The Disruptors

Peter Bowes (@peterbowes) is BBC Correspondent, biohacker and hosting of the Live Long and Master Aging Podcast where he explores the science and stories behind human longevity. On the podcast, Peter interviews world-renowned scientists, future thinkers, and biohackers focused on how we can live longer and healthier lives and talks a great deal about food, fasting, exercise, brain science, and human performance. As a reporter, Peter has interviewed many Hollywood celebrities, including Cher, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and Harrison Ford and he has covered every Oscars ceremony since 1996. Peter has produced and presented radio and TV documentaries and special features on a wide range of topics including: Religion in Silicon Valley, Michael Jackson and Living Longer in Lovely Hill, which explores the links between a meat-free diet, exercise and faith. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590605" 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 In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How Peter became interested in aging and increased longevity

* The reason Peter fasts to live a longer, healthier life

* How the media industry is transforming and where it goes from here

* Why community is key to health and happiness

* How Peter plans to live to at least 100

* Why the world is better than ever but appears to be worse

* Lessons learned from the world's oldest, healthiest populations

* How lifespan and healthspan differ and where healthcare goes wrong

* What the rise of podcasts and personal media outlets means for society

* The purpose of purpose and why it leads to longer lives

* How the BBC maintains such a high standard of excellence

* Why learning is something you never stop doing

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Seth Shostak (@sethshostak) is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute and host of the popular weekly science radio show Big Picture Science which connect the latest research to identify emerging trends - and why they matter.

Seth has degrees in physics and astronomy from Princeton University and Caltech and a long history of research in radio astronomy and in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI. He has written more than 500 popular articles on science and technology and has authored four books including: Life in the Universe and Confessions of an Alien Hunter.

Seth is a frequent guest and commentator on radio and television. His TV appearances include Larry King Live, Colbert Report, Nightline, and countless Discovery, History Channel, and National Geographic Channel programs.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why Seth first fell in love with astronomy

* The history of SETI and how Seth got involved

* Which answers to Fermi's Paradox Seth finds most probable

* The problem with public support for space research

* How the race for space and ET has evolved over the years

* What happened when SETI detected an alien signal, only to be wrong

* Why artificial intelligence is a bad idea to create

* Would the government actually hide proof of alien contact

* Why the search for ET is more exciting and promising than ever

* The reason Seth thinks space exploration will mainly be a robotic endeavor

* Why Seth is somewhat worried about weaponized biotech

* The sad truth about a society on Mars

* Where life may have originated and is panspermia credible

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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. Don has co-authored two technical books: Observer Mechanics: A Formal Theory of Perception which offers a theory of consciousness and its relationship to physics and Automotive Lighting and Human Vision which applies vision science to vehicle lighting. His newest book Visual Intelligence: How We Create What We See presents the modern science of visual perception to a broad audience. His new book, tentatively titled Do We See Reality?, to appear at the end of 2017, expands on his 2015 TED Talk and explains how our perceptions have evolved to hide reality from us. Hoffman has won the Distinguished Scientific Award from the American Psychological Association, the Troland Research Award of the National Academy of Sciences and the Rustum Roy Award of the Chopra Foundation. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590614" 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 In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How our perception differs from reality, big time

* The nature of consciousness

* Why we are what we see and believe

* How your brain constructs an alternate universe

* Possible problems with Darwin's Theory of Evolution

* Don's mathematical definition of god

* Why evolution doesn't optimize for intelligence

* How psychedelics actually impact our subjective reality

* The hard problem and how to maybe solve it

* Understanding the inner workings of science

* Why physics is probably wrong and confusing

* What we can learn from VR about real life

* Why Don believed humans were just machines, and what he thinks now

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Carl Safina (@carlsafina) is author of various books and many other writings about how the ocean is changing, lives of free-living animals, and the human relationship with the natural world. His books include among others the award-winning Song for the Blue Ocean and Eye of the Albatross, as well as The View From Lazy Point; A Natural Year in an Unnatural World and Beyond Words; What Animals Think and Feel. Carl is founding president of the Safina Center, and an endowed research professor at Stony Brook University where he is active both in ocean sciences and co-chair of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. He hosted the 10-part PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina and his writing appears in The New York Times, Audubon, Orion, and other periodicals and on the Web at National Geographic News and Views, Huffington Post, and CNN.com. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590608" 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 In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* Why we're much less different from animals than we think

