Singularity.FM
318 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 184 ratingsSingularity.FM was the first singularity podcast in the world. It is the place where we interview the future and technology meets ethics: an open conversation about the impact of exponential tech, accelerating change, and the choices we make. It helps us identify the full spectrum of unprecedented dangers and opportunities and give birth to our own ideas about the best way to create a better future, a better you.
Singularity.FM is a series of interviews with the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, filmmakers, philosophers, and artists. We discuss the technological singularity, transhumanism, artificial intelligence, life extension, genetics, robotics, nanotech, synthetic biology, cryptocurrencies, and ethics: because technology is not enough!
Past guests of this singularity podcast include people such as Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, Noam Chomsky, Natasha Vita-More, Stuart Hameroff, Marvin Minsky, Aubrey de Grey, Max More, Michio Kaku, Vernor Vinge, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and many, many others.
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Our Future, AI and Veganism: 6 Reasons Why I Went Vegan
March 15, 2024 13:55 - 11 minutes - 6.21 MB I have now been vegan for almost 9 years and people keep asking me how I feel and why I did it. So let me share a quick health update as well as the original 6 reasons why I went vegan. Since going vegan I have lost and kept off 25 pounds or about […]
It’s Ethics. Not Tech Ethics.
March 08, 2024 08:08 - 8 minutes - 5.03 MBI have noticed that almost every startup in almost every industry is claiming “a revolutionary AI or blockchain breakthrough.” [Often both.] More recently I’m flabbergasted to see a similar fad in the growing number of self-proclaimed Tech and AI ethicists. We apparently have an exponential proliferation of what someone called “ethics natives” such as angel […]
Modern Bard Dr. Martin Shaw: Be a Story-maker for Your Times
October 01, 2023 15:37 - 57 minutes - 36.3 MBDr. Martin Shaw is the best oral storyteller that I know of. He is also the only person who can impromptu tell the entire Odyssey by his imagination alone. Martin is well versed in a variety of stories from classic Greek to pagan, indigenous, and religious ones. He is the author of 18 books and […]
Kevin Kelly on Wisdom and Excellent Advice for Living
June 15, 2023 15:15 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBWhen I started blogging and podcasting back in 2009 topics like wisdom were near-invisible, if not considered irrelevant to the conversations of AI, transhumanism, genetic engineering, and human enhancement. So bringing ethics to the technology conversation became my longstanding goal and unique selling proposition for both Singularity Weblog and Singularity.FM. At the time, most conversations […]
Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks
May 03, 2023 07:30 - 2 hours - 75.9 MBMy goal with this podcast has always been to be a bit of a gadfly to your as well as my intellectual growth and, hopefully, a midwife to your best ideas rather than a disseminator of a specific movement or ideology. Thus, while I’ve never hidden my personal views, I don’t try to make you […]
Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism
February 14, 2023 14:24 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBMy podcast guest today is Nikolas Badminton. Nik is the Chief Futurist at futurist.com. He has worked with over 300 organizations in foresight, strategy, and disruption – including NASA, the United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Rolls Royce, and many others. Nik is a friend of mine, and in addition to our common interest in the […]
My NBF Contest Pitch: The Greatest Leadership Opportunity of the 21st Century
January 25, 2023 14:15 - 3 minutes - 3.29 MBThis is my 4 min video pitch for the 2023 Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest. Hope you enjoy it but feel free to let me know if that’s not the case 😉 The Greatest Leadership Opportunity in the 21st Century A story I stumbled on in 2006 changed my life. “The Singularity is Near” […]
Massimo Pigliucci on Story, Virtue, Character and AI
December 01, 2022 16:43 - 1 hour - 39.6 MBProf. Massimo Pigliucci is one of those very rare people who manage to combine the pursuit of deep science and the living ethos of practical philosophy. Massimo has Ph.D. degrees in Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, and Philosophy. He is also the author of hundreds of technical papers in both science and philosophy as well as a […]
Ukrainian Transhumanist Alex Padalka: A War Against Our Democratic Values
November 17, 2022 14:49 - 40 minutes - 24.2 MBWhen the war in Ukraine started, I asked myself if I could do anything to help. I have no friends or family in Ukraine, but I remember that a couple of years ago, I was interviewed by someone from Donetsk. When I got in touch with Alexander Padalka, he was hiding underground from the daily […]
Ursula Eysin on Uncertainty and Future Scenarios
October 25, 2022 13:26 - 2 hours - 73.6 MBUrsula Eysin is the founder of Red Swan, a consultancy focusing on the development of future scenarios. She is a trained ballerina, plays the flute, speaks 7 languages, does math, and reads chemistry books for fun. Besides that, Ursula is a mentor to various Austrian and international startups while also giving lectures at 5 universities. […]
Zoltan Istvan on AI, Transhumanism, Politics and Ethics
October 14, 2022 17:22 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBZoltan Istvan is a former journalist, political candidate, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and founder of the US Transhumanist Party. He has been on this podcast twice before when we discussed Istvan’s presidential campaign and his bestselling novel The Transhumanist Wager. During this 1-hour conversation with Zoltan Istvan, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as […]
David Wood on the Singularity Principles
October 08, 2022 14:08 - 2 hours - 71.2 MBThe Singularity Principles is a unique, comprehensive, and principled framework for riding the tsunami of change coming our way, instead of drowning in it. It is a one-of-a-kind work written by a person who is singularly qualified with the necessary knowledge, professional experience, and required discipline to produce it. David Wood is a futurist, catalyst, […]
Danko Nikolic and John Smart on AI, Practopoiesis, and Autopoiesis
September 01, 2022 17:58 - 2 hours - 79.1 MBThis is an interview with Danko Nikolic and John Smart on the future of AI and their respective theories of Practopoiesis – Neuromimicry, and Autopoiesis – Biomimicry. During our 2-hour conversation with Danko and John, we cover a variety of interesting topics such as evolution, development, and life as a network; practopoiesis and the origins […]
Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell on Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History
August 12, 2022 14:57 - 1 hour - 55.6 MBProf. Lewis Dartnell is an astrobiologist who looks for life on distant planets. In his most recent book, however, Dartnell turns his gaze inward and backward to the human story – who we are, how we came to be, where we are coming from, and, most importantly, how the geological planetary processes drove the evolution […]
David Loy on Zen, EcoDharma, AI and Story
July 23, 2022 19:57 - 2 hours - 72.1 MBWithout a doubt, the social revolution in the West and individual insight/enlightenment in the East are among humanity’s greatest accomplishments. But we can have them separate no longer for we desperately need both because individual people make society but, in turn, society makes individuals. We need to unite the quest for personal enlightenment and the […]
Byron Reese on Stories, Dice and Rocks That Think
July 10, 2022 16:45 - 2 hours - 80.5 MBByron Reese is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and futurist. He has enjoyed a wide range of success over 30 years, including two NASDAQ IPOs as well as the sale of three companies he founded. Today Byron is the CEO of JJ Kent, a venture-backed company using AI to create new products. Reese is also the author […]
Cadell Last on Nietzsche, Transhumanism and Story
June 28, 2022 17:15 - 2 hours - 75.7 MBI have always wanted to discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy and how it relates to technology and transhumanism. The problem is that a very short list of people will make me enjoy such a challenging conversation. Luckily, Dr. Cadell Last is among the top on that shortlist. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as […]
Joscha Bach on AI, Cosmology, Existence and the Bible
June 15, 2022 16:23 - 2 hours - 77.9 MBJoscha Bach is a beautiful mind and a very rewarding interlocutor. No surprise I had many requests to have him back on my podcast. I apologize that it took 4 years but the good news is we are going to have a third conversation much sooner this time around. If you haven’t seen our first […]
The Cassandra of Futurism Faith Popcorn: Futurism Doesn’t Come from the Past
May 25, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBFaith Popcorn founded her futurist marketing consultancy in 1974. She’s been called “The Trend Oracle” by the NY Times and “The Nostradamus of Marketing” by Fortune. Faith is a trusted advisor to the CEOs of Fortune 200 companies and has predicted a variety of trends such as Cocooning and its impact on the COVID culture, […]
Kendall Haven on Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story
May 06, 2022 16:53 - 2 hours - 99.7 MBDr. Kendall Haven is the only West Point graduate to ever become a professional storyteller. Haven holds a Doctorate in Oceanography and spent eight years as a Senior Research Scientist for the Department of Energy before finding his true passion for what he calls, a very different kind of “truth.” Kendall is the author of 34 […]
Brian Boyd on the Origin of Stories
April 17, 2022 14:53 - 2 hours - 78.6 MBBrian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His work has appeared in 20 languages and has won awards on four continents. Most importantly, Prof. Boyd is the author of On the Origin of Stories which examines the connections between evolution, cognition, and fiction. During our 2-hour conversation with […]
John Smart: Foresight is Your Hidden Superpower
March 23, 2022 13:00 - 2 hours - 117 MBJohn Smart has taught and written for over 20 years on topics like foresight and futurism as well as the drivers, opportunities, and problems of exponential processes throughout human history. John is President of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, co-Founder of the Evo-Devo research community, and CEO of Foresight University. Most recently, Smart is the author […]
Jonah Sachs on Winning the Story Wars and ReWriting the Human Story
March 11, 2022 14:37 - 62.5 MBJonah Sachs is an author, speaker, and viral marketing pioneer. He helped create some of the world’s first and most heralded digital social change campaigns. Jonah Sachs is also the author of Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future and, most recently, Unsafe Thinking: How […]
Jonah Sachs on Winning the Story Wars: Storytelling is our neglected secret weapon
March 11, 2022 14:37 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBJonah Sachs is an author, speaker, and viral marketing pioneer. He helped create some of the world’s first and most heralded digital social change campaigns. Jonah Sachs is also the author of Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future and, most recently, Unsafe Thinking: How […]
Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals
March 02, 2022 14:01 - 2 hours - 72.9 MBMany of you know that I’ve been working on a new book provisionally titled ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future. And so I thought it could be useful to me and interesting to you if I were to have a conversation with a few story experts and ask them questions such […]
Roshi Jundo Cohen on Zen, AI, Transhumanism and Saving the World
February 18, 2022 20:06 - 2 hours - 73.1 MBMany of you know that I am a fan of Buddhism in general and Zen Buddhism in particular. So I’ve always wanted to get a Zen Master on the podcast. I never imagined, however, that there is a Zen Master who has listened to almost every episode of my show. But the universe is a […]
Angus Fletcher on Wonderworks: Seek The Untold Story
February 08, 2022 19:08 - 2 hours - 73.7 MBProf. Angus Fletcher is a story scientist working at the intersection of story and neuroscience. Angus started as a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan but eventually decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Shakespeare at Yale. Then he went to Stanford University and worked with clients in Hollywood, DARPA, and the US special forces. Angus […]
SciFi Author PJ Manney on the New Mythos and (Con)Science
January 28, 2022 18:41 - 2 hours - 127 MBThis is the second interview of my series on story and my guest is PJ Manney. PJ is the author of the Phoenix Horizon Trilogy and has already been a guest on Singularity.FM twice before. [See our 1st and 2nd interviews.] She is a friend, and I am a big fan of her books. Today we […]
Lisa Cron on Story or Die: Question the Story
January 20, 2022 14:32 - 2 hours - 134 MBSome of you may know that I’ve been working on a new book. The provisional title is ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future. Struggling with this book is why it’s been a number of months since my last podcast interview. And so I thought it could be useful to me and […]
Chapter 12: The Politics Story
December 09, 2021 18:21 - 11 minutes - 11.3 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 12: The Politics Story Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest – forces that look like […]
Chapter 11: The AI Story
August 02, 2021 15:31 - 8 minutes - 13.3 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 11: The AI Story Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra When looms weave by themselves, man’s slavery will end. Aristotle Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to […]
Chapter 10: The Capitalism Story
July 19, 2021 14:18 - 10 minutes - 15.1 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 10: The Capitalism Story …by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led […]
Nikola Danaylov: Technology Reveals Who We Are, Not The Future
July 11, 2021 10:16 - 47 minutes - 67.1 MBI recorded this virtual keynote for a corporate client about 10 days ago and decided to share it publicly. Hope you enjoy it 😉 Technology is a Mirror, Not a Crystal Ball; It Reveals Who We Are, Not the Future The 1st atomic bomb was nicknamed “gadget.” Does this say something about […]
Nikola Danaylov’s Virtual Keynote: How to Be a Futurist
July 05, 2021 13:02 - 17 minutes - 24.8 MBA few weeks ago I had a client who asked me to do a virtual keynote on futurism. The client was pretty happy how it turned out so I thought I’d share it publicly. This way you can hopefully enjoy, share and benefit from it too. 😉 How to Be a Futurist Famous physicist […]
Chapter 9: The Technology Story
June 28, 2021 18:11 - 15 minutes - 15.3 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 9: The Technology Story Technology improves the lives of people who can avoid being dominated by it and forced into debilitating addictions to it. Frank Kaufmann The 1st atomic bomb was nicknamed “gadget.” Does this fact say something […]
Chapter 8: The Science Story
