#ustp #transhumanist #transhumanism #2020elections #charliekam #presidentcandidate2020

Charlie Kam is a singer/songwriter, entrepreneur & transhumanist who was the conference chairman of TransVision 2007. he is  member of the World Transhumanist Association, Immortalist Institute, World Future Society, Singularity Institute, and Alcor life foundation Director of Networking for the California Transhumanist Party and is the U.S. Transhumanist Party 2020 candidate for President. The U.S. Transhumanist Party is focused on policy rather than politics as conventionally defined & value initiatives, reforms that will improve the human condition for as many people as possible, with as much beneficial impact as possible. Charlie Kam stands for human life extension achieved through the progress of science and technology and advancements of liberty, education, and technological progress through transhumanist politics.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-kam-0944904 

https://www.californiatranshumanistparty.org 

http://transhumanist-party.org

#defi #blockchain #fantasysports #nft

The gaming industry is pivoting to in-game assets, virtual currency & NFT's. Blockchain/Decentralization will upend the gaming industry giving power back to the gamers, Gaming is being reimagined, fantasy sports/gaming is growing humungously and maybe it could be the catalyst for mass adoption of Blockchain.  Ritam Gupta is the Founder of Nonceblox a family of talented blockchain architects, consultants, business SMEs and ICO advisers who are passionate about one thing only -"​ Building Commercially Scalable Blockchain Products"​. The team combined has experience of more than 30 years. Whether it's offering digitally enabled ledger solutions or bootstrapping of an ICO, Nonceblox takes care of end-to-end project processes.  Ritam is also the founder of DeFi11, a DeFi powered decentralized gaming ecosystem built on top of Matic Blockchain with Ethereum as the base layer. The platform aims to establish ethical standards in gaming by making the system transparent, auditable and incentivizing.

https://ae.linkedin.com/in/ritamgupta 

https://www.defieleven.com/ 

https://nonceblox.com/

#nanotech #nanotechnology #MXene

Richard Feynman's talk at Caltech in 1959 titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" -Tiny Machines, gave birth to the Nanotech Industry, Tiny Particles & Devices to build the future. Nanotechnology is science and engineering at the scale of atoms and molecules. Engineers & Scientists are tinkering with the tiniest materials, turning them into products & solutions that can transform our world beyond our current understanding.  Prof Yury Gogotsi is a Ukrainian scientist in the field of material chemistry, professor at Drexel University, Philadelphia,  in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering and Nanotech. Distinguished University and Trustee Chair professor of materials science at Drexel University — director of the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute Professor Y. Gogotsi leads a scientific research group that develops new nanostructured carbon materials (nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds,carbide-derived carbon, onion-like carbon) and works on the hydrothermal synthesis of carbon nanostructures and ceramics. He also contributed to the development of effective water desalination and capacitive deionization techniques, electrical energy storage — batteries and supercapacitors, as well as applications of carbon nanomaterials for energy and biomedicine.

Prof. Yury Gogotsi produced several publications, with the Simon/Gogotsi review in Nature Materials published in 2008 currently being the most cited article (Web of Science) in the electrochemical capacitors (supercapacitors) field.  Professor Yury Gogotsi was a part of the team that discovered a new family of two-dimensional (2D) carbides and nitrides — MXenes that show exceptional potential for energy storage and other applications.

Professor Y. Gogotsi is the co-author of two books, editor of 14 books, has more than 100 publications in conference proceedings, and more than 800 articles in peer-reviewed journals, credited on more than 80 European and US patents (more than 30 licensed to industry) and more than 250 plenary, keynote and invited lectures and seminars. He has been cited over 100,000 times and currently has an h-index of 175 (Google Scholar) / (Web of Science).  In Stanford’s list of top 2% researchers in the world across all scientific disciplines, Yury Gogotsi was ranked #53 in 2019 among all living and deceased scientists.

https://nano.materials.drexel.edu/ 

https://twitter.com/gogotsi1 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yury-gogotsi-2178273

#universalbasicincome #ubi #bien #soas #sewa

#COVID has created a frenzied crisis management response from nations, from currency printing to stimulus package rolled out only to the banking industry & big companies. The common man has been forever ignored & this will have long term economical repercussions as the economic engine is run by low/middle class and the small, micro, medium-sized enterprises.  What is universal basic income & has the time come for the world to take heed & implement this powerful policy which could not just reverse the impact of COVID but also sow the seeds for an equitable future?

