The Disruptors

Are you interested in space travel, genetic engineering and other futurist tech trends transforming our world/society? If so you will love this.



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Aubrey de Grey is a Cambridge researcher and Chief Science Officer of SENS Research Foundation focused on aging and extending human longevity. He proposes that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born. In addition to his research, Aubrey is the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Rejuvenation Research, author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging(2007). De Grey’s research focuses on whether regenerative medicine can prevent the aging process. He works on the development of what he calls “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” (SENS), a collection of proposed techniques to rejuvenate the human body and stop aging. To this end, he has identified seven types of molecular and cellular damage caused by essential metabolic processes. SENS is a proposed panel of therapies designed to repair this damage.

Mike Selden is co-founder and CEO of Finless Foods, a food startup that uses cutting-edge cellular-agriculture technologies to grow marine-animal cells, creating fish and seafood products enjoyed around the world. They are working toward a sci-fi, soon-here world where everyone has access to healthy, delectable seafood, without the environmental devastation or the health hazards of traditional fishing and aquatic farming.

Jenny Rooke is the founder and managing partner or Genoa Ventures (formerly 5 Prime Ventures) where she funds and builds companies that change the way science gets done with new tools and technologies. She has a Ph.D. in Genetics, a Bachelors in physics, and a background in computer science and works closely with early-stage life science start-ups on issues of fundraising, market and product strategy, and business development.

We cover a wide range of topics from genetic engineering and human longevity to personalized medicine, pharma, manufactured meats and much more...

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Daniel Schmachtenberger (@theneurohacker) is the co-founder and director of Research and Development at the Neurohacker Collective, where he is focused on developing processes and technologies for advancing medicine and human optimization and hosts a podcast exploring those topics. Daniel is particularly focused on personalized medicine, adequate approaches to complex illness, and deepening our knowledge of how the human regulatory systems function, how they break down, and how they can be supported to function with greater resilience and blogs at civilizationemerging.com Growing up home-schooled, Daniel had early exposure to design science (Buckminster Fuller, Jacques Fresco, Permaculture, etc.), systems science and complexity (Fritjof Capra, Stuart Kauffman, etc.), philosophy and psychology (eastern and western approaches), and activism (animal rights, environmental issues, social justice, etc.) His passion has always been at the intersection of these topics – specifically, facilitating the emergence into a mature civilization – that can prevent otherwise impending catastrophes, remediate existing damage, make possible radically higher quality of life for all sustainably, and support the greater realization of our individual and collective potential. NOTE: Daniel's company Neurohacker Collective produces Qualia, a top-notch nootropic mental/physical enhancement supplement. You can get 10% off your 1st order of 15% off subscription using code FRINGEFM [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590667" 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 Daniel thinks about civilization design and fixing current political and economic problems

* The importance of systems thinking in an age of interconnectedness

* Why humanity is destined to destroy itself if we can't fix our incentive structures

* How exponential technology impacts existential risks of our species

* Why the governments of today are not set up to handle the challenges of tomorrow

* The Uber-ification of society and how it could save us

* How to achieve abundance for all by rewriting our society

* Why scarcity is such a destructive force

* The problems with profits and ways to change capitalism

* Why Daniel is worried about exponential technology

* How functional medicine and nutrient-based therapies have transformed Daniel's life

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Joe Haldeman is a famed American science fiction author best known for his novel The Forever War (1974). That novel, and other of his works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards, including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award.[2] Joe was awarded the SFWA Grand Master for career achievements and in 2012 he was inducted as a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He's a member of Author's Guild, Writer's Guild, Science Fiction Writers of America, National Space Society (on Board of Advisors), Space Studies Institute and was President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1992-1994. Many of Haldeman's works, including his debut novel War Year and his second novel The Forever War, were inspired by his experiences related to serving in the Vietnam War. Wounded in combat, he struggled to adjust to civilian life after returning home. During Joe's prolific career, he's authored 30 books, 7 short fiction novels a set of comics and even a poem. You can grab a copy of The Forever War here or a free audiobook download here. 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 evolution of science fiction

* How author's like Joe research, describe and often help create technology

* Routines for increasing creativity

* How astronomy and curiosity for space pushed Joe into his passion

* What goes into creating a compelling story

* Why many authors and creatives resort to alcohol and hard drugs to create masterpieces

* How exercises inspire creativity

* Why Joe is optimistic about extraterrestrial life

* The reason Joe writes and importance of obsession

* How to stay humble in the face of success

* The reason Joe's worried about starvation and the incentive structures of society

* When to be a kid and when it is time to be an adult

* How the shift from public to private space companies is transforming the industry

* Why sci fi is the lifeblood of technologists and creativity

* How to hone your craft and becoming world-class

* Which industries Joe's most excited about

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Fraser Cain (@fcain) is the founder of Universe Today, one of the most popular spaces and astronomy sites online with over 3 million space focused visitors a month. In addition to Universe Today, Fraser co-hosts Astronomy Cast, a fact-based weekly journey through the cosmos which offers discussions about astronomical topics ranging from planets to cosmology Fraser has been working in the software/Internet industry for the more than 15 years and was a partner in two software companies that are now traded publicly. He studied engineering at the University of British Columbia and has a degree in computer science. Visit Fraser’s site at Universe Today. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590664" 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:

