MIND & MACHINE: Science & Tech of Maximizing Human Capability
68 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsWeekly interview show with people at the forefront of transformational technologies, scientific research, and bold new thinking that enables humans to operate at higher levels — better able to achieve whatever each person values most in life.
This could be in fields as diverse as neuroscience, computer science, psychology, bio-tech, augmented reality, nutrition & fitness and so many more areas of pioneering work.
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Notion & Software Creation by Everyone with Notion COO Akshay Kothari
September 23, 2020 03:31 - 48 minutes - 48.2 MBMy guest today is Akshay Kothari, the Chief Operating Officer at Notion. As COO, Akshay is one of the top people driving the ship at this next-generation software platform that's enabling everyday users to create their own software tools instead of settling for what's provided on the market. Despite Notion being a young and small company of around 50 people, it has received a valuation of $2 billion dollars in its latest venture capital funding round — making it one of the fastest moving ...
The Medical Futurist on Fighting Pandemics with Emerging Technologies, Now & In The Future
April 05, 2020 09:30 - 49 minutes - 46.5 MBMy guest today is Dr. Bertalan Mesko, also known as The Medical Futurist. He's the Director of The Medical Futurist Institute, delivers keynote addresses all over the world, and runs a popular magazine and YouTube channel on the future of medicine with an emphasis on how technology will shape healthcare. Dr. Mesko is a physician with a PhD in genomics, and an Amazon Top 100 author. With the Coronavirus pandemic underway, we get into the nature of pandemics, what stages to look for in the evo...
The Psychology of Attention with Nir Eyal, Author of "Indistractable"
March 16, 2020 17:23 - 58 minutes - 54.1 MBMy guest today is Nir Eyal, who writes and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. The MIT Technology Review dubbed Nir, "The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology." Nir has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Institute of Design at Stanford. He's the author of two bestselling books, "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life". We explore the the psychology of focus...
Skill Mastery & Peak Performance through Deliberate Practice with Psychologist Anders Ericsson
February 05, 2020 18:13 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBMy guest today is Anders Ericsson, author of the renowned book "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise". He is among the world's leading authorities on how to new master skills. Anders is a Professor of Psychology and conducted much of the research on expertise and peak performance that Malcolm Gladwell famously referenced to develop the 10,000 hour rule in Gladwell's book Outliers. However, as we discuss today, Malcom Gladwell mis-interpreted much of the science behind the 10,000 h...
Flow States for Ultimate Human Performance with Steven Kotler
January 21, 2020 10:30 - 55 minutes - 51.7 MBMy guest today is Steven Kotler. Steven is one of the world's leading experts on achieving Ultimate Human Performance through Flow States. "Flow" is the cognitive state of full immersion and focus in which brain activity changes to enable peak human capability across an intellectual or physical activity. It's characterized by rapt attention so deep that one loses their sense of space and time, tapping into radically heightened performance, creativity, and learning. Steven is the Execut...
Team Human: Tech, Media, Culture with Douglas Rushkoff
January 09, 2020 17:10 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBMy guest today is Douglas Rushkoff, who has been named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT. He's an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in the digital age. He's written over twenty books include the recently-published "Team Human", and he hosts a popular podcast, also called "Team Human", focusing on the economic, technological, and social programs that determine how we live, work, and interact. His perspective challenges conventional thinking, of...
The Neuroscience of Consciousness with Christof Koch
December 18, 2019 10:30 - 55 minutes - 51.7 MBMy guest today is Dr. Christof Koch, one of the worlds foremost experts on neuroscience and consciousness. Dr. Koch is the Chief Scientist and President of the Allen Institute for Brain Science. He recently released his latest book, The Feeling of Life Itself – Why Consciousness is Everywhere But Can’t be Computed. It explores new insights and perspectives into human consciousness, as well as ideas surrounding the potential of sentient machines. We explore a wide range of issues surrounding...
Clean Meat: Lab-Grown Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize the World with Paul Shapiro
November 26, 2019 18:11 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBMy guest today is Paul Shapiro, author of the national bestseller "Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World". He's also the CEO and co-founder of The Better Meat Co., a four-time TEDx speaker, the co-host of the Business for Good Podcast. In our conversation today we explore the future of food, with a particular focus on lab-grown meat that's identical to meat from animals. I came away from this conversation with enhanced hope for our ability...
