And I'm very excited to have both on the program. I want to tell you right now things get a little bit trippy. We get deep into the weeds of what it means to be human alive and conscious you had your warning today we discuss the nature of consciousness and how Mike can you V explore it the role of psychedelics and self-actualization why the world operates potentially in a quantum confusion about how to create your own level of sovereignty and control in your life Euvie and Mike get excited about Bitcoin and blockchain how travel transforms. You as a person and society one likes optimistic and realistic about the future where ...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=424Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:00:25 +0000Matt WardEuvie Ivanova (@euvieivanova) and Mike Gilliland (@mikegilliland) are the hosts of the Future Thinkers Podcast, a show about the evolution of technology, society, and consciousness. They also run CryptoRadio.io, a podcast on bitcoin, blockchain and...
A self-described “consciousness explorer”, “artist” and “digital nomad”, Euvie is on a mission to investigate technology, society and consciousness in ways that promote successful adaption to the future.

“We want to be active participants in building the kind of future where all of us get to work less, learn more, play more, explore more, express ourselves more…in a way that is sustainable for the rest of humanity and our planet” - Euvie Ivanova



 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The nature of consciousness and how Mike and Euvie explore it
* The role of psychedelics and self-actualization
* Why the world operates in quantum confusion
* How to increase your level of sovereignty (control) in your life
* Why Euvie and Mike got excited about Bitcoin and blockchain
* How traveling affects and changes you
* Why Mike is optimistic and realist about the future
* Where we are headed with AI and automation
* The complexities of the universe and understanding or accepting them
* What leading experts believe when it comes to the future





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Most of the the kind of Eastern religions are going to say that you know,  once you do some investigation, you discover, you are God you are the the connected consciousness to every living being in every inanimate object in the universe.

 

Matt: Warning, if you're afraid of going deep on controversial fringe topics and potentially exploring the nature of reality in today's episode we'll throw you in a twist today. We've got Euvie Ivanova and Mike Gillian on the program host of the future thinkers podcast a show on the evolution of technology society and consciousness they've co-founded positive digital innovation hub and startup incubator for technologies like blockchain, VR. May I and also run a cutting machinery a blog and app focused on meditation and consciousness the two are also very bullish on crypto and blockchain running the crypto radio show and [Inaudible] I find these two to be very interesting futurists and explorers of the human experience.

 

And I'm very excited to have both on the program. I want to tell you right now things get a little bit trippy. We get deep into the weeds of what it means to be human alive and conscious you had your warning today we discuss the nature of consciousness and how Mike can you V explore it the role of psychedelics and self-actualization why the world operates potentially in a quantum confusion about how to create your own level of sovereignty and control in your life Euvie and Mike get excited about Bitcoin and blockchain how travel transforms. You as a person and society one likes optimistic and realistic about the future where ...]]>3079falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/14-inside-the-mind-of-a-human-artificial-intelligence-professor-robin-hanson--18590679
Robin is also the author of The Elephant in the Brain - Hidden Motives in Everyday Life and co-authored The Age of Em - Work, Love and Life when Robots Own the World.

Hanson is credited with originating the concept of the Policy Analysis Market, a DARPA project to implement a market for betting on future developments in the Middle East. Hanson also created and supports a proposed system of government called futarchy, where policies would be determined by prediction markets.

Hanson is a man willing to challenge conventional wisdom/norms and has lately drawn criticism for his unconventional economics positions on sex, gender dynamics and problems with today's society.

 





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reasons our culture values and norms are quickly changing
* Why physics forced Robins to become an atheist
* How Robin sees artificial intelligence progressing
* The power of prediction markets and why we haven't seen more uptick
* Why brain emulation may be the most likely future scenario
* The reason Robin prefers to be more like a historian than a futurist
* Why we'll never answer the hard problem of consciousness
* Why economics is a great way to forecast the future
* The problem with academia and education
* Why Robin isn't worried about breakout AI
* Why Robin is sceptical of blockchains
* The reason Robin signed up for cryonics
* What folks should know about AI boom and bust cycles





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So, brain emulation is the scenario where we report the software that's in the human brain now. So today if you have an old computer running software that you like and you want that same kind of software running on a new computer one approaches to stare at the software or try to guess how it works and then write software on the new computer that works how you think it works on the old computer. But another approach is to write an emulator on the new computer that just makes the new computer look like the old computer to this offer if you can write an emulator you can just move this offer over and it works. You don't have to understand it you don't have to rewrite it. Big savings that offer as complicated and messy. So the idea is to do that for the human brain to make an emulator for the software in the human brain.

 

AI automation robotics it seems as if every startup and large business today is looking at AI  and the implications of automating both jobs and tasks to lead to greater efficiency and output.]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=328Mon, 09 Jul 2018 08:00:17 +0000Matt WardRobin Hanson (@robinhanson)is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University with a doctorate in social science from CalTech, master's degrees in physics and...
Robin is also the author of The Elephant in the Brain - Hidden Motives in Everyday Life and co-authored The Age of Em - Work, Love and Life when Robots Own the World.

Hanson is credited with originating the concept of the Policy Analysis Market, a DARPA project to implement a market for betting on future developments in the Middle East. Hanson also created and supports a proposed system of government called futarchy, where policies would be determined by prediction markets.

Hanson is a man willing to challenge conventional wisdom/norms and has lately drawn criticism for his unconventional economics positions on sex, gender dynamics and problems with today's society.

