The Disruptors

Roel Vertegaal (@roelvertegaal) is a Dutch-Canadian interaction designer, scientist, musician and entrepreneur working in the area of Human-Computer Interaction. He is a Professor at Queen's University's School of Computing where he directs the Human Media Lab and is best known for his pioneering work on flexible and paper computers, with PaperWindows (2004), PaperPhone (2010] and PaperTab (2012). He is also known for inventing ubiquitous eye input, such as Samsung's Smart Pause technologies.

“In the near future, a computer will have any shape or form, and flexible computer displays will start appearing on any product of any form. These Organic User Interfaces will be completely embedded in real world interactions.”

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

* The future of computing interfaces and why it is not what you think

* What is on the near-term horizon in terms of holograms

* How technology transforms society and cultural norms

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

* Why AR and VR are overhyped and ultimately not the answer

* The problems with voice and Alexa-like products for functionality

* How communication can break down or be enhanced online

* The problems Roel sees in today's world and what causes them

* Roel passion for quantum computing and potential implications

* The reason Roel is very worried about climate change

* Why Roel believes startups and tech companies should have higher moral character

* The awesome effects of flexible computers, phones and interfaces

* Why the lab is always 10-15 years ahead of commercial companies

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Roel:  I think that what we're like today society is kind of characterized by problems which are a digital domain. I think the Internet has done certain things to communication that are not desirable and twenty years ago I started working on something called an attentive user interface which is now in the iPhone 10. This idea that you can't consume the user's attention forever and think that there's no consequence. You need a filter. You need to filter messages coming in who who get a notification from who do not get a notification from [Inaudible] th...

Prof. Dirk Helbing (@dirkhelbing) is Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, in ETH Zurich, and the Scientific Coordinator of the FuturICT Flagship Proposal. He is also the Principal Investigator on FutureICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis Relief System, a big data computing system, conceived as sort of a crystal ball of the world. The core of the system is the Living Earth Simulator, a computing machine attempting "to model global-scale systems — economies, governments, cultural trends, epidemics, agriculture, technological developments, and more — using torrential data streams, sophisticated algorithms, and as much hardware as it takes". The project currently competing for funding from the European Commission of € 1 billion. He is known for the social force model, in particular its application to self-organising phenomena in pedestrian crowds. Besides the slower-is-faster effect, he introduced the freezing-by-heating effect and the phase diagram of congested traffic states. Helbing also proposed a microscopic foundation of evolutionary game theory and has studied self-organized behavioral conventions. Recent work applies principles of collective intelligence and self-organized control to the optimization of urban and freeway traffic. His current research activities focus on norms and conflict, the role of success-driven motion for the establishment of cooperation among selfish individuals, the science of science, socio-inspired technology and techno-social systems, disaster spreading and crisis management. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590684" 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 science fiction impacts our worldview

* The problem with today's economic model and what we need to fix to find success

* Why blockchain is incredibly interesting and has potential to transform society

* How artificial intelligence and human creativity can co-exist and thrive

* Why we need better governance and incentive systems to sustainably survive the coming years

* The problem with connectivity and monitoring

* Why Dirk's team is focused on building a universal human brain

* The pros and cons of capitalism, socialism and something else entirely

* How regulations help and hinder progress

* What a new world order could look like and how to get there

* The impact of IoT and sensing on striving for a better future

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Geoffrey Woo (@geoffreywoo) is co-founder and CEO of HVMN, a research-driven company that provides nutrition to elite performers in sport and military. HVMN makes HVMN Ketone, the world's first ketone ester drink based on technology developed in a DARPA program to enhance soldier performance. In early 2016, Geoffrey started experimenting with intermittent fasting to activate metabolic pathways associated with longevity and cognitive function. To make the science and physiology behind the benefits of fasting more accessible, Geoffrey started WeFast, one of the largest online intermittent fasting communities, and became a widely cited spokesperson for intermittent fasting in the media. Geoffrey is a serial entrepreneur. He previously was CEO and co-founder of Glassmap Inc., a software technology company backed by YCombinator, a top venture capital group, and acquired by Groupon ($GRPN). [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590685" 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 diet impacts mental and physical performance