Guy Standing is an economist, who has been involved in the basic income experiments in India- Madhya Pradesh fronted by SEWA [Self Employed Women's Associations]. He is a Professorial Research Associate and former Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London, founder member and honorary co-president of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an international non-governmental organization that promotes basic income as a right, with networks in over 50 countries. Guy Standing has worked as a consultant with many international bodies, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (now the International Trade Union Confederation), the European Commission, the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). In 2006-07 he was a consultant economic adviser to the Economic Security division of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and was the main writer for the UN’s Report on the World Social Situation published in late 2007.

Professor Standing was an economic adviser in the Prime Minister’s Department in Malaysia and has written various books on the subject of Rentier Capitalism & Universal Basic Income.  

https://www.guystanding.com  

https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/guy-standing-54b70514a 

https://twitter.com/guystanding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-1YI-neupU&feature=youtu.be [ Massive Attack-Video] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Standing_(economist) 

https://basicincome.org/topic/guy-standing/ 

https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff82877.php 

https://www.amazon.in/Books-Guy-Standing/s?rh=n%3A976389031%2Cp_27%3AGuy+Standing

#mit #brelyon #futureofdisplay #3d #mitmedialab #noheadset #virtualmonitor #beyondscreens #immersivedisplay

Our 2D Interface has taken over 100 yrs to evolve.....3D , Holographic Displays, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality have all taken a shot at derailing our current 2D display without success. Barmak Heshmat Ex-Head of Optics at "Meta Augmented Reality" , Ex research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he lead the ‘inverse problems in light propagation’ subgroup in the Camera Culture group & developed tools and solutions for imaging beyond conventional limitations of optics using ultrafast optics, nano-optics and computational methods has come up with the worlds 1st no headset virtual monitor "Brelyon".

Barmak is working on reimagining displays, their proprietary depth modulation and lightfield expansion technologies work together to create a massive field of view to provide optical depth, generating an immersive panoramic virtual screen, will Brelyon replace our traditional interfaces ?

Barmak has received his Ph.D. (on optoelectronics and nanomaterials) at the University of Victoria in 2013 where he invented a THz receiver with an order of magnitude better sensitivity compared to the state of the art at the time. He has published 20 journal papers and filed 8 patents. Some of these papers and inventions have been featured on MIT cover page, BBC, TechCrunch and many other media outlets. Barmak is also the co-founder of the 'Imaginarium of Technology' (iMT) which is a platform for sharing engineering ideas.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/barmak-heshmat-89934264 

https://brelyon.com 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8IGRMR3GX99C7V69HUoNYw 

https://youtu.be/cYlBcRDjbGI 

https://mit2.cgsociety.org/

#emobility #nitiaayog #electricvehicles #cleanenergy

Randheer Singh is the Dir of Mobility & Senior Team Member for advanced chemistry cells at Niti Aayog, he is laying the foundation to phase out fossil fuels & take us towards electric mobility & a clean energy nation. Randheer is working towards transforming transport/mobility in India. Batteries - Leading ACC Program, EV Policy - Leading State EV Accelerator program, EV Standards - Member of BIS committee on Electric Mobility Infrastructure standards and also Technical Jury member for Battery Swapping standards, Electric Vehicles Infrastructure - Released several reports including the handbook and working on several projects with Industry and state governments (along with MoP), Electric Vehicles Financing - Working on initiatives to remove the hurdles (high finance cost for Electric Mobility) of high finance cost for Electric Mobility manufacturing as well as adoption (retail level) - Projects with World bank and leading finance providers in this country along with the policy push (such as Infrastructure status, PSL, etc.), COP 26 and decarbonization of transport sector - Involved in senior official dialogues for COP 26 and efforts in the direction of decarbonizing the transport (and industry too) sector including the option of Hydrogen in some segments [ Clean Energy].

MBA from IIM Calcutta, B.Tech from NIT-B, PMP (Project Management Professional) certified senior-level Project, Strategy, and finance experience for start-up, turnaround, and high-growth corporations.

https://in.linkedin.com/in/randheers 

https://www.niti.gov.in

#iitm #iit #eplane #avishkarhyperloop #aerostrovilos #agnikul #agnikulcosmos #nccrd #disruptive #innovation #iitmadras

Satyanarayanan Chakravarthy is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He is the co-founder of ePlane, Aerostrovilos, Agnikul Cosmos, Mentor for Avishkar Hyperloop, and also the founder and head of NCCRD at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

He served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech during 1996-97 and as a Visiting Faculty at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras during 1997-98, before permanently joining the latter department in 1998 as Assistant Professor. He is a Professor there since 2009. Professor Chakravarthy’s interests lie in the field of energy and combustion, covering aspects of solid propellants, combustion dynamics, laser diagnostics and spray characterization.

