FUTURATI PODCAST

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 governments can and should function. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 #cybersecurity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 capital (VC) businesses, advising CEOs, founders, boards, and shareholders, evaluating their competitiveness, strategic investments, and disruptions ahead. Roger’s expertise lies at the intersection of futures studies, systems thinking, and sustainable value creation. #futurism #disruption #innovation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 value of every drone, making it available to anyone anywhere in the world and allowing you to monetize your drone fleet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 #futurism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 started in crypto: https://defidanny.ck.page/crypto-ebook Danny’s newsletter: https://defidanny.ck.page/newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 thinks about issues in knowledge management, interface design, and collaborative synthesis. #toolsforthought #tana #roamresearch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Scientist at Leela AI developing neurosymbolic systems for automatic understanding an Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 conferences a year including TED Academy which is one of the largest TED events in the world. #leadership #futureofwork #futurism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 groups of humans to accomplish far more than is currently possible. #futurism #collectiveintelligence #communication Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/adchoices

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 at the Ayn Rand Center UK: https://www.youtube.com/c/AynRandCentreUK Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Technology. #finance #investing #technology Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney, an Affiliate Member of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics, at Macquarie University, and a member of the Minding Rights Network (an international group who are working on human rights challenges related to emerging technologies). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 dollars from Wall Street to Main Street. In 2016 he founded the NFN8 Group, believing that the Blockchain and Cryptocurrency offered a yet-to-be-discovered, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to pioneer a new financial marketplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 identity and credential data wallet for practicing physicians. The HPEC wallet is a decentralized application now available on the app and Google Play stores that makes the physician the primary source of ownership and control of their professional credentials, and data. 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

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 with his passion for bitcoin by founding OceanBit Energy. The goal of OceanBits is to use Bitcoin mining to solve the economies of scale problem that has plagued Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion for over 100 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, and Engineering at Michigan State University. He has done extensive research in the field of computational genomics, and is the founder of several startups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 tap into this potential will be crucial to developing cislunar supply chain solutions to service the growing space economy. Tonight we're joined by Joel Sercel, an expert in this field. Joel got his PhD in space propulsion and plasma physics from Caltech, then went on to a stellar career as an award-winning engineer and manager. Today he is the president and CEO of Trans Astronautica, where he works to make asteroid mining and manufacturing in space a reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 around until the end for a lightning round with me and Thomas, where we'll weigh in on some of the big themes that have popped up over and over again in these 100 episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 seeing the similarities between market processes and equilibria in nature. Inspired by the rich theoretical work on free money systems by economists such as George Selgin, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman, Kirk is working to put this theory into practice using smart contracts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, and how can we use it more effectively? Tonight's guest has just written a book exploring these themes. Byron Reese is an Austin-based entrepreneur with a quarter-century of experience building and running technology companies. He is a recognized authority on AI and holds a number of technology patents. In addition, he is a futurist with a strong conviction that technology will help bring about a new golden age of humanity. He gives talks around the world about how technology is changing work, education, and culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you enjoy this podcast, help us grow by sharing it with your friends! It's become commonplace to hear politicians and commentators bemoaning the energy expenditure of bitcoin mining, noting that it consumes more power than certain industries or countries and confidently proclaiming that the bitcoin network performs no useful work. But recently, an emerging group of scholars has pushed back on this narrative, arguing that in fact bitcoin mining has certain special properties that make it ideal for subsidizing renewable energies. If this is true, it could become an important part of mitigating the effects of climate change. Tonight we're joined by one of the original scholars advancing this thesis. Troy Cross is a professor of philosophy at Reed University, where he focuses on questions of knowledge and reality. In addition, he is a fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, where you can find his work on energy economics, bitcoin mining, and the environment. #climatechange #crypto #bitcoin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you enjoy this podcast, help us grow by sharing it with your friends! Since the release of bitcoin there has been a great deal of ink spilled by people trying to imagine the ways in which it could change the world. One such person is tonight's guest, Jack Ronaldi. I met Jack through a bitcoin book club we're both a part of, and I was impressed with his command of the material and his ability to express himself. Like many others, Jack was originally dismissive of bitcoin because of his background in economics, finance, and banking. But gradually he became a true believer, and today he writes and thinks about bitcoin's transformative potential, as well as the ways in which its vulnerabilities can be fixed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you enjoy this interview please help us grow by subscribing to the podcast and sharing it with your friends! As futurists, Thomas and Trent take a great interest in studying the disciplines which best elucidate the major trends shaping humanity's direction, disciplines like economics, physics, and computer science. It's rare to find anyone conversant in two of these fields, and rarer still to find a person conversant in all of them, and many more besides. Well, tonight's guest is someone who has done a remarkable job of uniting disparate ideas into compelling visions of the future, generating concepts like futures markets, the great filter, and grabby aliens which have shaped thinking on problems ranging from the Fermi Paradox to governance. Robin Hanson is associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. He has a doctorate in social science from the California Institute of Technology, master's degrees in physics and philosophy from the University of Chicago, and nine years experience as a research programmer, at Lockheed and NASA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Flow is a well-known and valuable psychological state in which time seems to drop away and you become completely immersed in the present moment. Though its usefulness in achieving individual excellence has been studied extensively, much less attention has been paid to how it can aid in cooperation. Well tonight we're joined by a guest who has tried to fill that gap by writing "The Devil's Dictionary", a fascinating novel which also explores topics around climate change, mass extinction, and the future of humanity. Steven Kotler is one of the world’s foremost experts on human peak performance and the New York Times bestselling author of “The Art of Impossible”, and “The Rise of Superman”. If you enjoy this interview please subscribe to the podcast and share it with your friends, it’s the best way to help us grow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There has been a tremendous amount of chatter over the past year about NFTs--how they're a scam, how they'll usher in a new era of democratized web3 for the entire planet, and everything in between. Tonight we're joined by someone with an unusual background who is unusually well-placed to help us get to the bottom of this. Michael Maizels is a former professor of art history who made the somewhat non-traditional pivot into crypto. He is now the head of research at Abra, where he works on subjects like bitcoin mining and climate change and the security vulnerabilities of blockchain bridges. 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

From Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to Vitalik Buterin and the unknown Satoshi Nakamoto, some of the most influential and impactful people in the world are the founders of startups. These people have the courage and vision to embark upon uncertain ventures which permanently change the world. But, though much is written about how they approach business or stay productive, much less time is spent on understanding how they function psychologically. Tonight's guest is among the leading experts in just this subject. Gena Gorlin decided to pursue psychology after realizing that her ambition in life was to discover how to enable people to achieve greatness in theirs. Today, she is a professor and licensed psychologist in NYC, where she unites art, science, philosophy, teaching, and practice in the common aim of helping people become their noblest, most sublimely joyful selves. 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

From monarchy to laissez-faire capitalism, from communism to anarchism, much has been written advocating for different political philosophies. Though it has proven much harder to test these ideas in practice, it would be much easier if it became possible to actually create new countries with new rules, economic systems, and social arrangements. Tonight we're joined by Patri Friedman, a man who has a proposal to do just that. Patri is an American libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, and theorist of political economy. He founded The Seasteading Institute, a non-profit that explores the creation of sovereign ocean colonies. 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 ERRORS: I wasn’t in on this one and Thomas doesn’t take notes on errors. Maybe just ask him if there were any whoppers and then keep your ears open during the conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samo Burja is a sociologist and the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a firm that analyzes institutions, from governments to companies. His research work focuses on the causes of societal decay and flourishing and he writes on history, epistemology and strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In recent months there has been a flurry of activity in the government related to cryptoassets, how to regulate them, and what their implications for national security will be. Though it's common to endorse a simplistic narrative in which Bitcoin and the government are flatly opposed to each other, the truth is more nuanced. We've invited Matthew Pines to the Futurati Podcast to talk to us about these issues. Matthew is a Managing Consultant at the Krebs Stamos Group, a cybersecurity and geopolitical risk advisory firm. He has over ten years of experience helping the government and private sector firms address pressing security and resilience challenges. As a National Security Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, he applies rigorous analytical methodologies to help policy-makers understand the implications of Bitcoin as an emerging technology for the benefit of the nation. He holds a master’s degree in Philosophy and Public Policy (with Distinction) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in Physics and Philosophy (with Honors) from Johns Hopkins University. 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

