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“A gracefull and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.”–Pindar    The returns are in.  The 2019 Undoing Aging conference, held in Berlin, March 28-30,  was a smash hit.  500 attendees (a sellout) heard the latest on dozens of lines of research to slow, stop, or reverse the ravages of aging.  At 68,  I […]

“Sustainability is no longer about doing less harm.  It’s about doing more good.” ―Jochen Zeitz   In January of 2017 the first two episodes of Seeking Delphi™ featured David Wood, chair of the London Futurists, on his book The Abolition of Aging.  Wood’s newest effort, Sustainable Superabundance: A Universal Transhumanist Invitation, is an apt follow-up.  It deals with the […]

“I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.”  ― Tom Robbins   Being in the category that society generally classifies as “old people,” I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry when I look at the cartoon to the left.  But if the science […]

“They say the Universe is expanding.  That should help with the traffic.”–Steven Wright   Autonomous vehicles? Flying cars? The concepts are exciting, but the truth is:  most of us will still be driving manually on the ground for many years to come.  And that means dealing with the motorist’s most persistent annoyance.  Congestion.  It costs […]

“The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.”–Elon Musk “We wanted flying cars; what we got is 140 characters.”–Peter Thiel      Well, guess what?  We now have 280 characters, and we may finally be […]

“The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles is Great.”–Dan Lipinski “My opinion is that it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous vehicles.”–Elon Musk  ™ There’s no shortage of opinions on the viability of self-driving cars.  Be you a bull or a bear, though, there is no denying that there is a plethora of big […]

“A woman is like a tea bag–you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”–Eleanor Roosevelt   Artificial Intelligence–it seems there is no hotter topic in the tech world these days.  Economists try to calculate its potential effects on jobs, car companies aim to tame it for autonomous driving, and […]

“I saw huge buildings rise up faint and fair, and pass like dreams.”  ― H.G. Wells,  The Time Machine. This special edition of the Seeking Delphi™ podcast provides a preview of the 2018 IEEE Technology Time Machine, to be held October 31-November 1, at the Hilton Resort and Spa, San Diego, CA.  Joining host Mark Sackler to […]

The second annual Emotion AI Summit, presented by Affectiva, will be held in Boston, MA on Thursday September 6.  For those who missed last year’s, or those who want a refresher, this is a rerun of the Seeking Delphi™ special edition podcast from the 2017 summit, held at the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA,  September […]

“The future ain’t what it used to be.”–Yogi Berra “We’re doing a lot better than people think.”–Jerome Glenn, on The State of The Future. Ah, you have to love Yogi.  He had no idea what he was talking about.  But–surprise, surprise–the blind squirrel does occasionally find a nut.  Because the future and all of its […]