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Bryan Versteeg (@spacehabs) is a conceptual designer at spacehabs.com and the co-founder of Deep Space Industries (@GoDeepSpace), an asteroid mining company striving toward the effective and efficient development of space resources to propel human development off the earth. The company will change the economic model of doing business in space by providing the technical resources, capabilities and system integration required to discover, harvest, process and market in-space resources. Bryan is responsible for the conceptual designs for the Mars One mission. A not for profit that aims to develop a permanent human settlement on Mars. An act that would instantly double the number of planets that humans can call home. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590629" 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 asteroid mining is critical to space exploration

* The stroke that changed Bryan's life and outlook on living

* How artistic expression inspires creativity and innovation in tech

* Why space is so hard and launches cost so crucial

* The importance of visualizing space habitats

* The Bryan is worried and excited about AI

* How farming of the future works and importance of self-sustainability

* Why VR will transform our ability to explore everything

* How 3d printing will put its mark on humanity

* The problem starting a Mars colony and how to solve it

* Understanding water and its importance in space

* Why Elon Musk is so important for humanity's space-faring future

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Alex Doman (@alexdoman) is an author, entrepreneur, public speaker and product creator, who has 25 years of experience in leadership in the brain health, neurotechnology and therapeutic music markets. He was named one of the top 50 human behavior experts to watch and has trained thousands of medical, therapeutic, and education professionals on brain-related topics.

The third generation in a family of pioneers dedicated to improving brain performance for over seventy-five years, Alex is founder & CEO of Advanced Brain Technologies, founder & Chief Product Officer of Vital Neuro, founder & Chief Scientist of Sleep Genius, founder of The Movement Program, Ltd., and bestselling co-author of Healing at the Speed of Sound: How What We Hear Transforms Our Brains and Our Lives.

Alex has been interviewed for NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, Today, NPR Marketplace, Wall Street Journal, Self, Women’s Health, Men’s Health, Fast Company, CBS Moneywatch, ESPN Radio, Hearing Health Magazine, popular podcasts and other media.

His writing has been published in several magazines, journals and books. He is also a blogger and host of the Advanced Brain Podcast with guests including NY Times bestselling authors, health personalities, and other thought leaders.

An advisor to several companies and organizations and Board Member for Autism Hope Alliance, he is a keynote speaker and frequent presenter at online summits and on international stages.

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

* How music makes your brainer smarter, or stupider

* The reason music is such a part of what it means to be human

* Why it is easier to be in flow when listening to certain types of music

* How neuroscientists and marketers can use music to manipulate you

* What the future of neurotech and brain-machine interfaces looks like

* Why IQ is a bad measure of someone's potential

* The way to supercharge meditation and relieve stress

* How to optimize sleep and overall performance

* Understanding the quantified self-movement and where it is headed

* Why Alex is excited about blockchain and cryptocurrency

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Muse is a neurofeedback (ie EEG based brain-sensing) device that helps meditators/anyone learn to control their mind and quiet the thoughts. The science is great, neurofeedback helps meditators achieve zen-level results in less time. I’m a big fan of meditation (as you know) and Muse is hooking listeners up with 15% OFF when they use our link. Enjoy and happy chilling!

 

 

Dr. Michele Ross, Ph.D., MBA (@drmicheleross) is a neuroscientist and health coach with a passion to help patients with chronic illness live their best life ever. She is both a cannabinoid medicine researcher and became a cannabis patient after being diagnosed with fibromyalgia, neuropathy, and chronic pelvic pain, which allowed her to return to work. In 2013 Michele founded the “Endocannabinoid Deficiency Foundation,” later known as IMPACT Network, which was the first nonprofit to provide research and advocacy on cannabis for women’s health. In 2017 she founded Infused Health, an online platform for cannabis education and health coaching. Dr. Ross has authored several bestselling books including Vitamin Weed and Train Your Brain To Get Thin. Michele has been a guest expert on TV and radio shows including The Doctors, The Ricki Lake Show, and KFI, sits on the Medical Advisory Board of several companies and is active in drug policy and works to decriminalize cannabis, kratom, and psychedelics around the world as a founding board member of the Society for Psychedelic Outreach, Reform and Education. Dr. Ross has been featured as a speaker at conferences all over the world, including CannX in Israel, O’Cannabiz in Canada, Telluride Mushroom Festival in Colorado, and Cannabis Science Conference in Portland where she educates on cannabis and psychedelics for a broad range of health benefits and she became well-known as the first scientist to star on reality television in the world, starring on the #1 hit summer show, Big Brother on CBS, in 2009.  She used her 15 minutes of fame to support several charitable events supporting cancer patients, including Stand Up to Cancer, Reality Rally, and Hearts of Reality. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590632" 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 true cost of illegal cannabis

* What Michele learned about addiction, mental health, and healing

* America's drug problems, thanks to pharma

* How the prison system incentivizes evil

* The reason convicts can't escape the prison grind

* How cannabis can be used to cure a great many ailments

* Why psychedelics could shift our entire understanding of the brain and mental health

* How the cannabinoid system is changing our understanding of everything

* Why pharma and synthetic drugs are often not the answer

* The sad truth about school shootings

Do You Meditate?

