FORESEEABLE FUTURES - THE FUTUROLOGY PODCAST

In this episode Erwin discusses recent scientific advancements of brain implants allowing paralyzed patients to control artificial limbs. Kyle discusses the discovery of room temperature superconductors and the cost of solar and wind becoming cheaper than coal…and Mike rains on the optimism highlighting increasing levels of toxic waste building in the Earth’s oceans.

Foreseeable Futures Podcast Episode 11 - Nobel Prize CRISPR and Cold fusion

Kyle, Mike and Dr. Erwin discuss recent developments in Artificial Intelligence. First, in a government DARPA project, an AI-controlled fighter jet recently defeated a human pilot in a flight simulator dogfight. How close are we to seeing fully autonomous fighter jets in the battlespace? Are we looking towards a future where war is fought entirely by the robots?

The future of UBI is not IF but WHEN... Its coming people!

In this Episode, we discuss the prospects of maintaining privacy in a new normal. With recent pandemic outbreaks, contact tracing has become an important tool in combating infectious diseases. But that same technology could be used by governments and companies for purposes other than public health. Governments are using contact tracing to monitor and control the movement of people. Companies continue to gather data on its customers to better target advertisement and sales. Dating in the future could enter virtual space and we explore the possibilities of brain computer interfaces and the prospect of your own thoughts may no longer be private.

In this episode we speak with Dr. Erwin Loh about the Professor Erwin Loh about the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak and what future developments in science and technology may help us in our fight against future pandemics.

How does one end up working at NASA? Lyle digs into how he came to be a staff member at one of the most sought after job opportunities for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, a NASA branch that carries out robotic space and Earth science missions such as the Mars rover Curiosity. Lyle reviews his work at JPL, including visiting schools and inspiring the next generation of engineers and scientists. Join Midnight and Lyle as they discuss the history of JPL and their part in the original space race as well as future plans including Mars 2020. 

We discuss the stunning possibility that within the lifespan of most people alive today, science may be able to curing the aging process itself.

Bitcoin has recently again seen massive rises in the markets and with technologies like Bitcoin’s lightning network coming online to support thousands of transactions per second, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general might finally have shown its a viable and long-term technology that’s here to stay.

Mvea introduces CRISPR & gives an overview of where it is at this point. We then go on to discuss some of its future implications. In particular we look to its longer term future where we can begin to fundamentally alter ourselves. New Lunar Plans... Political Feasibility – will Congress agree to funding,  is this a Trump vanity project? Engineering feasibility – is this possible within the new time frame?

How plausible is Neuralink’s ambitious goal to connect a human mind to the cloud? It is building part of your brain in the cloud.  Part of “you” would be non-biological.  A few mind-bending thought experiments to chat about.

Lugh discusses the advent of post-scarcity resources in education and medicine. The question he asks, based on the comments in this thread, is why do people overwhelmingly focus on wealth inequality when considering this issue? Stryker discusses cultured/lab-grown meat as a necessity for several reasons. Less land needed for raising livestock. Less greenhouse gas emissions, theoretically more efficient as you only need to raise the meat, not the bones, brain, etc of an entire animal. Hope is to scale-up so that it can be mass produced. This will increase yields (helping address rising population and demand for meat in developing countries).