John Gertz - Author - Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

Interviewed live on KVLF on 8-25-2025John Gertz is a leader in the field of SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, having served three terms as chairman of the board of the SETI institute and he currently serves as the only layman on the Breakthrough Listen Advisory Board. He has published a number of peer reviewed theoretic papers on the subject of SETI.Reinventing SETI: New Directions in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligenceby John GertzProvides a digestible and captivating overview of cosmological topics related to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI)Disputes past and current SETI processes and introduces a new and unique plan for locating intelligent life in outer spaceDiscusses the possibility of First Contact with intelligent ET life in our own Solar System, and how humanity should prepare for such a meetinghttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/reinventing-seti-9780197800416?cc=us&lang=en&