* The blood boy billionaires and methods of extending human life

* Why fasting and intermittent fasting are fast becoming the rage in Silicon Valley

* The ways top performers are enhancing themselves without resorting to harmful drugs

* Why we may be headed towards different species of humans

* The DARPA/US military science on superhuman performance

* How health, happiness and sleep affect human performance and success

* Why science often takes a long time to catch up to practice

* The reason the healthcare system is so screwed up

* Where we are headed with quantified-self movement

* Why Geoff is very excited about IoT and it's self-enhancement abilities

BTW HVMN is on Amazon! Transcript Producing this podcast and transcribing the episode takes tons of time and resources. If you support FringeFM and the work we do, please consider making a tax-deductible donation. If you can’t afford to support us, we completely understand as well, but an iTunes review or share on Twitter can go a long way too!   Geoff:  So, one of the most interesting technologies that we're working with today came from a 2003 DARPA program called Metabolic Dominance and a mandate for that program was to make sure that U.S. warfighters were the most metabolically efficient on the battlefield and that pathway that started problem was looking at a number of pathways, one of the most promising pathways was looking at [Inaudible] beta-hydroxybutyrate as a more efficient metabolic fuel for our brain and bodies.   Matt: Billions of dollars have been made on optimization software and education. And yet it's interesting that the operating system of all of us our bodies our nutrition is not something that typically sees the light ...

Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also the Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a geostrategic advisory firm, and Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum, a boutique content strategy agency - topics he addressed in his popular TED Talk on How Megacities are Changing the Map of the World. Parag has (co)authored several books, including:

* Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

* Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012)

*  How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011)

* The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008)

In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590688" 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 Asia is where the 21st century will unfold

* How economic forces are driving apparently separatist movements

* The de-volution of nation-states and the rise of Mega-Cities

* Why borders are becoming increasingly less relevant

* How Parag sees blockchain technology impacting politics

* Why local democracies are the most effective governing systems to date

* How cities are starting to challenge the power of governments

* Why and how regulation will shape the geo-politics of the future

* How Asia impacts China more than you know

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Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He is also the Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a geostrategic advisory firm, and Co-Founder & CEO of Factotum, a boutique content strategy agency – topics he addressed in his popular TED Talk on How Megacities are Changing the Map of the World.

Parag has (co)authored several books, including:

* Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

* Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012)

*  How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011)

* The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008)

In 2008, Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has traveled to more than 100 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

 

 

 

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

* Why Asia is where the 21st century will unfold

* How economic forces are driving apparently separatist movements

* The de-volution of nation-states and the rise of Mega-Cities

* Why borders are becoming increasingly less relevant

* How Parag sees blockchain technology impacting politics

* Why local democracies are the most effective governing systems to date

* How cities are starting to challenge the power of governments

* Why and how regulation will shape the geo-politics of the future

* How Asia impacts China more than you know

Rob Hopkins (@robintransition) is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network - a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world.

Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. He has been awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent's top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’.

He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, in addition to speaking at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.

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

* How local communities are reshaping the world and economy

* The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change

* What happens when communities create their own currencies

* How and why we need to address climate change

* Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism

* How the governments of the future are evolving today

* Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges

* Where we are headed with urban farming

* Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems

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Rob:  Donald Trump has been the last gasp of patriarchal fossil fuel driven Emperor's New Clothes capitalism or do we look at Donald Trump as being the beginning of the beginning is the end I don't know I always said to be a really optimistic person and and I used to do a lot of work with people on building projects and working in woods and stuff and I remember a friend of mine saying that when you're working with a chainsaw and you're cutting trees that it's the moment that when you're working with a chainsaw and it runs out of petrol just before it runs out of petrol it has a final big rev there you have this bigger room th...

