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Singularity.FM — 335 episodes

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The Great Progression: Peter Leyden on AI, Trump and the Next 25 Years

2

Steven Kotler on We Are As Gods

3

We Don’t Need More. We Need Better: Intelligence Scales. Wisdom Does Not.

4

Why I Cancelled ChatGPT and Switched to Claude, And Why You Should Too

5

Ada Palmer on Inventing the Renaissance: How Golden & Dark Ages Are Constructed and Why They Matter

6

Graham Priest on Dialetheism, True Contradictions, the Liar Paradox & Why Classical Logic Isn’t Enough

7

Breaking: Did Integral AI’s Jad Tarifi Just Announce AGI?

8

Jacob Ward on The Loop, AI, and a World Without Real Choices

9

Robot Souls & Junk Code Dr. Eve Poole on Programming Humanity into AI

10

Petter Törnberg: Algorithmic Tyranny & Digital Modernity

11

The World’s a Circus | Nikola Danaylov Keynote at St. John’s Circus Fest 2025

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Adam Becker on More Everything Forever and Big Tech’s Future Myths

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Angus Fletcher on Storythinking and Primal Intelligence

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Donald J. Robertson on How to Think Like Socrates in the Age of AI

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Near Futurist Neil Redding on Co-Creating Reality

16

Dr. Jad Tarifi of Integral AI: “We Now Have All the Ingredients for AGI”

17

Jamelle Lindo on Emotional Intelligence in the Age of AI: Harness the Power of Emotion

18

Transhumanist Manifestos and Dilemmas: A Decade and a Half of Reflection

19

Get Your Why before AI: Technology is The How, Not the Why or What

20

From Mutual Dependence to Obsolescence: The Future of Labor in an AI-Driven Economy

21

Our Future, AI and Veganism: 6 Reasons Why I Went Vegan

22

Nikola Danaylov: It’s Ethics. Not Tech Ethics

23

Modern Bard Dr. Martin Shaw: Be a Story-maker for Your Times

24

Kevin Kelly on Wisdom and Excellent Advice for Living

25

Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks

26

Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism

27

The Greatest Leadership Opportunity NBF Pitch

28

Massimo Pigliucci on Story, Virtue, Character and AI

29

Alex Padalka: It's A War Against Our Democratic Values

30

Ursula Eysin on Uncertainty and Future Scenarios

31

Zoltan Istvan on AI, Transhumanism, Politics and Ethics

32

David Wood on The Singularity Principles

33

Danko Nikolic and John Smart on Practopoiesis, Autopoiesis, and the AI Alignment Problem

34

Lewis Dartnell on Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History

35

David Loy on Zen, EcoDharma, AI and Story

36

Byron Reese on Stories, Dice and Rocks That Think

37

Cadell Last on Nietzsche, Transhumanism and Story

38

Joscha Bach on AI, Cosmology, Existence and the Bible

39

The Cassandra of Futurism Faith Popcorn: Futurism Doesn’t Come from the Past

40

Kendall Haven on Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story

41

Brian Boyd on the Origin of Stories

42

John Smart: Foresight is Your Hidden Superpower

43

Jonah Sachs on Winning the Story Wars and ReWriting the Human Story

44

Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling

45

Roshi Jundo Cohen on Zen, AI, Transhumanism and Saving the World

46

Angus Fletcher on Wonderworks: Seek The Untold Story

47

PJ Manney on (Con)Science and the New Mythos

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Lisa Cron on Story or Die: Question the Story

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 12

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 11

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 10

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Technology Reveals Who We Are, Not the Future

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How to be a Futurist

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 9

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 8

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 7

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ReWriting the Human Story - Part II - Our Story

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 6

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 5

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 4

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 3

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 2

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ReWriting the Human Story - Chapter 1

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ReWriting The Human Story - Part 1 - Story

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ReWriting the Human Story: Foreword

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Gus Hosein on Privacy: We’ve been well meaning but stupid

67

Francesca Ferrando on Philosophical Posthumanism

68

Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and the Ministry for the Future