 





You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reasons our culture values and norms are quickly changing
* Why physics forced Robins to become an atheist
* How Robin sees artificial intelligence progressing
* The power of prediction markets and why we haven't seen more uptick
* Why brain emulation may be the most likely future scenario
* The reason Robin prefers to be more like a historian than a futurist
* Why we'll never answer the hard problem of consciousness
* Why economics is a great way to forecast the future
* The problem with academia and education
* Why Robin isn't worried about breakout AI
* Why Robin is sceptical of blockchains
* The reason Robin signed up for cryonics
* What folks should know about AI boom and bust cycles





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So, brain emulation is the scenario where we report the software that's in the human brain now. So today if you have an old computer running software that you like and you want that same kind of software running on a new computer one approaches to stare at the software or try to guess how it works and then write software on the new computer that works how you think it works on the old computer. But another approach is to write an emulator on the new computer that just makes the new computer look like the old computer to this offer if you can write an emulator you can just move this offer over and it works. You don't have to understand it you don't have to rewrite it. Big savings that offer as complicated and messy. So the idea is to do that for the human brain to make an emulator for the software in the human brain.

 

AI automation robotics it seems as if every startup and large business today is looking at AI  and the implications of automating both jobs and tasks to lead to greater efficiency and output.]]>3282falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/13-defying-death-living-forever-and-coming-back-to-life-dennis-kowalski-of-cryonics-institute--18590681
In addition to his role at CI, Dennis is a firefighter, a nationally registered EMT (emergency medical technician) and previous boxing champion and special forces officer.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How science is constantly catching up to the wonders of nature
* The life extension possibilities of cryonics
* Why cryonics isn't as crazy as you think and might just be a really smart bet
* The different ways science could possibly bring people back from the dead
* Why we are still a ways off from uploading our consciousness the cloud
* The increasingly exciting opportunities of exponential technology
* How sci-fi sometimes suggests the future
* Why predicting the future is hard to be exact
* The role cryogenics plays in potential space travel

 





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Dennis: There's a saying in Cryonics’ the second worst thing that can possibly happen to you is to be dead and frozen right? Because that means you had to be dead first, on the other hand the worst thing would be to be dead not frozen, so yeah if I could be had my life extended and not have to be cryogenically suspended that would be great. But it just doesn't exist and what does exist is the vehicle to possibly get me to the future.

 

Matt: As a species we've always sought to overcome death, whether religion in heaven or the Fountain of Youth. Humans like to live and want to live as long as possible. Today we're diving into an incredibly interesting and controversial subject cryonics. Cryonics first came on my scene, we've all heard the stories Walt Disney being frozen on ice living forever. It all seemed a little bit crazy, I was listening to Wait but Why. The Tim Urban blog where he dives into very interesting topics and tries to explore them and break them down for average individuals. He’s exploring cryonics and the ultimate conclusion he came to is that cryonics is the process of pausing people in critical condition and can't accept the concept of death in the hopes that people from the future will be able to save them. And the community of hardcore cryonics people might also be a Scientology like cult. Don't take this episode as an endorsement of cryonics. This is merely an endorsement of the interest I have and others should have in the future potentials and possibilities and the ability to create technology that seems seemingly impossible.]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=191Fri, 06 Jul 2018 08:00:59 +0000Matt WardDennis Kowalski (@CiCryonics) is the director of the US-based Cryonics Institute (CI), a non-profit founded in 1976 by Robert Ettinger, "The Father of Cryonics." CI's goal from the beginning has been to offer the best available cryonics services to...
In addition to his role at CI, Dennis is a firefighter, a nationally registered EMT (emergency medical technician) and previous boxing champion and special forces officer.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How science is constantly catching up to the wonders of nature
* The life extension possibilities of cryonics
* Why cryonics isn't as crazy as you think and might just be a really smart bet
* The different ways science could possibly bring people back from the dead
* Why we are still a ways off from uploading our consciousness the cloud
* The increasingly exciting opportunities of exponential technology
* How sci-fi sometimes suggests the future
* Why predicting the future is hard to be exact
* The role cryogenics plays in potential space travel

 





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Dennis: There's a saying in Cryonics’ the second worst thing that can possibly happen to you is to be dead and frozen right? Because that means you had to be dead first, on the other hand the worst thing would be to be dead not frozen, so yeah if I could be had my life extended and not have to be cryogenically suspended that would be great. But it just doesn't exist and what does exist is the vehicle to possibly get me to the future.

 

Matt: As a species we've always sought to overcome death, whether religion in heaven or the Fountain of Youth. Humans like to live and want to live as long as possible. Today we're diving into an incredibly interesting and controversial subject cryonics. Cryonics first came on my scene, we've all heard the stories Walt Disney being frozen on ice living forever. It all seemed a little bit crazy, I was listening to Wait but Why. The Tim Urban blog where he dives into very interesting topics and tries to explore them and break them down for average individuals. He’s exploring cryonics and the ultimate conclusion he came to is that cryonics is the process of pausing people in critical condition and can't accept the concept of death in the hopes that people from the future will be able to save them. And the community of hardcore cryonics people might also be a Scientology like cult. Don't take this episode as an endorsement of cryonics. This is merely an endorsement of the interest I have and others should have in the future potentials and possibilities and the ability to create technology that seems seemingly impossible.]]>2624falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/12-why-ar-vr-and-voice-are-overrated-and-how-human-centric-design-impacts-the-interfaces-and-technologies-of-the-future-prof-roel-verteg--18590683
“In the near future, a computer will have any shape or form, and flexible computer displays will start appearing on any product of any form. These Organic User Interfaces will be completely embedded in real world interactions.”

