A discussion about how Virtual Reality is being used to treat pain and other health issues and what this means for the future.

Why was Thorium nuclear energy forgotten to history even if it was safer, more efficient and cheaper for energy production? By looking at the story of Thorium we see that technology adoption and use isn't a determined outcome.

Professor Nico Larco comes on to explain both the positive and negative implications for cities in adopting autonomous vehicles, how covid may have changed things with regard to this technology, and how individuals will be affected by this powerful technology.

Over the past few years 5G has been a contentious topic. But as an innovation that will underpin several other technologies and sectors, its impact has the possibility to be as substantial as it will be broad. What are the likely social, technological, and economic benefits that will follow?

A quick look into the idea of treating your personal data as labour, and turning the benefit of data use back to the user.

What is it like shopping in an automated store? Both Amazon and Alibaba have implemented grocery stores where no cashiers are needed, and technologies like facial recognition enable automated payments. What is it like using these stores and are they the future?

What are the arguments for and against UBI, the impact that Covid has had, as well as the numerous pilot studies that have happened across the world and what we can learn from them?

Hilde Latour, the Vice-Chair Basic Income Earth Network, comes onto the podcast this week to discuss these points and more.

Kyle Cobb, Co-founder and CFO of Advanced.Farm discusses the impact that autonomous harvesting will have on farmers, workers, and agriculture in general.

What are the differences between how AI is being developed and implemented in Europe as compared to China or the US? What are the challenges and future of AI in Europe. Philipp Slusallek of DFKI and I discuss the issues around European AI today.

With Bitcoin now in legal use across El Salvador what does this mean for the rest of Latin America and the world?