69

Matthew Cole on Vegan Sociology, Ethics, Transhumanism and Technology

70

Thomas Homer-Dixon on Climate Change and Commanding Hope

71

Maria Farrell on Technology, Ethics, Stories and the Prodigal Techbro

72

Futurist.COM Founder Glen Hiemstra on 40 Years of Futurism

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Laura Major and Julie Shah on What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots

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Juan Enriquez on Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics

75

Chris Hables Gray: Make the News You Want to See

76

Debora Spar on Work, Mate, Marry, Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny

77

Melanie Mitchell on AI: Intelligence is a Complex Phenomenon

78

Jenny Kleeman on Sex Robots & Vegan Meat

79

Jacinta González on ICE, Palantir, Big Tech and Surveillance

80

Johan Steyn Interviews Nikola Danaylov on Artificial Intelligence

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Renée Cummings on AI Ethics and Racism

82

Ada Palmer on Viking Ethics, Laws of History, Partial Victories, and Terra Ignota

83

Aaron Benanav on Automation and Technological Unemployment

84

Futurist Karl Schroeder on Foresight and Strangemaking COVID19

85

Nikola Danaylov on Transhumanism, the Singularity, AI and Threats to Democracy

86

Prof. Ada Palmer on Pandemics, Progress, History, Teleology and the Singularity

87

Massimo Pigliucci: Accompany science and technology with philosophy

88

Dr. Alex Jadad on Making Longer Life Worth Living

89

SciFi Great Karl Schroeder: We’re living in a moment of creative possibility

90

The Happy Ways Podcast with Jon Nielsen: Nikola Danaylov on COVID-19

91

Former Commissioner Dr. Ann Cavoukian: Never give up on privacy!

92

James W. Clement on the Switch: Longevity, Fasting, Protein Cycling and Keto

93

Nikola Danaylov at Dark Futures: NeoTechnocracy – The Future is Worse than You Think

94

Former IBM Watson Team Leader David Ferrucci on AI and Elemental Cognition

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Katy Cook on The Psychology of Silicon Valley

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Cathy O’Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Threatens Democracy

97

Technology is a Magnifying Mirror, Not a Crystal Ball

98

Gary Marcus on Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

99

Steve Fuller on Transhumanism: Ask yourself what is human?

100

Cory Doctorow on Walkaway: This will all be so great if we don’t screw it up

101

Ex-Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris on Technology and Human Downgrading

102

Andreas Antonopoulos: Just because you don’t need bitcoin, doesn’t mean it’s not needed.

103

Sir Martin Rees On the Future: Prospects for Humanity

104

Media Theorist Douglas Rushkoff on Team Human

105

Dr. Joseph Mercola on Health and Longevity: Take Health into Your Own Hands

106

Joscha Bach: We need to understand the nature of AI to understand who we are

107

Dr. Michael Greger on How Not to Age

108

Stuart Russell on AI: What if we succeed?

109

Roman Yampolskiy on Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security

110

“Oracle of Silicon Valley” Tim O’Reilly on WTF: Do Work That Matters

111

Max Tegmark on Life 3.0: What We Do Makes a Difference

112

Transhumanist Manifesto Inspires WIRED Article on Transhumanism

113

Philosopher Peter Singer on AI, Transhumanism and Ethics

114

Nikola Danaylov on the Future Grind Podcast

115

Jonathan Taplin on Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google & Amazon Undermined Democracy

116

Entrepreneurial Activist Joi Ito on Whiplash and the MIT Media Lab

117

Quid and Primer Founder Sean Gourley: If You Don’t Own the Algorithm, the Algorithm Owns You

118

Transhumanist Party Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II: Death is Wrong and Life is Right

119

Sci Fi Great PJ Manney on (ID)Entity and Weaponizing Narrative

120

Futurist David Wood on Transcending Politics

121

Bill Nye the Science Guy: We Can Solve The World’s Problems

122

Jose Cordeiro on Longevity and Cryonics Summit: The World Will Be Better

123

Lawrence Krauss on Singularity.FM: Keep on Asking Questions

124

Conversations with the Future Book Reading

125

Angel Investor Matthew Le Merle on How to Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era

126

Nikola and Amish on their April Fool's Prank: Serious about Comedy and Comedy about the Serious

127

Dr. Amish Patel: The Universe is a Simulation and I Have the Proof

128

GoodAI CEO Marek Rosa on the General AI Challenge

129

Suzanne Gildert on Kindred AI: Non-Biological Sentiences are on the Horizon

130

Technology is NOT Enough!

