What are the implications for society of a widely available anti-aging treatment? What if this treatment is possible but extremely expensive and thus only available to the very rich? Recorded 20 August 2017. Contains excerpts from Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Standup (Comedy Central) and In Time (20th Century Fox). (Podcast image adapted from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life-stages.jpg by […]
Solar panels have increased in efficiency to the point that they’re now cost-competitive with fossil fuels. How will the rise of photovoltaics change power production and the world’s economy? Recorded August 13, 2017. Shownotes solar panels energy to power Photovoltaics ———— downsides to photovoltaics? will this have implications energy political economy? destabilize (or stabilize?) arab […]
We talk about developments toward self-flying and people-carrying drones with legendary Silicon Valley software engineer John Sokol. Recorded 6 August 2017. Our guest is legendary Silicon Valley software engineer John L. Sokol. In a career spanning over 30 years, John has pioneered several Internet and Streaming Video technologies. He has multiple patents to his name, […]
Will robots and artificial intelligence replace human workers and create mass unemployment? The panel discusses whether we will see a jobless future and the implications of widespread automation. Recorded 30 July 2017. Shownotes: Our Jobless Future In a series of articles over the last several years, we’ve been bombarded with the message that a jobless […]
Our special guest this week is Sondre Rasch, a former political advisor to the parliament of Norway, and founder of freelance platform konsus.com and safety net SafetyWing. He has a background in economics and computer science. Recorded 23 July 2017. Sondre shares his findings on decision making: how to think about “what to do next”, choose valuable […]
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