Human Enhancement & Personal Performance Hacking with Matt Ward of the Disruptors
November 18, 2019 10:30 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBWe explore Human Enhancement and Personal Performance Hacking with Matt Ward (@mattwardio), the host The Disruptors podcast, startup investor, adviser and business innovation consultant. Matt and I thought it would be fun to do two episodes, one here on MIND & MACHINE and the other on The Disruptors, where we explore what we've learned, the ideas we've formed and our takeaways across all these different fields that we cover. So with this episode here on MIND & MACHINE, we focus on human en...
First Principles Thinking & Secret Mastermind of Brain Scientists - Donald Hoffman, Cognitive Scientist
November 11, 2019 10:30 - 16 minutes - 15.7 MBIn a follow-up to our previous episode, my guest today is again cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, author of the book "The Case Against Reality". In this addendum to the previous episode, we explore how Don's First Principles Thinking enabled his remarkably original theory on reality (covered fully in the previous episode). Then further into today's discussion we hear about the Secret Mastermind of Brain Scientists that Don was a part of for nearly two decades, Don has been making wav...
Donald Hoffman: The Case Against Reality (Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Evolution)
November 05, 2019 10:30 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBMy guest today is cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman, author of the book "The Case Against Reality". Don has been making waves lately in a range of scientific fields with a theory of reality that splinters all of our preconceived notions. What if everything we thought was real -- the physical world around us and the notion of time -- are not reality but a vast surface-level operating system designed to guide our behaviors for evolutionary survival. What if understanding true objective realit...
CRISPR Gene Editing, Embryo Modification & Mind Reading Technologies with Stanford Law Ethicist Hank Greely
October 24, 2019 09:30 - 58 minutes - 54.3 MBToday we explore CRISPR and gene editing, embryo selection vs embryo editing, parental vs societal needs, emerging mind-reading technologies, and the ethics surrounding all of these issues. August Bradley's guest is Hank Greely, a Stanford Law School professor specializing in the ethical, legal, and social implications of new biomedical technologies, particularly those related to genetics and neuroscience. Hank frequently serves as an advisor on policy issues — he's the chair of California...
Technology Transforming Media with Martin Bryant
October 15, 2019 19:17 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBAugust Bradley's guest today is Martin Bryant, a technology and media writer, speaker and consultant who puts out the Big Revolution newsletter on what's happening at the intersection of technology and media. Martin was previously the Editor In Chief of the TNW digital magazine which operates alongside the influential The Next Web conference on emerging tech. We explore how tech companies are transforming the media world, and bringing many aspects of culture and politics along with it. P...
Neuromorphic Computers, Machines Simulating the Brain with Steve Furber
October 02, 2019 19:46 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBMy guest today is Steven Furber, who has led the design of the SpiNNiker neuromorphic computer — a brain simulator with one million cores on a single machine, each core interacting with the others in ways mimicking how living brains function. His work on the SpiNNiker neuromorphic computer is designed to both teach us more about how human brains work and to advance computational capabilities. Neuromorphic computing is a sub-set of Artificial intelligence focusing on hardware that uses the ...
The Future of War: AI + Autonomous Warfare with “Army of None” Author Paul Scharre
February 07, 2019 10:00 - 53 minutes - 49.7 MBMy guest today is Paul Scharre, author of the book "Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War" — which Bill Gates recently featured in his top five book recommendations of the year. Paul is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security — a think tank based in Washinton D.C. Previously, Paul worked for the U.S. Secretary of Defense where he played a leading role in establishing policies on unmanned aut...
AI Documentary “Do You Trust This Computer” Director Chris Paine on Artificial Intelligence
January 28, 2019 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBMy guest today is Chris Pain, director of the AI documentary film "Do You Trust This Computer?" and previously the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car?". The new film is a powerful examination of artificial intelligence centered around insights from the most high-profile thinkers on the subject, including Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, Ray Kurzweil, Andrew Ng, Westworld creator Jonathan Nolan and many more. Chris set out to ask these leaders in the field "what scares smart peop...