131

Gerd Leonhard on Technology vs Humanity

132

The Age of Em: Robin Hanson on Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

133

On Thanksgiving I’m thankful for you! What are you thankful for?

134

Deconstructing Socrates & the Future of Singularity 1on1: Nikola Danaylov Gets Interviewed

135

Make or Break the Singularity 1on1: Crowdfunding Campaign is Live

136

Kevin Kelly on The Inevitable: 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

137

Nikola Danaylov and John Rennie on TRT World News: Are we nearing the Singularity?

138

Marcin Jakubowski on Open Source Ecology: From Mud Hut to Singularity in 1 Day

139

VC Albert Wenger on Basic Income and World After Capital

140

Richard Jones on Against Transhumanism: the Delusion of Technological Transcendence

141

Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn on AI and the Singularity

142

Spencer Wolf on his Mindbender Sci Fi Novel “After Mind”

143

Richard Stallman on Free Software: Freedom is Worth the Inconvenience

144

Robert J. Sawyer on Quantum Night: There is nothing inherently unknowable

145

Stephen E. Arnold on Search Engines and Intelligence Gathering

146

A Transhumanist Manifesto

147

Hamlet’s Transhumanist Dilemma: Will Technology Replace Biology?

148

Nick Gogerty on SolarCoin: “Think Networks and Adaptation”

149

Calum Chace on Surviving AI

150

Ex CIA Spook Robert Steele on Open Source Everything

151

Michael Fossel on Aging and the Telomerase Revolution

152

BioViva CEO Liz Parrish on Becoming Gene Therapy Test Subject

153

The Emperor Has No Clothes: Socrates Deconstructs Singularity University

154

Transhumanist Zoltan Istvan on His Presidential Campaign

155

Unanimous AI CEO Dr. Louis Rosenberg on Human Swarming

156

DJ MacLennan on his Cryonics book “Frozen to Life”

157

Dr. Michael Fratkin on Life, Death and Palliative Care

158

Singularity University Global Ambassador Salim Ismail on Exponential Organizations

159

Roman Yampolskiy on Artificial Superintelligence

160

BioViva CEO Liz Parrish: Gene Therapy is NOT a Monstrous Science

161

Marshall Brain: We're approaching humanity’s make or break period

162

Jack Andraka on his Breakthrough and Changing the World

163

Ramez Naam on Apex, Science, Politics and Ethics

164

Futurist David Wood: Radical Change Lies Ahead

165

Socrates on Review the Future Podcast: What Do Experts Think About the Singularity?

166

Rick Tumlinson on Space: We are here to go there. Now go do something about it!

167

Calum Chace on Pandora’s Brain: AI is Coming and It Could Be the Best or the Worst Thing

168

William Hertling: Expose Yourself to a Diversity of Inputs!

169

Marc Goodman on Future Crimes

170

Michael Fossel: Compassion is the reason to reverse aging!

171

David Ettinger on Cryonics: Take Steps and Be Prepared!

172

Sci Fi Roundtable: Greg Bear, Ramez Naam and William Hertling on the Singularity

173

Greg Bear: The Singularity is the Secular Apotheosis

174

Martin Ford: Technological Unemployment is an Issue We Need To Discus

175

Danko Nikolic: Practopoiesis Tells Us Machine Learning Isn’t Enough!

176

Hannu Rajaniemi on his Quantum Thief Trilogy

177

Jerome C. Glenn: Science is an epistemology in the house of philosophy

178

Jonathan Mugan on The Curiosity Cycle

179

Arthur Traviss Corry: Give Bitcoin a Try!

