ReForm | Hollywood’s Creating Digital Clones
Ex Machina | Examining Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence
DMT: The Spirit Molecule Documentary
FTP017: Mike Johnston and Matt Bolton – Sci Fi, Copyright and The Sharing Economy
In this episode, we and I are joined by fellow podcasters Mike Johnston and Matt Bolton from the Robot Overlordz podcast. We get into a discussion about copyright, licensing laws, crowdfunding, and the present and future of the sharing economy…
FTP016: Vitalik Buterin – What is Ethereum and How to Build a Decentralized Future
In this episode, we invited Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, to talk about the applications and implications of this highly promising new decentralized platform.
Ethereum is meant to eliminate the middlemen in many industries… [READ MORE]
FTP015: Zoltan Istvan – The Future of Politics and Transhumanism
Zoltan Istvan has a colorful life story. He worked as a war zone journalist with National Geographic, he sailed the world by himself, he wrote a best-selling novel called The Transhumanist Wager. Now, Zoltan is running for US president in the 2016 election with his Transhumanist Party… [READ MORE]
FTP014: The Exponential Revolution: Are You Prepared?
People everywhere are waking up. Thanks to open information sharing via The Internet, more and more people are realizing that the entities that currently govern our world do not serve the majority… [READ MORE]
FTP013: The Future of Conscious Evolution: Eliminating Discrimination
“We are running on outdated software”, “operating cavemen brains in a technologically advanced society”.
For thousands of years, our environment changed very slowly. Parents and children had more or less the same lives. Now we live in a world of exponential technological chance. Borders are becoming blurry and social groups increasingly distributed. What was once an adaptive mental process that helped us make snap judgements and quick decisions is now considered a major detriment… [READ MORE]
FTP012: The Future Of Marketing is Storytelling
In the 20th century, with the rise of mass media came a time when companies could broadcast their marketing messages far and wide to millions of people. It didn’t matter if the message was relevant to each person, because as long as a small percentage of people bought the product, it was worth it. Companies also figured out that they could convince more people to buy their product by playing on people’s fears and insecurities. Inadequacy marketing was born… [READ MORE]
FTP011: Bitcoin and Blockchain and Basic Income, Oh My!
In the last 15 years, many industries were turned upside-down by the rise of peer-to-peer technologies for sharing information. Napster changed the face of the music industry. Search engines allowed everyone to find information in an instant. Social media networks allowed us to form virtual tribes and start huge movements. All of these were disruptive technologies: they offered a new paradigm for producing and sharing information. Unlike the broadcast era, suddenly anyone could produce, share, and spread information…[READ MORE]
