Tim Ventura Interviews

Tim Ventura Interviews

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Tim Ventura Interviews episodes

  • Jake Sotiriadis - Future Trends In Technology & Defense
    How is the conflict In Ukraine driving technology & strategy innovation, and what is it telling us about energy security policy? We're joined by Dr. Jake Sotiriadis, Director of The Center for Futures Intelligence at National Intelligence University to discuss how today's headlines are shaping tomorrow's technological & geopolitical landscape.
    Jake is a futurist, thought leader, and intelligence expert, and teaches courses on international relations, intelligence tradecraft, and geopolitical futures. He is also an advisor to the State Department and teaches at the Foreign Service Institute.
    He founded the US Air Force's Strategic Foresight and Futures Team, and leads a team that helps senior leaders in the Intelligence Community, the Department of Defense, and the State Department embrace uncertainty and build anticipatory thinking.
    Jake's work has been featured internationally in: The National Interest, The Diplomat, Defense News, C4ISR Journal, China-US Focus, Greece's Kathimerini, the Middle East Institute, MIT Political Science News, The Futurist Institute, the Future Today Institute, and the Delphi Economic Forum, among other notable media venues.
    34 min
  • Michael Lind - The Decline Of American Power & Influence
    Is America winning the battle but losing the war? According to Professor Michael Lind, "The United States is in retreat, defeat, or stalemate everywhere, whether in the military arena or in the realm of trade and industrial production.” We join this highly accomplished foreign affairs analyst, public policy educator and acclaimed author to explore the topic of waning American military influence.
    Dr. Michael Lind is a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Dr. Lind has a Juris Doctorate from The University of Texas and a master's degree in international relations from Yale, and has previously taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins.
    Dr. Lind’s experience includes work at the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs at the U.S. State Department, and his writing has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The International Economy and the Financial Times. He’s the author of more than a dozen books, including “The New Class War” and “The American Way of Strategy “.
    LINKS & RESOURCES:
    Faculty Page, LBJ School Of Public Affairs, U. Texas
    https://lbj.utexas.edu/lind-michael
    American Grand Strategy: Disguising Decline (National Interest)
    https://nationalinterest.org/feature/american-grand-strategy-disguising-decline-203305
    The American Way Of Strategy
    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-american-way-of-strategy-9780195341416?cc=us&lang=en&
    The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
    https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/607661/the-new-class-war-by-michael-lind/9780593083697
    40 min
  • Jack Sarfatti - Cafe Trieste, The Bohemians & Warp Drive Physics
    He studied under David Bohm, attended lectures by Aldous Huxley, spent time with Andy Warhol, and drinks coffee under Jack Kerouac's picture at the Cafe Trieste. Dr. Jack Sarfatti talks the bohemians & beatnicks, and why his relativistic warp-drive may explain reported UAP flight performance.
    Jack Sarfatti has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, taught physics at San Diego State University, worked with David Bohm at the University of London's Birkbeck College and with Abdus Salam at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
    Jack was the basis of the memorable time-traveling Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, and the author of Super Cosmos (2005), Destiny Matrix (2002), Space: Time And Beyond II (2002), and the coauthor with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben of Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable (1982).
    34 min
  • David Isaac - Quantum Computing In Finance
    Modern financial applications like derivatives pricing, stock market forecasting and FOREX/crypto-trading involve big data and require intense processing - can quantum computing give traders an edge?
    We’re joined today by David Isaac, co-founder of both Abaqus & Quantum News– two startups with a shared focus on applications for quantum computing in finance. He'll be explaining how rapid advances in quantum computing empower the financial applications of tomorrow, and discussing the tools, techniques & hardware required to give financial managers an advantage in the competitive global marketplace.
    David has decades of experience in tech-industry executive management, venture analysis, sales & marketing roles, and has a BA in Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick. Today we’ll be discussing future applications for quantum computing in finance and how his organization is working to make them a reality.
    AbaQus:
    https://www.abaqus.dev/
    Quantum News:
    https://www.quantumnews.dev/
    31 min
  • David Brin - How Science Fiction Saved The World
    Did science-fiction save the world? Award-winning science fiction author & space scientist Dr. David Brin discusses his writing career and explains how sci-fi helps enlighten humanity about the benefits of science and technology - and warns us about the dangers of its misuse.
