PODCAST · technology
Deep Future
by Deep Future
Pablos on our future with technology.
Episodes
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Interview the VCs — Chris Kantrowitz 6/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I turn venture fundraising inside out: interview the VCs, show them who you really are, quit nickel-and-diming small funds on carry, and back strange ideas before consensus catches up.
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Our KPI Is Death — Chris Kantrowitz 5/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I get into Quorum Earth’s fungus-based plan to save bees from Varroa mites, then follow the science, regulation, and scrappy manufacturing behind a biopesticide company whose KPI is death.
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Hired by Sony at 14 — Chris Kantrowitz 4/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I trace the hustle that got him hired by Sony at 14, then connect dyslexia, ADHD, and instinct to the unlikely path from early video-game testing to Quorum Earth’s bee-saving biopesticides.
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Accidental Authenticity — Chris Kantrowitz 3/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I get into accidental authenticity: what Frank Zappa's house taught him about sycophants, how fame and money distort friendship, and how he hustled Gobbler through the venture clock.
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Language Is a Technology — Chris Kantrowitz 2/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I get into the hidden technology of language: what remote work strips out of company culture, what his non-speaking son taught him about communication, and why telepathy, dreams, and the brain deserve serious experiments.
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The Death Star in Century City — Chris Kantrowitz 1/6
Chris Kantrowitz and I compare pre-deal venture investing with music lawyers and Hollywood agents, then get into hacker-advising WarGames, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the CAA machine Andreessen Horowitz borrowed.
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Reasoning from Fictional Evidence — Byron Reese 4/4
Byron Reese and I trace how stories shape what people fear and build—from biased machine learning and Hollywood’s dystopian AI to Star Trek, Agora, and the fight for a more optimistic technological future.
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Stories, Dice & Rocks that Think — Byron Reese 3/4
Byron Reese and I follow the invention of probability into computer chips, then ask how stories, simulations, spreadsheets, sensors, and shared machine learning can help us choose a better future.
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Where Are the Bronze Age Beavers? — Byron Reese 2/4
Byron Reese chases a weird question—why are there no Bronze Age beavers?—through Homo erectus, cave art, language, and the human superorganism he calls Agora.
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Infinite Progress & Wasted, Two of My Favorite Books — Byron Reese 1/4
Byron Reese and I unpack Infinite Progress, The Fourth Age, and Wasted—then chase recycling’s perverse incentives back to the real technical problem: building clean, cheap energy.
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Telepathy & Shared Consciousness – Spiros Michalakis 5/5
Spiros Michalakis and I explore The Telepathy Tapes, extraordinary claims, and the limits of what we know — then return to empathy, storytelling, and the challenge of connecting with other people.
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AI, Education & the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer – Spiros Michalakis 4/5
Spiros Michalakis and I explore the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, AI tutors, game engines, and personalized stories — and how to help people go on adventures rather than spoon-feed them an education.
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The Quantum Hall Effect & the Holographic Universe – Spiros Michalakis 3/5
Spiros Michalakis walks me through the quantum Hall effect, topology, entanglement, and his picture of a holographic universe. I test the ideas against jumping beans, scratch holograms, and a light bulb.
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Why Gravity Feels Like Falling Through Time – Spiros Michalakis 2/5
Spiros Michalakis walks me through a thought experiment linking gravity and time. We explore consciousness, entropy, and what rock climbing and salsa dancing reveal about perspective.
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The Intelligence of Outsiders – Spiros Michalakis 1/5
Spiros Michalakis and Pablos examine what the best and brightest miss when they only talk to one another. They move from access, mentorship, hackers, and useful outsiders to empathy as a form of intelligence and the power of changing your point of view.
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A Million Robot Fans — Mike Winter 5/5
Mike Winter tells me how a 1994 Wired Robot Wars call pulled him out of an Alaska winter — flipper bots, a million fans, warehouse humanoids, and a Cannonball Run rule: never be bored.
