Disruption. It’s a term that’s frequently on the lips of just about anyone interested in technology. Is it the technology, though, that’s disruptive? Or is it the individuals that are driving the technology? Maybe all of us who latch on to the technologies are the disruptors.
I think it’s all three. In the latest Seeking Delphi™ podcast, I speak with fellow podcaster, Matt Ward. He’s an entrepreneur, angel investor, and host of The Disruptors. In a kind of dueling podcasts, we interviewed each other for our respective programs.
Is your dog gone? Not to worry, it seems that similar technology to human facial recognition might help you find it.
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Longevity Extension–While telomeres and telomerase may not turn out to be the holy grail of aging, they certainly have their role in the diseases of aging. Dr. Maria Blasco, one of the presenters at the second annual Ending Age-Related Diseases conference held July 11 and 12 in New York, is seen below in an impromptu news conference, talking about some of her work.
(Video credit: Mark Sackler for Seeking Delphi™)
Coming soon to the Seeking Delphi™ podcast, Matt Ward on disruptors.
If we could prevent the diseases of aging, we could prevent aging itself. We could empower “older” people to work like younger people for as long as they want to–if they want to. In this Seeking Delphi™ special edition mini-cast, Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) presidnet Keith Comito joins host Mark Sackler to discuss the upcoming Ending-Age Releated Diseases conference, to be held July 11 and 12 at Cooper Union, New York, NY, USA. The biggest names in ending research will be there to present, including Aubrey de Grey of SENS Foundation and George Church of Rejuvenate Bio and Harvard University.
LEAF has provided a special 10% discount code for our listenters: DELPHI2019. ; You can register and access the discout HERE.
Will we find microbes on Mars? Can we make breathable Oxygen on Mars? I guess we’ll find out sometime between now and when we get there. I’m not betting on Elon Musk’s aggressive timetable, and I’m certainly not expecting to go there myself. But I do have a ticket to send my name there.
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–Wanna buy a flying car? Listen to Seeking Delphi™ podcast #27. Want an emission free vertical take-off-and-landing vehicle (VOTL)? See the video below.
“Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.”– Masayoshi Son
What–he worry? Ford’s delivery robot.
Will that thing to the left make you smile? I have my doubts about that. If you’re not familiar with the concept of the uncanny valley, you will be soon. Welcome to the creepy future!
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–The Artemis 1 mission, won’t carry astronauts. But it will carry yeast into orbit around the sun. The mission will launch 13 cubesats next year, one of which will carry two varieties of yeast to test their survivability and growth in the radiation of deep space. E.T. make bread?
–A team of USC students have accomplished a rocketry first. They are the first students to design and build a rocket that reached the 100Km (62 mile) altitude that is defined by international law as the boundary of space. The school’s report says it used a parachute to land safely after reaching it’s targeted height–but it doesn’t say where. Oh well, to quote that old Tom Lehrer song, “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That’s not my department says Wernher von Braun.” [See Video below]
Elon Musk–Tesla might be in all sorts of financial troubles, but Elon Musk has landed some funding for his The Boring Company. His tunnel-digging enterprise has just landed its first paying customer, The Las Vegas Convention Center. The center’s board of directors, as part of a $1.4 billion expansion plan, has allocated $46 million for two tunnels beneath the 200-acre site. They will be cut to provide passage for electric vehicles and pedestrians.
“The challenge is that the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea. And crazy ideas are very risky to attempt”–Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis addresses the Future of Longevity Impact Roadmap workshop at the X Prize Foundation, April 29, 2019.
If you want to know the raison d’etre of the X Prize, you need go no further than the Peter Diamandis quote above. It’s all about pushing the boundaries of science and technology. It’s about achieving the heretofore unachievable.
The Future of Longevity X Prize Impact Roadmap workshop was held at the X Prize Foundation headquarters in Culver City, CA, April 29-30. 2019. It brought together dozens of diverse thought leaders across science, industry and longvity advocacy. Sponsored by X Prize board member, and Longevity Vision Fund founder, Sergey Young, its aim was to brainstorm ideas for a longevity X Prize. This Seeking Delphi™ special edition podcast features interviews and commentary from the workshop.
Special Edition Podcast: Future of Longevity Impact Roadmap
Ending Age-Related Diseases conference (click image for details)
“My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous vehicles.”–Elon Musk, 2013
“We’ll have a fleet of robo taxis by the end of next year.”–(paraphrased), Elon Musk, this week
Ah, you have to love Elon Musk. Or maybe not. If he were a politician, the election opponents would be all over him for flip-flopping. Ok, so we’ll allow him to change his mind in light of further technological developments. The problem is, some pretty big names in field of autonomous vehicles don’t agree with him. And as for his track record on Tesla promises…well, you know the drill.
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–Tesla posted this video of an autonomous road trip (below)
Elon unveilled a Boring Company hyperloop test tunnel in California last year
Hyperloop/Boring Company–On another Elon Musk front, his The Boring Company made a major step towards a formal government approval of its first subterranean hyperloop transport system. It filed a 505-page environmental assessment study on the impact of its proposed NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC underground transit loop. Musk says an initial 16 tunnels for the route between Baltimore and D.C. could be completed in 15-23 months. Judging by the number of state, local and federal agencies that have to sign off on the proposal, it’s likely to take a lot longer than that to get the needed approvals.
Surveillance/Existential Risk.–Techno-philospher Nick Bostrom may be best known as a dyed-in-the wool transhumanist, and the man who first proffered the suggestion that all of us may living in an simulation. Now–going one step farther than Stephen Hawking’s suggestion that we might need a global government to keep tabs on the existential risks of technology–Bostrom has suggested that global surveillance of every single human might be the only thing that can save us.
Seeking Delphi™ podcast/coming attractions: John C. Havens on IEEE’s new volume, Ethically Alligned Design, laying out their proposed framework for the safe and beneficial development of A.I. and other automated systems.
Ah, you have to love Elon Musk. Or maybe not. If he were a politician, the election opponents would be all over him for flip-flopping. Ok, so we’ll allow him to change his mind in light of further technological developments. The problem is, some pretty big names in field of autonomous vehicles don’t agree with him. And as for his track record on Tesla promises…well, you know the drill.