Muse is a neurofeedback (ie EEG based brain-sensing) device that helps meditators/anyone learn to control their mind and quiet the thoughts. The science is great, neurofeedback helps meditators achieve zen-level results in less time. I’m a big fan of meditation (as you know) and Muse is hooking listeners up with 15% OFF when they use our link.

Bruce Schneier (@schneierblog) is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist. He is the author of 13 books--including:

* Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

* Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World

In addition to his books, Bruce has hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers, his influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and his blog "Schneier on Security" is read by over 250,000 people. Bruce has testified before Congress, is a frequent guest on television and radio, has served on several government committees, and is regularly quoted in the press. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org; and a special advisor to IBM Security and the Chief Technology Officer at IBM Resilient. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590630" 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 difference between the US, Europe, and Asia when it comes to privacy and data, and what it all means

* Why IoT internet security is one of the biggest problems no one is talking about

* Which tech giants will get broken up and which will reign

* The problem with social media and ideas on how to solve it

* How regulations affect business and monopolies and where we are headed

* Why voting and elections are so susceptible to manipulation

* How Bruce thinks about privacy in a surveillance capitalist economy

* Why your car could kill you and your fridge won't feed you

* The reason Bruce is optimistic and pessimistic about the future

* Why things are going to get worse before they get better

* The sad truth GDPR and data privacy

* What you need to know about China, Huawei, and surveillance

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Ramphis Castro (@jramphis) is the co-founder of ScienceVest, a venture capital fund for hard-tech and life science companies, and Impact Science Angels, an angel group focused on investing in companies that can impact 1MM+ lives. Ramphis is a Kauffman Fellow and co-Chair the NYC chapter of the Society and focused on the funding gaps for radical science companies in the US. In 2016 Ramphis was invited by the White House and was part of the US delegation with President Obama on his historic visit to Cuba. Ramphis has a diversified personal investment portfolio of companies ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Wearables, EdTech, Productivity Software, eCommerce, MarketPlaces, FinTech to Consumer Apps. He also designed and is on the investment committee for Parallel 18, a global accelerator based in Puerto Rico with a portfolio of 100+ seed/series A companies from over 40 countries across multiple verticals that have collectively raised over $40M in venture capital funding from investors from Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590631" 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 trade and politics affect economies

* Why AI is so important in biotech

* What areas of synthetic biology are most promising for investors

* The reason impact investing will dominate next generation of investing

* How Cuba's embracing capitalism and the future of startup ecosystems

* The reason science and deep tech is underfunded

* Why biotech will be the driving force of 21st century

* Why CRISPR is such a promising technology to cure incurable diseases

* Why Ramphis will probably live forever

* The sad truth about startup investing

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Garry Golden (@garrygolden) is a professionally trained futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on complex issues shaping society and business in the 21st century. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, governmental agencies and the US Army on issues related to transportation and mobility, food safety and health, the future of portable power, financial services  and much more.

Garry teaches an online course on The Future of Energy & Environment through the University of Houston Futures Studies program, and was Founding Editor of The Energy Roadmap.com Garry is co-author of Designing Your Future (2008) a Fast Futures / ASAE publication, and has co-written several business white papers including the Future of the Social Web and the Future of Green as a Business Strategy published by Future Think.

