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Jane Gatsby is a complexity theorist and political philosopher. Her digital series “Wonderland” explores philosophy and political theory from first principles, bringing listeners down the rabbit hole and into a world of exploration and curiosity. She is interested in how we can construct better cities of the future, rethinking traditional institutions and challenging our assumptions of how governm...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Michael Strike was a computer architect for 20 years before turning his attention to creating a blockchain ledger that can withstand the emergence of quantum computing. Today, he pursues this ambition at a project called the Quantum Resistant Ledger. #quantumcomputing #blockchain #cybers...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Anastasia Marchenkova has been a researcher at the quantum telecommunications and quantum optics lab at Georgia Tech, the University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute, and is currently working on superconducting qubits. #quantumcomputing #quantumphysics #futurism Learn more about your...

Share this episode with your friends, and don't forget to subscribe! Roger Spitz is co-author of the forthcoming book The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption; President of Techistential (Global Foresight Strategy); and Chairman of the Disruptive Futures Institute. He has given over 100 keynote talks globally, and he has two decades of experience leading investment banking and venture capita...

Share this episode with your friends, and don’t forget to subscribe! Alex Bäcker is an entrepreneur, speaker, and technologist who invented remote mobile queueing, evolutionary marketing, and a powerful semantic search engine. His most recent endeavor is Drisit, the world’s remote drone control and global vision platform. Introducing the shared economy to the drone industry, Drisit multiplies the...

Share this episode with your friends, and don’t forget to subscribe! Handel Jones has over 50 years of experience in the electronics industry and has led International Business Strategies (IBS Inc.) for over 30 years. IBS supports government organizations and major corporations in the United States, Europe, and China by helping to predict market trends and devise strategies. #geopolitics #China #f...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers. Allen and Sacha are both investors in traditional finance who draw heavily on philosophy, history, and economics to understand bitcoin, how it is evolving, and how it will likely change the world in the future. #bitcoin #crypto #futurism Learn more about...

Defi Danny bills himself as 'the crypto simplifier', and he is an educator who specializes in breaking down the complexities of blockchain technologies and the cryptocurrency ecosystem in language simple enough for anyone to understand. His overarching goal is to bring crypto to everyone by making the learning curve easier to handle. Danny’s twitter: @DefiDanny_ Danny’s free ebook on getting start...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Rob Haisfield is a behavioral strategist and gamification designer who rose to prominence with his popular 'Roam tours' video series, in which he would talk to different users of Roam Research about how they use tools for thought to manage their workflows and generate insights. Today he...

Before receiving his Ph. D. in 2022, Steve earned over 30 patents in the field of computer hardware design working on silicon chips for computer graphics, high-performance computing, and power-efficient CPUs at Hewlett-Packard and AMD. Steve’s Ph. D. work focused on using sequence-to-sequence models for machine learning applied to computer-aided programming. He currently works as a Senior AI Scien...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Jacob Morgan is a trained futurist and one of the world’s leading authorities on leadership, the future of work, and employee experience. He is the best-selling author of four books: “The Future Leader”, “The Employee Experience Advantage”, and the “Future of Work”. He speaks at over 50...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Malcolm Ocean is a software engineer and systems design expert who is best known for Complice, a tool that lets you dynamically track tasks and stay productive while pursuing various long-term projects. He also spends a lot of time thinking about how improving communication could allow g...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Margot Paez is a physicist and climate scientist who is currently finishing up a Ph. D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her interests and professional work lie at the intersection of economics, cryptocurrency, and energy. #futurism #bitcoin #climatechange Learn more about your ad...

Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a New York Times Bestselling author. He's written "The Myth of the Rational Voter", "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids", "The Case Against Education", and "How Evil Are Politicians?", among others. He's joining us today to talk about his latest book "Don't Be a Feminist". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends. Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author, and co-host of the Futurati Podcast. He recently appeared on the Cutting Edge Podcast with Lee Pierson to discuss artificial intelligence, consciousness, free will, epistemology, and AI risk. For more of their content, check out their excellent show...

Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends. Rohit Krishan is a venture capitalist and a writer at www.strangeloopcanon.com. He invests in companies using cutting-edge technology to create the future. He also writes essays about exploration, of ways to push the frontier of our knowledge forward, and bridge the gaps between Business, Science and...

Dr Allan McCay is Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney's Law School. He coordinates the Legal Research units at the Sydney Law School, and lectures in Criminal Law. Named as one of one of the most influential lawyers of 2021 for his work on neurotechnology, he is a member of the Management Committee of the Julius Stone Institute...

Help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, liking the episode, and sharing it with your friends. At the age of eighteen, Josh Moore was working for a day trader, developing complex analytical spreadsheets used to place millions of dollars in trades each day. At twenty-one, he was a pioneer of the “Checkbook IRA” industry. By the age of 30, Josh was directly responsible for moving billions of doll...

Help us grow by liking this episode, sharing it, and subscribing to the podcast! Leah Houston, MD, practiced emergency medicine across the US for nearly 10 years before becoming an entrepreneur in the physician autonomy and digital privacy space. She experienced the administrative burden of the onboarding and credentialing process first-hand, and that experience led her to start HPEC, a digital id...

Nathaniel attended the University of Hawaiʻi Manoa for both his undergrad and graduate education ultimately receiving an M.S. in Marine Geology and Geochemistry. In 2018 Nathaniel founded Blockchain Solutions Hawaiʻi (BSH) as “Hawaiʻi’s Bitcoin Helpdesk” in an effort to assist individuals, legislators, and businesses as they integrate with Bitcoin. In 2021, Nathaniel combined his formal education...

Since the discovery of genetics, people have dreamed of being able to correct diseases, select traits in children before birth, and build better human beings. Naturally, many serious technical and ethical questions surround this endeavor. Luckily, tonights' guest is as good a guide as we could hope to have. Dr. Steve Shu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast, leaving us a review, and sharing it with your friends! It's been said that the first trillionaire will either come from cryptoassets or from asteroid mining. The truth is, it's almost impossible to fathom the vast quantities of resources, from plain water to gold, which are locked up in asteroids. Figuring out how to ta...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Tonight we're doing something different. This is the 100th episode of the Futurati Podcast, and we're going to have a good time reminiscing about our favorite episodes. We're also turning on the cameras for the first time (though we forgot to hit 'record' until 35 minutes in) Stick aroun...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Money has a long history, beginning with barter and leading all the way to your credit card. Kirk Hutchison founded Volt Protocol because he believes the next era of money is deflationary and disintermediated. He studied history at UC San Diego and arrived at a libertarian bent after see...

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! Whether it's pondering the mysteries of life while watching a sunrise or reasoning in great detail about how a new technology will change the world, there is something unique about the human capacity to imagine the future. But where does this capacity come from, what does it mean for us,...