Karen Dillon (@kardillon) is the former editor of Harvard Business Review magazine and co-author of the three books with Clayton Christensen, including the forthcoming The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out of Poverty and b

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Nov 9th, 2019 2m 46s

Ramez Naam (@ramez) is a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor and award-winning author best known for his Nexus Trilogy: Nexus, Crux and ApexHis other (non-fiction) books include: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Pl

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Nov 5th, 2019 2m 55s

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Oct 31st, 2019 2m 53s

John Doran(@awaytowellbeing) has been a teacher and guidance counselor for over 24 years and is the author Ways to Wellbeing,. a book about creating a positive educational experience in the 21st century which taught in over 140 schools worldwid

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Oct 29th, 2019 3m 49s

Rahaf Harfoush (@rahafharfoush) is a digital anthropologist, bestselling author, and speaker researching the impacts of emerging technologies on our society and is focused on deep (and often hidden) behavioral shifts that are taking place withi

Is Huawei actually a threat to US infrastructure - Eric Cole

Oct 15th, 2019 2m 51s

Eric Cole (@drericcole) is arguably the #1 cyber security expert in the US with a resume including the Obama administration, the CIA, the Gates Foundation and CTO of McAfee and was inducted into the 2014 InfoSecurity Hall of Fame.To listen to t

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Oct 1st, 2019 2m 46s

Rohit Bhargava (@rohitbhargava) is an innovation and marketing expert and the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of five books on topics as wide-ranging as the future of business and building a brand with personality. His signature book No

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Sep 28th, 2019 3m 14s

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Ways to use prediction markets to create better outcomes - Robin Hanson

Sep 26th, 2019 4m 17s

Robin Hanson (@robinhanson)is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University with a doctorate in social science from CalTech, master’s degrees in p

Why debt-based banking is such a damaging and unsustainable model for our future - Jarl Jensen

Sep 19th, 2019 5m 52s

Jarl Jensen (@jarljensen) is an inventor, entrepreneur and best selling author. He served as President and CEO of EuroMed, Inc. from 2004 to 2009, has nine issued patents, with many more pending for medical devices which have grossed over $500

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Sep 17th, 2019 2m 45s

Steve Sammartino (@sammartino) is an entrepreneur, futurist, author and public speaker focused on finding the truth and creating the future.He has had multiple tech startups and launched one of the first sharing-economy startups Rentoid.com, be

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Sep 14th, 2019 4m 6s

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Sep 10th, 2019 3m 6s

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How George’s team is working to revive mammoths to combat climate change - George Church

Sep 7th, 2019 4m 36s

George Church @geochurch) is a professor of genetics at Harvard & MIT, director of the Personal Genome Project, co-author of 509 papers, 143 patent publications and developed methods used for the first genome sequence (1994) & million-fold cost

What technologies Steve is most excited about and how they’ll transform our world - Steve Brown

Sep 5th, 2019 3m 55s

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Could climate change and automation be the recipe for disaster - Martin Ford

Aug 31st, 2019 3m 16s

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Aug 27th, 2019 3m 2s

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Why we have so many issues adjusting to technology and societal change - Isy Goldwasser

Aug 24th, 2019 3m 33s

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What can we do to fix politics - Nancy Giordano

Aug 22nd, 2019 3m 28s

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The future of dating, and online dating - Geoff Cook

Aug 18th, 2019 4m 33s

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The reason Matt’s worried about the slippery slope of safety - Shaun Moore

Aug 15th, 2019 4m 52s

Shaun Moore (@shaunpmoore) the founder and CEO of TrueFace, the 500Startups funded computer vision and facial recognition startup focused on making the world safer and smarter by transforming cameras into data.Prior to TrueFace, Shaun co-founde

Why the indoors is often many times more polluted than outside - Jaya Rao

Aug 13th, 2019 2m 39s

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Aug 10th, 2019 3m 12s

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Aug 8th, 2019 2m 47s

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Aug 6th, 2019 3m 45s

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