The Disruptors

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131. 68 Years Young and the Prospects for Superhuman Longevity and a Better Tomorrow | Mark Sackler Aug 02, 2019

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BONUS Future Snippets: The reason renewables have already won and where we’ll be 10 years | Mark Disendorf Aug 01, 2019

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BONUS Future Snippets: The technologies and trends that most worry Nikola Danalyov Jul 31, 2019

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Welcome to The Disruptors: Future Snippets: Bite-sized clips with TED level top thinkers, founders and scientists on how advances in biotech & genomics, space travel, IoT, AI and other exponential tech converge to create our collective future and what we can do, from a research and policy perspective to shape the trends, technologies and societal norms for a better world. We'll be publishing a few of these mini-episodes in the main feed before transitioning them over to their own separate feed, which you can subscribe to at https://disruptors.fm/poditunes Nikola Danalyov (@singularityblog) is a keynote speaker and futurist, tech philosopher, vegan and the host of Singularity.FM, one of the top tech futurism and ethics podcasts where he’s interviewed 200+ of the best scientists, writers, entrepreneurs, film-makers, philosophers and artists, debating the most important issues. Nikola’s the bestselling author of Conversations with the Future and also published over 1000 articles on AI, the singularity and the future of all of us. He’s been featured in BBC, the Huffington Post, WIRED, TV Japan, io9, ZDNet, BoingBoing and others and is regarded by many as the Socrates of Today. Subscribe to Disruptors Snippets: https://disruptors.fm/poditunes

BONUS Future Snippets: Why the future of agriculture is inevitably GMOs, and why that’s a good thing | Charles Mann Jul 30, 2019

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Welcome to The Disruptors: Future Snippets: Bite-sized clips with TED level top thinkers, founders and scientists on how advances in biotech & genomics, space travel, IoT, AI and other exponential tech converge to create our collective future and what we can do, from a research and policy perspective to shape the trends, technologies and societal norms for a better world. We'll be publishing a few of these mini-episodes in the main feed before transitioning them over to their own separate feed, which you can subscribe to at https://disruptors.fm/poditunes Charles Mann (@CharlesCMann) is a science-focused journalist and award-winning author. He’s the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus which won the National Academies Communication Award for best book of the year which he followed up with 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created. Charles has co-authored four books, is contributing editor for Science, The Atlantic Monthly, and Wired and has also written for Fortune, NYTimes, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. He is a three-time National Magazine Award finalist and a recipient of writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. In 2018, Mann published The Wizard and the Prophet, which details two competing theories about the future of agriculture, population, and the environment. Subscribe to Disruptors Snippets: https://disruptors.fm/poditunes

130. Life Is Pain and BS, Then You Die, Unless you Find a Way to Make it Mean Something | Keith Kirkland Jul 29, 2019

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129. Why Spacetime’s Doomed, Quantum Mechanics Falls Short and an Alternative Reality Consciousness May Be the Answer | Don Hoffman Jul 26, 2019

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128. Saving Lives and Stopping Disease Through Clean Air and Startup Innovations | Jaya Rao Jul 22, 2019

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127. AI Created Hans Zimmer Compositions, Deep Fakes the Future of Art | Pierre Barreau Jul 19, 2019

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126. Why Tech Isn’t the Answer (or Problem) and Society Needs New Ethics and Incentives to Survive this Century | Nikola Danaylov Jul 15, 2019

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125. The Bioethics of Engineering Superhuman CRISPR Babies, Cloning and Bringing Back the T-Rex | Paul Root Wolpe Jul 12, 2019

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