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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114. Why LeBron’s Poop Could Help You Lose Weight, GMOs Rock and Your Gut Gets Last Word on Disease | Zack Abbott of ZBiotics
June 03, 2019 09:12 - 57 minutes - 53.5 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590556" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Zack Abbott (@ZBioticsCompany) is the CEO and co-founder of ZBiotics, a company developing bioengineered probiotics for optimum human performance. He holds a Ph.D....
113. What Minority Report Got Right, and Wrong and the Future of the Surveillance State | Shaun Moore of TrueFace
May 31, 2019 08:05 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590558" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Shaun Moore (@shaunpmoore) the founder and CEO of TrueFace, the 500Startups funded computer vision and facial recognition startup focused on making the world safer...
112. How to Save Social Media and Livestreaming From Itself and Why Podcasting is the Future | Geoff Cook
May 28, 2019 19:36 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590553" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Geoff Cook (@geoffcook) is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and live-streaming company with a $400+ m...
111. A Career Fair for the Future of Work as We Shift to a Post Automation, System Focused Society | Nancy Giordano
May 25, 2019 17:36 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590554" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Nancy Giordano (@nancygiordano) is an entrepreneur, futurist, consultant and techno-optimist committed to building societal structures and behaviors that keep up w...
110. A Biotech Solution to Pesticide-Free Food to Feed the World, and Mars Colonies | Fatma Kaplan
May 20, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590559" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Dr. 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 populatio...
109. Neuroscience, Bioelectric Biohacking and the Future of AI | Isy Goldwasser
May 18, 2019 18:44 - 58 minutes - 54 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590561" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Isy Goldwasser (@isythync) is the founder of Thync, a startup creating breakthrough bioelectronic therapies to advance a frontier and create a consumer category th...
108. A Deeper Diver into UBI, Automation and the Economy of Tomorrow | Martin Ford
May 13, 2019 10:20 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590563" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Martin 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, Archit...
107. AI – A Societal Transformation like No Other and How We Can Handle 50% Automation | Steve Brown
May 10, 2019 15:15 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MBspreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590562" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Steve 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 ...
106. Education Inflation, a New Aristocracy and Peak Employment and Equality | Bryan Alexander
May 06, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590564" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Bryan Alexander (@bryanalexander) is a futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher with an unconventional background in English and Romantic-era...
105. George Church on Synthetic Biology, Climate Change and the SUPERHUMAN Genome Project
April 29, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590565" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] George Church @geochurch) is a professor of genetics at Harvard & MIT, director of the Personal Genome Project, co-author of 509 papers, 143 patent publications an...
104. How to Avoid Dystopian Future of Climate Change and Mass Unemployment By Evolving Democracy and Education Tom Cheesewright
April 26, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590571" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Tom Cheesewright (@bookofthefuture) is a futurist, speaker, engineer and founder of applied futurism practice, Book of the Future and creator of the Futurist’s Too...
103. LEGOs in Space, Blockchain vs Big Tech and the Uber that Ultimately Failed | Steve Sammartino
April 22, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590568" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Steve Sammartino (@sammartino) is an entrepreneur, futurist, author and public speaker focused on finding the truth and creating the future.
102. Resetting Governments and Getting a New Deal on Democracy and Market-Driven Dystopian Bliss | Robin Hanson
April 19, 2019 08:10 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590567" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Robin Hanson (@robinhanson)is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford ...
101. Engineering the Economy Out of Its Debt Fueled Destructive Spiral and Towards a Sustainable System that Also Solves Climate Change | Jarl Jensen
April 15, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590569" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Jarl 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 ...
100. Why CRISPR is Overrated and Gene Drives are Terrifyingly Powerful | Gabriel Licina
April 12, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590572" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Gabriel Licina (@glimsd) is a Molecular Biologist, Research Consultant, hardcore biohacker and the Chief Research Officer of Scihouse, a research-focused makerspac...
99. Why Hacking and Cyberwarfare is Big Business for Russia, the Mafia and CIA | Eric Cole
April 08, 2019 18:01 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590573" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Eric 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 ...
98. Becoming an Opportunistic Optimist and Saving Our Kids from Soul-Crushing Effects of School | John Doran
April 05, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.3 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590574" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] John 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 edu...