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Neurons in Your Hands — Mike Winter 4/5
Mike Winter and I go from local AI tools and gritty real props to childhood computers, Super 8 stop-motion, and why working with your hands still beats living only in your head.
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Screw the Screws — Mike Winter 3/5
Mike Winter and I argue fasteners, DJI-grade mechanics, and a no-screws design challenge — then widen out to what manufacturing is for and what still makes a person fulfilled.
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I Wanted to Make Monsters — Mike Winter 2/5
Mike Winter walks me through his first CAD startup, the secret wish to make film monsters, offline research contests, and why Dollar Tree dioramas beat sitting around watching TV.
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AI or Die — Mike Winter 1/5
Mike Winter and I start with his AI or Die combat-robot fight against his BattleBots-veteran daughter — then dioramas as everyday model-making, and why creative thinking shouldn't live only in language.
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Christmas Every Day — Juan Enriquez 4/4
Juan Enriquez and I start with his case for scientific optimism, then follow it into optogenetics, Openwater’s open-source brain tools, and a new model for medical research. We connect that model to local AI and the larger question underneath the whole conversation: whether we use the…
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Planet Water — Juan Enriquez 3/4
Juan Enriquez and I follow climate change into the oceans, where almost all of the warming is stored. He explains how more moisture in the atmosphere produces extreme rain while heat dries out the land, why net zero will not cool the oceans quickly, and how marine cloud layers or stratospheric...
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Air Condition the Planet — Juan Enriquez 2/4
Juan Enriquez and I confront the case for geoengineering. We trace how warming oceans, peat fires, permafrost methane, and abrupt shifts recorded in Greenland ice cores can turn climate change into a runaway cycle. Then we explore volcanic aerosols, Stephen Salter’s cloud-brightening ships,...
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Print a Personalized Cancer Vaccine — Juan Enriquez 1/4
Juan Enriquez and I trace how sequencing makes biology readable and programmable—from personalized cancer vaccines to ocean genomics, biorefineries, and cheaper solar energy.
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Constant Tension — Marc Porat 4/4
I closed with Marc on holding two futures at once — paperclip apocalypses, the stories in our heads, and why I still believe we have volition in the toolkit we are building.
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Break the Hockey Stick — Marc Porat 3/4
I pressed Marc on cheap energy as a civilizational discontinuity — and whether AI is actually different in kind, or just another hockey-stick story we tell ourselves.
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Goal Cloning — Marc Porat 2/4
I asked Marc how a vision actually spreads inside a company — Alan Kay’s goal cloning, hiring people who already see it, and pulling from the future instead of pushing from the present.
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I was Born of Revolutions — Marc Porat 1/4
I sat down with Marc Porat about personal technology as a north star — and how information as power runs from his family history through Stanford, Apple, and General Magic.
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Spotify for Nature — Kevin Slavin 4/4
I talk with Kevin Slavin about building a transaction layer for genomic data: a Spotify-like system that rewards countries and scientists for nature's inventions while keeping research data usable.
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The Next Pandemic Is Optional — Kevin Slavin 3/4
I talk with Kevin Slavin about using wastewater, airplanes, sequencing, and genomic surveillance to detect outbreaks early, and why the missing pieces are political will, infrastructure, and business models rather than technology.
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The Invisible City — Kevin Slavin 2/4
I talk with Kevin Slavin about Situationist psychogeography, location-aware games, bees, sewers, and the invisible microbial layers that make one city biologically different from another.
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Raising Curiosity — Kevin Slavin 1/4
I talk with Kevin Slavin about raising curious children, the power of light-touch mentorship, childhood memory, wonder, and the distance between intention and lived experience.
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Universal Basic Salt & Pepper – Sarah Rose Siskind 5/5
Sarah Rose Siskind and I trace humanity’s dance with nature—from childbirth and AI filmmaking to universal basic salt, software abundance, and technological progress.