* What's been happening in space since the space race

* How advances in reusable rockets, materials science and hardware have revolutionized the future of space

* Why Fraser thinks Earth is far and away from the best place in the solar system to live

* How the new space race may unfold and the political implications

* The health problems associated with living in space and living in low gravity

* Why asteroid mining and space manufacturing may hold humanity's key to the stars

* The changes in space technology since the space race

* How space exploration may impact our evolution

* Why Earth should be focused as only our home

* Why space is a possible answer to our climate change and pollution problems

* The reason the economics of space are starting to become viable

* What is really the future for life in space

* Why space is key to overcoming the existential risk

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Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) is the best selling science fiction author, blogger, and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing), a contributor to many magazines, websites, and newspapers and a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards, and treaties. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books, Head of Zeus (UK), Titan Books (UK) and HarperCollins (UK). He has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.

Several of his award-winning novels include:

* Little Brother

* Homeland

* Pirate Cinema

Cory also co-founded the open-source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola and serves on the boards and advisory boards of the Participatory Culture Foundation, the Clarion Foundation, the Open Technology Fund and the Metabrainz Foundation.

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

* How GDPR helps and hurts the future of the internet

* The big problem with government regulation

* Where the US and Europe differ when it comes to civil liberties

* How your privacy is bought and sold, well beyond what you already know

* Why governments support corporate spying on citizens

* The future of surveillance capitalism and how to solve it

* Why corruption and special interests are jeopardizing our future

* How copyright law could crush the internet

* Why Cory is optimistic about our collective future

* How to be a prolific author, as a side-gig

* How and why citizens need to rebel/react in times of trouble

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Bernard Bigot is the Director-General of the ITER Organization (@iterorg), an international fusion science and technology research facility based in France. Bernard has been closely associated with ITER since France's bid to host the project in 2003 and Mr. Bigot was delegated by the French government to act as High Representative for the implementation of ITER in France, a position that he has occupied since 2008. Bernard has a long and distinguished career and has held senior positions in research, higher education and government. Prior to his appointment at ITER, he completed two terms (2009-2012 and 2012-2015) as Chairman and CEO of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, CEA. This government-funded technological research organization—with ten research centres in France, a workforce of 16,000 and an annual budget of EUR 4.3 billion—is active in low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies, and health technologies. From 2003 to 2009 Bernard Bigot served as France's High commissioner for atomic energy, an independent scientific authority whose mission is to advise the French President and the French government on nuclear and renewable energy policy and in all the other scientific and technological domains where the CEA intervenes. In his career as educator/researcher, Bernard also authored over 70 publications in theoretical chemistry and led the research at the Ecole normale supérieure and Director of the Institut de recherche sur la catalyse, a CNRS laboratory specializing in catalysis research. Bernard Bigot is a Commandeur in the French Order of the Legion of Honour, a Commandeur in the Royal Swedish Order of the Polar Star, and an Officer the French Order of the National Merit. In October 2014 he received the Gold and Silver Star in the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun.. "I've always been concerned with energy issues. Energy is the key to mankind's social and economic development. Today, 80 percent of the energy consumed in the world comes from fossil fuels and we all know that this resource will not last forever. With fusion energy, we have a potential resource for millions of years. Harnessing it is an opportunity we cannot miss." [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590661" 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 In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including:

* The future of fusion and where we are headed

* Why nuclear fusion still has not achieved net energy creation

* How ITER is building the fusion reactor (tokamak) of the future to supply safe, clean energy for the world

* The climate change problem and potential solutions to save us

* Why fusion technology has taken so long see the light of day

* The importance of governmental collaboration in large-scale scientific research

* How fusion differs from "typical" nuclear power, ie fission

* The implications of nearly free energy

* Bernard's thoughts on creating a star

* Why fusion may be the most exciting technology that no one is talking about

* The reason the US and Russia collaborated during the Cold War on fusion research

* Why nearly all energy in the solar system isn't accessible by conventional means

Ashwin Seetharaman is molecular genetics and cell/developmental researcher at the University of Toronto focused on understanding life at its most fundamental level. He is currently focused on unraveling genetic interaction networks underlying human disease using the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, ie examining and fighting rare diseases using gene editing. With over a decade of experience in leading scientific research, publishing research articles and presenting scientific findings at conferences, he has a talent for simplifying and communicating complex scientific data in a way that both experts in the field and a non-scientific audience can appreciate them. Ashwin spends much of his time thinking about the dynamics of the future and how this research will impact humanity, especially those unfamiliar with its profound effects. In addition to his research, Ashwin is also passionate about training people to communicate more powerfully and offers powerful tools and training at the highest quality to empower people to articulate their ideas and vision in a powerful and persuasive manner. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590669" 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 CRISPR and genetic engineering