Dyson Spheres & Space Megastructures – Inhabiting Space with Isaac Arthur
January 15, 2019 10:30 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBMy guest is Isaac Arthur — a theoretical space scientist, physicist, futurist and bold visionary of human expansion. He brings a mind-blowing level of research and storytelling to his series . While the subject matter sounds like science fiction and is certainly inspired by it, his exploration is framed within the known laws of physics. We will focus on space megastructures, a form of future world-building on a scale that's almost unimaginable. From Dyson Spheres and Ringworlds to Shell Wo...
AI Avatars and Virtual Human Digital Twins with ObEN CEO Nikhil Jain
December 19, 2018 10:30 - 53 minutes - 50.5 MBAs artificial intelligence evolves, it will present itself to us in a variety of ways. One of the most intriguing manifestations of AI will be when it assumes our own faces — forming an autonomous double of ourselves. My guest today is Nikhil Jain, founder and CEO of ObEN which creates AI-driven digital humans in the likeness of its users to perform tasks when they cannot be there in person. These digital avatars simulate a person’s voice, face and personality, enabling never-before-po...
Asteroid Mining & Interplanetary Economies with J.L. Galache, CTO of Asteroid Mining Company Aten Engineering
December 05, 2018 10:30 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBMy guest today is J.L. Galache, an asteroid astronomer turned new-space entrepreneur. J.L. is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Aten Engineering, a pioneering space mining company. He has designed and directed asteroid data projects with NASA’s Frontier Development Lab and Oracle. At the Minor Planet Center (part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), J.L. was Acting Deputy Director, where he helped keep the world safe from killer asteroids. We discuss space mini...
Genomics, Genomic Sequencing and Genome Medicine with Lisa Alderson
November 28, 2018 10:30 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBToday we explore genomics and how it will transform medicine. My guest is Lisa Alderson, the CEO and co-founder of Genome Medical — a fast growing company in the emerging field of genomics. Genome Medical provides expertise to both individuals wanting to explore their DNA, and to health care providers wanting to offer genomic medicine. We explore how genomic medicine will transform health care. Lisa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisaa?lang=en Genome Medical: https://www.geno...
Tech & Artificial Intelligence Ethics with Silicon Valley Ethicist Shannon Vallor
November 20, 2018 19:59 - 57 minutes - 54.1 MBMy guest today is Shannon Vallor, a technology and A.I. Ethicist. I was introduced to Shannon by Karina Montilla Edmonds at Google Cloud AI — we did an episode with Karina a few ago months focused on Google's A.I. efforts. Shannon works with the Google Cloud AI team on a regular basis helping them shape and frame difficult issues in the development of this emerging technology. Shannon is a Philosophy Professor specializing in the Philosophy of Science & Technology at Santa Clara Univer...
Facebook & Social Media – Impact on Our World with Siva Vaidhyanathan
November 13, 2018 10:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBMy guest today is Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of the book Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. His previous book was "The Googlization of Everything". Siva is a Cultural Historian and Media Scholar at the University of Virginia. We explore the impact of Facebook and how it will continue to shape our world, and we discuss the mechanics of how social media influences human behavior and societies. Siva on Twitter: http://twitter.com/sivavaid B...
Future of Personalized Medicine via Microbiomes with Naveen Jain
October 30, 2018 20:14 - 41 minutes - 39.9 MBMy guest today is Naveen Jain, a billionaire entrepreneur with two exceptionally ambitious ventures underway. We're addressing his two ventures in two separate episodes. In today's episode we discuss Naveen's effort to as he puts it "make illness optional" by establishing personalized medical care, prevention, and treatment through gut microbiome research and related medical advancements. His company, Viome, is understanding and eliminating human health problems arising from microbiome imb...
Inhabiting the Moon & Beyond via Moon Express with Naveen Jain
October 23, 2018 09:30 - 33 minutes - 31.7 MBMy guest today is Naveen Jain, a billionaire entrepreneur with two insanely ambitious ventures underway. He’s on the boards of the X-Prize and Singularity University, and has written a book called Moonshots about extreme entrepreneurship efforts. We're going to address his two moonshot ventures in two separate episodes. Since they address different topics and challenges, I wanted to go deep into each and do a full discussion around both topics. The first, in this episode, is Mo...