* How overfishing could lead to a complete ocean die off

* Why Carl's so worried about climate change and unforeseen consequences

* What animals can teach us about ourselves

* The reason consciousness isn't only limited to people

* Why so many animals and superhuman abilities

* The reason a vegetarian like Carl is excited about clean meat

* Why there probably won't be any commercially viable fish in the ocean by 2050

* Why kids are becoming less creative

* The harmful effects without nature

* What might an alien or artificial intelligence actually look like

* The why we actually love dogs, its not what you think

* Why wind and solar could possibly save our species

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Auke Ijspeert is a professor at the EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne), and head of the Biorobotics Laboratory (BioRob). Auke is interested in using numerical simulations and robots to get a better understanding of animal locomotion and movement control, and in using inspiration from biology to design novel types of robots and locomotion controllers. His popular TED Talk of the robot that runs and swims like a salamander has been viewed nearly 2M times and he has won close to 20 awards, including the University of Edinburgh "robot-rugby" competition 1996, the best paper award at the IEEE-RAS Humanoids 2007 conference and the Overall Best Paper Award (out of 1,172 submitted, 689 accepted papers) at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2002). He is member of the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine, and associate editor for Soft Robotics and for the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics. He has acted as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Robotics (2009-2013) and as a guest editor for the Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Autonomous Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, and Biological Cybernetics. He has been the organizer of 6 international conferences and been a program committee member of over 50 conferences. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590609" 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 In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The purpose and value of biomicking robots

* Why Auke is worried about drones and robots in future battlefields

* The difference between theory and practice for robot design

* Why Auke works with AI researchers but not that closely

* How we should think about regulating robotics

* Why Auke thinks we're still a long way off from AGI

* The problem with scientists and researchers forgetting to think about ethics

* When we can expect large scale robotics in modern life

* Why C3PO isn't an ideal answer to home robotics

* How hype cycles drive robotics and tech development and

* Why AI research and progress may in fact be slowing down

* The reason Auke is so excited and optimistic about autonomous vehicles

* Why scientists are fascinated and frustrated with Boston Dynamics

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Alec serves as an advisor to investors, corporations and government leaders to help them understand the implication of factors emerging at the intersection of geopolitics, markets and increasingly disruptive network technologies and is on the board of directors (or advisors) for companies in the fields of technology, media, telecommunications, education, health care and cybersecurity.

He recently served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and acted as the diplomatic lead on issues including cybersecurity, Internet Freedom, disaster response and the use of network technologies in conflict zones. Previously, Alec served as the Convener for the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team.

In 2000, he and three colleagues co-founded the technology-focused nonprofit organization One Economy and grew it from modest origins in a basement into a global organization serving millions of low-income people, with programs on four continents.

His many awards include: Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine, U.S. Department of State Distinguished Honor Award, Oxford University Internet and Society Award, Huffington Post’s 10 Game Changers in Politics and Tribeca Film Festival Disruptive Innovation Award. Alec has served as a guest lecturer at numerous institutions including the United Nations, Oxford University, Harvard Law School, Stanford Business School and a number of parliamentary bodies and his writing has appeared in academic publications including the Johns Hopkins SAIS Review of International Affairs and the NATO Review.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reason Obama was such a special, charismatic leader and what other leaders can learn from him

* Why Alec left a successful entrepreneurial career to help Obama on his first campaign

* The possibly existential problem with social media

* How politics changes post-Trump and where we are headed

* Why Alec isn't that worried about tech monopolies

* How the US government thinks about and promotes innovation, here and abroad

* Which industries Alec believes become $1T markets

* Why biotech and human enhancement are inevitable

* The big difference between CEOs and politicians

* Why health, genomics and personalized medicine as passions of Alec

* The reason the US trumps China in long term innovation and growth

* Why Hiliary's loss felt inevitable and drawn out

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Dr. Bertalan Meskó (@berci) is The Medical Futurist, one of the world’s leading biotech thinkers and keynote speakers. A self-described geek physician with a PhD in genomics, Bertalan is an Amazon Top 100 author and host of the popular Youtube channel The Medical Futurist (TMF). Bertalan envisions the impact of digital health technologies on the future of health, and helps patients, doctors, government regulators and companies make it a reality. With 500+ presentations including courses at Harvard, Stanford and Yale Universities, Singularity University’s Futuremed course at NASA Ames campus and organizations including the 10 biggest pharmaceutical companies, he is one of the top voices globally on healthcare technology. Dr. Meskó has been featured by dozens of top publications, including CNN, the World Health Organization, National Geographic, Forbes, TIME magazine, BBC, and the New York Times. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590610" 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 In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of digital health and medical technology in the next 10 and 25 years

* What Bertalan does when it comes to biohacking and quantified self to live longer and healthier

* How Google, Amazon and the other tech giants are trying to own healthcare

* Why Bertalan thinks immortality is a sci-fi dream

* The future of personalized medicine and self managed health

* Why Bertalan wants to prevent disease, not catch it early

* How genetic testing and microbiome samples shape Bertalan's actions and future health

* Why AI is such a scary and unstoppable technology

* What under the table experiments are happening on human augmentation and enhancement

