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“The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do.”–B.F. Skinner “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne It’s non-stop: the buzz, the chatter, the speculations, the concerns. It’s visceral: the exci
“I did not come to NASA to make history.”–Sally Ride “Going to Mars would make NASA great again.”–John Grunsfeld This episode was originally aired in October of 2019. The inaugural ASCEND conference was cancelled due to Covid-19. It was held
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne “To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne I wouldn’t call future fluency a a new jargon. I would call it a unique and practical way of looking at fore
“So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.“–Bob Inglis In February of 2017, Seeking Delphi™ featured Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen, Inc.™ founder and CEO Bill Smith, in an episode entitled Wha
“Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”- Peter Diamandis Peter Diamandis might be right, but asteroid mining is probably not imminent–at least not in the way that lunar mining is. With bo
“We have created science and technology to extend our life, but we haven’t created life we want to extend.”–Sergey Young, Seeking Delphi™ episode #55, explaining why he believes more people do not support radical life extension. Few individuals
This podcast was originally recorded and aired in November of 2018. “The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles is Great.”–Dan Lipinski “My opinion is that it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous vehicles.”–Elon Musk ™ There’s no shortage of
This podcast originally ran in June of 2018. Seeking Delphi(tm)will return from hiatus with new material next month. “I can’t imagine a future without robots.”–Nolan Bushnell ™ In the popular HBO series Westworld, robotic hosts are depicted a
“I believe fuel cells could end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine.” –William Clay Ford Seeking Delphi will return from hiatus soon. This is the first in a series of rebroadcasts of the highlights from the past 4 years of pro
“There’s a lot of automation that can happen that isn’t a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.” –Stewart Butterworth “Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we better prepare for it.”–Mark Cuban In an early standup routin
“Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That’s all that ageing is.–Aubrey de Grey It’s that simple. Or so say Aubrey de Grey and his many followers in the gerontological and biotech communities. But the sixty-fou
“It is not in our stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.”–Willaim Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III Got foresight? Do you even need it? Hell yes, you do. The consequences of lack of foresight have never been more evident than t
“What I’m after is not living to 1,000. I’m after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.”–Aubrey de Grey It’s all so complicated. Back in January I hosted a panel entitled The Dawn of Superlongevity: Scenarios for a post-aging
“I believe alien life is quite common in the universe, although intelligent life is less so. Some say it has yet to appear on planet Earth.”–Stephen Hawking For Seeking Delphi’s™ fiftieth** episode, we return to visit with one of our earliest g
“As far as I’m concerned, aging is humanity’s worst problem, by some serious distance.”–Aubrey de Grey Keith Comito, president of Life Extension Advocacy Foundation, joins me for a discussion to preview the 2020 Eding Age Related Diseases con
“Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.”–Robert Wagner Even as the pandemic-struck U.S. economy shrunk by 32% in the first quarter of this year, veterinary medicine saw a different story. Pet ownership soared at a recor
“I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.”–Elon Musk With the May 30 launch of two American astronauts to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon Crew capsule, history was made. This was not o
“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”–Thomas Edison Richard Dawkins might disagree with Thomas Edison. He’d likely say the purpose of our bodies and our brains is to carry around–and perpetuate– our genes. Increasin
“Without Electricity, the air would rot.” Ralph Waldo Emerson What might Ralph Waldo Emerson say if he lived in the age of “shelter-at-home?” Perhaps he’d opine that without electricity, we all would rot. At any rate, we’d all be a lot m
“The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.”–Bernard Baruchhttp://www.cartoonstock.comFor all the pain, suffering, sickness in death, all we have to look forward to if we survive the pandemic, is the
“If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.”–Irwin RedlenerImage: shutterstockThere is no doubt about it. The afte
“Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.”–Mark cubanhttp://www.andertoons.comUnfortunately, mass unemployment has apparently hit us without any help from automation. But if there is a silver lining in th
“I want to die on Mars–just not on impact.”–Elon Musk“I am convinced that humans need to leave earth.”–Stephen HawkingMars One–not as good an idea as some thought.Elon Musk and the late Stephen Hawking are not alone in their calls for huma
“Future shock is a sickness that comes from too much change in too short a time.”–Alvin TofflerThe newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year legacy of Alvin Toffler’s Fu
“No serious futurist deals in prediction. These are left for television oracles and newspaper astrologers.”–Alvin TofflerThe newly released volume, After Shock, features 50 of the world’s most renowned futurists reflecting on the 50-year le
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