 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of computing interfaces and why it is not what you think
* What is on the near-term horizon in terms of holograms
* How technology transforms society and cultural norms
* The big problem with conflicting interests creating filter bubbles, fake news and overly aggressive Facebook
* Why AR and VR are overhyped and ultimately not the answer
* The problems with voice and Alexa-like products for functionality
* How communication can break down or be enhanced online
* The problems Roel sees in today's world and what causes them
* Roel passion for quantum computing and potential implications
* The reason Roel is very worried about climate change
* Why Roel believes startups and tech companies should have higher moral character
* The awesome effects of flexible computers, phones and interfaces
* Why the lab is always 10-15 years ahead of commercial companies





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Roel:  I think that what we're like today society is kind of characterized by problems which are a digital domain. I think the Internet has done certain things to communication that are not desirable and twenty years ago I started working on something called an attentive user interface which is now in the iPhone 10. This idea that you can't consume the user's attention forever and think that there's no consequence. You need a filter. You need to filter messages coming in who who get a notification from who do not get a notification from [Inaudible] things like like [Inaudible]

 

Right! And so I think the problem. The real problem with the Internet is that it doesn't have filters anymore. So I perceive future we just had a stack of digital paper it's like it's in a paper and you can have as many as you want twenty twenty documents or something like that and you can either use them to render one key document or you have different apps on them. They're interoperable they work together as if they were windows on a computer.

 

The only reason we have windows on the computer by the way is because you only have one display so we have to carve out these tasks these task areas arti...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=397Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:00:55 +0000Matt WardRoel Vertegaal (@roelvertegaal) is a Dutch-Canadian interaction designer, scientist, musician and entrepreneur working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. He is a Professor at Queen's University's School of Computing where he directs the Human...
“In the near future, a computer will have any shape or form, and flexible computer displays will start appearing on any product of any form. These Organic User Interfaces will be completely embedded in real world interactions.”

 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of computing interfaces and why it is not what you think
* What is on the near-term horizon in terms of holograms
* How technology transforms society and cultural norms
* The big problem with conflicting interests creating filter bubbles, fake news and overly aggressive Facebook
* Why AR and VR are overhyped and ultimately not the answer
* The problems with voice and Alexa-like products for functionality
* How communication can break down or be enhanced online
* The problems Roel sees in today's world and what causes them
* Roel passion for quantum computing and potential implications
* The reason Roel is very worried about climate change
* Why Roel believes startups and tech companies should have higher moral character
* The awesome effects of flexible computers, phones and interfaces
* Why the lab is always 10-15 years ahead of commercial companies





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Roel:  I think that what we're like today society is kind of characterized by problems which are a digital domain. I think the Internet has done certain things to communication that are not desirable and twenty years ago I started working on something called an attentive user interface which is now in the iPhone 10. This idea that you can't consume the user's attention forever and think that there's no consequence. You need a filter. You need to filter messages coming in who who get a notification from who do not get a notification from [Inaudible] things like like [Inaudible]

 

Right! And so I think the problem. The real problem with the Internet is that it doesn't have filters anymore. So I perceive future we just had a stack of digital paper it's like it's in a paper and you can have as many as you want twenty twenty documents or something like that and you can either use them to render one key document or you have different apps on them. They're interoperable they work together as if they were windows on a computer.

 

The only reason we have windows on the computer by the way is because you only have one display so we have to carve out these tasks these task areas arti...]]>3558falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/11-building-crystal-ball-of-the-world-unseating-capitalism-and-creating-a-new-world-order-prof-dirk-helbing--18590684
The core of the system is the Living Earth Simulator, a computing machine attempting "to model global-scale systems — economies, governments, cultural trends, epidemics, agriculture, technological developments, and more — using torrential data streams, sophisticated algorithms, and as much hardware as it takes". The project currently competing for funding from the European Commission of € 1 billion.

He is known for the social force model, in particular its application to self-organising phenomena in pedestrian crowds. Besides the slower-is-faster effect, he introduced the freezing-by-heating effect and the phase diagram of congested traffic states. Helbing also proposed a microscopic foundation of evolutionary game theory and has studied self-organized behavioral conventions. Recent work applies principles of collective intelligence and self-organized control to the optimization of urban and freeway traffic. His current research activities focus on norms and conflict, the role of success-driven motion for the establishment of cooperation among selfish individuals, the science of science, socio-inspired technology and techno-social systems, disaster spreading and crisis management.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How science fiction impacts our worldview
* The problem with today's economic model and what we need to fix to find success
* Why blockchain is incredibly interesting and has potential to transform society
* How artificial intelligence and human creativity can co-exist and thrive
* Why we need better governance and incentive systems to sustainably survive the coming years
* The problem with connectivity and monitoring
* Why Dirk's team is focused on building a universal human brain
* The pros and cons of capitalism, socialism and something else entirely
* How regulations help and hinder progress
* What a new world order could look like and how to get there
* The impact of IoT and sensing on striving for a better future





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=139Fri, 29 Jun 2018 08:00:48 +0000Matt WardProf. Dirk Helbing (@dirkhelbing) is Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, in ETH Zurich, and the Scientific Coordinator of the FuturICT Flagship Proposal. He is also the Principal Investigator on FutureICT Knowledge...
The core of the system is the Living Earth Simulator, a computing machine attempting "to model global-scale systems — economies, governments, cultural trends, epidemics, agriculture, technological developments, and more — using torrential data streams, sophisticated algorithms, and as much hardware as it takes". The project currently competing for funding from the European Commission of € 1 billion.

He is known for the social force model, in particular its application to self-organising phenomena in pedestrian crowds. Besides the slower-is-faster effect, he introduced the freezing-by-heating effect and the phase diagram of congested traffic states. Helbing also proposed a microscopic foundation of evolutionary game theory and has studied self-organized behavioral conventions. Recent work applies principles of collective intelligence and self-organized control to the optimization of urban and freeway traffic. His current research activities focus on norms and conflict, the role of success-driven motion for the establishment of cooperation among selfish individuals, the science of science, socio-inspired technology and techno-social systems, disaster spreading and crisis management.