Life Extension & Human Longevity with Dr. Aubrey de Grey
October 11, 2018 09:41 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBToday we explore human longevity and life extension efforts focused on adding healthy years to a person's lifespan, and even reversing the aging process. My guest is Dr. Aubrey de Grey, a leading voice in the field and the Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation which is doing pioneering work on significantly extending healthy, active lifespans. Aubrey is a biomedical gerontologist with a degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Biology. He is author of the book "Ending ...
Future Cities with Kent Kresa, former Chairman of GM, Caltech, Northrop Grumman
October 04, 2018 09:30 - 46 minutes - 44.1 MBMy guest today is Kent Kresa, who has had an extraordinary career in advanced technology fields. Kent has been the Chairman of General Motors, the chairman of Caltech's board of directors, the chairman and chief executive of Northrop Grumman (the global aerospace and defense technology company), and Chairman of the biotech company MannKind Corporation. Earlier, he was with the top-secret defense research agency DARPA. How's that for a resume! We focus on the future of transportation and ...
Space Exploration with the Everyday Astronaut, Tim Dodd
September 26, 2018 09:30 - 56 minutes - 52 MBMy guest today is Tim Dodd, better known as the Everyday Astronaut. Tim has become a prominent educator on space exploration through his various media platforms and live presentations – he's amassed a sizable audience eager to learn more about Space X, NASA and the growing field. We're in there midst of a renewal in space programs, and Tim digs deep into the ecosystem. Our discussion covers the various players in the space race, looks at each sector across civilian space travel, milita...
Technology Influencer Austin Evans on Future Tech & Media Changes
September 17, 2018 18:02 - 56 minutes - 53.7 MBMy guest today is Austin Evans. With well over 3 million subscribers, Austin produces and hosts one of the top technology channels on YouTube. He reviews the leading edge of consumer products, often with early access to releases from the most influential manufactures. We explore how media is changing , how he as an individual content creator has built a show with viewership rivaling leading cable channels, and we discuss what he sees on the technological horizon across AI, AR/VR, Block...
Google AI and Machine Learning with Dr. Karina Montilla Edmonds
August 23, 2018 09:00 - 46 minutes - 66.3 MBToday we take a look at Google's work in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. My guest is Dr. Karina Montilla Edmonds. Karina works at Google Cloud AI & Machine Learning as the bridge between the Google Cloud AI team and leading university research labs in artificial Intelligence. Prior to this she worked at Caltech as the Executive Director of Corporate Partnerships. She has a PhD in Aeronautics from Caltech, and worked for many years at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We explo...
Technology = Nature with Futurist Gray Scott
August 14, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBThis week we explore a broad range of high-concept futurist frameworks and future technologies. My guest is Gray Scott, a visionary futurist and creator of both the Serious Wonder digital magazine and the Futuristic Now video series. Gray takes fragments of modern life and extrapolates a wholistic framework of how technology, humanity and universal physics will intertwine. We explore technology as a natural phenomenon, how the future is inside of us, recording dreams, sharing brain str...
Mental Health & Wellbeing Transformative Technologies with Nichol Bradford
June 19, 2018 09:00 - 35 minutes - 50.7 MBMental health and wellness are not areas you typically think of along with cutting edge exponential technology. However, that is about to change. My guest today is Nichol Bradford. Nichol is building the future of human possibility by facilitating bold new technologies for mental health and well-being. Nichol is the executive Director and co-founder of the Transformative Technology Lab, Transtech Conference, and the Transformative Technology Academy. We explore how technology can...
John Underkoffler: Sci-Fi Interface Design in the Real World
May 16, 2018 09:17 - 57 minutes - 80.9 MBMy guest today is John Underkoffler. As an early member of the MIT Media Lab, John was approached by Steven Spielberg and legendary world-builder Alex McDowell to help design the interface of the future for the film Minority Report. The system John and the team designed became legendary for its vision and conceptual innovation. He’s gone on to help design many sci-fi computer interfaces including Iron Man’s JARVIS. Building on these fictional computer interfaces, John has founded...
UBI: Universal Basic Income? Build the Floor Founder Larry Cohen
April 25, 2018 09:00 - 48 minutes - 67.9 MBToday we look at Universal Basic Income, or UBI. With increasingly advanced artificial intelligence and robotics, we face the threat of job loss on an unprecedented scale — by many estimates well into double digits and some forecasting a majority of the workforce will at some point not be needed. Others look at current poverty rates and the difficulty of escaping a downward economic spiral and ask if we are doing enough to give members of our society the chance to invest in their own g...