Jeremy Clark is an associate professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, where he holds the Catallaxy Industrial Research Chair in Blockchain Technologies. He obtained his PhD from the University of Waterloo, where his gold medal dissertation was on designing and deploying secure voting systems including Scantegrity—the first cryptographically verifiable system used in a public sector election. He wrote one of the earliest academic papers on Bitcoin, completed several research projects in the area, and contributed to the first textbook. Beyond research, he has worked with several municipalities on voting technology and testified to both the Canadian Senate and House finance committees on Bitcoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check us out at https://futuratipodcast.com/ Scott Ruoti is an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, where he focuses on security and privacy, usability, and human-computer interaction. He takes a diverse and multidisciplinary approach in studying everything from optimized emailing systems to the distributed ledger, and we are thrilled to get his perspective on use cases for the blockchain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sarah Cruddas is a space journalist, international TV host, and award winning author. She has an academic background in astrophysics and is a global thought leader in the growing commercial space sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nam Sardar is the founder and CEO of Neel Capital, a returns-focused cryptoasset investment firm that combines fundamental analysis with an active management approach. She became interested in cryptocurrency and DeFi in early 2020, and has since made it her mission to help others understand blockchain technology and its potential, hedge against inflation in a sustainable and emerging asset class, and generate & securely store wealth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rik Ferguson is vice president of security research at Trend Micro and is actively engaged in studying online threats and the underground economy. He also researches the wider implications of new developments in the Information Technology arena and their impact on security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over the past several years, Gary Rockis has been highly successful in providing leadership in collaborative efforts among business, industry, and education. He is the recipient of numerous national and state awards, and has written three textbooks. Much of his recent work has focused on the internet of things and smart homes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eric Yakes graduated with a double major in finance and economics from Creighton University, and 3 years later earned his CFA charter. He began his career at FTI Consulting in their Corporate Finance and Restructuring group and then moved to Lion Equity Partners, a distressed buyout private equity fund. All the while he intently followed Bitcoin, and its development eventually led him to author the book "The 7th Property: Bitcoin and the Monetary Revolution". He is currently building a Bitcoin-focused financial business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nathan Young is a corporate strategist and marketing expert who has been exceptionally active in the Effective Altruism movement, the prediction markets community, and in discussions around designing good policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Selgin is a senior fellow and director emeritus of the the Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives at the Cato Institute and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Georgia. His research covers a broad range of topics within the field of monetary economics, including monetary history, macroeconomic theory, and the history of monetary thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Spencer is a pioneering outer space architect with design awards from NASA for his work on the International Space Station (ISS). He is the founder of the Space Tourism Society, co-founder of the Space Tourism Conference, and co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Mars World Enterprises, Inc. His work aims at promoting and developing the Space Experience Economy (SEE). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elaine Pofeldt is an independent journalist and speaker specializing in careers and entrepreneurship. In 2018 she published a well-received book called "The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business", and she joins us to discuss her newest book "Tiny Business, Big Money". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Velina Tchakarova is the Director at the Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy (AIES) in Vienna, Austria. Her work includes research, consulting, and lectures on Global System Transformation and the geostrategy of global actors, particularly the EU's role in Eastern Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Samo Burja is a sociologist and the founder of Bismarck Analysis, a firm that analyzes institutions, from governments to companies. His research work focuses on the causes of societal decay and flourishing and he writes on history, epistemology and strategy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael Cushman is the former president of Engaging Change, head of strategy at the Garlic Media Group, and the managing director of the consulting arm of the Da Vinci Institute, as well as a noted expert on the future of education, the future of real estate, and myriad other topics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lyn Alden began her career as an electrical engineer in the aviation industry before pivoting full-item into investment. Featured across major media and popular podcasts, Lyn focuses on macroeconomic research for retail and institutional clients, and in recent years has taken a progressively deeper look at digital assets such as bitcoin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trent Fowler is a machine learning engineer, author, and co-host of the Futurati Podcast. As someone who's worked at several crypto startups, he has years of experience dealing with blockchain data and thinking about the blockchain’s mechanics. This episode is adapted from a talk he recently gave explaining at a high level how this remarkable technology works and what it might mean for the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices