The Future And You

Ari Kiirikki, Vice President of Knome Inc. (the world's leading provider of personal DNA sequencing) is today's featured guest. Topics: how you can have your entire DNA sequenced; the rate at which this expensive procedure is growing in popularity; how ...

Noel Patton (founder of T.A. Sciences) is today's featured guest. Topic: A product available today which may extend human lives well beyond traditional limits. Specifically what this product is, how it functions within living cells, and some of the ...

Eliezer Yudkowsky (co-founder and research fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) is today's featured guest. Topics: the Singularity and the creation of Friendly AI; his estimate of the probability of success in making a ...

Eliezer Yudkowsky (co-founder and research fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) is today's featured guest. Topics: the Singularity and the creation of Friendly AI; his estimate of the probability of success in making a ...

Michael Vasser and Michael Anissimov are today's featured guests. (Both are interviewed in their capacity as organizers of the Singularity Summit 2009 held earlier this month in New York City.) Topics: the Singularity and artificial intelligence in ...

Gregory Benford and Aubrey de Grey (who both spoke at the Singularity Summit held earlier this month in New York City) are interviewed, as well as two attendees of this singular event which is so intently focused on the future. Topics: the Singularity ...

Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of teaching experience) is today's featured guest. Topics: Is it permitted to teach atheism in public schools? Why it's done on a regular basis even though the answer is No. The balancing act of ...

Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of teaching experience) is today's featured guest. Topics: trends in teaching in public schools; how one problem student can prevent an entire class from learning; whether or not smarter kids are ...

Three Biotech Researchers (two geneticists and one agronomist) are today's featured guests. Topics: problems involved in engineering a virus to kill a specific race or sex of human beings; genetics involved in regrowing human limbs for amputees; how ...

Three Biotech Researchers (two geneticists and one agronomist) are today's featured guests. Dr. Diane Mucci, formerly with the National Institute of Health (NIH), is currently a full time professor of biotechnology and has a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, ...

Stephanie Osborn (author and former NASA payload flight controller) is today's featured guest. Topics: Space Shuttle flights and the International Space Station; her work in astronaut training, and what it is that a payload flight controller does; Space ...

Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest. Topics: his work advising Woody Allen for the movie Sleeper; anecdotes about his friends Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, and Gene Roddenberry; his ...

Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest. Topics: extreme human longevity, which Dr. Bova expects and endorses; why lasers are the ultimate weapon of defense against incoming missiles, and ...

Josà Cordeiro (author, researcher, professor, futurist, consultant and world traveler) is today's guest. Topics: Josà Cordeiro's lectures at World Future 2009; The Singularity University (his involvement, its goals, and plans for its future expansion); ...

Young-sook Park ëìì (South Korean diplomat, author, and futurist) is today's guest. Dr. Young-sook Park is President of the Korean Foster Care Association, as well as Chair of the United Nation's Millennium Project in Korea; Chair of the Korean ...

Timothy C. Mack (President of the World Future Society) is today's guest. The World Future Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the ...

Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of classroom teaching experience) is today's featured guest. Topics: now that the flood gates of information are open wide (sometimes referred to as the Internet) we are all swimming in ...

Robert Hooker (an Information Technology professional living in London) is today's featured guest. Topics: why Islamic fundamentalists feel threatened by the dominance of the Internet today, just as Christian fundamentalists felt threatened by the ...

Robert Hooker (an Information Technology professional living in London) is today's featured guest. Topics: his experience in AI research in the early 1990s; his PhD in sociology and the results of his sociological research inside Life; the importance of ...