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Tech Stories Out of Desperation – Sarah Rose Siskind 4/5
Sarah Rose Siskind and I talk about invisible progress, technology as connection, AI scribes, and why humanity needs a global pizza party for its biggest wins.
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Fire Is Technology – Sarah Rose Siskind 3/5
Sarah Rose Siskind and I talk data moats, the feature-vs-platform trap, why fire is technology, and accessibility wins from disability ASR to Be My Eyes.
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AI Panic and Human Work – Sarah Rose Siskind 2/5
Sarah Rose Siskind and I on AI panic, technological disruption, and the work machines should take — plus what humans get back when robots handle the dirty, dreary, and dangerous.
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I Ran a 50K on LSD – Sarah Rose Siskind 1/5
Sarah Siskind on running a 50K on LSD, testing drugs as performance enhancers, and why surrender matters to the psychedelic experience.
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Dual-Use AI, Perennial Truths & 2040 – Pedro Domingos 5/5
Dual-use AI, perennial truths in The Master Algorithm, and the satire of 2040.
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Seattle, Weird Science, & The Master Algorithm – Pedro Domingos 4/5
Seattle vs Bay Area, ignored ML departments, and the quest for the Master Algorithm.
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The Lab Race & the Open Research Ecosystem – Pedro Domingos 3/5
Why open research still beats closed labs in the AI talent and breakthrough race.
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If It Needs a Harness Its Not AGI – Pedro Domingos 2/5
Harnesses aren’t AGI — adversarial cybersecurity, personal agents, and commoditizing the model layer.
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A Better Name for Moonshot Would Be Moonshine – Pedro Domingos 1/5
Pedro Domingos on Moonshot, model distillation, and why open AI gives defenders a white-hat advantage.
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The Truth About Raising Venture Capital – Jamie Wood 5/5
Jamie Wood asks Pablos what would stop him from investing in AUTONOMIC. Their conversation expands into a blunt guide to venture fundraising: fund mandates, venture-scale outcomes, timing, opaque decisions, warm introductions and why founders should not overinterpret any one investor's response....
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The Brain Data Flywheel – Jamie Wood 4/5
Jamie Wood asks Pablos for a direct assessment of AUTONOMIC's hardest business problems. They work through the product, behavior-change loop, proprietary data, wearable integrations, university distribution, efficacy and the operating discipline required to make those pieces reinforce one…
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Brain Training the next Generation – Jamie Wood 3/5
AUTONOMIC is focusing first on college and university students. Jamie Wood describes the needs of the 18-to-24-year-old market, early pilot results, institutional buyers and the practical challenge of reaching students before they hit a crisis. She and Pablos also explore how an AI coach could...
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A Personal Trainer for Your Brain – Jamie Wood 2/5
Jamie Wood explains how AUTONOMIC turns neuroscience into a short, adaptive coaching loop. The system asks a small set of behavior-linked questions, identifies a user's goal, recommends a practical intervention and measures what happens next. Jamie and Pablos discuss why long assessments fail…
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From Burnout to Brain Science – Jamie Wood 1/5
Jamie Wood grew up in a finance family, entered the corporate world early and eventually burned out. A change of scenery did not erase the behavioral patterns she wanted to change, so she started studying how the brain actually builds and breaks habits. Jamie and Pablos follow that path through...
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Heretical Physics – Danielle Fong 5/5
A wide-ranging close on scientific heresy, experimental evidence, hands-on discovery culture, and using LLMs without surrendering judgment.
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Building Deep Tech in Public – Danielle Fong 4/5
Danielle on open technical culture, fundraising geography, and the strange leverage of becoming a niche celebrity in your field.
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Lightcell Powered Datacenters – Danielle Fong 3/5
Danielle on data-center power demand, Lightcell’s go-to-market path, and choosing company-building over the academic default.
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Pablos on our future with technology.
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