Prototyping Future Worlds with Architect/Filmmaker Liam Young
April 09, 2018 09:00 - 46 minutes - 65.1 MBMy guest today is Liam Young, an architect and visionary futurist filmmaker who uses his design background combined with experience in crafting environments to prototype new worlds — worlds that reveal unexpected aspects of how we live today and how we will live in the future. Liam teaches speculative architecture and world building at Sci Arc, a leading architecture school. He founded Unknown Fields, a nomadic studio documenting expeditions to the ends of the earth, exploring unusual ...
Tesla Rideshare Platform with Tesloop & The Carma Blockchain
March 28, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBTesla is changing the game for what an automobile can do, and can be. Not only are Tesla cars electric, but their data streams can function across a network with unprecedented interactivity. Add increasing autonomous driving capabilities, and the automotive equation changes massively. My guest today is Rahul Sonnad, the CEO of Tesloop. Tesloop is in operation today, and scaling to make a city-to-city network of Tesla cars available as a fast, affordable, comfortable alternative to pla...
Roundup: Future Transportation – Autonomous Vehicles + Flying Cars + Smart Cities
March 17, 2018 01:03 - 24 minutes - 34.1 MBExploring news about Autonomous Vehicles, Flying Cars and Smart Cities in this roundup analysis. More at www.mindandmachine.io
Bitcoin & Crypto: What Happens Next, with Tone Vays
March 05, 2018 23:17 - 47 minutes - 64.8 MBAs new crypto coins are issued through ICOs at a frenzied pace — Bitcoin, the original, shows the greatest market strength, with the most liquidity, the broadest installed wallet base, and many argue the strongest security. Today we check back in with Tone Vays, a thought-leader and advisor on everything related to Bitcoin. Our previous episode with Tone was an intro to crypto, and if you're new to the subject I suggest you start there. Today we expand on the subject of crypto and bitcoi...
Roundup: Clean Meat – From the Lab rather than from Animals
March 03, 2018 02:33 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBClean Meat is coming — meat created in the Lab, instead of from animals but identical to animal meat in every way, down to the molecular level. We discuss what this is all about, how realistic it is, and what kind of time frame we're looking at (much sooner than you think). More at www.mindandmachine.io
Roundup: : What is CRISPR? Plus 3 Types of ICO + National Digital Currencies
February 23, 2018 10:00 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBAn introductory look at CRISPR, how it works and why it matters. Plus a Cryptocurrency Headline Roundup: We look at Switzerland's categorization of ICOs into three types, and the first state-sponsored digital currency planned to be issued. More at: https://twitter.com/augustbradley www.mindandmachine.io
Virgin Hyperloop One – The Future of Transportation with SVP of Software Matt Jones
February 13, 2018 10:00 - 45 minutes - 64.2 MBFive years ago Elon Musk wrote a white paper proposing an alternative to slow, expensive transportation between distant cities. The idea was to replace air travel and trains with a Hyperloop, a 1,000 km per hour (or 600+ mph) passenger pod shooting through a tube hundreds of mile long in a vacuum, so no air resistance – levitating in the air so it avoids any friction. My guest today is Matt Jones, senior vice president of software at Virgin Hyperloop One, the leading developer of hyper...
Virtual Humans with the USC Director for Virtual Human Research, Jonathan Gratch
February 06, 2018 10:30 - 41 minutes - 59.1 MBWhen you combine natural language interface, emotion modeling, CG animation, and various forms of Artificial Intelligence, you get lifelike computer characters with autonomous interaction. This new kind of digital actor is called a Virtual Human, and can be deployed across a wide spectrum of functions -- enabling authentic human interaction with machines. From psychological counseling to education to customer service to endless other applications, virtual humans will play an increasing...
Origin of the Universe & Cosmic Inflation with NASA JPL & Caltech Scientist James Bock
January 30, 2018 10:00 - 37 minutes - 53.2 MBToday we’re going investigate the past — the most distant past imaginable: the Origin of the Universe. “How did the universe form” is such a profound question, that it informs everything we do today, and everything that will come next. My guest is James Bock. James is a Caltech Professor of Physics and NASA JPL Senior Research Scientist running experiments on what happened right after the Big Bang. As a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist, he and his team are at the forefront of underst...