97. The Most Important, Non-Obvious Technologies and Trends of 2019 and Beyond | Rohit Bhargava
April 01, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590576" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Rohit 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 th...
96. Polarization, Powerful Billionaires and the Eroding Effects of Inequality | Rahaf Harfoush
March 29, 2019 08:06 - 1 hour - 58.4 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590578" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Rahaf Harfoush (@rahafharfoush) is a digital anthropologist, bestselling author, and speaker researching the impacts of emerging technologies on our society and is...
95. How to Fix Politics, Redesign Education and Stop Climate Change Cold | Mark Stevenson
March 25, 2019 08:10 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590577" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Mark Stevenson (@optimistontour) is a reluctant futurist, bestselling author, frequent speaker and occasional comedian.
94. How Renewable Energy Killed Coal and Why Radical Life Extension Isn’t Going to Happen | Ramez Naam of Singularity University
March 22, 2019 08:00 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590579" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Ramez Naam (@ramez) is a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor and award-winning author best known for his Nexus Trilogy: Nexus, Crux and Apex
93. The Importance of Internet Censorship, Power of Authoritarianism and Collapse of Digital Advertising | Ben Hammersley of Wired UK
March 18, 2019 08:00 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590580" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Ben Hammersley (@benhammersley) is a technologist, futurist author and Editor-at-Large of UK’s WIRED magazine.
92. Education, Isolationism and Power of Clayton Christensen’s Market Creating Innovations | Karen Dillon
March 15, 2019 08:25 - 52 minutes - 48.8 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590581" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Karen Dillon (@kardillon) is the former editor of Harvard Business Review magazine and co-author of the three books with Clayton Christensen, including the forthco...
91. Coal is Dead, Climate Change is Real, and Bezos and Alexa for President | Nikolas Badminton
March 11, 2019 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590582" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Nikolas Badminton (@nikolasfuturist) is a world-respected futurist speaker, author, and researcher.
90. Smart Cities that Function Like Startups and Ayesha Khanna
March 08, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 56 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590584" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Dr. Ayesha Khanna (@ayeshakhanna1) is Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions firm and incubator that was named one of 4 top AI co...
89. Avoiding Apocalypse by Doubling Down on Team Human and Reinventing 21st Century Business | Douglas Rushkoff
March 04, 2019 08:00 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590583" 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="false" 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 i...
88. AI, Apple, Autonomous Vehicles and Reducing 51% of CO2 Emissions | Kevin Surace
March 01, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590590" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Kevin Surace (@kevinsurace) is a futurist and disruptive innovation speaker, creator of the first smartphone and digital assistant and innovator of the decade.
87. Atheism, Evolution and the Future of PZ Myers
February 25, 2019 11:18 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590587" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] PZ Myers (@pzmyers) is a well-known atheist blogger, science popularizer and an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris.
86. Why We’re Basically Just Bonobos Monkeys with Better Tech | Rebecca Costa
February 22, 2019 08:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590588" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Rebecca D Costa (@rebeccacosta) is an American sociobiologist and futurist and a recipient of the prestigious Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Award.
85. A New Story for Climate Change and Creating a Better World | Charles Eisenstein
February 18, 2019 16:57 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590586" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Charles Eisenstein (@ceisenstein) is an author, podcaster and public speaker focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution.
84. Consistently Predicting Tech Trends Decades Before They Happen | Daniel Burrus
February 15, 2019 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590589" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Daniel 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...
83. Studying Ants Emergent Behavior to Advance AI, Robotics and Even Neuroscience | Deborah Gordon
February 11, 2019 08:00 - 48 minutes - 45 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590592" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Deborah Gordon is a Professor of Biology at Stanford University studying the evolution of collective behavior using ant colonies as a model.
82. Why Who is More Important than How for Leadership, Business and Happiness | Lolly Daskal
February 08, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.8 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590593" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Lolly Daskal (@lollydaskal) is one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world with extensive cross-cultural expertise spans 14 countries, s...