180

Bill Andrews: Ageing is not going to cure itself!

181

Jeremy Rifkin on Zero Marginal Cost and the Decline of Capitalism

182

The Immortalists: David Alvarado & Jason Sussberg on their Oscar-nominated Short Doc

183

PJ Manney on her sci fi novel (R)Evolution

184

Michio Kaku: Science is the Engine of Prosperity!

185

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is a Decentralized Consensus Platform

186

Stuart Armstrong: The future will be wonderful [If we don’t get whacked by the existential risks]

187

Miguel Nicolelis and Ronald Cicurel: The Singularity Isn’t Near and the Brain Can’t Be Simulated

188

Steven Kotler: Flow is the doorway to more that most of us seek!

189

Ed Boyden: Let’s Bring Engineers into Studying the Brain

190

Peter Voss [Part 2]: There is nothing more important and exciting than building AGI

191

Andreas Antonopoulos: Bitcoin is not currency; it’s the internet of money!

192

Peter Voss: Having more intelligence will be good for mankind!

193

Breaking News: ByoLogyc CEO Chet Getram on the BRX Virus Outbreak

194

Ted Chu on Transhumanism: The time has come to set a higher goal!

195

William Hertling: The Singularity is closer than it appears!

196

Peering into Our Future’s Black Hole: AI, Transhumanism and the End of Humanity

197

Grady Booch: Enjoy the beauty of what you’re doing but also take responsibility!

198

Hiroshi Ishiguro: Technology is a way to understand what is human!

199

Alexander Hayes: It’s a shift in humanity, not in technology!

200

Bre Pettis on 3D Printing: Take your passion and apply a MakerBot to it!

201

Emily Drabant Conley on 23andMe: We are at the infancy of a genomic revolution

202

Gabor Forgacs: We live in a time when it is really difficult to say “This is impossible!”

203

Steve Omohundro: It’s Time To Envision Who We Are And Where We Want To Go

204

Ramez Naam: The Future Isn’t Set In Stone!

205

Venture Capitalist Brad Feld: Be Optimistic!

206

Without You There Will Be No Singularity Weblog!

207

Bruce Duncan on Terasem’s Lifenaut Project: Be The Author of Your Own Story

208

Godfrey Reggio on AI and the Singularity: We Are in the Cyborg State!

209

Frank J. Tipler: The Laws of Physics Say The Singularity is Inevitable!

210

Bulletproof Exec Dave Asprey on BioHacking

211

Transhumanist Philosopher David Pearce: Give Up Eating Meat!

212

Noam Chomsky: The Singularity is Science Fiction!

213

Seth Godin: Science Fiction is Really Important But Not Because It’s Right

214

James Barrat on AI, the Singularity and Our Final Invention

215

Stuart Hameroff on AI, the Singularity and Consciousness

216

Natasha Vita-More on Whole Body Prosthetic

217

Robert Scoble on AI and the Singularity: Stop Resisting the Future!

218

Body Installation Artist Stelarc: We Are in a Time of Circulating Flesh!

219

Geordie Rose: Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think

220

Roman Yampolskiy: Every Technology Has Both Negative and Positive Effects!

221

Joseph Carvalko: Have Confidence To Reach Beyond!

222

My Interview with Alcor CEO Max More

223

Peter Joseph: We Are All Subjected To The Same Natural Law System

224

Ann Cavoukian: We have to protect privacy globally or we protect it nowhere!

225

Nigel Ackland: Ordinary…Extraordinary – Life with a Bionic Arm

226

Marvin Minsky on AI and the Singularity: The Turing Test is a Joke!

227

Socrates Gets Interviewed on the Futurology Podcast

228

Thad Starner on Google Glass: Reduce the Time Between Intention and Action

229

Daryl Oster: Evacuated Tube Transport to Bring Space Travel on Earth

230

Chris Lewicki: Stop Reading About It And Start Doing It!

