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Shaun Moore (@shaunpmoore) the founder and CEO of TrueFace, the 500Startups funded computer vision and facial recognition startup focused on making the world safer and smarter by transforming cameras into data. Prior to TrueFace, Shaun co-founded two startups in the content and mobile apps space and he's spoken frequently on the possibilities and possible pitfalls of facial recognition and AI. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590558" width="100%" height="200px" theme="light" playlist="false" playlist-continuous="false" autoplay="false" live-autoplay="false" chapters-image="true" episode-image-position="right" hide-logo="false" hide-likes="false" hide-comments="false" hide-sharing="false" hide-download="true"] Subscribe on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Android | Overcast | Spotify | Youtube   You can listen right here on iTunes Today we discuss:

* The risk and reward of the social credit system

* What Minority Report got right, and wrong

* Why Shaun's not too worried about mass government surveillance

* The reason Matt's worried about the slippery slope of safety

* Which monopoly scares Shaun the most

* How society should think about regulating facial recognition

* Ways to improve public discourse

* How facial recognition can hugely decrease crime

* Why it's really freaking important who you take money from as a startup

* How hard it is for an entrepreneur to handle taxes and health insurance

* Why Shaun is super excited about moving beyond meat

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Geoff Cook (@geoffcook) is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and live-streaming company with a $400+ million market cap. He started his first company from a Harvard dorm and sold it for millions of dollars at age 24. He sold his second company for $100 million and is the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Winner for the Philadelphia Region.

On the side, Geoff's also a children’s book author and a mentor at Princeton University’s Keller Center and leads Podcoin, the podcast player that pays you for listening.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How Facebook and social media have screwed up and what they could have done to avoid the problem

* The future of dating, and online dating

* Why Geoff is worried about screentime and constant notifications clashing with our humanity

* How to build a $100M company with your brother and sister...

* The reason Geoff's excited about live streaming, 5G, and future of video

* Why podcasting may be the biggest growth platform of immediate future

* How to reimagine social media for a better future

* While existential AI is worth worrying about

* The brain drain going to advertising and attention economy

* What the commoditization of sex is doing to our species

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Nancy Giordano (@nancygiordano) is an entrepreneur, futurist, consultant and techno-optimist committed to building societal structures and behaviors that keep up with tech to ensure a safe and thriving future for us all...

Nancy's been recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists, she has spent her career building, shaping and guiding a portfolio of $50 billion worth of major global brands through her work with Play Big Inc.

She's also a frequent panelist at South by Southwest (where she produced the first Career Fair For the Future to help college + high schools more actively design the future of their work), is global keynote speaker, Singularity University guest lecturer and world’s first TEDx licensee.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How Nancy thinks about the future of work

* Why the mental health epidemic is a bigger deal than we think

* The power of system thinking

* Why GDP's an awful measure of progress and how to replace it

* What can we do to fix politics

* The ways we can redesign education for the 21st century

* Why diversity actually leads to better outcomes

* The UBI question and how to reframe it

* What will be AI's actual impact

* How organizations like Singularity University inspire change

* What technologies most worry Nancy

* Why we can engineer the future of our choosing

* The pesky problems of incentives ruining our world

* What to think about social media and blockchain

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Dr. Fatma Kaplan (@KaplanSchiller) is the co-founder and CEO/CSO of Pheronym, a company trying to help solve world food crisis and feed the growing world population, farmers need for a non-toxic way to control pests.

Fatma's an accomplished scientist with experience in both biology and chemistry focused on isolating biologically active compounds. She discovered the first sex pheromone of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and published in Nature and discovered that pheromones regulate other behaviors in both parasitic and beneficial nematodes.

She's been published in numerous high impact publications, her dissertation was cited in textbooks and Fatma's worked as a scientist at NASA, the National Magnetic Field Laboratory and the US Department of Agriculture – Agricultural Research Service.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How sex hormones can save us from soil microbiome depletion and why that matters

* The secret to pesticide-free agriculture

* How to use agritech to combat climate change

* What we need to do to combat global hunger

* The trouble with biotech fundraising

* What risks Fatma's most worried about from a biotech perspective

* How to improve education for the better and make science cool

* Why Fatma's working with NASA and the ISS to grow veggies in space

* The future of clean meat and why it still requires plants

* How to go about getting a grant to commercialize IP

* Ways to fight the anti-science movement

* Why GMOs will play an increasingly large role in humanity's future

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Isy Goldwasser (@isythync) is the founder of Thync, a startup creating breakthrough bioelectronic therapies to advance a frontier and create a consumer category that will impact billions of people. Prior to founding Thync, Isy was CEO and on the founding team of Symyx Technologies, a company he'd help take public. Isy's named as an inventor on more than 40 US, European and Canadian patents and currently serves on the Board of Directors for The Scripps Research Institute and The California Institute for Biomedical Research and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Khosla Ventures in 2010.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The future of self-enhancement and why much of it will be mechatronic

* Why humanity will NEVER be able to keep up with AI

* What happens as we automate away jobs and why Isy's not worried

* Why we have so many issues adjusting to technology and societal change

* The neuroscience of performance and optimization

* Why AI is a really good thing for the human race

* How social media and AI can lead to a dictatorial state

* The importance of emotion in our daily lives and future

* Possible alternatives to the pharmaceutical industry

* Why Isy doesn't think AI will ever be conscious

* The reason AI will be a distributed technology which makes it safer

* Why venture capital can become a major hassle

* How to improve healthcare and bring down costs

* What Isy thinks about gene editing

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Martin Ford (@MFordFuture) is a futurist and the author of the bestselling, award-winning Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building It and The Lights in the Tunnel, as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm.