* How 3D printed tissues and organs affect all of us

* Why the DIY citizen science/healthcare movement is changing the landscape of healthcare

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Scott Klososky (@sklososky) is a technologist, entrepreneur and thought leader that specializes in helping leaders see the world in new ways. He has built and sold multiple companies, the largest being webcasts.com which was ultimately acquired by iBEAM for approximately $115 million in stock in April of 2000. After the acquisition, he served as VP of Production for iBEAM and led a 150-person team that had innovations including being the first music CD to launch to the Internet, the first interactive CD-ROM to be used to lobby Congress, and the first CD-ROM/Web-based product designed to generate donations for a non-profit organization. Their clients included IBM, Compaq, AOL, Hewlett-Packard, Conoco Inc., and BMG Music, among others. In 1988, at the age of 26, Scott founded one of the first profitable Soviet/American joint ventures ParaGraph, Inc., with Russian partners including Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion. ParaGraph designed the original handwritten text-recognition software for the Apple Newton and was later sold to Silicon Graphics. The ParaGraph software standard is now commonly used in personal digital assistants. Prior to founding webcasts.com's predecessor company in 1994 Scott work with former Nixon's protege and chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, on "The Haldeman Diaries," a New York Times bestseller which was also one of Sony's first profitable CD-ROM products in 1994. Scott is the author of several books, including Did God Create the Internet?: The Impact of Technology on Humanity and The Velocity Manifesto: Harnessing Technology, Vision, and Culture to Future-Proof your Organization and today runs TriCorp Technologies, a strategic advisory firm for the Fortune 500. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590613" 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 In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The reason Scott went to the USSR during the Cold War and how he teamed up with chess champion Gary Kasparov

* What Scott learned about capitalism, communism and building businesses

* Why Scott "invented" TV on the internet, a tad bit too early

* The reason AI and cybersecurity are the two most important/interesting technologies in Scott's mind

* How regulations can help save our cybersecurity problem

* What Scott does to understand his place in the world

* How working with Nixon's Chief of Staff led to a transformation in the publishing industry

* Why cyberwarfare is so freaking scary and hard to fight

* The things to look for when creating disruptive innovation

* Why things are looking up and Scott is an optimist

* How we can reinvent education for the future

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Oliver Christie (@oliverchristie) is the founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence consulting firm Foxy Machine. He works across multiple industries to help integrate Artificial Intelligence into companies and organizations, leveraging data for smarter outcomes. Foxy Machine also has a research arm that looks into the future of Artificial Intelligence and how it can have a positive global impact. Oliver works closely with the X Prize as their AI Advocate, Heads Data Science for OpusAI and advises half dozen other AI startups. In 2009 Oliver and his firm Foxy Machine were a GoogleX Moonshot award winner with The Optimized Self, the ultimate health database for optimized health and he's won an IBM Watson Prize for his work on the Watson Bridge Team.

 

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* How artificial intelligence for good can change the world

* The problem with advertising, incentives and the internet

* Why Oliver is excited about AGI and quantum computing

* The X Prize and how it inspires innovation

* What AI means be enterprises and startups alike

* Oliver's project that won GoogleX's Moonshot and the future of healthcare

* How to create a jetlag-free airport

* The reason Oliver isn't worried about AI monopolies

* Why the AI leader of tomorrow hasn't been created yet

* What issues most scare Oliver

* Why personalized advertising may have changed politics forever

* The reason long-form discussions are needed on the future of technology

* How travelling and new perspectives put Oliver in a position to succeed

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George Dvorsky (@dvorsky) is a Canadian futurist, science writer, and ethicist that has written and spoken extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology—particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience. He is also a senior staff reporter at the popular tech blog Gizmodo, a contributing editor at io9 where he writes about science, culture, and futurism and blogs at sentientdevelopments.com

George is a founding member of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, he is Chair of the Board and is the founder and program director for its Rights of Non-Human Persons program. In addition, George is the co-founder and president of the Toronto Transhumanist Association and has served on the Board of Directors for Humanity+ for two terms.

George's work has been featured in such publications as The Guardian, the BBC, CBC, Forbes, the New York Times, Slate, Radio Free Europe, and al-Jazeera. Outside of work, he is also an avid CrossFitter, an ancestral health enthusiast, and an accomplished music performer, composer, and recording engineer.

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In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* How life extension and longevity affect society and the technologies ending aging

* The dangers of AI and problems with containment

* Why consciousness is such a hard problem and what it means for all of us

* How George's study of the past influences his views on the future

* Why mutually assured destruction could become a thing again

* The reason AI regulation is harder than it seems

* Which technologies have George most excited today and why

* Why tech ethics are so important going forward

* What happens if and when we invent AGI

* The problems and possibilities of exponential technology in today's world

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