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How science fiction impacts our worldview
* The problem with today's economic model and what we need to fix to find success
* Why blockchain is incredibly interesting and has potential to transform society
* How artificial intelligence and human creativity can co-exist and thrive
* Why we need better governance and incentive systems to sustainably survive the coming years
* The problem with connectivity and monitoring
* Why Dirk's team is focused on building a universal human brain
* The pros and cons of capitalism, socialism and something else entirely
* How regulations help and hinder progress
* What a new world order could look like and how to get there
* The impact of IoT and sensing on striving for a better future





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 ]]>3468falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/10-superhuman-mental-and-physical-performance-quantified-self-and-extending-human-longevity-geoff-woo-of-hvmn--18590685
In early 2016, Geoffrey started experimenting with intermittent fasting to activate metabolic pathways associated with longevity and cognitive function. To make the science and physiology behind the benefits of fasting more accessible, Geoffrey started WeFast, one of the largest online intermittent fasting communities, and became a widely cited spokesperson for intermittent fasting in the media.

Geoffrey is a serial entrepreneur. He previously was CEO and co-founder of Glassmap Inc., a software technology company backed by YCombinator, a top venture capital group, and acquired by Groupon ($GRPN).



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How diet impacts mental and physical performance
* The blood boy billionaires and methods of extending human life
* Why fasting and intermittent fasting are fast becoming the rage in Silicon Valley
* The ways top performers are enhancing themselves without resorting to harmful drugs
* Why we may be headed towards different species of humans
* The DARPA/US military science on superhuman performance
* How health, happiness and sleep affect human performance and success
* Why science often takes a long time to catch up to practice
* The reason the healthcare system is so screwed up
* Where we are headed with quantified-self movement
* Why Geoff is very excited about IoT and it's self-enhancement abilities

BTW HVMN is on Amazon!





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Geoff:  So, one of the most interesting technologies that we're working with today came from a 2003 DARPA program called Metabolic Dominance and a mandate for that program was to make sure that U.S. warfighters were the most metabolically efficient on the battlefield and that pathway that started problem was looking at a number of pathways, one of the most promising pathways was looking at [Inaudible] beta-hydroxybutyrate as a more efficient metabolic fuel for our brain and bodies.

 

Matt: Billions of dollars have been made on optimization software and education. And yet it's interesting that the operating system of all of us our bodies our nutrition is not something that typically sees the light of day at least not from a tech side of things. Today we're changing that. Today we're going superhuman so to speak and looking into the aspects of mental and physical enhancement where we can all get an edge and be the best of ourselves. Today we had Geoff Woo on the program. Geoff the co-founder and CEO of a human research-driven company that provides nutrition to elite performers in the sport and military aren...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=403Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:04:01 +0000Matt WardGeoffrey Woo (@geoffreywoo) is co-founder and CEO of HVMN, a research-driven company that provides nutrition to elite performers in sport and military. HVMN makes HVMN Ketone, the world's first ketone ester drink based on technology developed in a...
In early 2016, Geoffrey started experimenting with intermittent fasting to activate metabolic pathways associated with longevity and cognitive function. To make the science and physiology behind the benefits of fasting more accessible, Geoffrey started WeFast, one of the largest online intermittent fasting communities, and became a widely cited spokesperson for intermittent fasting in the media.

Geoffrey is a serial entrepreneur. He previously was CEO and co-founder of Glassmap Inc., a software technology company backed by YCombinator, a top venture capital group, and acquired by Groupon ($GRPN).



 



You can listen right here on iTunes

In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How diet impacts mental and physical performance
* The blood boy billionaires and methods of extending human life
* Why fasting and intermittent fasting are fast becoming the rage in Silicon Valley
* The ways top performers are enhancing themselves without resorting to harmful drugs
* Why we may be headed towards different species of humans
* The DARPA/US military science on superhuman performance
* How health, happiness and sleep affect human performance and success
* Why science often takes a long time to catch up to practice
* The reason the healthcare system is so screwed up
* Where we are headed with quantified-self movement
* Why Geoff is very excited about IoT and it's self-enhancement abilities

BTW HVMN is on Amazon!





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Geoff:  So, one of the most interesting technologies that we're working with today came from a 2003 DARPA program called Metabolic Dominance and a mandate for that program was to make sure that U.S. warfighters were the most metabolically efficient on the battlefield and that pathway that started problem was looking at a number of pathways, one of the most promising pathways was looking at [Inaudible] beta-hydroxybutyrate as a more efficient metabolic fuel for our brain and bodies.

 

Matt: Billions of dollars have been made on optimization software and education. And yet it's interesting that the operating system of all of us our bodies our nutrition is not something that typically sees the light of day at least not from a tech side of things. Today we're changing that. Today we're going superhuman so to speak and looking into the aspects of mental and physical enhancement where we can all get an edge and be the best of ourselves. Today we had Geoff Woo on the program. Geoff the co-founder and CEO of a human research-driven company that provides nutrition to elite performers in the sport and military aren...]]>3006falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/9-the-rise-of-mega-cities-fall-of-governments-and-future-of-asia-influence-parag-khanna--18590688
Parag has (co)authored several books, including:

* Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
* Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012)
*  How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011)
* The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008)

In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why Asia is where the 21st century will unfold
* How economic forces are driving apparently separatist movements
* The de-volution of nation-states and the rise of Mega-Cities
* Why borders are becoming increasingly less relevant
* How Parag sees blockchain technology impacting politics
* Why local democracies are the most effective governing systems to date
* How cities are starting to challenge the power of governments
* Why and how regulation will shape the geo-politics of the future
* How Asia impacts China more than you know





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=120Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:00:20 +0000Matt WardParag Khanna (@paragkhanna) is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the...
Parag has (co)authored several books, including:

* Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
* Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012)
*  How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011)
* The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008)

In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why Asia is where the 21st century will unfold
* How economic forces are driving apparently separatist movements
* The de-volution of nation-states and the rise of Mega-Cities
* Why borders are becoming increasingly less relevant
* How Parag sees blockchain technology impacting politics
* Why local democracies are the most effective governing systems to date
* How cities are starting to challenge the power of governments
* Why and how regulation will shape the geo-politics of the future
* How Asia impacts China more than you know





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 ]]>2246falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/8-why-donald-trump-is-last-gasp-of-fossil-fuel-driven-capitalism-and-how-local-communities-reshape-world-rob-hopkins-of-transition-networ--18590687
Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. He has been awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’.