Martin's written about the implications for future tech for publications including The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review and dozens more and has appeared on shows like NPR, CNBC, CNN, Fox Business and PBS. He's a frequent keynote speaker on the subject of accelerating progress in robotics and artificial intelligence—and what these advances mean for the economy, job market and society of the future.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* How will automation affect capitalism, the economy, and society as a whole

* Is UBI the answer or a NEEDED solution to an increasingly automated world

* Why AI has the possibility to solve so many of the world's largest problems

* Will AI create or destroy more jobs in the long run

* Why a universal basic income necessitates a more isolationist world

* Could climate change and automation be the recipe for disaster

* How do people find meaning in a jobless world

* Is China's social credit system an inevitable future for us all

* How should we think about lethal autonomous weapons which save lives

* Is AI bias actually a big deal

* Which technologies is Martin most worried about

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Steve Brown (@baldfuturist) is a speaker, author, strategist, advisor with over 30 years of experience in high tech and is the former futurist and chief evangelist at Intel Corporation. Steve's been featured on BBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, ABC News, Wired, WSJ:Digits, CBS, and many other media outlets and is passionate about helping people to imagine and build a better future; whether talking about the future of work in a post-automation world, doing a deep dive on artificial intelligence, or discussing the future of flying cars.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* Which jobs computers are not suited to handle

* What happens as automation automates away a ton of jobs

* How we can design a better, more 21st century government

* Why is 5G so important

* The reason Steve is bullish on blockchain, but not cryptocurrencies

* Why AI will be the biggest technology transformation of all time

* How do we restructure society as jobs disappear

* What technologies Steve is most excited about and how they'll transform our world

* The less talked about but equal important impacts of driverless cars

* Why wearables haven't quite taken off as expected

* Why Sci-Fi sometimes holds back tech innovation

* How should we deal with bias and failure in AI

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Bryan Alexander (@bryanalexander) is a futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher with an unconventional background in English and Romantic-era literature working in the field of how technology transforms education and blogging at bryanalexander.org. He's worked with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), a non-profit working to help small colleges and universities best integrate digital technologies. Bryan's been featured in the Washington Post, MSNBC,  US News and World Report and is frequently called on as a speaker on the future of education. He's also the author of Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education, Gearing Up For Learning Beyond K-12 and The New Digital Storytelling.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* Bryan's thoughts on the future and flaws of higher education

* The big problem with GDP and measuring the economy to track prosperity

* Why Bryan's incredibly worried about climate change and inequality

* Which bubble pops first: higher education or healthcare

* The problem with too many kids going to college and the possibility of an apprentice model

* Why we may have reached peak higher education in America

* How we can better align incentives to create a fairer, more sustainable society going forward

* What is the future of jobs, work, and continued education

* Why teaching truck drivers to code isn't feasible or effective

* What is the future of surveillance capitalism

* Why we may be entering a new era of aristocratic titans

* Why Europe is better positioned than the US to handle automation

* The danger of celebrity and worshipping success

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George Church @geochurch) is a professor of genetics at Harvard & MIT, director of the Personal Genome Project, co-author of 509 papers, 143 patent publications and developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & million-fold cost reductions since.

It is NO exaggeration to say George's innovations have contributed to nearly all "next generation" DNA sequencing methods and companies; plus his lab's work on chip-DNA-synthesis, gene editing, and stem cell engineering resulted in founding additional application-based companies spanning fields of medical diagnostics and synthetic biology/therapeutics (all of which has led to the creation of over 14 biotech companies he's helped co-found

George is the director of the IARPA BRAIN Project and NIH Center for Excellence in Genomic Science and his many honors include election to NAS and NAE and Franklin Bower Laureate for Achievement in Science.

George is the author of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves and now spends his free time trying to revive the Wholly Mammoth to combat climate change and save the world while remaining the foremost pioneer in the future of synthetic biology and genetic engineering.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* The beginnings of the Human Genome Project and why in a lot of ways George thinks it was a waste of money

* The future of genome sequencing and writing and where it's headed

* Why George isn't hugely worried about genetic engineering leading to greater inequality

* What scares George most in a world of synthetic biology

* Why the best solutions to climate change are inevitably bio-based

* How George's team is working to revive mammoths to combat climate change

* The importance of being guinea pig number one

* Why we should be inspired but not limited by nature

* The real risk of bioterrorism

* How to get benefits from your DNA without exposing your results

* The importance of gene editing on getting humanity to space

 

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Tom Cheesewright (@bookofthefuture) is a futurist, speaker, engineer and founder of applied futurism practice, Book of the Future and creator of the Futurist’s Toolkit, a suite of tools for agile organizations. He has a degree in mechatronic engineering that led to 14 years working in technology for global brands such as BT, EE, and IBM and for digital start-ups, co-founded venture-backed big data analytics CANDDi and acts as an advisor to a number of technology-driven start-ups.

Tom is a frequent presence on TV and radio on the BBC, Newsround and World Business Report, and as a regular contributor to BBC Radio 5 Live and Radio 4. He's also shared his thoughts on the future with Channel 4?s Sunday Brunch, Sky News, The Guardian, London Evening Standard, Entrepreneur, Stuff, and MSN. Tom's also the author of High Frequency Change: Why We Feel Like Change Happens Faster Now, and What to Do About It.

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In today's episode we discuss:

* Why we're all cyborgs and what it means for humanity

* The future of climate change and why the answer is probably local

* Why Tom is only remotely worried about automation and unemployment

* What technologies Tom's most scared of and why

* The future of television, entertainment and Apple's role

* How Amazon and monopolies of the future evolve and the role of voice

* What the future of education needs to be to save humanity

* How big corporations can adapt and evolve without dying

* The difference between a smart city and a living city and where we're headed

* Why economics and incentives create almost all the problems

* How to revalue work in a post-GDP world

 

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