
FUTURATI PODCAST
Join renowned visionary Thomas Frey and Trent Fowler as they explore artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, space exploration, quantum computing, biotechnology, and a variety of other topics of interest to futurists.
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Sep 26, 2023 • 44min
Ep. 142: Privacy and data sovereignty with blockchain | Zenobia Godschalk
Zenobia Godschalk is an entrepreneur and the senior vice president of Hedera, a fully open-source public distributed ledger that utilizes the fast, fair, and secure hashgraph consensus. Its network services include Solidity-based smart contracts, as well as native tokenization and consensus services used by a thriving community of developers to build decentralized applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 12, 2023 • 51min
Ep. 141: Entrepreneurship in the final frontier | Scott Tibbitts
Scott Tibbits is a leader, inventor, and founder of both Starsys Research and The Center for Space Entrepreneurship. He was the recipient of the "Esprit Entrepreneur of Distinction" award in 1998 and is the holder of ten patents in technologies as diverse as medical devices, spacecraft products, and telecom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 29, 2023 • 50min
Ep. 140: The power of human ingenuity | Robert Hendershott
Robert Hendershott is a finance professor, hedge fund CIO, and evangelist for a philosophy he calls "ingenuism". Ingenuism comes from the thesis that human progress stems, at its core, from ingenuity - the unique human amalgamation of curiosity and ambition. Nurturing ingenuity is the most important thing that a culture can do: there is no ceiling on what a society that promotes connection, exploration, discovery, and learning can accomplish.Check out his work at https://ingenuism.substack.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 15, 2023 • 45min
Ep. 139: Biomarkers and personalized medicine | Mohit Jain
Dr. Mohit Jain is a physician-scientist with more than 20 years of expertise in physiology, biomedicine, engineering, computational biology, and mass spectrometry-based metabolomics. Prior to founding Sapient, he formed and was director of Jain Laboratory at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). There he led a multi-disciplinary research team to develop next-generation systems to probe the non-genetic landscape of disease, supported by over $30M in federal, foundation, and industry funding. Dr. Jain founded Sapient in 2021 as a spinout of Jain Laboratory to expand upon the mission of accelerating human discovery and drug development through the nexus of high throughput analytical mass spectrometry, computational biology, and population-level biomarker profiling. If you enjoy this interview please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends, and don't forget to check out our website, futuratipodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 1, 2023 • 43min
Ep. 138: There's still so much potential for web3 | Julian Rodriguez
Julian Rodriguez is a serial entrepreneur, product manager, and innovation-focused strategist with a passion for leading teams that build easy-to-use products and solve large problems. After founding a disruptive venture capital-backed tech startup in the B2B food service space he joined Bitcoin Magazine in 2013, where he worked directly with its co-founder Vitalik Buterin. He was a very early team member and advisor to several successful crypto and blockchain projects, including Ethereum, and he is a lifetime member of the Bitcoin Foundation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 18, 2023 • 49min
Ep. 137: AI is changing software development. Here's how. , Matt Genovese
Check out Matt's other podcasts: https://planorama.design/podcastUse this link for early access to sinfonia: https://sinfonia.site Matt Genovese is the CEO of Planorama Design, a software user experience design professional services company based in Austin, Texas. With over 25 years of experience in high-tech spanning semiconductors to software, Matt has a long track record of launching successful products. He and his team at Planorama design simple and intuitive software from otherwise complex software or IoT systems, and simultaneously accelerate time to market while reducing internal costs for their clients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 38min
Ep. 136: The case for taking AI Safety seriously | Rob Miles
Through a series of popular explainer videos, Rob has become one of the most prominent voices in the AI safety community, exploring topics like cryptography, recursive self-improvement, and meso-alignment with hundreds of thousands of fans. In this interview, we spend nearly two hours getting into the weeds on how powerful AI systems might be dangerous, and the technical solutions which can mitigate that threat. Check out Rob's work: https://www.youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 20, 2023 • 37min
Ep. 135: Navigating the spacefaring economy | Elizabeth Varghese
Elizabeth Varghese is well known as a futurist, humanist, and thinker on the topic of space exploration. She leads the People in Space business at Deloitte, she is on the Council of Advisors for The SETI Institute, and she has been called the “Space Philosopher” by leaders from DARPA because she integrates the technological aspects of our expansion into space with imperatives for economic, diplomatic, and ethical human behavior. She joins us on the Futurati Podcast to discuss her book "Stellar Singularity - Navigating the Spacefaring Economy."#spaceexploration #futurism #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jun 6, 2023 • 38min
Ep. 134: Cleaning fossil fuels and the energy transition | Noel Carroll
Noel Carroll took the helm of Biofriendly in March of 2018. As its Chief Executive Officer, he focuses on modernizing the company and pushing it toward a leadership role in the environmental community. Always passionate about the environment, Noel is doing this by widening the focus of the company from its flagship product (Green Plus) to a broader organization that educates, invests in and promotes a greener planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

May 23, 2023 • 44min
Ep. 133: Supercharging AI applications with SuperAnnotate | Tigran Petrosyan
Tigran Petrosyan is a physicist turned tech enthusiast and entrepreneur who is passionate about building comprehensive teams and making products people love. He is currently building "SuperAnnotate", an automated annotation tool that helps to speed up the computer vision lifecycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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