June 20, 2021 15:21 - 9 minutes - 14.6 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 8: The Science Story The universe is made of stories, not atoms. Muriel Rukeyser *** About 13.5 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang. The […]
Chapter 7: The Human Story
June 13, 2021 11:00 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 7: The Human Story The Earth does not belong to man; man belongs to Earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does […]
Part II: Our Story
June 06, 2021 17:17 - 3 minutes - 6.38 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Part II: Our Story Gods always behave like the people who make them. Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse Before we have a story, any story, we must first have a storyteller. Therefore, the most important story, that which […]
Chapter 6: The Biology of Story
May 31, 2021 11:58 - 8 minutes - 8.92 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 6: The Biology of Story Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing the contrary that the mind is itself the principle element of creation. Rabindranath […]
Chapter 5: The Importance of Story
May 23, 2021 16:59 - 8 minutes - 8.73 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 5: The Importance of Story It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story. Patrick Rothfuss Stories […]
Chapter 4: The Power of the Storyteller
May 16, 2021 08:45 - 7 minutes - 11.4 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 4: The Power of the Storyteller The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come. Steve Jobs. Before we have a […]
Chapter 3: The Power of Story
May 10, 2021 11:02 - 5 minutes - 9.03 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 3: The Power of Story We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our stories about them. Epictetus The most powerful stories are stories about things that don’t exist. Because our fictive language gave birth […]
Chapter 2: The Story of Story
May 03, 2021 10:30 - 4 minutes - 7.09 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 2: The Story of Story The limits of my language means the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein Humanity has searched for meaning since its beginning. And we find it in story. The story that we tell ourselves. […]
Chapter 1: The Definition of Story
April 24, 2021 13:25 - 7 minutes - 7.87 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Chapter 1: The Definition of Story We started our thought experiment with Kenneth Burke’s definition of story as “equipment for living.” Burke offers a great start but it is Jeff DeChambeau who really brings all the essential elements together […]
Part I: Story
April 19, 2021 08:00 - 5 minutes - 8.51 MBReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future an alternative thought experiment by Nikola Danaylov Part I: Story People always find it easier to be a result of the past rather than a cause of the future. Unknown Are we just billiard balls in a predetermined cosmic game of pool? Or are we free […]
ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future
April 17, 2021 06:00 - 12 minutes - 12.1 MBIt is harder and harder to make sense of life. Everything is changing, all the time, at a faster and faster pace. Our civilization is struggling to keep up with exponential technology and disruptive change. Our age-old institutions, politics, economics, ethics, religion and laws, even our environment, are so fundamentally challenged, that we risk collapse. […]
Gus Hosein on Privacy: We’ve been well-meaning but stupid
January 28, 2021 20:09 - 2 hours - 90.2 MBDr. Gus Hosein is a 20+year-veteran of Privacy International. So to say that he knows a lot about privacy will be an understatement. But his knowledge is not merely academic. Gus and his scrappy team of privacy crusaders have fought the long and hard war while putting everything on the line, over and over again. […]
Francesca Ferrando on Philosophical Posthumanism
January 20, 2021 16:16 - 2 hours - 87.9 MBThough admittedly posthumanist, Francesca Ferrando‘s Philosophical Posthumanism is the best book on transhumanism that I have read so far. I believe that it is a must-read for transhumanists and non-transhumanists alike. In fact, one can argue that Ferrando’s book ranks right up there with the very best not only on the transhuman, but also on […]
Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and the Ministry for the Future
January 11, 2021 16:56 - 2 hours - 98.2 MBKim Stanley Robinson has an asteroid named after him. The reason for that is simple: Stan, as he’s often known among people who know him, is one of the best known contemporary authors of classic [hard] science fiction. He has written 20 books that have been translated into 25 languages and has won pretty much […]
Matthew Cole on Vegan Sociology, Ethics, Transhumanism and Technology
January 04, 2021 15:04 - 2 hours - 84.2 MBDr. Matthew Cole is the only vegan sociologist that I know of. His unique point of view on veganism, especially its implications with respect to ethics, transhumanism, and the application of technology, has already left a mark on the way I perceive the small challenges of being vegan as an opportunity for personal discipline and […]