    Dr. Brin is the winner of numerous awards & honors, including the prestigious Nebula, Hugo & Locus awards for science fiction, and holds a PhD in Space Science from the University of California.
    In addition to writing dozens of best-selling novels & short-stories, some of which have been adapted for film & television, David is a 2010 fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, helped establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, serves on the advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group, and does futurism consulting for diverse organizations including the US Department of Defense, Procter & Gamble, SAP, Google & many more.
    LINKS & RESOURCES:
    https://www.davidbrin.com/
    https://www.davidbrin.com/books.html
    https://www.amazon.com/David-Brin/e/B000APAXV6
    David Brin's Advice For New Writers:
    http://www.davidbrin.com/advice.htm
    Regarding Theology:
    David just published a PLAY “The Escape” in the genre of “smartass confronts the devil.”
    There’s also a TED style talk he gave at a Singularity conference, concerning how to converse - with understanding, erudition and empathy, but also decisively, with people who use the Bible as a shield against modernity:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryoqtB6H5nw
    The Melody of Memory by Cheryl Brin. Three Sample Chapters! https://www.davidbrin.com/CherylBrin/melodyofmemory.html
    The “Out of Time” (or “Yanked!”) series:
    Only teens can teleport through time and space! Dollops of fun, adventure & optimism for young adults. https://www.davidbrin.com/outoftimeseries.html
    The Colony High series: aliens kidnap a California high school! http://www.davidbrin.com/colonyhigh.html
    38 min
  • Martin Ciupa - Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Communication & Ethics
    How can we communicate with extraterrestrials when we find them - or when they find us? Martin Ciupa discusses UAPs, Von Neumann Probes, SETI and interstellar ethics. We explore models for language and mathematics to help us communicate and why it may be crucial for the future of our species.
    Martin Ciupa is a subject matter expert on artificial intelligence, communications and information technology. Martin is the CEO of Remoscope Inc, an AI-based Telehealth startup, and an advisor & consultant to Mindmaze, a Unicorn Neurotech company focuses on applying advanced neuroscience to everyday life.
    Martin has decades of experience in computing and artificial intelligence, PhD studies in AI, and a Master’s Degree in Cybernetics.
    LINKS & RESOURCES:
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-ciupa-76418b17/
    Ciupa, Martin, “The Ethical Implications of Cultural Intervention by Space Faring Civilizations – What Science Fiction has to Say”, Presented at the Philosophy of the Starship Symposium, JBIS, 67, 11/12, November/December 2014.
    Ciupa, Martin, “Scenario Analysis: The Drake Equation, Fermi Paradox and Active SETI", Chapter Contribution to i4is Beyond the Boundary Book, 2014.
    JBIS Article Shop:
    https://bis-space.com/shop/product/the-ethical-implications-of-cultural-intervention-by-space-faring-civilizations-what-science-fiction-has-to-say/
    56 min
  • Michael Masters - UAPs, Evolution & Time Travel
    Roughly 41% of Americans believe UAPs are extraterrestrial, but a few have a different question: what if they’re not from another planet, but another time? Biological anthropologist Dr. Michael Masters join us to explore whether UAPs may carry our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study their own evolutionary past.
    Dr. Michael Masters is a professor of Biological Anthropology at Montana Tech. He has a BA, MA, and PhD in Anthropology from Ohio State University, and his principal focus is human ocular, orbital, midfacial, cerebral, and neurocranial morphology and the effects of modern variation and evolutionary changes in these features.
    Dr. Masters also has an interest in the UFO/UAP Phenomenon, and in two recent books on this topic he has cautiously examined the premise that 'UFOs' & 'Aliens' may be our distant human descendants, returning from the future to study their own evolutionary past.
