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I’m on a mission to make the future as awesome as possible. I want to understand the biggest problems in the world & learn about the technologies that could help us solve them. I make The Deep Future Podcast so you can learn from the same conversations that I do.

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Top Sleep Doctor’s Brain Dump – Michael Breus, Ph.D

Top Sleep Doctor’s Brain Dump – Michael Breus, Ph.D

Sleep is the most natural process that you can do other than breathing. Like breathing, we don’t need technology to help us sleep. The reason many people don’t sleep is because of what’s between their ears – their mental stability, anguish, or stress. Do you fall asleep easily or does the slightest noise wake you up? Dr. Michael Breus, gives me a full brain dump as I try to learn…

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Urban Transportation & the Truth about Garbage — Assaf Biderman

Urban Transportation & the Truth about Garbage — Assaf Biderman

About two billion people that are going to move into cities by 2050 and with that growth, the demand for efficient transportation is going to increase dramatically. In an era where we’re already seeing inefficiencies in urban mobility having a massive impact on the economy, public health and environmental health, it’s hard to imagine a future of transportation that doesn’t border utter chaos. Cognizant of these projected problems, Assaf Biderman,…

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Reimagining Entertainment, Work & Education — Brent Bushnell

Reimagining Entertainment, Work & Education — Brent Bushnell

Brent Bushnell is one of the most positive people I know. He’s created Two Bit Circus to reimagine how the newest developments in computing technology can shape the future of entertainment, work, education and human interaction. Brent grew up in the house that built Atari and has been a lifelong hands-on maker that brings a prototyping mindset to everything he does. Listen in to this candid and eclectic conversation and learn…

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Kids Building Dyson Swarms — Levi Hurt

Kids Building Dyson Swarms — Levi Hurt

Probably whatever you were doing with your life as a kid isn’t as cool as building a Dyson swarm. 12 year old Levi Hurt has already decided to devote his life to doing so. Levi is a delightful kid. It will warm your heart to hear his curiosity and excitement about these ideas. Even with my antagonistic questioning, his sense of wonder is infectious.

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Exosomes, Stem Cells, Ketamine & VR — Dr. Melissa Selinger

Exosomes, Stem Cells, Ketamine & VR — Dr. Melissa Selinger

My friend, Dr. Melissa Selinger is a Doctor of Neuropsychopharmacology who has done actual research on using psychedelics and virtual reality for treating things like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. A huge frontier where there are all kinds of potential, and very little actual scientific research has been done here so far. It’s an exciting frontier to be able to help a lot of people who we don’t have any real…

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Sex on Demand for Women — Saundra Pelletier

Sex on Demand for Women — Saundra Pelletier

There’s this kind of pattern you can see sometimes, when you dig behind very successful projects, a lot of times there is some woman who is dead set on making it happen. And for a lot of them, she’s working behind the scenes and you don’t find out until you get real close, what’s really going on. But occasionally you meet these women who are badass leaders that are so…

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Diving Deep Into The World Of Computer Hacking & Becoming A Hacker — Riley Eller

Diving Deep Into The World Of Computer Hacking & Becoming A Hacker — Riley Eller

One of the things I get asked the most about is questions about how to be a hacker and how to learn hacking skills. And I think there’s a few people I know who really epitomized what that’s all about, and we’ve had pretty deep journeys and in their lives and their careers about about computer hacking. We talk a lot about the mindset of hackers, which is one of…

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Into The World Of Genomics And Entrepreneurship — Adina Mangubat 

Into The World Of Genomics And Entrepreneurship — Adina Mangubat 

Today we get to hang out with Adina Mangubat, a friend of mine that I know from a salsa dancing, and also hanging out with computer hackers. She’s probably the youngest founder that I know. And she’s been running her company for almost a decade since starting it in college at age 22 called Spiral Genetics. It could be considered probably the most advanced bioinformatics technology for population genomics. And…

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Video Games: Optimized Learning Environments — David Edery

Video Games: Optimized Learning Environments — David Edery

David Edery is a buddy of mine who I think you guys are really going to love. Dave is one of the co-founders he’s the CEO of Spry Fox, which is a unique game development studio here. They’re  based here in Seattle, but they have people spread out. They made Alphabear, Steambirds, Triple Town, and Realm of the Mad God. These are games that all together have 50 to a hundred…

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Building the Right Thing at the Right Time – Jeremy Bornstein

Building the Right Thing at the Right Time – Jeremy Bornstein

One of the things I really like to be able to do is go track down some of the friends that I’ve made over the years who have grown up with technology and grew up with computers as kids hackers, computer programmers, people who eventually became engineers and just pick apart their experience. A lot of us had similar experiences and I think there’s a lot that can be learned…

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Unboxing the Crypto Toolkit – Ben Laurie

Unboxing the Crypto Toolkit – Ben Laurie

Hey guys, today we get to hang out with Ben Laurie who is one of my all time favorite geeks. You’re running code right now that Ben wrote. He built ApacheSSL, which is probably like half of the web servers on the internet that are secure running that code. He maintains OpenSSL, which is in everything else. Ben is one of the few folks who’s a true coder and cryptographer.…

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The Future of Modern Photography – Steven Sebring

The Future of Modern Photography – Steven Sebring

Steven Sebring is an artist, photographer & inventor. This is a guy who’s invented new technology and advanced the art of photography with the tools that he’s built in a world-class fashion. By his own admission, he is not a technical guy, but when you see what he’s built, you’re going to be blown away. There’s nothing else in the world like it. There’s a lot of work going on…

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Can Robots be Artists? — Hod Lipson

Can Robots be Artists? — Hod Lipson

Today, I spent some time with Hod Lipson who is a professor at Columbia University. In fact, we recorded this episode right out in front of the university with crying babies going by and kids playing in the park. So it’s a little noisy, but I’ve been inspired by Hod for a long time, because he’s another inventor that worked on 3D printing early on.  He is at the forefront…

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Hot Seat: Pablos Interviewed by Bill Scannell

Hot Seat: Pablos Interviewed by Bill Scannell

This is an unusual episode where my old buddy Bill Scannell actually interviews me. Mostly this is a way for people who don’t know me very well to get a sense of who I am and how I think and where I come from. A lot of it’s really about my philosophy and what informs that. Bill does a lot to try and tie that back to how I grew up in…

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