The Disruptors

Welcome to The Disruptors: Future Snippets: Bite-sized clips with TED level top thinkers, founders and scientists on how advances in biotech & genomics, space travel, IoT, AI and other exponential tech converge to create our collective future and what we can do, from a research and policy perspective to shape the trends, technologies and societal norms for a better world.

We'll be publishing a few of these mini-episodes in the main feed before transitioning them over to their own separate feed, which you can subscribe to at https://disruptors.fm/poditunes

Mark Diesendorf (@markdiesendorf) teaches, researches and consults in the interdisciplinary fields of sustainability & energy, energy policy, urban transport, ecological economics, and practical sustainability Prior to joining the Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW Australia, he's been a Principal Researcher and lecturer at various higher institutions.

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Welcome to The Disruptors: Future Snippets: Bite-sized clips with TED level top thinkers, founders and scientists on how advances in biotech & genomics, space travel, IoT, AI and other exponential tech converge to create our collective future and what we can do, from a research and policy perspective to shape the trends, technologies and societal norms for a better world.

We'll be publishing a few of these mini-episodes in the main feed before transitioning them over to their own separate feed, which you can subscribe to at https://disruptors.fm/poditunes

Nikola Danalyov (@singularityblog) is a keynote speaker and futurist, tech philosopher, vegan and the host of Singularity.FM, one of the top tech futurism and ethics podcasts where he’s interviewed 200+ of the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, film-makers, philosophers and artists, debating the most important issues. Nikola’s the bestselling author of Conversations with the Future and also published over 1000 articles on AI, the singularity and the future of all of us. He’s been featured in BBC, the Huffington Post, WIRED, TV Japan, io9, ZDNet, BoingBoing and others and is regarded by many as the Socrates of Today.

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Welcome to The Disruptors: Future Snippets: Bite-sized clips with TED level top thinkers, founders and scientists on how advances in biotech & genomics, space travel, IoT, AI and other exponential tech converge to create our collective future and what we can do, from a research and policy perspective to shape the trends, technologies and societal norms for a better world.

We'll be publishing a few of these mini-episodes in the main feed before transitioning them over to their own separate feed, which you can subscribe to at https://disruptors.fm/poditunes

Charles Mann (@CharlesCMann) is a science-focused journalist and award-winning author. He’s the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus which won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year which he followed up with 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. Charles has co-authored four books, is contributing editor for Science, The Atlantic Monthly, and Wired and has also written for Fortune, NYTimes, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. He is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. In 2018, Mann published The Wizard and the Prophet, which details two competing theories about the future of agriculture, population, and the environment.

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Keith Kirkland (@wearworksinc) is a TED resident/speaker, an accessories and industrial designer, accomplished speaker and the co-founder and Head of Haptics of WearWork, a company creating nextgen wearables to help visually impaired folks living in busy urban environments. He has also worked with organizations ranging from the MET Museum, Unilever, Mini Cooper, Discovery Channel, Dropbox, The Yokohama Government, Coach and the National Science Foundation.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How to give sight to the blind

* The state of the haptics industry today

* What you should know about creating

* How to escape bad environments and still make the best of things

* The future of cyborgs and superhuman senses

* How Keith tried to create a suit that taught you kungfu

* Why we're headed towards a future of sex robots

* The risks of AI if we're not careful with biases

* Keith's thoughts on data privacy as it relates to wearables

* When to call it quits and when to push through

* How to find your calling

* The value of asking for help

* Why we should treat robots better now

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Superhuman Brain Nootropics

Daniel Schmachtenberger (prev on podcast) and the folks at Neurohacker are some of THE smartest biohackers on the planet,

Donald Hoffman (@donaldhoffman) is a cognitive scientist, popular author, and Professor of Cognitive Science at UC Irvine. He studies how our visual perception, guided by millions of years of natural selection, authors every aspect of our everyday reality. If you missed our last episode with Don, be sure to check that out here.

 

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In today's episode we discuss:

* Why physics need to replace spacetime to go further as a domain

* What Don's work's uncovered about the nature of reality

* Why AI may be impossible given our current struggles to solve consciousness

* Are we living in a simulation

* What to think about the multiverse

* How quantum dynamic properties may play in consciousness

* The way Don's trying to unify neuroscience and physics in a grand unifying theory

* Why we're headed for either apocalypse of utopia and Don's not sure which

* Is free will a choice or an illusion

* Why synthetic biology is the most dangerous technology ever invented

* How the Large Hadron Collider contributes to science while breaking old paradigms

* The reason the US is poorly positioned to combat AI-driven unemployment

* Why consciousness is unsolvable given our current assumptions and how to rewrite them

* How science and religion merge into a mathematically provable model

* Are psychedelics a path to an alternative reality

 

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Jaya Rao (@molekulair) is the co-founder of Molekule, a transformative SF based startup that's raised $38M+ to tackle the clean air problem worldwide, starting in people's homes to promote a healthier future. Prior to Molekule, Jaya focused with Stanford's Public Sector InnovationLabs to work with citizens to redesign public transit.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The epidemic of air pollution worldwide

