The World's Greatest Challenge

One of the world's authorities on nanotechnology believes that science has found answers to many of the most pressing problems. However, we need to allow scientists to work together, collaborate and for the collision of ideas to generate solutions. Understanding how particles one hundredth the diameter of a human hair interact is one amazing example. A Podcast by Tec Sounds. 

A member of the Nobel Prize committee and outstanding plant scientist, explains how the combination of the way plants work and the investment on education, are critical to saving our planet. His experience as a researcher, coupled with his amazing achievement in building one of the world's most innovative universities make him a voice worth hearing. A podcast by Tec Sounds.

In this age of abundance, there is more loneliness, emptiness and pain than ever. Is the lack of meaning the cause? Emily Smith, bestselling author and consultant extraordinaire thinks so and shares with The World's Greatest Challenge an insightful, common-sense approach to cultivate a sense of meaning that can make us more complete and happier. A Podcast by Tec Sounds.

Humans have experimented for centuries with technologies that boost our performance or supplant deficiencies that prevent us from leading complete lives. Now, latest advances are enabling the emergence of what some consider a new species: cyborgs or augmented beings, that not only incorporate new senses and functions, but use their special abilities to express themselves and their world views in totally new ways. Neil Harbisson, a color-blind artist whose implanted UV-sensitive antenna that allows him to hear colors, is my guest in this surprising episode of The World´s Greatest Challenge.

Authentic grit, the kind that awes and inspires others, is the quality to be humble, resilient, persistent and do amazing things that incite others to give their best. Dr. Caroline Miller happens to have crafted that term and shares some pretty cool concepts on this provocative episode of The World's Greatest Challenge. A Podcast by Tec Sounds.

A.I. is the thing nowadays. Everybody seems to be talking about it and, except for a few optimists, most are spelling doom for the labor market and present it as a menacing challenge to the human species. Enter Dr. Rose Luckin, a world leader on education applied A.I. our optimist guest on this soothing episode of The World's Greatest Challenge. A Podcast by Tec Sounds.

We have fantasized about the future and how it might be like since we became sapiens. Now imagine having that as your paid job and influence the visions of governments, top companies and leading institutions. Marina Gorbis, head of the Institute for the Future, is our guest on this amazing episode of World´s Greatest Challenge. A Podcast by Tec Sounds.

Can meditation physically change your brain and how your mind works? Dr. Richie Davidson's ground-breaking work on neuroscience and meditation proves it does. A fascinating talk with him on this inspiring episode of The World's Greatest Challenge gets us on the path to this Nirvana. A Podcast by Tec Sounds.

Some say capitalism is dead, or at least on its way out; Raj Sisodia, an inspiring thinker and evangelist of Conscious Capitalism, proves them wrong with his inspiring proposition that blends the pursuit of profit with the creation of shared value. Join me in this moving episode of The World's Greatest Challenge to discover what might well be this century's engine for a more just economic model. A Podcast by Tec Sounds.

Discovering a Bose-Einstein Bossom is not the kind of thing you do in your basement lab. That is why Dr. Carl Wieman got a Nobel Prize for it. What is a BEB and why is it worth the world's most prestigious scientific award is what we´ll discover in this enlightening episode of The World's Greatest Challenge. A Podcast by Tec Sounds.