Neuromorphic Computing, AI Chips Emulating the Brain with Kelsey Scharnhorst
January 15, 2018 10:34 - 38 minutes - 55.6 MBToday we explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) through Neuromorphic Computing with computer chips that emulate the biological neurons and synapses in the brain. Neuro-biological chip architectures enable machines to solve very different kinds of problems than traditional computers, the kinds of problems we previously thought only humans could tackle. My guest today is Kelsey Sharnhorst. Kelsey is an Artificial Neural Network Researcher at UCLA. Her research lab (Gimzewski Lab under James Gi...
Building AI Minds & Artificial Intelligence Growth with Michael Miller
January 08, 2018 10:00 - 40 minutes - 56.7 MBToday we look at a fascinating approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in which a mind is created at an infant-like level, with no knowledge and limited ability. Then it learns and develops from scratch through its own experience within the body of a device -- be it a robot body or a toaster. My guest today is Michael Miller, author of the new book “Building Minds with Patterns”. Michael is an expert at natural-growth AI development. I’ve had numerous conversations with Michael and co...
OpenBazaar: Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Marketplace with Brian Hoffman
December 18, 2017 10:30 - 46 minutes - 67 MBToday we look at OpenBazaar, the leading Bitcoin marketplace for goods and services. Can such emerging platforms challenge the likes of Amazon, Ebay and Etsy? Our guest is Brian Hoffman, founder and project lead of OpenBazaar. Brian is backed by leading VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. While working for Department of Defense cyber-security consulting units, which included analyzing crypto-currencies, Brian became intrigued by these emerging forms of program...
Media Tech and A Look Into the Future with Joanna Popper
December 11, 2017 10:30 - 34 minutes - 48.6 MBToday we begin with a discussion surveying a wide range of future technologies, then we dive deeper into the changing media landscape. Our guest today is Joanna Popper. Joanna has been the Executive Vice President of Media and Marketing at Singularity University, a pioneering institute teaching and fostering frontier technologies. Prior to that she was a Vice President at NBC Universal, developing strategies across digital, social and mobile.Joanna now works directly with a wide range ...
ICO + Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO) turned “Organisms" with Ismail Malik
December 04, 2017 10:30 - 33 minutes - 49.2 MBToday we explore Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, or DAOs -- blockchain algorithms with the potential to perform the entire functionality of corporations or government agencies... without a single employee. Our guest today is Ismail Malik, a pioneer in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, pushing the concept even further to what he believes will more accurately be Decentralized Autonomous Organisms -- where the blockchain algorithms’ behaviours go beyond that of an organization i...
Discovery’s Experiential Storytelling in Virtual Reality (VR) with Jeff Abramson
November 27, 2017 10:30 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBDiscovery is pursuing bold new methods of storytelling across their media portfolio (Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, etc...). This week we talk with Jeff Abramson, the Head of Virtual Reality Content Development and Programming for Discovery Communications, and get his insights into what makes immersive media (VR, AR, MR and such) compelling as well as where he sees it heading in the future. More at www.mindandmachine.io
Lytro “Light Field” Photography and Image Processing with Steven Swanson
November 20, 2017 10:00 - 36 minutes - 52.2 MBWe dive into the emerging arena of “computational photography” -- where cameras capture increasingly complex data that computers process to enable imagery never before possible. One of the most mind blowing areas of “Computational Photography” is “Light Field” imagery, which redefines much of what we took for granted about photo capture. With “Light Field” captures, we can change focus, depth of field and aperture at any point after the image has been taken. It also enables some ...
Artificial Intelligence + The Neuroscience of App Addiction with Ramsay Brown
November 13, 2017 10:30 - 55 minutes - 78.2 MB1st Half: The Neuroscience of App Addiction 2nd Half: Artificial Intelligence from a Neuroscience Perspective (at 24:45) Apps are designed to grab us and keep us hooked as long as possible, as often as possible. Addictive traits built into the apps manipulate us at a primal biological level -- creating a stimulus/response pattern that can re-program our behaviors over time. The increasing role of Artificial Intelligence will inevitably hand-off some of this addictive-design work, setti...