He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, in addition to speaking at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.




 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How local communities are reshaping the world and economy
* The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change
* What happens when communities create their own currencies
* How and why we need to address climate change
* Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism
* How the governments of the future are evolving today
* Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges
* Where we are headed with urban farming
* Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems





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Rob:  Donald Trump has been the last gasp of patriarchal fossil fuel driven Emperor's New Clothes capitalism or do we look at Donald Trump as being the beginning of the beginning is the end I don't know I always said to be a really optimistic person and and I used to do a lot of work with people on building projects and working in woods and stuff and I remember a friend of mine saying that when you're working with a chainsaw and you're cutting trees that it's the moment that when you're working with a chainsaw and it runs out of petrol just before it runs out of petrol it has a final big rev there you have this bigger room this big surge of energy before it runs out of energy and I like to imagine Donald Trump as being that or as a journalist here said the comedian I think of I said Donald Trump is like thee he's like the noise that the dinosaurs made when they saw the meteorite that the meteor falling towards the asteroid falling towards there Oh

 

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Matt: I've always been incredibly passionate about climate change but not really sure how to help today we've got an incredible expert on Rob Hopkins he's the founder of transition Network an organization that's focused on transforming th...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=113Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:00:55 +0000Matt WardRob Hopkins (@robintransition) is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network - a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at...
Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. He has been awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’.

He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, in addition to speaking at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.




 



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* The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change
* What happens when communities create their own currencies
* How and why we need to address climate change
* Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism
* How the governments of the future are evolving today
* Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges
* Where we are headed with urban farming
* Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems





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Rob:  Donald Trump has been the last gasp of patriarchal fossil fuel driven Emperor's New Clothes capitalism or do we look at Donald Trump as being the beginning of the beginning is the end I don't know I always said to be a really optimistic person and and I used to do a lot of work with people on building projects and working in woods and stuff and I remember a friend of mine saying that when you're working with a chainsaw and you're cutting trees that it's the moment that when you're working with a chainsaw and it runs out of petrol just before it runs out of petrol it has a final big rev there you have this bigger room this big surge of energy before it runs out of energy and I like to imagine Donald Trump as being that or as a journalist here said the comedian I think of I said Donald Trump is like thee he's like the noise that the dinosaurs made when they saw the meteorite that the meteor falling towards the asteroid falling towards there Oh

 

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Matt: I've always been incredibly passionate about climate change but not really sure how to help today we've got an incredible expert on Rob Hopkins he's the founder of transition Network an organization that's focused on transforming th...]]>2851falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/7-satellites-creating-renaissance-of-space-tech-startups-and-combatting-climate-change-yotam-ariel-of-bluefield--18590686
Bluefield lies up nicely with Yotam's previous startup Bennu Solar which mass produces affordable solar products for third world countries. Yotam likes the Morning Climate newsletter, for anyone interested.

 



 



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* The space tech convergence of small scale satellites
* Why methane is the new carbon dioxide
* The reason Yotam doesn't look up to Elon Musk and Richard Branson
* Why we are still a ways off from living in space
* The 80/20 way to think about climate change
* How complexity becomes commodity and creates innovation
* Why Yotam spent 12 years in China and what he learned
* The reason today's entrepreneurs focus on profitable purpose
* How to start a space tech startup today - and how much it costs





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=108Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:00:09 +0000Matt WardYotam Ariel (@yotamariel) is the Founder and CEO of Bluefield, a satellite change detection startup that was recent winner of Top 20 NewSpace Awards alongside SpaceX, Virgin Orbit and other innovative space startups. Bluefield use proprietary methane...
Bluefield lies up nicely with Yotam's previous startup Bennu Solar which mass produces affordable solar products for third world countries. Yotam likes the Morning Climate newsletter, for anyone interested.

 



 



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* How Yotam thinks see satellite space technology changing everyday life
* The space tech convergence of small scale satellites
* Why methane is the new carbon dioxide
* The reason Yotam doesn't look up to Elon Musk and Richard Branson
* Why we are still a ways off from living in space
* The 80/20 way to think about climate change
* How complexity becomes commodity and creates innovation
* Why Yotam spent 12 years in China and what he learned
* The reason today's entrepreneurs focus on profitable purpose
* How to start a space tech startup today - and how much it costs





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Kyle’s writing and thought leadership have built him up as someone to follow in the ever-evolving industry in addition to a strong focus on technology, entrepreneurship, sales and marketing and finance.

 



 



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* How Kyle first discovered ethereum when it was only $10
* Kyle's thoughts on the future of augmented reality and IoT
* Why blockchain fundamentally disrupts so many industries
* Which areas of crypto Kyle and his team are most excited about
* Why Kyle believes Bitcoin will become irrelevant
* What you need to know about the crypto rabbit hole
* How the future of money will edged government
* Why decentralization is more important than most people realize
* How crypto investors can think about blockchain protocol value





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=136Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:00:03 +0000Matt WardKyle Samani (@kylesamani) is cofounder and Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital, a venture capital-esque crypto hedge fund with at least $250M in assets under management (AUM). Prior to starting Multicoin Capital, Kyle ran Pristine.io (a Google Glass...
Kyle’s writing and thought leadership have built him up as someone to follow in the ever-evolving industry in addition to a strong focus on technology, entrepreneurship, sales and marketing and finance.

