[This week we are replaying favorite shows from last year.]

Jim Elvidge returns to The World Transformed to discuss his ideas about the digital nature of reality and the possibility that consciousness is separate from the brain and an influencer, if not the creator of reality. Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss the implications of these ideas with Jim, including such far-reaching topics as:

Quantum Physics

Transhumanism

Reincarnation

The Nature of Matter

And, of course...

The Berenstain Bears

 

 

About Our Guest

 

Jim Elvidge holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. He has applied his training in the high-tech world as a leader in technology and enterprise management, including many years years in executive roles for various companies and entrepreneurial ventures. He also holds 4 patents in digital signal processing. Beyond the high-tech realm, however, Elvidge has years of experience as a musician, writer, and truth seeker. He merged his technology skills with his love of music, developed one of the first PC-based digital music samplers, and co-founded RadioAMP, the first private-label online streaming-radio company.

Jim has spent many years researching the fields of quantum mechanics, cosmology, ancient history, consciousness, anomalous occurrences, and future technologies. He explored the interrelationship of these factors in his first book, The Universe Solved and is currently working on a second book that digs deeper into the possibility of digital consciousness.

(First Broadcast January 2016)

 

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss a recent article in the Atlantic claiming that 2015 was The Best Year in History for the Average Human Being.

A few highlights:

In the US, 600,000 fewer than violent crimes in 2014  in 1995—that’s a 35 percent decline over the period

6.7 million fewer kids under the age of five are dying each year compared to 1990

The number of kids not in school has fallen from 100 million in 2000 to a projected 57 million in 2015.

The World Bank declared in September that, for the first time ever, less than 10 percent of the global population lived in extreme poverty, on less than $1.90 per day.

What Does it All Mean?

Why doesn’t it feel like the best time to be alive?

Why is everyone so upset all the time? 

What is the likelihood that these trends will continue / accelerate?

 

Plus:

Phil and Stephen provide a list of 25 more things that it is the  best time ever to to do.

 

Join us.

(First Broadcast January 2016)

 

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss a recent article in the Atlantic claiming that 2015 was The Best Year in History for the Average Human Being.

A few highlights:

In the US, 600,000 fewer than violent crimes in 2014  in 1995—that’s a 35 percent decline over the period

6.7 million fewer kids under the age of five are dying each year compared to 1990

The number of kids not in school has fallen from 100 million in 2000 to a projected 57 million in 2015.

The World Bank declared in September that, for the first time ever, less than 10 percent of the global population lived in extreme poverty, on less than $1.90 per day.

What Does it All Mean?

Why doesn’t it feel like the best time to be alive?

Why is everyone so upset all the time? 

What is the likelihood that these trends will continue / accelerate?

 

Plus:

Phil and Stephen provide a list of 25 more things that it is the  best time ever to to do.

 

Join us.

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon layout the landscape of change between now and the year 2017.

We will have regular treatment for aging.  

We will be driven by our cars for almost all of our transportation needs.

Our devices will be everywhere, linked to us, more powerful, and unplugged.

Many entities have some form of Moon missions planned 

AI will be inescapable.  

Attacking all disease via data mining, instant diagnostics, etc. will have made significant strides.

Multiple new solutions for dealing effectively with the post scarcity will be introduced alongside basic income. 

Join us.

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon layout the landscape of change between now and the year 2017.

We will have regular treatment for aging.  

We will be driven by our cars for almost all of our transportation needs.

Our devices will be everywhere, linked to us, more powerful, and unplugged.

Many entities have some form of Moon missions planned 

AI will be inescapable.  

Attacking all disease via data mining, instant diagnostics, etc. will have made significant strides.

Multiple new solutions for dealing effectively with the post scarcity will be introduced alongside basic income. 

Join us.

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon predict significant developments for the year 2017:

Routine news of individuals seriously treating aging as a disease.A backlash against self-driving cars.The year of the battery? Electric cars  continue to grow as a percent of the transportation market. Japan pushing forward in Space.  The virtual reality industry grows significantly.  There will be improved understanding about their potential… and some understanding about their limitations too.Effort to attack all disease will get some good newsOur show will require a regular… “So What’s Musk up to?” Segment.Major breakthroughs with stem cell treatments will be recorded for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or other degenerative diseases

...and others.

 

Join us!

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon predict significant developments for the year 2017:

Routine news of individuals seriously treating aging as a disease.A backlash against self-driving cars.The year of the battery? Electric cars  continue to grow as a percent of the transportation market. Japan pushing forward in Space.  The virtual reality industry grows significantly.  There will be improved understanding about their potential… and some understanding about their limitations too.Effort to attack all disease will get some good newsOur show will require a regular… “So What’s Musk up to?” Segment.Major breakthroughs with stem cell treatments will be recorded for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or other degenerative diseases

...and others.

 

Join us!

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon recap the best shows of 2016.

The Best Time Ever to Be Alive

Secrets Revealed: Think You Know the Whole Story?

More Proof We Live in the Matrix: Jim Elvidge on Digital Reality

The Universe is Full of Surprises

 Imagination: The Critical Future Skill

500 Shows and Going Strong! Why We Do It

Signs of the Times 3: We’re Living in A Sci-Fi Story!

Why the Pessimists Are Wrong...and They Are

Lighting up the Universe

What will We Do with all the Old people?

The Future and Unlimited Possibilities

Keeping up with the Kardashevs

Thomas Frey Interview Part 1: The Next Ten years

Surprising New, Crazy Questions 2

The Quantum Computer: the machine that Fixes Everything

 

WT 248-557

Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon recap the best shows of 2016.

The Best Time Ever to Be Alive

Secrets Revealed: Think You Know the Whole Story?

More Proof We Live in the Matrix: Jim Elvidge on Digital Reality

The Universe is Full of Surprises

 Imagination: The Critical Future Skill

500 Shows and Going Strong! Why We Do It

Signs of the Times 3: We’re Living in A Sci-Fi Story!

Why the Pessimists Are Wrong...and They Are

Lighting up the Universe

What will We Do with all the Old people?

The Future and Unlimited Possibilities

Keeping up with the Kardashevs

Thomas Frey Interview Part 1: The Next Ten years

Surprising New, Crazy Questions 2

The Quantum Computer: the machine that Fixes Everything

 

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Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon recap the best fure-related news stories of 2016.

Alien Megastructures 

The world's first artificially intelligent lawyer was just hired at a law firm

The Zuckerberg's Plan to End All Diseases

Scientists Grow Full-Sized, Human Beating Hearts from Stem Cells

Scientists reverse ageing in mammals and predict human trials within 10 years

Elon Musk Announces His Plan to Colonize Mars

Pittsburgh, your Self-Driving Uber is arriving now

Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review

Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive

 

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