Rob Hopkins (@robintransition) is the cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network – a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world

Rob is a serial blogger, both on Transition Network and at robhopkins.net, and author of The Power of Just Doing Stuff , The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion. He has been awarded a PhD by the University of Plymouth and an Honorary Doctorate by the University of the West of England. In 2012 he was voted one of the Independent’s top 100 environmentalists and one of ‘Britain’s 50 New Radicals’.

He has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Four Thought’ and on ‘A Good Read’, in addition to speaking at TED Global once, and at 3 TEDx events. He is an Ashoka Fellow, a keen gardener and one of the founders of New Lion Brewery in Totnes and a Director of Atmos Totnes, a very ambitious community-led development project.

 

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

* How local communities are reshaping the world and economy

* The exciting advances in renewable energies and combatting climate change

* What happens when communities create their own currencies

* How and why we need to address climate change

* Why Donald Trump is the last gasp of fossil fuel driven capitalism

* How the governments of the future are evolving today

* Why Rob is optimistic in the face of great challenges

* Where we are headed with urban farming

* Is community-owned resources the answer to societies problems

Yotam Ariel (@yotamariel) is the Founder and CEO of Bluefield, a satellite change detection startup that was recent winner of Top 20 NewSpace Awards alongside SpaceX, Virgin Orbit and other innovative space startups. Bluefield use proprietary methane tracking micro-satellites & AI to provide actionable insights and valuable data for farmers maximizing crop yields, governments watching military behavior and much much more. Bluefield lies up nicely with Yotam's previous startup Bennu Solar which mass produces affordable solar products for third world countries. Yotam likes the Morning Climate newsletter, for anyone interested. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590686" 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 Yotam thinks see satellite space technology changing everyday life

* The space tech convergence of small scale satellites

* Why methane is the new carbon dioxide

* The reason Yotam doesn't look up to Elon Musk and Richard Branson

* Why we are still a ways off from living in space

* The 80/20 way to think about climate change

* How complexity becomes commodity and creates innovation

* Why Yotam spent 12 years in China and what he learned

* The reason today's entrepreneurs focus on profitable purpose

* How to start a space tech startup today - and how much it costs

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Yotam Ariel (@yotamariel) is the Founder and CEO of Bluefield, a satellite change detection startup that was recent winner of Top 20 NewSpace Awards alongside SpaceX, Virgin Orbit and other innovative space startups. Bluefield use proprietary methane tracking micro-satellites & AI to provide actionable insights and valuable data for farmers maximizing crop yields, governments watching military behavior and much much more.

Bluefield lies up nicely with Yotam’s previous startup Bennu Solar which mass produces affordable solar products for third world countries. Yotam likes the Morning Climate newsletter, for anyone interested.

 

 

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

* How Yotam thinks see satellite space technology changing everyday life

* The space tech convergence of small scale satellites

* Why methane is the new carbon dioxide

* The reason Yotam doesn’t look up to Elon Musk and Richard Branson

* Why we are still a ways off from living in space

* The 80/20 way to think about climate change

* How complexity becomes commodity and creates innovation

* Why Yotam spent 12 years in China and what he learned

* The reason today’s entrepreneurs focus on profitable purpose

* How to start a space tech startup today – and how much it costs

Kyle Samani (@kylesamani) is cofounder and Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital, a venture capital-esque crypto hedge fund with at least $250M in assets under management (AUM). Prior to starting Multicoin Capital, Kyle ran Pristine.io (a Google Glass company for surgeons) as CEO, raising $5M and ultimately being acquired. Kyle’s writing and thought leadership have built him up as someone to follow in the ever-evolving industry in addition to a strong focus on technology, entrepreneurship, sales and marketing and finance. [spreaker type=player resource="episode_id=18590689" 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 Kyle first discovered ethereum when it was only $10

* Kyle's thoughts on the future of augmented reality and IoT

* Why blockchain fundamentally disrupts so many industries

* Which areas of crypto Kyle and his team are most excited about

* Why Kyle believes Bitcoin will become irrelevant

* What you need to know about the crypto rabbit hole

* How the future of money will edged government

* Why decentralization is more important than most people realize

* How crypto investors can think about blockchain protocol value

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