Robin Farmanfarmaian shares her thoughts about how biotech offerings may one day become the next “App store” where people pick and choose physical enhancements from hundreds of niche biotech/biohacker companies.

GUEST

Robin Farmanfarmaian, VP at Invicta Medical, BoD at Organ Preservation Alliance

*Read her new book, The Patient as CEO: https://www.amazon.ca/Patient-CEO-Technology-Empowers-Healthcare/dp/161961376X

*Website: http://robinff.com/

FULL PODCAST

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http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/when-super-powers-become-normal-s1e7/

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Robin Farmanfarmaian shares her thoughts about how future healthcare providers will offer people more options/freedom as it relates to how they protect, maintain and enhance their bodies.

GUEST

Robin Farmanfarmaian, VP at Invicta Medical, BoD at Organ Preservation Alliance

*Read her new book, The Patient as CEO: https://www.amazon.ca/Patient-CEO-Technology-Empowers-Healthcare/dp/161961376X

*Website: http://robinff.com/

FULL PODCAST

Listen to the entire interview from the Life in 2030 podcast here:

http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/when-super-powers-become-normal-s1e7/

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What do you think? Would you take advantage of these coming medical tools to enhance your body or mind? Do you think these body modifications will be accepted by society at large or become just another subculture? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com.

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Robin Farmanfarmaian shares her thoughts about the top three challenges today’s cutting edge biotech startups are trying to solve.

GUEST

Robin Farmanfarmaian, VP at Invicta Medical, BoD at Organ Preservation Alliance

*Read her new book, The Patient as CEO: https://www.amazon.ca/Patient-CEO-Technology-Empowers-Healthcare/dp/161961376X

*Website: http://robinff.com/

FULL PODCAST

Listen to the entire interview from the Life in 2030 podcast here:

http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/when-super-powers-become-normal-s1e7/

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What do you think? Would you take advantage of these coming medical tools to enhance your body or mind? Do you think these body modifications will be accepted by society at large or become just another subculture? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com.

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Andrew Stern shares his thoughts about what the top three impacts a UBI will have on how society functions. He answers how might society may react or adjust to living with a UBI.

GUEST

*Andrew Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union and currently a Fellow at Columbia University, whose new book — Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream — is out now and available for order here: http://raisingthefloorbook.com/#

FULL PODCAST

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http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/future-cities-urbanizing-our-world-s1e6/

LISTENER FEEDBACK

What do you think? Will a Universal Basic Income save our solve the issue of widescale unemployment? Will it save our economic system from collapse? Do you think it will create a nation Netflix watching couch potatoes? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com.

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Andrew Stern shares his thoughts about the events or trends that will force world governments to eventually adopt a UBI-type policy.

GUEST

*Andrew Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union and currently a Fellow at Columbia University, whose new book — Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream — is out now and available for order here: http://raisingthefloorbook.com/#

FULL PODCAST

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Andrew Stern shares his thoughts about how the US and other countries can afford to fund a Universal Basic Income.

GUEST

*Andrew Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union and currently a Fellow at Columbia University, whose new book — Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream — is out now and available for order here: http://raisingthefloorbook.com/#

FULL PODCAST

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LISTENER FEEDBACK

What do you think? Will a Universal Basic Income save our solve the issue of widescale unemployment? Will it save our economic system from collapse? Do you think it will create a nation Netflix watching couch potatoes? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com.

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As cities swell in size, population, complexity, and economic influence, Parag Khanna shares his thoughts about how national governments will gradually will decentralize governance to cities.

GUEST

Parag Khanna is an international relations expert and best-selling author. His recent book, CONNECTOGRAPHY, looks at the growth of cities and how they will determine the future of global civilization.

*You can learn more about his book here: http://www.paragkhanna.com/connectography

*Parag Khanna is the managing partner of Hybrid Reality Pte Ltd, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm.

FULL PODCAST

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http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/future-cities-urbanizing-our-world-s1e6/

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What do you think? What role will this global shift toward city life shaping our society, business, and politics over the coming decades? Share your thoughts in the comments below. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com.

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Parag Khanna shares his thoughts about the trends driving today's urban growth, as well as the trends that will drive the urban growth of tomorrow’s megacities.

GUEST

Parag Khanna is an international relations expert and best-selling author. His recent book, CONNECTOGRAPHY, looks at the growth of cities and how they will determine the future of global civilization.

*You can learn more about his book here: http://www.paragkhanna.com/connectography

*Parag Khanna is the managing partner of Hybrid Reality Pte Ltd, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm.

FULL PODCAST

Listen to the entire interview from the Life in 2030 podcast here:

http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/future-cities-urbanizing-our-world-s1e6/

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In this episode of the Life in 2030 podcast, we explore how the automation revolution will make our current beliefs around employment obsolete and what life will be like when we no longer need to work to get by.

(Subscribe to the Life in 2030 podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or YouTube.)

SPECIAL GUESTS

*Andrew Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union and currently a Fellow at Columbia Universit.

His new book — Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income can renew our economy and rebuild the American dream — is out now and available for order here: http://raisingthefloorbook.com/#

*Scott Santens, Writer, and Basic Income advocate. He is associated with the United States Basic Income Guarantee Network, Basic Income Action, and Moderator of the /r/BasicIncome community on Reddit.

Learn more about his unique patreon in his own words: http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/scott-santens-explains-his-unique-patreon-campaign/

And be sure to contribute to it here: https://www.patreon.com/scottsantens

LISTENER FEEDBACK

What do you think? Will robots and AI really take all or most of our jobs? What types of work will people take on if they didn’t need to work at all? What kind of work would you take on?

Send us your thoughts at [email protected]. We’ll publish the most thoughtful feedback on our website, Quantumrun.com.

Or feel free to post a comment in one of our Future of Work articles, also published on Quantumrun.com. We go into way more detail about this topic there.

LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS TOPIC

This podcast was based off of this article in our Future of Work series: http://www.quantumrun.com/prediction/after-age-mass-unemployment-future-work-p7

We also discuss these topics in our Future of Work series here: http://www.quantumrun.com/series/future-work

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CREDITS

Executive producer, writer and narrator: David Tal, President of Quantumrun. Reach him @DavidTalWrites across all social media.

Producer and podcast editor: Kaelah Shimonov

All music heard throughout this podcast was composed by Karl Gutowski.  

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By 2050, roughly 70% of the world will live in cities (90% in the developed world), yet 70% of the infrastructure needed to house this influx of urbanites doesn't exist yet. Parag Khanna shares his thoughts about what are the top two to three areas he thinks future urban planners should focus on when building tomorrow's megacities.

GUEST

Parag Khanna is an international relations expert and best-selling author. His recent book, CONNECTOGRAPHY, looks at the growth of cities and how they will determine the future of global civilization.

*You can learn more about his book here: http://www.paragkhanna.com/connectography

*Parag Khanna is the managing partner of Hybrid Reality Pte Ltd, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm.

FULL PODCAST

Listen to the entire interview from the Life in 2030 podcast here:

http://www.quantumrun.com/podcast/episodes/future-cities-urbanizing-our-world-s1e6/

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