231

Chris Hables Gray on AI and the Singularity: We Need Strong Citizenship!

232

Ori Inbar: Augmented Reality Will Change Every Aspect of Life and Work

233

Jacque Fresco: Apply the Methods of Science to the Social System!

234

Zero State Founder Amon Kalkin on Transhumanism: Reject Apathy!

235

Zoltan Istvan: The Transhumanist Wager Is A Choice We’ll All Have To Make

236

Natasha Vita-More on The Transhumanist Reader: The Story Behind The Book

237

Will Crockett: Hybrid Photography is the Future, DSLR’s are the Past!

238

Matthew Putman: Don’t Be Intimidated To Jump Into The Future

239

James D. Miller on Singularity Rising: Prepare for a Smarter World

240

Socrates at Newtonbrook Secondary School: Be Unreasonable!

241

15 Steps Towards Your Podcasting Success: Socrates At Podcamp Toronto 2013

242

Ayesha Khanna: Take Education Into Your Own Hands!

243

Robin Hanson (part 2): Social Science or Extremist Politics in Disguise?!

244

Christine Peterson: Join Us to Push the Future in a Positive Direction

245

George Church: Inactivity and Complacency Are The Most Dangerous Ideas

246

Doug Wolens on the Singularity: It’s Ultimately Up To You

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Robin Hanson: Details Matter… And For That You Need Social Science

248

Socrates on the Wow Signal Podcast: Be Unreasonable!

249

Bob McDonald on the Singularity and AI: Follow Your Dreams!

250

Chris Eliasmith: We Have Not Yet Learned What The Brain Has To Teach Us!

251

Ken Hayworth: Brain Preservation is the Logical Lifeboat

252

Jack Andraka: The Internet Is Not A Distraction

253

Ramez Naam: We Are The Ones Who Create The Future

254

Lincoln Cannon: Are Science and Religion Mutually Exclusive or Complementary?

255

Gary Marcus: How do we bridge the mind with the brain?!…

256

Lincoln Cannon: Reach Out To Religious Transhumanists

257

FastForward Radio by The Speculist Puts Socrates In The Spot

258

David Brin: What’s Important Is Not Me. And It’s Not You. It’s Us!

259

Jamais Cascio: You Matter! Your Choices Make A Difference.

260

Tracy R. Atkins: Don’t Wait For The Singularity, Change The World For The Better Today

261

James Hughes: Interrogate and Engage the World

262

Marco Santini: There Is A Lot Of Space For Rational Optimism

263

Ray Kurzweil on the Singularity: Be Who You Would Like To Be

264

Cory Doctorow: The Singularity Is A Progressive Apocalypse

265

Transhumanism 101 with Natasha Vita-More

266

Intel’s Futurist Brian David Johnson: Don’t Let The Future Happen To You!

267

Giulio Prisco on the Singularity: The End Is Not The End

268

Jerome C. Glenn: We Are Winning More Than We Are Losing!

269

Jim Harris: Change is Inevitable; Embrace It!

270

Ryan Janzen on the Singularity: Jarring is What We Need

271

Cyborg Luddite Steve Mann: Technology That Masters Nature is Not Sustainable

272

Anders Sandberg on Transhumanism: Embrace Strangeness

273

George Dyson on the Singularity: In Wildness Is The Preservation Of The World

274

Hugo de Garis on the Singularity: Are We Building Gods or Terminators?

275

Daniel H. Wilson on the Singularity: We Can’t Win Against Technology – We Are Technology!

276

Federico Pistono: Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK!

277

Anders Sandberg on Transhumanism: We Are All Amazingly Stupid, But We Can Get Better

278

Karl Schroeder: The Singularity is an Old Idea. Keep Moving Forward!

279

John Smart on the Singularity: Accelerating Change Isn’t Slowing Down

280

Randal Koene on the Ethics of Mind Uploading

281

James Harvey: The Singularity is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

282

Linda MacDonald Glenn: Sentience Matters!

