The Disruptors
224 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 104 ratingsLong-form TED level conversations with top thinkers, founders and scientists on how advances in biotech & genomics, space travel, IoT, AI and other exponential tech converge to create our collective future and what we can do, from a research and policy perspective to shape the technology, trends and societal norms for a better world. If in-depth, unscripted conversations with the researchers, startups and future thinkers transforming our future in a Tim Ferriss meets Sam Harris, Kara Swisher, a16z and Joe Rogan Experience type no-holds-barred interview show is your cup of tea you’ve come to the right place. Some episodes feature Intelligence Squared esque lively debates and Planet Money like in-depth discussions on health and intermittent fasting, automation and unemployment, healthcare, the economy, etc… while others would fit right in with a Kevin Rose or Jason Calacanis casual fireside chat. We cover EVERYTHING, from artificial intelligence to ethics, economics and politics.
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Announcing The Startup Tank Climate Investor Pitch Podcast
May 27, 2022 14:17 - 2 hours - 118 MBAre you a climate or impact startup looking for funding? Are you an investor looking for interesting world-positive companies to invest in? Then let me introduce you to The Startup Tank presented by 4WARD.VC, the ultimate startup investor pitch contest where top climate tech and impact founders pitch to a panel of VCs looking to fund world-positive cleantech, sustainability, health and impact startups looking to move the world forward. If you've ever wanted a chance to pitch your company or...
The Startup Tank Climate Investor Pitch Podcast – Swiss Startup Edition
May 09, 2022 18:00 - 2 hours - 116 MBAre you a climate or impact startup looking for funding? Are you an investor looking for interesting world-positive companies to invest in? Welcome to The Startup Tank presented by 4WARD.VC 4WARD.VC angel group, a special Swiss-focused startup pitch competition where founders pitch their project to our investor panel including the Swiss ICT Investor Club (SICTIC), Sparrow Ventures and Wingman as well as investors and VCs tuning in from across the globe. If you've ever wanted a chance to pit...
REPLAY: Frans von der Dunk – Space Law, Piracy, Profit and Militarization in Age of Star Wars
December 28, 2020 08:34 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBFrans 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=42687557" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sh...
REPLAY: Russell Gold – Energy, Infrastructure, Fracking and the Future of Journalism
December 21, 2020 08:50 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MBRussell 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=42591194" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-...
REPLAY: Dr James Canton – The 5 Most Impactful Technologies of 21st Century
October 19, 2020 08:05 - 58 minutes - 54.5 MBDr. James Canton (@futureguru) is a renowned global futurist, social scientist, keynote presenter, author, and visionary business advisor. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=40365237" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
REPLAY: Geoff Ralston – How YCombinator is Working to Save the US Education System from Collapse
October 12, 2020 08:19 - 46 minutes - 43.6 MBGeoff Ralston (@gralston) is the founder of Imagine K12, an education-focused vertical within the super successful startup accelerator YCombinator. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=41416867" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
REPLAY: Eric Ward – The 4 Main Hurdles Holding Humanity Back From Space Colonization
October 07, 2020 08:02 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBEric 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=41303415" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
REPLAY: Ashwin Seetharaman – Genetic Engineering Will Cure Disease, End Aging and Evolve All of Us
September 28, 2020 10:56 - 54 minutes - 52 MBAshwin Seetharaman is molecular genetics and cell/developmental researcher at the University of Toronto focused on understanding life at its most fundamental level. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=41172522" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
Death Donor 5 – A Dystopian SciFi Techno Thriller Novel
September 21, 2020 08:56 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBWould 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 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 t...
Death Donor 4 – A Dystopian SciFi Techno Thriller Novel
September 14, 2020 10:37 - 25 minutes - 24.6 MBWould you sell your life to save another? [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=40875336" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
Death Donor 3 – A Dystopian SciFi Techno Thriller Novel
September 07, 2020 08:39 - 38 minutes - 36.3 MBWould you sell your life to save another? [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=40704493" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
Death Donor 2 – A Dystopian SciFi Techno Thriller Novel
August 31, 2020 08:59 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MBWould you sell your life to save another? [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=40560637" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
Death Donor 1 – A Dystopian SciFi Techno Thriller Novel
August 25, 2020 08:51 - 25 minutes - 24.1 MBWould you sell your life to save another? [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=40365360" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
REPLAY: Ariel Garten – The Science of Meditation and Superhuman Brain Performance
August 17, 2020 14:24 - 51 minutes - 31.8 MBAriel 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=40154562" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
REPLAY: Yotam Ariel – Satellites, Creating Renaissance of Space Tech Startups and Combatting Climate Change
August 10, 2020 08:09 - 36 minutes - 22.8 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=40154448" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Yotam Ariel (@yotamariel) is the Founder and CEO of Bluefield, a satellite change detection startup that was recent winner of Top 20 NewSpace Awards alongside Space...