 



 



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* How Kyle first discovered ethereum when it was only $10
* Kyle's thoughts on the future of augmented reality and IoT
* Why blockchain fundamentally disrupts so many industries
* Which areas of crypto Kyle and his team are most excited about
* Why Kyle believes Bitcoin will become irrelevant
* What you need to know about the crypto rabbit hole
* How the future of money will edged government
* Why decentralization is more important than most people realize
* How crypto investors can think about blockchain protocol value





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 ]]>2643falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/5-jamais-cascio-on-forecasting-future-climate-change-and-geoengineering-and-the-biggest-threats-to-human-civilization--18590691
Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a Top 100 Global Thinker, Jamais Cascio specializes in the creation of provocative future scenarios. He explores emerging possibilities in print and in speaking events world-wide, and has appeared in in multiple television and film documentaries. Cascio serves as Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Future, and published his first non-fiction book, HACKING THE EARTH, in 2009. He was a featured speaker at the TED 2006 conference, "The Future We Will Create," in Monterey, California.

“My worst-case scenario is us continuing to have short-term-track thinking.” — Jamais Cascio

 





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* Why we may be heading towards a 5-6 degree warmer world
* The biggest threats to humanity's existence
* How technology and humanity intertwine and co-evolve
* Why Jamais is pessimistic in the short term and optimistic in the long term
* Jamais' thoughts on the cons of geo engineering
* The important but often overlooked drivers climate change
* Why Jamais forecasts rather than predicts the future
* The actual implications of autonomous driving and automation
* Why our political and economic systems are outdated and how to fix this
* Why the future may have a lot more sex and drugs

NOTE: A couple times Jamais references terms/concepts which popularly used yet politically charged like pink-collar jobs. He is in no way endorsing or a fan of gender-roles/stereotypes but just observing them in action.

Recommended Books

* The Culture Series: Book 1 - Consider Phlebas
* Transmetropolitan, Vol 1: Back on the Street 





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Donate]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=322Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:00:09 +0000Matt WardJamais Cascio (@cascio) is a writer, speaker and futurist that focuses on the intersection of emerging technologies, environmental dilemmas, and cultural transformation, specializing in the design and creation of plausible scenarios of the future -...
Selected by Foreign Policy magazine as a Top 100 Global Thinker, Jamais Cascio specializes in the creation of provocative future scenarios. He explores emerging possibilities in print and in speaking events world-wide, and has appeared in in multiple television and film documentaries. Cascio serves as Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the Future, and published his first non-fiction book, HACKING THE EARTH, in 2009. He was a featured speaker at the TED 2006 conference, "The Future We Will Create," in Monterey, California.

“My worst-case scenario is us continuing to have short-term-track thinking.” — Jamais Cascio

 





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why we may be heading towards a 5-6 degree warmer world
* The biggest threats to humanity's existence
* How technology and humanity intertwine and co-evolve
* Why Jamais is pessimistic in the short term and optimistic in the long term
* Jamais' thoughts on the cons of geo engineering
* The important but often overlooked drivers climate change
* Why Jamais forecasts rather than predicts the future
* The actual implications of autonomous driving and automation
* Why our political and economic systems are outdated and how to fix this
* Why the future may have a lot more sex and drugs

NOTE: A couple times Jamais references terms/concepts which popularly used yet politically charged like pink-collar jobs. He is in no way endorsing or a fan of gender-roles/stereotypes but just observing them in action.

Recommended Books

* The Culture Series: Book 1 - Consider Phlebas
* Transmetropolitan, Vol 1: Back on the Street 





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He has one of the largest multidisciplinary chemistry-based research teams in the world, having raised over $35 M in grants and current income of $15 M. Lee has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals and construct chemical computers.

 





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* How Lee believes we can create artificial life
* The relationship between biology, chemistry and our understanding of the universe
* What Lee's team is looking at when it comes to 3D printing medicines and molecules
* The future of personalized genetic medicine
* Why Lee is skeptical of artificial general intelligence
* The real problem with fake news
* How the scientific research funding process works and the politics involved
* Why researchers need to be able to sell their ideas
* The way Lee looks at problems to tackle
* Why chemical computers may be a bigger deal than quantum





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Professor Cronin: Some of the smallest people appear to come from the most difficult backgrounds and so I always kind of try and spread my bets on people every student comes to my lab or any person. I always give them what I think would be a Nobel prize winning project and I think it's quite funny cause I've never won a Nobel prize and he never liked me too, but it doesn't stop me giving them one. And then when they failed to win the Nobel Prize or the Nobel project doesn't work, we're kind of surprised and I mean they make it easier and then in the end that we make it, when it still continues to fail, we go, well what can we do? And that's when suddenly I realise this. And some of my group members realize that we are really doing science, because suddenly we work out what we can do is interesting and I know if you haven’t done, and you start climbing the mountain you’re already half way up. Cause you've started and you failed to kind of, some height where people wouldn't dare to go to start with. So I love being ambitious and I don't mind failing I love to fail particularly well.

Matt: I like it and if you set a huge goal is then you've still gotten pretty insignificant progress.

Professor Cronin: Exactly and that's why I think humanity will be fine. I mean that's all I have four big problems because someone said, why you don’t just pick one I said well four chances of winning a Nobel Prize is better than one.