283

David Ferrucci on AI and the Singularity: Pursue the Big Challenges

284

Vivek Wadhwa: Take What You Know and Do Good

285

David Chalmers on the Singularity: We Can Be Rigorous in Thinking about the Future

286

Dmitry Itskov: It’s Time To Think About Who We Are And What Is Our Place In The Universe

287

Raymond McCauley on BioHacking: Be Your Own Scientist – Try It And See

288

10 Tips for Your Blogging Success: Socrates Gets Riled Up at Podcamp Toronto

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George Dvorsky on Transhumanism: Specialization is for Insects

290

Eric Boyd on DIY Transhumanism

291

Steven Kotler on Abundance: Get Off the Couch and Change the World!

292

Ramez Naam: The World Needs Innovation. Don’t Be a Spectator, Participate!

293

Daniel Kraft: You Don’t Have To Be a Doctor to Improve Health Care

294

Rachel Haywire: Art is Intellectual and the Intellect is Artistic

295

Top 5 Tips for Applying to Singularity University

296

Michael Shermer on the Singularity: Be Skeptical! (Even of Skeptics)

297

Luke Muehlhauser: Superhuman AI is Coming This Century

298

Jose Cordeiro: The Energularity is Near

299

Dr. Randal Koene: Mind Uploading is not Science Fiction

300

Science Comedian Brian Malow: Don’t grow up, look deeper and see the world with fresh eyes!

301

No Illusions Podcast: Cameron Reilly Puts Socrates in the Spotlight

302

David Simpson on Post-Human, Trans-Human and The God Killers

303

David Orban on the Singularity: What is the question I should be asking?

304

Greg Wientjes: How do you cultivate GENIUS in technology?

305

Robert J. Sawyer on the Singularity: The Human Adventure is Just Beginning

306

Sonia Arrison: Make Regenerative Medicine A Top Priority

307

Spencer Greenberg: To Become Better Thinkers – Study Our Cognitive Biases and Logical Fallacies

308

Astronaut Dan Barry: Don’t Let Anyone Tell You That You Can’t Reach Your Dreams

309

Salim Ismail: We Are Already Gods, We Might As Well Start Acting As Such

310

Peter Diamandis: Singularity University is Starfleet Academy for the World’s Biggest Challenges

311

Charlie Stross: The World is Complicated. Elegant Narratives Explaining Everything Are Wrong!

312

Jaron Lanier: The Singularity Is A Religion for Geeks

313

R.U. Sirius on Transhumanism: Question the Authority of Your Brain

314

Vernor Vinge on the Singularity: We Can Surpass the Wildest Dreams of Optimism

315

Max More on Transhumanism and the Singularity: Question Everything

316

Kevin Warwick on the Singularity: Be/Come the Cy/Borg

317

Aubrey de Grey: Better Funding and Advocacy Can Defeat Aging

318

James Martin on the Singularity: We Can Control Accelerating Technology

319

Andrew Crofts on the Change Agent, the Ghostwriter and the Singularity

320

Stephen Wolfram: To Understand the Future, Explore the Computational Universe

321

Andrew Hessel: Don’t Fear Synthetic Biology

322

Natasha Vita-More on Transhumanism and the Singularity

323

Rob Spence: I Am Eyeborg

324

Kevin Kelly: Technology Doesn’t Want A Singularity

325

Ben Goertzel on the Singularity: The Future Is Ours To Create

326

Dr. Terry Grossman: Live Long Enough To Live Forever

327

Douglas Rushkoff: Program or Be Programmed

328

John Horgan on the Singularity and the End Of Science

329

Jason Silva: Let Your Ideas Be Noble, Poetic and Beautiful

330

Kevin Warwick: You Have To Take Risks To Be Part Of The Future

331

Aubrey de Grey: Longevity Escape Velocity May Be Closer Than We Think

332

George Dvorsky on Transhumanism and the Singularity

333

Barry Ptolemy on Transcendent Man

334

Michael Anissimov: Singularity Without Compromise

335

James Harvey: We are Singularia