81. Blockchain, Isolationism, Space Exploration and the Future of Nations | David Orban of Singularity University
February 04, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590598" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] David Orban (@davidorban) is an entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker and the Founder and Managing Partner of Network Society Ventures, a seed stage global investm...
80. Gigaom CEO Byron Reese on AI Consciousness, Tech Progress and 4th Age of Humanity
February 01, 2019 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590597" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Byron Reese (@byronreese) is the CEO and publisher of Gigaom, an industry-leading technology research company. Byron's also an award-winning author, speaker and fu...
79. The Science of Brain Aging, Basis of Consciousness and Future of Neuroscience | Dr. Brynn Winegard
January 28, 2019 08:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590595" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Dr. Brynn Winegard (@drbrynnwinegard) is a neuroscience, psychology and marketing expert, award-winning professor, speaker, and expert. She speaks frequently on th...
78. Catching the Most Notorious Spy in US History and Why James Bond’s Just a Hacker | Eric O’Neill
January 25, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590596" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Eric O'Neill (@eoneill) is an accomplished speaker, security expert and author that presents keynotes about espionage and national security, cybersecurity, fraud, ...
77. End Degenerative Disease, Increase IQ and Live Longer while Saving the World | Dr. David Perlmutter
January 21, 2019 08:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590599" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Dr. David Perlmutter (@davidperlmutter) is a Board-Certified Neurologist, four-time New York Times bestselling author and serves on the Board of Directors at the A...
76. Climate Change, Mass Extinctions and the Doom of the Dinosaurs | Peter Brannen
January 18, 2019 12:10 - 47 minutes - 44.9 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590600" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Peter Brannen (@peterbrannen1) is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Wired, Aeon...
75. Designer Babies, Reviving the Neanderthals and Funding Fundamental Science | Prosanta Chakrabarty
January 14, 2019 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590601" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Prosanta Chakrabarty (@preaux_fish) is a systematist and an ichthyologist studying the evolution and biogeography of both freshwater and marine fishes. His work in...
74. Megashifts, AI and Why the Future is More Unknowable than Ever | Gerd Leonhard
January 11, 2019 08:00 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590603" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Gerd 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).
73. How to Live Longer, Healthier Lives and Rewrite the Rules of News | Peter Bowes of Live Long and Master Aging Podcast
January 07, 2019 08:00 - 52 minutes - 49.2 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590605" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Peter Bowes (@peterbowes) is BBC Correspondent, biohacker and hosting of the Live Long and Master Aging Podcast where he explores the science and stories behind hu...
72. Seth Shostak on SETI, Space and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life | Big Picture Science
January 04, 2019 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40.9 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590602" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Seth 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 la...
71. Solving the Hard Problem of Consciousness with a Mathematical God and Messed Up Perception of Reality | Donald Hoffman
December 31, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590614" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Donald Hoffman (@donaldhoffman) is a cognitive scientist, popular author, and Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. He studies how our visual perception, g...
70. The End of Oceans and Life as We Know It? | Carl Safina
December 28, 2018 08:00 - 58 minutes - 54.6 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590608" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Carl 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 relations...
69. Bio Inspired Robotics, Drones on Battlefield and Building Realworld C3PO? | Auke Ijspeert
December 26, 2018 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590609" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Auke Ijspeert is a professor at the EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne), and head of the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob). Auke is interest...
68. Hillary Clinton’s Top Advisor on Technology, Innovation, Biotech and Future of Politics | Alec Ross
December 24, 2018 08:00 - 57 minutes - 53 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590604" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Alec serves as an advisor to investors, corporations and government leaders to help them understand the implication of factors emerging at the intersection of geop...
67. The Future of Digital Health, Personalized Medicine and Possible Immortality | Bertalan Meskó – The Medical Futurist
December 21, 2018 10:32 - 48 minutes - 45.5 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590610" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Dr. 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 i...
66. Inventing TV on the Internet a Tad Bit Too Early | Scott Klososky
December 19, 2018 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590613" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Scott 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...
65. Artificial Intelligence for Good | XPrize Adivsor Oliver Christie
December 17, 2018 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MB[spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590615" 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="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Oliver Christie (@oliverchristie) is the founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence consulting firm Foxy Machine. He works across multiple industries to help integ...