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

* The future of energy consumption and the grid

* Why Garry isn't sold on electric vehicles and battery technology

* The 4 types of futures and what they mean for society

* How we save the planet while still using fuel

* Why consciousness could be a problem with AI

* The reason politicians pull progress backward

* How futurists help society evolve

* Why Garry is quite enthusiastic about automation and AI

* Where the US is falling behind the rest of the world

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Dr Pippa Malmgren (@DrPippaM) is a futurist trend spotter, public speaker, best selling author and advisor to investors and governments about macroeconomic policy and investment strategy. She is a former Presidential Advisor who served on The National Economic Council in the White House where she was the point person on Enron and Terrorism Risks to the Economy after 911. She was the initial negotiator on Sarbanes Oxley and the Patriot Act and was on the President’s Working Group on Corporate Governance and the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Pippa anticipated the Financial Crisis in 2007, the slowdown in China, Brexit, Trump and the return of inflation. She is ranked in the top 25 Most Influential Economists in the World and one of the top 10 of global experts on Geopolitics and she was ranked in the top 5 on the Most Powerful Women in Finance list, all in 2017. As an economist, she focuses on how new technologies solve old problems and generate new forms of growth. In 2015 she won the Intelligence Squared Debate on Robotics alongside Walter Isaacson, which was broadcast by the BBC to 80 million homes worldwide, has been published in Wired Magazine, Monocle, The International Economy and other publications and is a regular guest anchor for CNBC, Bloomberg and often on the BBC (radio and TV). In 2016, her book Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World's Turbulent Economy became a best-seller on Amazon in four categories after being crowd-funded on Indiegogo. She also wrote Geopolitics for Investors which was commissioned by the CFA: She is a Non-Executive Board Member of the Department of International Trade in the UK, advising on Brexit. She also serves on the British Ministry of Defence Working Group on Global Strategic Trends and briefs Britain’s top Generals at Sandhurst. She serves on several advisory boards and working groups: She Chairs the Lewis PR Advisory Board (LAB) and is on the Advisory Boards at Real Vision TV, the Ditchley Foundation and Indiana University’s School of Public Policy and Environmental Affairs as well as the Indiana University Manufacturing Initiative. Pippa founded DRPM Group, an economic advisory firm that helps global firms understand the economic landscape and before that was the Deputy Head of Strategy for UBS and the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust, ran Bankers Trust’s Asset Management business in Asia from Hong Kong and was named a Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590635" 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 automation equals more jobs

* The reason Pippa is optimistic about the world economy

* Why China is investing heavily in Mexico

* How the 21st century is flipping leadership and business on its head

* Why entrepreneurship is the future and education is broken

* The reason our world is becoming more polarized, separated and populist

* How drones and autonomy will impact our economy

* The problem with healthcare and technological solutions to fix it

Driverless cars are coming, faster than anyone anticipates. Today we discuss AI and autonomy and how self-driving cars will transform society and life and we know it.

 

In today's episode we discuss:

- Uber, Waymo, Tesla and who wins self-driving

- How autonomy will transform cities and lives

- Unintended consequences of autonomous cars

- What happens when location becomes variable

 

And much much more...

 

Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity.

Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more...

Be sure to tune in every Wednesday & Sunday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.

 

 

 

 

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David Smith (@revodavid) is the Cloud Developer Advocate and R Community Lead at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, David was the Chief Community Officer (and is current editor-in-chief) of Revolution Analytics, daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization since 2008. David has a knack for building user communities and is currently the Vice President of Community for REvolution Computing, David focuses on promoting and supporting the commercial use of the open-source data analysis software system R. David is a co-author of the tutorial manual An Introduction to R, one of the originating developers of ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics and is also a member of the board of the R Consortium. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590634" 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 ethical problems of analyzing data

* Why AI will affect so many massive industries

* How governments need to start thinking about AI/ML

* The reason David thinks artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it destroys

* Why we're still decades off from artificial general intelligence

* The tech giant effect on AI and data science

* How Microsoft is leading the way towards tech future

* David's thoughts on the future of tech monopolies

* Why the battle for the future is based on attracting developers

* Where cloud computing is headed from here

* Why open ecosystems and opensource almost always wins

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Uplevel Your Meditation and Mind

Do you meditate? Muse is a neurofeedback (ie EEG based brain-sensing) device that helps meditators/anyone learn to control their mind and quiet the thoughts. The science is great, neurofeedback helps meditators achieve zen-level results in less time. I'm a big fan of meditation (as you know) and Muse is hooking listeners up with 15% OFF when they use our link

Kevin Folta (@kevinfolta) is a professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida and host of the Talking Biotech Podcast. He is a plant scientist who has researched how plants react to light, and he started blogging about a variety of topics in 2008, gaining popularity as a speaker on biotechnology. He has faced harsh criticism from many in the anti-GMO crowd over his industry connections and past consulting arrangements with big agriculture, yet brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the areas of farming, food production, ecologies, and ecological change and much more. He is very passionate about feeding the world and see GMO as the best, most effective way to feed a growing world population struggling to survive. Should be a fun one. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590636" 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 GMOs are necessary for humanity's future

* The big prospects of genetic engineering

* Where the agritech industry messed up

* How food production of the future will look like

* Why Kevin is excited about biotech

* The crazy science of super-engineered foods

* What happens to humanity as we evolve ourselves

* How regulation affects innovation

* Why the anti-GMO movement is so strong

* What safety guidelines are needed for gene editing

* Why you are what you eat

* Why big tech isn't all bad

* How to help fight starvation and hunger

* What we eat when we expand into space

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