* How mold, toxins, and allergies lead to shortened lifespans and disease

* Why we need more women and diversity in tech and government

* Public transit from a public policy perspective

* Why the indoors is often many times more polluted than outside

* Which tech trends most worry Jaya and why

* The power and problems of the smart home movement

* What science-focused startups need to do differently to raise money

* Why competitive entrepreneurs and innovators are the answer to most problems

* The reason hardware is so hard to fund

* Why diversity leads to much better outcomes

* The importance of commercializing university innovations

* The state of health tech today

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Pierre Barreau (@aivatechnology) is an entrepreneur, computer scientist, composer and director and the CEO of AIVA, an artificial intelligence that composes incredibly emotional and beautiful music and soundtracks. He was nominated for a Gold Panda Award in the "Best Director" category when he was 15 years old for a four-film documentary series, One Night in the Cosmos and gave a very popular TED Talk in 2018.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The future of AI composed music

* How creativity and art evolve with AI inspiration and automation

* Is AGI achievable and what about timelines

* Will automation lead to more or fewer jobs on net

* The double-edged sword of tech and artificial intelligence

* What to do about deep fakes and fake news

* Why social media and surveillance capitalism are so dangerous

* What Mozart did better than anyone else

* Thoughts about Asimov's three laws and AI containment

* What it takes to create Hans Zimmer quality compositions

* The truth about AI personality

* Is conscious AI inevitable

* Thoughts on the uncanny valley and human values

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Nikola Danalyov (@singularityblog) is a keynote speaker and futurist, tech philosopher, vegan and the host of Singularity.FM, one of the top tech futurism and ethics podcasts where he's interviewed 200+ of the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, film-makers, philosophers and artists, debating the most important issues. Nikola's the bestselling author of Conversations with the Future and also published over 1000 articles on AI, the singularity and the future of all of us. He's been featured in BBC, the Huffington Post, WIRED, TV Japan, io9, ZDNet, BoingBoing and others and is regarded by many as the Socrates of  Today.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The importance of ethics in today's exponential tech world

* Nikola's fight with Singularity University and organizations that don't live out their values

* Why the singularity isn't all it's cracked up to be

* Will capitalism survive our coming economic upheaval

* The reason philosophy is more important now than ever

* Nikola's thoughts on the war machine and military manufacturers

* Which countries present the best fundamental frameworks going forward

* The technologies and trends that most worry this accomplished thinker

* How to balance incentives and ethics to create a better world

* The reason the US is poorly positioned to combat AI-driven unemployment

* Why humanity always has and will always struggle with the same existential issues

* The reasons Nikola's soured on the techno-optimism movement

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Paul Root Wolpe (@parowol) is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, and Biological Behavior, and Sociology, and the Director of the Center for Ethics at Emory University and spent 15 years as Senior Bioethicist at NASA and is now their first Chief of Bioethics. Paul sits on a number of national and international non-profit organizational boards, has testified twice to the President’s Commission on the Study of Bioethical Issues in DC. He's a popular speaker internationally, has won the World Technology Network Award in Ethics, has been featured in a TED talk, and was profiled in the November 2011 Atlantic Magazine as a “Brave Thinker of 2011.” He is also been featured on 60 Minutes and profiled in the Science Times of the New York Times.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The most important biotech ethics issues of our day

* How China's CRISPR babies change the game for genetic engineering

* Why synthetic biology is so promising and problematic from an ethics perspective

* How to deal with black swan bioterror risks and rewards

* When we will start to see more in terms of gene therapy

* The prospect of superhumans

* Ways gene therapies can avoid issues of conventional pharma

* Why Ray Kurzweil's wrong about the singularity

* The reason biology and AI will merge into one

* Why AI is more dangerous and uncontrollable than biotech

* The arguments against cloning

* How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny

* What to do about reincarnating wholly mammoth and T-Rex

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Erika Hamden (@erikahamden) is an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona and Steward Observatory and leads the team building FIREBall, a telescope that hangs from a giant balloon at the very edge of space and looks for clues about how stars are created. She's a 2019 TED fellow and her research focuses on developing ultraviolet (UV) detector technology, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy (UV/VIS) instrumentation and spectroscopy, and galaxy evolution.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The evolution of astrophysics

* How space exploration advances in today's booming business world

* Why fundamental science and research is so critical to humanity's future

* Which technologies scare Erika the most and why

* The value of astronauts and off-Earth habitats

* What to do about data privacy and our ads-based economy

* Why Erika believes there's intelligent extraterrestrial life out there

* What to think about Trump and the impacts on science and tech

* How do stars form and accidental discoveries occur

* Physics role in military action

* The importance of putting yourself and life first and foremost

* Why we are both more than a little worried about social media

* What most people don't know about funding scientific research

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Superhuman Brain Nootropics

Daniel Schmachtenberger (