Archive for the 'future makers' Category
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
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My guest today is Peter Singer.
He is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the [...]

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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
I had the pleasure once again today to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist, one of our most popular public speakers and, of course, author of the historic first book published by TPNTXT:
“Designing 2050: Pathways to sustainable prosperity on spaceship earth”.
The auction for two signed proof copies of the book can be [...]
Posted in Podcast, TPNTXT, Video, big brains, climate change, environment, future makers | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Jamais Cascio is a San Francisco Bay Area-based writer and ethical futurist. He joins me today to talk about our growing reliance on online social networks and the net in general as forms of identity management. What are some of the consequences of putting your personal information online or - perhaps scarier - taking them [...]
Posted in Podcast, future makers, social networking | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 12th, 2007
Today it’s again my pleasure to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist. We caught up for lunch in South Yarra today and chatted about why visionaries often feel frustrated with their own progress, the need for a world democracy and how shareholders can use their voting power to effect political change.
G’DAY [...]
Posted in Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast, big brains, environment, future makers | 1 Comment »
Thursday, July 5th, 2007
J. Storrs Hall is an independent scientist and author. His most recent book is Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine, and he was the founding Chief Scientist of Nanorex, Inc, which is developing a CAD system for nanomechanical engineering, is currently a member of Nanorex’ Scientific Advisory Board, and is a Research Fellow [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
Another show with the brilliant Dr Peter Ellyard today. I popped around to his place yesterday without any planned agenda and, as I had hoped, we ended up talking about a whole range of interesting things, including:
What entrepreneurs dream about
Peter’s introduction to the operas of maestro Richard Wagner
How globalism and tribalism are playing out around [...]
Posted in Podcast, future makers | 2 Comments »
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Didn’t expect THAT, did you?
I’m prepping for my chat with Vint tomorrow morning and happened upon this recent interview with Kuzweil on CNNMoney where he says:
“These slides that Gore puts up are ludicrous,” says the man who once delivered a tech conference presentation as a singing computer avatar named Ramona. (That stunt was the [...]
Posted in energy, energy debate, environment, future makers, science, technology, the singularity | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Forgive me Father - it’s been at least two weeks since my last podcast.
I figured you guys needed some time to digest my last run of shows. Ready for more yet?
Another show on the coming of the technological singularity today. My guest is Eliezer Yudkowsky, co-founder and research fellow at the Singularity Institute [...]
Posted in Podcast, future makers, science, technology, the singularity, transhumanism | 17 Comments »
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
Peter Ellyard and I were talking recently about the field of “biomimicry” and so I was excited to see that episode #2 of our Nick’s new CleanTech podcast on TPN has an interview about that very subject. He interviews Dr. Tim Finnigan, Founder and CEO of Biopower Systems, a distributed ocean power technology company. They [...]
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Wow. I just had one of those whooooooo moments, when the world spins. I was reading Brook Turner’s article on George Miller from last week’s Australian Financial Review magazine. Anyone who knows me well knows how much I admire George. MAD MAX and MAD MAX II are obviously the greatest Australian films ever made and [...]
Posted in Buckminster Fuller, Cam's World, future makers | 8 Comments »