REPLAY: Fraser Cain – Why We Are Entering a New Space Race and Where We Go from Here
July 27, 2020 09:12 - 55 minutes - 53.2 MBFraser 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=39985457" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
REPLAY: George Dvorsky – The Dangers of AI and Safety of Mutually Assured Destruction
July 20, 2020 08:15 - 56 minutes - 52.5 MBGeorge 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 experience. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=39847889" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide...
REPLAY: Andrew Maynard – What Science Fiction Teaches Us About Morality and Existential Risk
July 13, 2020 08:06 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBAndrew 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 Movies. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=39343831" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo=...
REPLAY: Isaac Arthur – Colonizing Space, the Fermi Paradox and Future of Genetic Engineering
July 06, 2020 08:14 - 58 minutes - 48 MBIsaac Arthur (@isaac_a_arthur) is a physicist and futurist who runs popular YouTube channel Featured Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=36075852" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
190. Rewriting the Black American Dream to Building Better Communities at Home | Majora Carter
June 22, 2020 08:09 - 48 minutes - 45.7 MBMajora 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=32377569" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false...
189. Objectivity is a Fictitious Thing We Like to Pretend Exists | Charles Arthur
June 16, 2020 13:44 - 49 minutes - 46 MBCharles 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=30786729" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-shar...
REPLAY: Byron Reese – AI Consciousness, Tech Progress and 4th Age of Humanity
June 08, 2020 08:00 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBByron 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 of humanity. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=29887742" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" h...
REPLAY: Garry Golden – Why Elon Musk Is Wrong About Electric Vehicles and Future of Energy
June 01, 2020 13:03 - 48 minutes - 46 MBGarry Golden (@garrygolden) is a professionally trained futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on complex issues shaping society and business in the 21st century. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=28806748" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"...
REPLAY: Ben Hammersley – The Importance of Internet Censorship, Power of Authoritarianism and Collapse of Digital Advertising
May 18, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBBen Hammersley (@benhammersley) is a technologist, futurist author and Editor-at-Large of UK’s WIRED magazine. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=27650275" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
184. Investing in Meditation, Mindfulness, Psychedelics for a Better Mental Health Future | Charlie Hartwell
May 11, 2020 08:16 - 39 minutes - 37.6 MBCharlie 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 on igniting consciousness, mindfulness, and creating a more connected human world. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=27078011" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-...
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 Late-Stage Capitalism
May 04, 2020 08:00 - 50 minutes - 47.6 MBCory 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 Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards, and treaties. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=26676606" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" pl...
REPLAY: Douglas Rushkoff – Avoiding Apocalypse by Doubling Down on Team Human and Reinventing 21st Century Business
April 27, 2020 08:00 - 53 minutes - 49.8 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=26188457" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Douglas 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 in...
181. The Divergence of AR and VR and Connectivity, Collaboration and Entertainment in a Post COVID World | Tony Parisi
April 20, 2020 08:00 - 39 minutes - 37.1 MBTony 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 reality and WebGL. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=25799246" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right...
180. Modeling COVID after the Polio Epidemic and What a Post Corona Future Looks Like | Mary Robinette Kowal
April 13, 2020 08:18 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBMary Robinette Kowal (@robinettekowal) is a Nebula- and Hugo-award winning science fiction and fantasy author, a puppeteer, and podcaster. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=25421680" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
179. Leading Spain in Paris Accords and Pushing Climate Policy Today | Miguel Arias Cañete
April 06, 2020 08:18 - 49 minutes - 46.1 MBMiguel Arias Cañete (@mac_europa) was the European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy and led the EU negotiations of the Paris Agreement. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=24857421" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
REPLAY: Ramez Naam – How Renewable Energy Killed Coal and Why Radical Life Extension Isn’t Going to Happen
March 30, 2020 08:56 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBRamez Naam (@ramez) is a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor and award-winning author best known for his Nexus Trilogy: Nexus, Crux and Apex. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=24624537" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
Cynetic Wolf Excerpt – My Dystopian Sci-Fi Technothriller
March 26, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes - 56.1 MBHey guys, my book is finally live! You can grab it FREE for two days (3/26-27) at mattwardwrites.com/cynetic After this Friday, it'll be $2.99 and up so I recommend getting it while the getting's good. Here's the blurb. It's 2096, sixty years after ninety percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal subspecies: immortals, cyborgs, enhancers, and subservient half-human, half-animal hybrids. The world is anything but equal. Hybrids everywhere are sufferi...
