#60–Investing in AI and AI in Investing, with Jim Lee

June 8, 2024 by Mark Sackler

“Anyone who thinks there is safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market.”–Irene Peter

Nowhere do we hear more about artificial intelligence than in the world of investing. Nvidia and other major AI-related stocks are in the news every day. Is AI over-bought and due for a correction? Perhaps at the peak of Gartner Hype Cycle? Beyond that, how much is AI being used to make investments, particularly by institutions?

One person I know who is well qualified to answer those questions is financial futurist Jim Lee. He is a fellow member of The Association of Professional Futurists and alum of the University of Houston graduate foresight program. He also happens to manage $100 million in assets for Stratfi (Strategic Foresight Investments, LLC)

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#60: Investing in AI and AI in Investing with Jim Lee

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Podcast #35 (redux): NASA, The Next Ten Years, with Dan Dumbacher

March 11, 2023 by Mark Sackler

“I did not come to NASA to make history.”–Sally Ride

“Going to Mars would make NASA great again.”–John Grunsfeld

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This episode was originally aired in October of 2019. The inaugural ASCEND conference was cancelled due to Covid-19. It was held virtually in 2021 and live in 2022. The 2023 event will be held in October. Significant NASA accomplishments in the three plus years since this recording was made include the deflection of an asteroid, the first Artemis moon rocket launch, and the stunning success of the James Webb Space Telescope.

A new space race is upon us. But unlike the two-way competition days of the 1960’s and early 1970’s, it is now a multi-player race to dominate and exploit the final frontier.

Where does NASA sit in all of this, in the rapidly changing world of the second space race? In Seeking Delphi episode #35, host Mark Sackler gets an overview of where the agency is headed, from former NASA program director for launch systems, Dan Dumbacher. There’s also a very special announcement of the upcoming ASCEND** space conference, slated for Las Vegas in November of 2020.

**Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery

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Orion Capsule. NASA

Episode #35 (redux) NASA, the Next Ten Years, with Dan Dumbacher

YouTube slideshow for episode #35

Links:

NASA home page

ASCEND space conference

Dan Dumbacher biography

AIAA

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#58–Future-Fluent with Dmitriy Zakharov

March 27, 2022 by Mark Sackler

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”–Charlemagne

I wouldn’t call future fluency a a new jargon. I would call it a unique and practical way of looking at foresight–of integrating it into the culture of an organization.

Dmitriy Zakharov is a fellow alumnus of the University of Houston’s graduate foresight program. His recent volume Future-Fluent equates foresight with language. He breaks down it’s component parts into syntax and semantics and discusses how to implement this point of view of the future into your life and your organization.

In episode #58 of Seeking Delphi™ Dmitriy tells us of his journey to write the book, and explains what it’s all about.

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Dmitriy Zakharov

#58: Future-Fluent

#57: Update on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen with William F. Smith

November 29, 2021 by Mark Sackler

“So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.“–Bob Inglis

In February of 2017, Seeking Delphi™ featured Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen, Inc.™ founder and CEO Bill Smith, in an episode entitled What Ever Happend to Fuel Cells.

Not much was happening in early 2017. The market for hydrogen fuel cells, and hydrogen in any form for that matter, had been stagnant for for over a decade.

Five years later, boy has it turned. Hardly a day goes by without reading something in the news about hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cells. From mega green hydrogen grid storage projects, to long haul trucks–and even hydrogen power underwater and in space–the hits just keep on coming.

In this episode, Bill joins me again to discuss what has changed since he last spoke with us and–most importantly–where it’s is all headed.

Disclaimer: I joined Infinity as director of corporate communication in June of this year.

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#57: Update on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen

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#56: Space Mining with Daniel Sax

September 30, 2021 by Mark Sackler

“Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.”- Peter Diamandis

Peter Diamandis might be right, but asteroid mining is probably not imminent–at least not in the way that lunar mining is.

With both the NASA and the Chinese National Space Agency having designs on establishing permanent lunar bases within the next 5 to 10 years, mining on the moon will be a necessity. It’s just too expensive to supply all the needed resources to maintain the outposts from earth.

Daniel Sax is the cofounder and CEO of the Canadian Space Mining Corporation. His route to that post is, in itself, a fascinating tale. In this episode of Seeking Delphi,™ he explains both his personal journey and that of the company.

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Daniel Sax

#56: Space Mining, with Daniel Sax

Glossary

LEO–Low Earth Orbit

GEO–Geostationary (or Geosynchronous) orbit.

Lunar Gateway–A planned NASA project: a lunar orbiting space station to support future lunar landings and other deep space missions.

Artemis–The program name for the planned NASA missions to return to the moon in the 2020s and beyond.

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#55: The Longevity Dialogs Part 3, The Science and Technology of Growing Young with Sergey Young

September 3, 2021 by Mark Sackler

“We have created science and technology to extend our life, but we haven’t created life we want to extend.”–Sergey Young, Seeking Delphi™ episode #55, explaining why he believes more people do not support radical life extension.

Few individuals have done more, from an advocacy standpoint, to promote breakthroughs in human longevity, than Sergey Young. Seeking Delphi™ returns with a fascinating interview with Sergey on the occasion of the release of his new book, The Science and Technology of Growing Young. The book provides a comprehensive overview of where longevity research is now, where it could be going in the future, and what you can do, in the meantime, to get the most health and vigor out of your own life. We also discuss the current state of the soon to be announced longevity XPrize. You can subscribe to Seeking Delphi™ on Apple podcasts , PlayerFM, MyTuner, Listen Notes, and YouTube. You can also follow us on twitter @Seeking_Delphi and Facebook.