Let's Make The Future

Dr. Stephen Larson and Tim Shi join the regular panelists to discuss the race to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and its potential implications.

Opening clip from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “A Measure of a Man“.

PhD candidate BF Schuman joins the regular panelists to discuss possible developments in the future of warfare and their effects, from artificial intelligence to robotics.

What are the implications for society of a widely available anti-aging treatment? What if this treatment is possible but extremely expensive and thus only available to the very rich?

Contains excerpts from "Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Standup" (Comedy Central) and "In Time" (20th Century Fox)

Image adapted from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life-stages.jpg by Nazrul Islam Ripon, CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en)

Solar panels have increased in efficiency to the point that they're now cost-competitive with fossil fuels. How will the rise of photovoltaics change power production and the world's economy?

We talk about developments toward self-flying and people-carrying drones with legendary Silicon Valley software engineer John L. Sokol.

John Sokol's website: johnsokol.com

Will robots and artificial intelligence replace human workers and create mass unemployment? The panel discusses whether we will see a jobless future and the implications of widespread automation.

Image credit: Matt Blease for The New Yorker

Our special guest this week is Sondre Rasch, a former political advisor to the parliament of Norway, and founder of freelance platform konsus.com and safety net SafetyWing. He has a background in economics and computer science.

He shares his findings on decision making: how to think about "what to do next", choose valuable goals, and make rapid progress.

Follow Sondre Rasch on Quora:

https://www.quora.com/profile/Sondre-Rasch

GDP is fundamentally flawed as a measure of happiness. In this episode we discuss potential replacement measures.

Featuring the voices of:

Michael Oloroninwo

Daniel Valenzuela

Parnian Barekatain

Michael Currie

Hossein Kouhani

This week, we discuss robot spouses.

This week, we discuss the concept of arcologies: very densely populated, ecologically low-impact human habitats.

Featuring a quote by Marshall T. Savage.

Image credit: SimCity 2000, by Maxis.