Stranded Technologies Podcast

This is a double-feature episode about the past, present and future of living. In the first episode, Thibault Serlet gives a historical view of migration patterns and labor mobility. In the second episode, Jackson Stegers gives an overview of modern-day co-living business models and practical learnings - we use both to think about a future where people have more choices, a more mobile and unbundle...

This is a double-feature episode about the past, present and future of living. In the first episode, Thibault Serlet gives a historical view of migration patterns and labor mobility. In the second episode, Jackson Stegers gives an overview of modern-day co-living business models and practical learnings - we use both to think about a future where people have more choices, a more mobile and unbundle...

Dwarkesh Patel is a podcaster. The Dwarkesh Podcast ( YouTube | Spotify | Apple ) interviews intellectuals, scientists, historians, economists, and founders about their big idea. The themes of Dwarkesh are similar to this podcast: frontier technologies, how to accelerate progress and the implications for humanity. Recently, Dwarkesh has had prominent guests talking AI such as Marc Andreessen, Elie...

Adam is one of the most experienced technology policy analysts in the world - he was writing about the internet on day 1 in the 1990s. Now, Adam is an innovation policy analyst at the R Street Institute , and the author of several books, including Permissionless Innovation (2016) & Evasive Entrepreneurs (2020). Isn't it striking - almost all popular sci-fi movies about technology are dystopian...

Dr. Simon Whitney is a family physician and ethicist. He taught at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas for twenty-two years. He is retired from medical practice but continues to publish and teach about medical ethics. He wrote the book From Oversight to Overkill: Inside the Broken System That Blocks Medical Breakthroughs—And How We Can Fix It (Rivertowns Books, 2023). What Simon is talkin...

Malcolm Collins is a parent, polymath serial entrepreneur, education nerd, pronatalist and a 5x bestselling author, including the Pragmatists’ Guide series . He has a podcast and YouTube channel called Based Camp . In this episode, we talk about a wide range of topics including: Demographic Collapse: At current fertility rates in developed countries, there will be 5 grandchildren per 100 people. T...

Primavera De Filippi is a researcher at several institutes, including the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the legal challenges and opportunities of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, with a specific focus on governance and trust. Primavera is the author of the book “ Blockchain and the Law ,” published in 2018 by Harvar...

Walter Patterson is the co-founder and chief science officer of Minicircle , a biotech startup that produces reversible gene therapies. Minicircle is known for some of their bold moves that include medical self-experimentation, and conducting clinical trials on Roatan, Honduras within a special economic zone led by Próspera that offers an innovative legal framework. In this episode, we learn about...

Bryan Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University and the author of several books, including Open Borders - The Science and Ethics of Immigration , The Case Against Education and the Myth of the Rational Voter . Bryan is one of the most iconoclastic contemporary thinkers, and had a major influence on the themes of this podcast. His books explain much of the emergent incentives cr...

Neil Chilson is a lawyer and computer scientist, he’s the former Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and a current senior research fellow for technology and innovation at the Center for Growth and Opportunity , and the author of “ Getting Out of Control: Emergent Leadership in a Complex World ”. Neil has decades of first-hand experience in regulatory policy and introduces the...

Michael Huemer is "the best living philosopher, possibly the best who ever lived." (Bryan Caplan) The podcast host Niklas Anzinger considers Michael Huemer to be the greatest intellectual influence on his life and work with Infinita VC to date. In fact, the name Infinita is a reference to Michael's book " Approaching Infinity ". Michael is Professor for Philosophy and the University of Colorado Bo...

Today’s episode is another one in the style of episodes 10 and 25 with Niklas' thoughts, synthesizing 1 year of work with the podcast and a VC fund. First, you’ll hear a recording of Niklas's talk at Zuzalu, Vitalik Buterin’s pop-up city in Montenegro. The speech can be watched on YouTube as well. The talk shows the progress made by startup cities and network states, and argues that this is a pivo...

Alexander Bard is a Swedish cyber philosopher, futurologist, and the author of several books ("The Netocrats", "The Global Empire", "The Body Machines", "Syntheism - Creating God in The Internet Age", "Digital Libido - Sex, Power and Violence in The Network Society" together with Jan Söderqvist). He’s also a former music producer, artist and entrepreneur. We start with Alex' history in the music i...