Matt: We're living in the era of exponential technologies and today's guest is at the forefront of several of these fields today. We have professor Lee Cronin on the program. Lee's lab at the University of Glasgow is doing cutting edge research into the manuf...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=187Wed, 06 Jun 2018 08:00:47 +0000Matt WardLee Cronin (@leecronin)'s lab at the University of Glasgow does cutting-edge research into manufacturing and 3D printing complex molecules, like medicines on-demand - a breakthrough he presented at TEDGlobal 2012. He has one of the largest...
He has one of the largest multidisciplinary chemistry-based research teams in the world, having raised over $35 M in grants and current income of $15 M. Lee has given over 300 international talks and has authored over 350 peer reviewed papers with recent work published in Nature, Science, and PNAS. He and his team are trying to make artificial life forms, find alien life, explore the digitization of chemistry, understand how information can be encoded into chemicals and construct chemical computers.

 





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Lee believes we can create artificial life
* The relationship between biology, chemistry and our understanding of the universe
* What Lee's team is looking at when it comes to 3D printing medicines and molecules
* The future of personalized genetic medicine
* Why Lee is skeptical of artificial general intelligence
* The real problem with fake news
* How the scientific research funding process works and the politics involved
* Why researchers need to be able to sell their ideas
* The way Lee looks at problems to tackle
* Why chemical computers may be a bigger deal than quantum





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Professor Cronin: Some of the smallest people appear to come from the most difficult backgrounds and so I always kind of try and spread my bets on people every student comes to my lab or any person. I always give them what I think would be a Nobel prize winning project and I think it's quite funny cause I've never won a Nobel prize and he never liked me too, but it doesn't stop me giving them one. And then when they failed to win the Nobel Prize or the Nobel project doesn't work, we're kind of surprised and I mean they make it easier and then in the end that we make it, when it still continues to fail, we go, well what can we do? And that's when suddenly I realise this. And some of my group members realize that we are really doing science, because suddenly we work out what we can do is interesting and I know if you haven’t done, and you start climbing the mountain you’re already half way up. Cause you've started and you failed to kind of, some height where people wouldn't dare to go to start with. So I love being ambitious and I don't mind failing I love to fail particularly well.

Matt: I like it and if you set a huge goal is then you've still gotten pretty insignificant progress.

Professor Cronin: Exactly and that's why I think humanity will be fine. I mean that's all I have four big problems because someone said, why you don’t just pick one I said well four chances of winning a Nobel Prize is better than one.

Matt: We're living in the era of exponential technologies and today's guest is at the forefront of several of these fields today. We have professor Lee Cronin on the program. Lee's lab at the University of Glasgow is doing cutting edge research into the manuf...]]>3459falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/3-transhumanist-technologies-to-live-forever-become-bionic-and-build-better-political-system-zoltan-istvan--18590693
Formerly a reporter for the National Geographic Channel, Istvan now writes futurist, transhumanist, libertarian and secular themed articles for major publications including Vice's Motherboard, Wired, The Huffington Post., TechCrunch and Newsweek. Istvan also regularly appears on television and video channels discussing futurist topics and is one of the world's most influential transhumanists - believing transhumanism will grow into a mainstream social movement in the next decade.

Istvan is also the author of The Transhumanist Wager, a philosophical science fiction novel.

 





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* Why Zoltan believes he will live forever
* How Zoltan thinks about AI and the future of intelligence
* The exciting science of life extension and which areas are most promising
* What happens to nation-states when humans start to live longer
* How and when genetic engineering and implants will start to impact society
* Why transparency may be the savior of humanity
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* Why Zoltan wants a mechanical heart ASAP
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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=116Fri, 01 Jun 2018 08:00:28 +0000Matt WardZoltan Istvan Gyurko (@zoltan_istvan) is an American transhumanist, journalist, entrepreneur and Libertarian futurist who ran for President of the United States in 2016 to raise awareness for transhumanism. In 2017, Istvan announced his intent to run...
Formerly a reporter for the National Geographic Channel, Istvan now writes futurist, transhumanist, libertarian and secular themed articles for major publications including Vice's Motherboard, Wired, The Huffington Post., TechCrunch and Newsweek. Istvan also regularly appears on television and video channels discussing futurist topics and is one of the world's most influential transhumanists - believing transhumanism will grow into a mainstream social movement in the next decade.

Istvan is also the author of The Transhumanist Wager, a philosophical science fiction novel.

 





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* Why Zoltan believes he will live forever
* How Zoltan thinks about AI and the future of intelligence
* The exciting science of life extension and which areas are most promising
* What happens to nation-states when humans start to live longer
* How and when genetic engineering and implants will start to impact society
* Why transparency may be the savior of humanity
* How Zoltan sees blockchain in the bigger picture
* Why Zoltan wants a mechanical heart ASAP
* What average individuals can do to live longer





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 ]]>2673falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2-growing-meat-in-test-tube-to-feed-humanity-combat-climate-change-and-explore-outer-space-mike-selden-of-finless-foods--18590694
Mike has a background in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, he is dedicated to climate justice and science advocacy. Before co-founding Finless Foods, he was working at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in high-throughput cancer screening.

 



 



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* The clean meat revolution and end of animal agriculture
* How Mike's company Finless Foods is growing fish in a laboratory
* The exciting science of foodtech
* Why people need to embrace GMOs
* How agriculture is increasingly driving climate change
* Why we aren't far off from growing usable human organs
* How hard it is to fund traditional deep tech
* Why we are entering a foodtech revolution
* How human's will eat and thrive in space
* Why we need to start pricing pollution into our products





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Mike: Yeah, I mean this is probably the only way anyone would ever be able to eat meat in space and actually we were invested in specifically by an investment firm that the focus is entirely on space because they know that this is kind of the only option so we're very, very excited to be the first fish in space. I do know that because of human polluted activities we're going to end up with more plastic in the ocean by weight than fish by 2050 is the estimate that I've seen. So that's like well within our lifetimes and at that point we're gonna have you know an ocean this completely filled with plastic like what are we going to do in order to get food from that? I think we should A: stop poisoning the ocean and B: start to move our food sources out of it.