Prof. Satya Chakravarthy is coordinating the National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) established by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, since 2011, and also the Centre of Propulsion Technologies being established with the support of the Defense Research and Development Organization, Government of India. He has over 75 publications in international journals and 230 papers in international/national conferences. He has won the Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2003, Young Faculty Recognition Award from IIT Madras in 2009, DRDO Academic Excellence Award in 2009, Dalmia-HEMSI-ACHREM Award in High Energy Materials in 2010. He is a member of the editorial board of the Progress in Energy and Combustion Science journal for 2015-18. He also served as a colloquium co-chair on Solid Fuels Combustion at the 37th International Symposium on Combustion at Dublin, Ireland in July 2018.

https://in.linkedin.com/in/satyanarayanan-chakravarthy-51326241 

https://g.co/kgs/zcznJm

#defi #decentralized #blockchain

[De-Fi ] Decentralized Finance is challenging the status quo of the traditional banking industry, some of the best minds in the finance industry are asking if Defi, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency will kill the traditional banking industry. Kumar is the Founder & CEO of Cashaa, a UK based neo-bank providing businesses access to crucial banking infrastructure. Cashaa is a community of more than 250 crypto businesses including the industry leaders such as Binance, Chainlink, Coindcx, Kucoin, Nexo, Polygon, Paxful, etc making it the biggest crypto-friendly banking platform.

Kumar started his career as an engineer by building navigation systems for Ferrari before pivoting into the FinTech space in 2014 to begin working on blockchain-powered innovations. In recognition of his pioneering work on blockchain technology, he was awarded extraordinary (O-1) status by the United States government in 2017 and got listed among the Top 100 Most Influential People in Blockchain in 2016-2018 by Rise global.

As a thought leader in the Fintech space, he has been invited to numerous global forums, including Money 2020, TechCrunch Disrupt, the European Parliament and Ivy League universities. In 2017, he was also nominated among the ‘World's Top 50 Innovators from the industries of the future in the UK.

https://ae.linkedin.com/in/kgauravitc 

https://twitter.com/kg_cashaa 

https://www.kumargaurav.com/

#leadtoxicity #sustainability #leadpollution

Yigal Erel Prof of HU’s Institute of Earth Sciences warns that the growing use of electronics, electric vehicle batteries, perovskite solar panels & even i-phones will lead to further lead poisoning. Prof Erel's team of researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) have found a link between the rates of metal production and toxic lead exposure in humans over thousands of years.

The team examined human remains from a burial ground in central Italy that had been in continuous use for about 12,000 years, As production of lead worldwide started spiking, the rate at which it was absorbed by the bodies of people over time increased as well, suggesting humans have been breathing the dangerous substance for thousands of years. the more lead we produce, the more people are likely to be absorbing it into their bodies, which is highly toxic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, exposure to high levels of lead can cause anemia, weakness, and brain damage. In the worst cases, high lead exposure can lead to death. Prof Erel also warned that thanks to modern society’s obsession with electronics, perovskite solar panels, Lead Acid Batteries for  Electric Vehicles will most likely increase lead pollution.

Innovation, technology needs to be sustainable & human first not just profit-driven.  

https://il.linkedin.com/in/yigal-erel-2b8b6899 

https://en.earth.huji.ac.il/people/yigal-erel

#3Dbioprinting #3dprintedskin #biotechnology #organtransplant #nextbiginnovationlab #nbil #innovationlab #trivima #innoskin #futureoforgantransplant

Can you imagine zero wait times for an organ transplant? This may soon be possible, thanks to the work being done by the pioneering biotech company, Next Big Innovation Labs. It is making exceptional use of disruptive 3D Bioprinting technology to revolutionize pharmaceutical, clinical and cosmetic Research and Development.

Piyush Padmanabhan is the Co-Ceo/Co-Founder at the Next Big Innovations Labs a startup of enthusiastic individuals on a mission to confront the world's most challenging problems in the healthcare space.NBIL is a research-driven startup working on a novel approach to tackle the current muddle vexing the pharmaceutical, clinical and cosmetic R&D sectors. NBIL focuses on solving the organ availability crisis plaguing the entire globe using 3D Bioprinting; aiming to create a world where the abyss between organ demand and availability for organ transplantation is bridged by in-vitro organogenesis.

NBIL’s proprietary printer, Trivima, India’s first customizable 3D Bioprinter is set to transform many traditional areas of medical research and practice, like bone regeneration, wound healing and new material development. Innoskin is NBIL's 3D Bioprinted Human skin, complete with the intricate architecture, that is developed using the patient’s own cells to treat wounds, burns, and other skin-related injuries and cosmetic corrections. Next Big Learning is their foundation course on 3D bioprinting  

https://nextbiglab.com/ 

https://nextbiglab.com/nextbiglearning-courseon3dbioprinting/ 

https://in.linkedin.com/in/piyush-padmanabhan-6817b130