Brian J. Robertson is a serial entrepreneur and the creator of Holacracy , a comprehensive practice for governing and running our organizations. Holacracy is an often misunderstood, massively influential social and management system. Yet it is more than that, Brian's goal with Holacracy is to give people a taste of self-governance, personal growth and empowerment to impact society. In this episode...

Jonathan Hillis is the founder of Cabin. Cabin is building a network city - a collection of remarkable coliving properties tied by a shared culture, community, economy, and governance. We start by talking about how a combination of science-fiction and American Wilderness romanticism inspired Jon to start Cabin in the Texas Hill Country. Neighborhood Zero is a development on 28 acres, with a creek...

Erik Voorhees is the founder of Shapeshift, a decentralized crypto exchange, and one of the most important voices in crypto. Erik virtually joined for a fireside chat during Decentralizing Finance 2023 - A Prospera Builders’ Summit on the island of Roatan. We start by establishing the ethics and principles of Bitcoin, crypto, and the separation of state and money. Money is one if not the most impo...

Today is the 70th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA, and the 20th anniversary of the sequencing of the human genome. A perfect day to talk to John Cumbers . John is a molecular biologist. He is the founder and CEO of SynBioBeta which promotes synthetic biology to build a more sustainable universe. This episode is a primer on "synbio", the scientific breakthroughs and commercial...

Ingemar Patrick Linden is a professor for philosophy and bioethics who taught for 10 years at NYU. In his book " The Case Against Death ", Patrick points out that evolutionary biology explains why we age and die, but not that we must age and die, or that we ought to. “My experiences tell me that unless there is a good afterlife, death is a horrific evil and nothing is more important than preventin...

Allison Duettmann is the iconic President of The Foresight Institute , the world's premier futurist think tank enabling science & entrepreneurship at the frontiers of technology. The conversation starts with Foresight's mission and strategy to avoid hype cycles - focusing on what's next, not current. The focus areas have particular learning and development trees: Intelligent Cooperation (Econo...

This is the recording of a webinar about Ciudad Morazán , the charter city in Choloma, Honduras - not to be confused with Prospera , another Honduran charter city. Recorded on-site, this episode is a deep dive into one of the most interesting developments in city governance in modern history. Located in one of the most dangerous regions in the world when it comes to crime, Morazán provides a beaco...

Trey Goff is coming back on to continue the previous discussion ( Episode 9 ) about Balaji Srinivasan's book " The Network State" (TNS). This is the right time to dig deeper for two reasons: 1) TNS has increasingly become a meme in crypto and technology circles, 2) Balaji is commanding a lot of attention for #BitSignal , a bet on US dollar hyperinflation + Bitcoin rising to 1m. Trey & Niklas h...

Have you wondered what Próspera is all about? Start with the founders. Gabriel Delgado Ayau is the co-founder and chief development officer (CDO) of the zero-to-one modern startup city in Honduras. This is an extensive episode where we talk about Gabriel's past in Guatemala as a serial entrepreneur that founded 17 startups, learning about the challenges for entrepreneurs in Central America, and ho...

Joey Krug is the co-CIO at Pantera Capital , the first U.S. institutional asset manager focused exclusively on blockchain technology, with 4.1bn assets under management. Joey is also the co-founder of the Forecast Foundation , contributing to the development of Augur (a decentralized oracle and prediction market protocol). Joey is a pioneer in the world of blockchain finance, and I want to take th...

Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University, and a research fellow with the Mercatus Center . Alex is one of the world’s best teachers of economics and reaching a large, worldwide audience as the cofounder of Marginal Revolution University and the popular Marginal Revolution blog together with Tyler Cowen . This episode is an intellectual journey that discovers insights th...

Alicia Nahmad is a born entrepreneur, starting in the construction industry before doing her PhD. Now with The Circular Factory , she is translating advanced technology into real-world progress in the built environment. The Circular Factory is a kaleidoscopic and ambitious startup that aims to fix the construction industry through on-site construction mini-factories with software-driven robotic ar...