Future Grind

In this installment of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea speaks with Ascendance Biomedical CEO Aaron Traywick. Aaron is a controversial figure that seeks to democratize access to unregulated, experimental, and some would say potentially dangerous medical treatments and enhancements. An experimental HIV treatment that his company created is currently being tested in a human, and Aaron recently made headlines when he injected himself with an experimental herpes treatment while one stage at the BDYHAX human augmentation conference in Austin. He hopes to prove these treatments safe and them make them available to others who would like to access them. Warning: Self-administering any type of unregulated gene-therapy or other treatment is risky. Anything that Aaron mentions during this interview should be viewed as experimental research compounds not intended for human use. I encourage you to consult your doctor with any questions. Despite the controversy surrounding Aaron and his work, I feel that this conversation is an important one to have. I was very interested in his background and the philosophy behind his work, and I think that you will be as well. For better or worse, DIY gene therapy will only continue to grow. Aaron has positioned himself near the forefront of this movement, and I think we'd all be better served if we understood more about it.

In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea speaks with Justin Atkin of The Thought Emporium. The Thought Emporium is a popular YouTube channel that shares videos exploring scientific concepts and cutting edge research on everything from nanotechnology to genetics and chemistry to biohacking. Justin also helps to operate Scihouse, the community science lab currently based in Jacksonville. He's an entrepreneur and scientist with active projects involving nanorobotics, genetic engineering, and more.

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In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea speaks with Australia's own Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow. Meow - and yes, that's his real name - was crowned a "True Leaders Game Changer" by the Australian Financial Review for his efforts to democratize science and technology. These efforts include co-founding Australia's first open-access molecular biology lab, BioFoundry, in 2014 and being the Science Party candidate for an Australian House of Representatives seat in 2017. Meow teaches courses on cryptocurrency and blockchain, and is currently at the center of a very important legal case that could set a precedent in the emerging field of cyborg law. He'll update everyone on this case during a talk his he giving at BDYHAX, the human augmentation conference, which will be February 2-4, 2018, in Austin, Texas.

If you'd like to hear more about this, or see any of the other speakers at BDYHAX (including yours truly), you can save 20% off of your conference passes by entering code FUTUREGRIND at checkout at bdyhax.com. But you'll have to hurry! This discount code expires on January 25, 2018

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In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea speaks with the controversial, semi-anonymous, and enigmatic biohacking pioneer Lepht Anonym. Lepht has been featured by WIRED and the BBC and has been documenting it's biohacking experiments on its blog, Sapiens Anonym, since 2007.

Lepht is most well known for a 2010 talk titled "Cybernetics for the Masses" that it gave in at the 27th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany, which detailed Lepht's DIY self-surgery & "homebrewed" implants. This has been referred to as "Scrapheap Tranhumanism", which is also the title of a 2010 article that Lepht wrote for Humanity+ Magazine.

*A word of warning - Biohacking is dangerous and things can go wrong. I strongly advise against self-surgery of any kind, and you should consult with a trained medical doctor before moving forward with any type of human augmentation.

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In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea speaks with BDYHAX co-founder Trevor Goodman. BDYHAX, also known as BodyHacking Con, is an annual conference focused on human enhancement, transhumanism, and biohacking. This conference brings together pioneers and thought leaders from varied disciplines, with specific focus on implantable technology, nootropics, health and fitness, wearable tech, and ethics. The third edition will take place from February 2-4, 2018 in Austin, Texas.

Noteworthy attendees have included biohackers Rich Lee, Amal Graafstra, Jeffrey Tibbetts, Moon Ribas, and Neil Harbisson, bionic actress Angel Giuffria, the "Eyeborg" Rob Spence, journalists Quinn Norton and Cory Doctorow, science communicator James Young (Future Grind Ep. 9), and many more.

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In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea sits down with Kevin Warwick, the Coventry University researcher blurring the line between academia and biohacking. Warwick pioneered RFID implants in the 1990s. He is perhaps best known for his BrainGate experiments, a technology which could lead to brain-to-brain communication. Topics explored include the ethics of academic experimentation, predictive artificial intelligence, deep brain stimulation, robots controlled by brain cells, extrasensory perception, and more.

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In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea sits down with television host and science communicator James Young to discuss his participation in the Phantom Limb project. Through a partnership with the Metal Gear Solid video game series, James helped to design and received a custom bionic limb - a journey which was featured in the BBC documentary "Bodyhack: Metal Gear Man." We also dove into his new BBC Three documentary "Can Robots Love Us?", and discuss the shortcomings and limitations of both prosthetics and robotics.

Find James online - jamesahy.com, @jamesahyoung

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This special episode of the Future Grind podcast features an interview with Future Grind host Ryan O'Shea recorded for the Dangerous Minds podcast. They asked Ryan about his role with Grindhouse Wetware, the philosophical questions surrounding consciousness and identity, Ryan's artificial intelligence startup Behaivior, and when we can expect biohacking technology to gain mainstream acceptance.

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In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea interviews bioethicist and journalist Alex Pearlman about the ethics of experimentation, the future of gene editing technology (including CRISPR/Cas9), inclusivity in futurism, and more. Alex is currently receiving an advanced degree in bioethics from King's College London, and has written extensively on the subject of gene editing and human enhancement for outlets such as New Scientist, International Business Times, Boston Magazine, Vice, Motherboard, Al Jazeera, WBUR, PRI's The World, and more. Note - Alex is a new mom, so you may hear some (remarkably cute) baby noises in the background of this podcast.

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In this episode of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O'Shea interviews well known author and entrepreneur Rohit Bhargava about his strategies for curating trends and predicting the future. Rohit is also a professor at Georgetown University, and is known for coining the term Social Media Optimization. Together we dive into the new edition of his annual Trends Report, Non-Obvious, where we discuss the future of healthcare, invisible technology, self-aware data, the outsider effect, and more!

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