    LINKS & RESOURCES:
    Dr. Michael Masters Website:
    https://idflyobj.com/
    Identified Flying Objects: A Multidisciplinary Scientific Approach to the UFO Phenomenon
    https://www.amazon.com/Identified-Flying-Objects-Multidisciplinary-Scientific/dp/1733634061
    The Extratempestrial Model
    https://www.amazon.com/Extratempestrial-Model-Dr-Michael-Masters/dp/1733634045/
    43 min
  • John Parmentola - Milankovitch & The Next Ice Age
    Technically, we live in an ice-age. We're in the warm, "holocene interglacial period" of the Pleistocene Ice Age that started 2.5 million years ago. How long until it changes? The government says 50,000 years. Others say we're already overdue. Dr. John Parmentola has been studying the physics of Milankovitch cycles and estimates we've got 500 years.
    Dr. Parmentola isn't a climate scientist, but as an MIT-trained physicist, he was intrigued by the complexity of data involved with ice-age history. He dug into Milankovitch cycles, which are a model of science developed by Serbian scientist Milutin Milankovitch which proposes that long-term variations in the Earth’s orbital cycles are responsible for ice age climate periods.
    What intrigued John the most were the triggers for the beginning and end of "interglacial periods" like the one we're living in right now. By interpreting solar insolation as a complex waveform, he believes he's found the trigger - and may have even found a way for mankind to control it.
    Dr. John Parmentola is an Adjunct Staff member at the Rand Corporation, where he works on defense, energy, science, and technology strategy and planning. His career also includes experience as a Senior Vice President at General Atomics, the Director for Research and Laboratory Management for the U.S. Army, Chief Scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Chief of Advanced Systems & Operations at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
    He is an Honorary Member of the U.S. Army STs, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executives, U.S. Army 10 Greatest Inventions Award, the Alfred Raymond Prize, and the Sigma Xi Research Award, among many other awards and honors.
    Dr. Parmentola has a Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. and has served on the faculty of M.I.T., West Virginia University, and as a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.
    LINKS & RESOURCES:
    What Is Milankovitch Theory, What Is It Not, And What Can We Learn from It?
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/01/what-is-milankovitch-theory-what-is-it-not-and-what-can-we-learn-from-it/
    Milankovitch (Orbital) Cycles and Their Role in Earth's Climate
    https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/
    50 min
  • Jack Sarfatti - Wormholes, Warp Drives & UAP Physics
    Dr. Jack Sarfatti discusses wormholes & quantum-entanglement, the physics of Susskind & Maldacena, extraterrestrial machine intelligence, Von Neumann Probes, and how modifying the space-time geodesic could explain the antigravity & warp-drive propulsion attributed to UAPs.
    Dr. Jack Sarfatti is a theoretical physicist specializing in advanced propulsion research. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, taught physics at San Diego State University, worked with David Bohm at the University of London's Birkbeck College and with Abdus Salam at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
    Jack was the basis of the memorable time-travelling Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, and the author of Super Cosmos (2005), Destiny Matrix (2002), Space: Time And Beyond II (2002), and the coauthor with Fred Alan Wolf and Bob Toben of Space-Time and Beyond: Toward an Explanation of the Unexplainable (1982).
    1 hr 16 min
  • Zachary Kallenborn - Kamikaze Drones With Hand Grenades
    The war in Ukraine has turned ugly with both sides deploying kamikaze drones to gain the upper hand. Zachary Kallenborn joins us to discuss drone warfare, swarm technologies, and the moral, ethical & policy questions raised by the introduction of automated killing machines.
    Zachary Kallenborn, a Policy Fellow in the Center for Security Policy Studies at George Mason University, Research Affiliate in Unconventional Weapons and Technology at START, and Senior Risk Management Consultant at the ABS Group.
    Zachary has an MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and a BS in Mathematics and International Relations from the University of Puget Sound. His work has been featured in numerous international media outlets including the New York Times, Slate, NPR, Forbes, New Scientist, WIRED, Foreign Policy, the BBC, and many others.
    38 min

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Expert interviews on UAP, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, physics, defense tech, life-extension, propulsion, consciousness and more. Tim has been interviewing world-changing subject matter experts across a wide scope of professional & academic disciplines for over 20 years – starting back in 2002 with his work at AAG. Over time, what started with the goal of sharing the wisdom of people he respected with the world grew into an online library of expertise focused on expert opinions in space, science, technology, & policy areas.