My Post-Bioplague Dystopian Audiobook: Cynetic Wolf – 1st Two Chapters for your COVID-19 Quarantine
March 23, 2020 10:57 - 34 minutes - 59.3 MBHey guys, my book is finally about to be published! You can grab it FREE for two days (3/26-27) at mattwardwrites.com/cynetic (link won't activate until 3/26). After this Friday, it'll be $2.99 and up so I recommend getting it while the getting's good. Here's the blurb. It's 2096, sixty years after ninety percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal subspecies: immortals, cyborgs, enhancers, and subservient half-human, half-animal hybrids. The world is...
REPLAY: Bruce Schneier – Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security, Privacy, Social Media and Politics
March 16, 2020 08:09 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBBruce Schneier (@schneierblog) is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=23930254" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
175. Accelerated Climate Change, the Melt and Science Fiction’s Role in Saving Humanity | KE Lanning
March 09, 2020 11:39 - 46 minutes - 43.9 MBKE 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=23672960" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="...
174. Blockchain, Building Recycled Plastic Homes and Redistributing Wealth | Morten Bove
March 02, 2020 08:48 - 49 minutes - 46 MBMorten 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=23388955" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-...
173. Eco-Friendly B Corps, Dropping Disposables and Building a More Equitable World for All | Carinne Chambers-Saini
February 24, 2020 08:42 - 52 minutes - 49.5 MBCarinne Chambers-Saini (@carinnechambers) is the founder and CEO of DivaCup, an eco-tech startup focused on making feminine health more sustainable. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=23130215" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
172. Energy, the Environment and Journalistic Integrity in a Post-Truth Influencer World | Amy Harder
February 17, 2020 09:46 - 52 minutes - 49.3 MBAmy 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=22867009" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="fals...
171. Venture Bubbles, the Trade War and Tech Investing in the 2020s | Chip Meakem
February 10, 2020 20:00 - 47 minutes - 44.6 MBChip Meakem (@cmeakem) is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Tribeca Venture Partners. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=22628507" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
170. Derek Sivers on Minimalism, Mastery and Avoiding New Technology
February 03, 2020 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.5 MBDerek 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 million. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=22343224" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide...
169. Programming Life, Preventing Bioterrorism and Viruses that Kill Cancer | Andrew Hessel
January 27, 2020 08:00 - 57 minutes - 53.3 MBAndrew 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 large genomes, including the human genome. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=22118145" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" e...
168. David Heinemeier Hansson Uncensored on Healthcare, Privacy, Education and Inequality
January 20, 2020 08:48 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBDavid 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=21875505" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="f...
167. Exploding Space Debris, Asteroid Mining and Geoengineering Us into Oblivion | Moriba Jah
January 13, 2020 08:00 - 45 minutes - 42.7 MBMoriba Jah (@moribajah) is a space scientist, aerospace engineer and Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=21632674" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
166. Solving the Climate Crisis by Fixing the Politics of Kyoto Protocol and Paris Accords | Gerald Kutney
January 02, 2020 19:40 - 52 minutes - 48.9 MBGerald 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 it. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=21401007" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="...
165. Creating Healthy Consumer Brands to Feed Humanity and Solve Climate Change | Filipp Chebotarev and Polina Chebotareva
December 30, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBPolina Chebotareva is a co-founder of Cambridge Companies SPG, a social mission-oriented VC firm on fixing nutrition, farming, and health worldwide. Filipp Chebotarev is COO and Managing Partner of Cambridge Companies SPG. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=21182215" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-c...
164. Mars, Michael Jackson, Impeaching Trump and the Grand Unified Theory of Everything | Howard Bloom
December 23, 2019 08:00 - 56 minutes - 52.6 MBHoward Bloom 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 solar power, among many other things. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=20993752" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="r...
163. Ethics of Automation and Utopia for Human Flourishing in World Without Work | John Danaher
December 16, 2019 08:04 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBJohn 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=20771002" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false"...
162. Ultralearning MIT’s 4-Year CS Degree in 12 Months and Future of Learning, Creativity and Purpose | Scott Young
December 09, 2019 08:00 - 53 minutes - 50.3 MBScott Young (@ScottHYoung) is a blogger, traveler, author, self-experimenter and ultra-learner that took MIT's entire 4-year programming curriculum in a year. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=20582369" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
161. The Mathematics of War and Future of US-China Relations, Plus AI, Automation and Mutually Assured Destruction | Sean Gourley
December 02, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MBSean 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=20408190" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"]
160. Why the US and China are Already in a Cold War, the Economics of Inequality and Future of Capitalism | Geoff Colvin
November 25, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBGeoff Colvin (@geoffcolvin) 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. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=20239267" width="100%" height="80px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="true" hide-likes="false" hide-comm...