* Why personalized medicine is closer than you would think

* How CRISPR and gene drive technology can have a butterfly effect like unintended consequences

* The problem and solution with causing and treating cancer

* Why we need to discuss the ethical implications of genetic editing

* The importance of DNA based edits and therapies to advance humanity

* How to shift the public perception on future technologies

* The reason humanity may evolve into multiple species

* Ashwin's thoughts on the ethics of great power

* The reason Ashwin is cautious with CRISPR technology

* How researchers are fighting and will likely eradicate malaria-carrying mosquitoes

* Why research is now focused on systems vs individual genes

* The importance of epigenetics in understanding biological processes

* Why we may have a "cure" to aging on the horizon

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Joanna Bryson (@j2bryson) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at the University of Bath. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and collaborative cognition. In 2010 Bryson published her most controversial work, "Robots Should Be Slaves" and has helped the EPSRC to define the Principles of Robotics in 2010. She has also consulted The Red Cross on autonomous weapons and is a member of an All Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence. Joanna is focused on "Standardizing Ethical Design for Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Systems". In 2017 she won an Outstanding Achievement award from Cognition X. She regularly appears in national media, talking about human-robot relationships and the ethics of AI EPSRC's Laws of Robotics:

* Robots should not be designed as weapons, except for national security reasons

* Robots should be designed and operated to comply with existing law, including privacy

* Robots are products: as with other products, they should be designed to be safe and secure

* Robots are manufactured artifacts: the illusion of emotions and intent should not be used to exploit vulnerable users

* It should be possible to find out who is responsible for any robot

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* Why robots and AI should not resemble people

* How Joanna helped the British replace Asimov’s laws of robotics

* How people confuse consciousness and intelligence and likely problems this creates

* Why Joanna is skeptical we'll achieve AI superintelligence

* The big problem with conflicting interests creating filter bubbles, disinformation and overly aggressive Facebook

* Why robots cannot be liable/punished for their actions

* How people should think about ethics of robot design

* The ethical dilemmas with AI and robots in society

* How psychology, neuroscience, ethics and AI are merging

* The problems with control and governing AI usage

* How bad incentives create bad artificial intelligences

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Brad Waid (@techbradwaid) is an international speaker, influencer and educator with over 15 years of classroom and industry experience. Brad is an industry leader in the fields of educational technology, 21st-century learning, culture and innovation and has been named a top 15 influencer/thought leader in Augmented Reality.

Brad is a consultant to industry, education, and government and is often called on by industry to assist in marketing and telling the story of a product or a company. He also assists school districts and educational conferences in applying technology into education, and he works with government agencies to improve education for all students.

​As a consultant to start-ups from Silicon Valley to New York and government agencies, Brad has a unique perspective on the evolution of the tech landscape.

He has been honored by the National School Board Association as one of the “20 to Watch” in Educational Technology. Brad’s knowledge of educational technology, his ability to assist industry and government and his passion to inspire educational change, makes him a highly sought after speaker and influencer who makes an impact where ever he goes.

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

* How augmented reality has changed in the past decade

* What is on the near-term horizon in terms of holograms, VR and AR

* How technology transforms society and cultural norms

* The ways education is being rewritten for the modern world

* Why Brad is so bullish on AI and machine learning

* The problems with AI and AR for freedom and personal privacy

* How Brad thinks about the future of work

* The reason Brad thinks college is a collapsing system

* What Brad believes is necessary to save the education system

* The societal struggles to change education

* Which of today's top tech companies will lead the future of tech

* Why Minority Report isn't that far off

* Ways technology transforms society more than we realize

* Why Brad is big on space travel

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Prof Peter Stone is the founder and director of the Learning Agents Research Group (LARG) within the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, as well as associate department chair and chair of the University's Robotics Portfolio Program. He is also the President, COO, and co-founder of Cogitai, a startup company building AIs that learn continually from interaction with the real world - ie brains or continual-learning AI sof tware. Peter's main research interest is understanding how we can best create complete intelligent agents and focuses mainly on machine learning, multiagent systems, and robotics. Prof Stone has worked with modeling/creating robot soccer, autonomous bidding agents, autonomous vehicles, autonomic computing and social agents. In 2007 he received the prestigious IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, given biannually to the top AI researcher under the age of 35, and in 2016 he was awarded the ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590668" 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 the general public is confused about artificial intelligence

* What is cutting edge in the space of robotics and AI

* How Peter and his team are perfecting soccer robotically

* The big problem with government action/inaction when it comes to AI

* The different types of AI and machine learning and advantages of each

* How Peter and others think about consciousness with machines

* The problems Peter sees with hype and fear mongering

* The implications to healthcare and quality of life in an society with increased automation

* Peter's recommendations to governments and regulators on AI

* Why Peter believes we are still a long way off from AGI

* Why AI is overhyped and underhyped

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