Matt: They're using cutting-edge cellular agriculture technologies to grow marine animals from cells creating fish and seafood around the world. It's the sci-fi future that's here today; delectable, healthy and great for the environment. In today's wide-ranging discussion will discuss the clean meat revolution and the end of animal agriculture, how Mike's company Finless Foods is growing fish in a laboratory - it's real, the exciting science of food tech, why people need to embrace GMOs, how agriculture is increasingly driving climate change, why we aren't far off from fully growing human usable organs, and how we’ll fuel humanity's rise and expansion in space. Without further ado, I give you Mike Selden. Just a quick note, we wanted to apologize for the audio on Mike’s side, we did the best we could. It got a little bit garbled up at times but it's easy to follow and incredibly valuable. Now I give you Mike Selden.

Mike: Yeah so what we're doing is basically trying to give consumers a different choice than the one they're face...]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=128Mon, 28 May 2018 08:00:23 +0000Matt WardMike Selden (@mikeseldenFF) is co-founder and CEO of Finless Foods, a food startup that uses cutting-edge cellular-agriculture technologies to grow marine-animal cells, creating fish and seafood products enjoyed around the world. They are working...
Mike has a background in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, he is dedicated to climate justice and science advocacy. Before co-founding Finless Foods, he was working at the Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine in high-throughput cancer screening.

 



 



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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The clean meat revolution and end of animal agriculture
* How Mike's company Finless Foods is growing fish in a laboratory
* The exciting science of foodtech
* Why people need to embrace GMOs
* How agriculture is increasingly driving climate change
* Why we aren't far off from growing usable human organs
* How hard it is to fund traditional deep tech
* Why we are entering a foodtech revolution
* How human's will eat and thrive in space
* Why we need to start pricing pollution into our products





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Mike: Yeah, I mean this is probably the only way anyone would ever be able to eat meat in space and actually we were invested in specifically by an investment firm that the focus is entirely on space because they know that this is kind of the only option so we're very, very excited to be the first fish in space. I do know that because of human polluted activities we're going to end up with more plastic in the ocean by weight than fish by 2050 is the estimate that I've seen. So that's like well within our lifetimes and at that point we're gonna have you know an ocean this completely filled with plastic like what are we going to do in order to get food from that? I think we should A: stop poisoning the ocean and B: start to move our food sources out of it.

Matt: They're using cutting-edge cellular agriculture technologies to grow marine animals from cells creating fish and seafood around the world. It's the sci-fi future that's here today; delectable, healthy and great for the environment. In today's wide-ranging discussion will discuss the clean meat revolution and the end of animal agriculture, how Mike's company Finless Foods is growing fish in a laboratory - it's real, the exciting science of food tech, why people need to embrace GMOs, how agriculture is increasingly driving climate change, why we aren't far off from fully growing human usable organs, and how we’ll fuel humanity's rise and expansion in space. Without further ado, I give you Mike Selden. Just a quick note, we wanted to apologize for the audio on Mike’s side, we did the best we could. It got a little bit garbled up at times but it's easy to follow and incredibly valuable. Now I give you Mike Selden.

Mike: Yeah so what we're doing is basically trying to give consumers a different choice than the one they're face...]]>2513falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1-singularity-university-s-pascal-finette-on-why-vcs-suck-at-scifi-tech-investing-and-why-ai-and-synthetic-biology-are-the-industries-of-th--18590695
He got started on the net before there was a web browser, founded a series of technology startups, led eBay's Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla's Innovation Lab, created Mozilla's accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla's Office of the Chair and has invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org. Further he founded the nonprofit organizations Mentor for Good and The Coaching Fellowship; the "GyShiDo" (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publishes the opinionated newsletter, "The Heretic", which is read by ten of thousands of change-makers globally. Recently he published "The Heretic - Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs" book.

 





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* The exciting space technology that no one is talking about
* What happens to nation-states when humanity goes interplanetary
* How and when genetic engineering will start to impact society
* Why synthetic biology may in fact be the most exciting industry of our generation
* How tariffs and NAFTA could affect investment in Canadian startups
* Why traditional venture capital sucks for true moonshot businesses
* Why Pascal is doubtful of a Skynet situation
* Is China's totalitarian regime a better system





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 ]]>http://disruptors.fm/?p=45Fri, 25 May 2018 08:00:40 +0000Matt WardPascal Finette (@pfinette) is Fastrack’s Executive Director and Singularity University’s Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation. He focuses on helping change makers tackle the most intractable problems of our times. He got started on the net...
He got started on the net before there was a web browser, founded a series of technology startups, led eBay's Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla's Innovation Lab, created Mozilla's accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla's Office of the Chair and has invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org. Further he founded the nonprofit organizations Mentor for Good and The Coaching Fellowship; the "GyShiDo" (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publishes the opinionated newsletter, "The Heretic", which is read by ten of thousands of change-makers globally. Recently he published "The Heretic - Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs" book.

 





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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Pascal thinks about AI and the future of intelligence
* The exciting space technology that no one is talking about
* What happens to nation-states when humanity goes interplanetary
* How and when genetic engineering will start to impact society
* Why synthetic biology may in fact be the most exciting industry of our generation
* How tariffs and NAFTA could affect investment in Canadian startups
* Why traditional venture capital sucks for true moonshot businesses
* Why Pascal is doubtful of a Skynet situation
* Is China's totalitarian regime a better system





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