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The New Science of Aging
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
04/22/20 • 47 min
We have long assumed aging is inevitable, but is it? Professor David Sinclair, founder of the Sinclair Lab at Harvard’s Medical School and author of the bestselling “Lifespan: Why We Age — and Why We Don’t Have To,” joins Azeem Azhar to discuss emerging research that promises to radically slow down aging.
Their conversation covers:
- What the Information Theory of Aging is and how it shifts the paradigm on biomarkers of aging.
- Why periodically stressing your body can promote health and longevity.
- Which supplements might arrest the three biochemical pathways implicated in aging.
Further reading:
- “Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To” (Talks at Google, 2019)
- “This is why we need to start treating ageing as a disease” (Wired, 2018)
- “Has Harvard’s David Sinclair Found the Fountain of Youth?” (Boston Magazine, 2017)
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Fei-Fei Li’s Mission to Transform Healthcare AI
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
05/13/20 • 35 min
After ImageNet transformed AI vision, superstar Stanford computer science professor Fei-Fei Li has turned her attention to advancing healthcare. Fei-Fei Li, co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, is leading the next generation of interdisciplinary technologists.
She joins Azeem Azhar to explore her journey from pioneering AI vision to her current focus on healthcare, and to discuss the need to craft AI systems that enhance human flourishing.
They also discuss:
- How AI technologies could support the isolated and elderly during the pandemic.
- Why machine values must mirror human values, and how to embed that connection.
- What allowed Li’s — and the industry’s — early naivete to the dangers of facial recognition.
- Why Li’s health technologists must work with doctors and patients, not just medical data.
Further reading:
- “Fei-Fei Li’s Quest to Make AI Better for Humanity” (Wired, 2018)
- “AI Pioneer Fei-Fei Li on Building Benevolent Machines” (Wall Street Journal, 2019)
- “AI, Accountability, and Power” (Exponential View podcast with Meredith Whitaker, 2019)
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Bitcoin and the Future of Decentralized Finance
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
03/31/21 • 50 min
Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the potential and politics of cryptocurrencies: from the ideological origins of Bitcoin to the new wave of decentralized financial products that could disrupt traditional finance.
They also discuss:
- Why the values of the Cypherpunk community are enshrined in Bitcoin’s design.
- How the Decentralized Finance movement is re-imagining existing products on blockchain networks.
- If Bitcoin will ever break out of its niche to become a widely used currency.
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@azeem
@ExponentialView
Further resources:
- “Is the financial establishment coming round to bitcoin?” (The Economist, 2021)
- “Get ready for self-driving banks” (Financial Times, 2021)
- “The Redecentralized Web” (Exponential View podcast, 2020)
- “Politics, Power & Protocols” (Meltem Demirors, CoinShares 2019)
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Navigating Covid-19 in a Digital Republic (with President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid)
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
04/20/20 • 38 min
In Estonia, the only public service not available online is marriage. Dubbed the “digital republic”, Estonia has the most advanced e-government in the world and nurtures a vibrant start-up community. Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia, joins Azeem Azhar to explore how legal and technological innovations have helped to build e-Estonia, and how this digital republic is navigating the Covid-19 pandemic.
They explore:
- How Covid-19 could accelerate technology development and implementation.
- How Estonia has achieved astonishing transparency and privacy in digital government.
- How Estonia combats constant cyber threats.
Further reading:
- “Estonia, the Digital Republic” (New Yorker, 2017)
- “Why Estonia Was Poised to Handle How a Pandemic Would Change Everything” (New Yorker, 2020)
- “Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So” (Wired, 2019)
- The Official Website for E-Estonia
The Next Trillion-Dollar Market
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
04/01/20 • 38 min
Biotech is gathering pace: AI systems are simulating novel materials, new genomic technologies are enabling precision bioengineering, and automation is executing production on a massive scale. Softbank Vision Fund Senior Managing Partner, Deep Nishar tells Azeem Azhar why biotech is the next trillion-dollar market, and what breakthroughs to expect.
In this episode they also discuss:
- Why emerging biotech and AI, together, would help control and stop coronavirus-like outbreaks in the future.
- What new materials and medicines are coming out of the “virtuous cycle” of research and funding that is now taking off.
- What the rest of the world should learn from China’s vigorous development of AI technologies.
Further reading:
- “As Zymergen Buys EnEvolv, Biological Manufacturing Is Ready To Transform How Industry Makes Everything From Airplanes To Air Jordans” (Forbes, 2020)
- “AI just found a new type of antibiotics” (Vox, 2020)
Technology Companies and the New Recession
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
03/30/20 • 35 min
The world is facing an economic crisis never seen before, says equity analyst Pierre Ferragu. Consumer demand remains strong and supply infrastructure is still healthy, but both are in lockdown and unable to function. In this wide-ranging conversation with Azeem Azhar, Ferragu explains how the pandemic will affect the technology industry and its major players.
They also discuss:
- How “partial insuring” and “China + n” strategies could make for more resilient supply chains.
- How the crisis is accelerating the next generation of technologies.
- The winners and the losers of the pandemic.
Further reading:
- “Tesla has yet another biggest bull on Wall Street. Here’s why he thinks the stock could surge 57%. (TSLA)” (Markets Insider, 2020)
- “Tech Sectors and Stocks to Avoid in a Recession” (The Street, 2020)
Inside Alphabet’s X: Nurturing Radical Creativity
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
04/08/20 • 38 min
X, Alphabet Inc.’s “moonshot factory,” dares to solve big problems with breakthrough technologies. Most of their projects fail. But some — like self-driving cars and the AI that powers Google — are already changing the world. CEO Astro Teller joins Azeem Azhar to explain how he built a culture of radical creativity, where employees are encouraged to dream — and to fail — big.
In this episode they explore:
- Why allowing the right amount of chaos is vital for flourishing creativity.
- The five basic principles at the heart of X.
- Why innovation dies if only success is rewarded.
- What inspiration Astro takes from Willy Wonka.
Further reading:
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- “Inside X, Google’s top-secret moonshot factory” (Wired, 2020)
- “Astro Teller on How to Handle Failure” (Wired, 2019)
- “Astro Teller, ‘Captain of Moonshots’ at Alphabet’s X, Is on a Roll” (WSJ, 2018)
The Redecentralized Web
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
03/18/20 • 34 min
Data monopolies and abuses of privacy are only some of the flaws of Web 2.0. Muneeb Ali, co-founder and CEO of Blockstack, tells Azeem Azhar how the emerging Web 3.0 solves these challenges and gives users more control over their digital existence.
In this conversation, they discuss:
- Why property rights and privacy are intimately linked.
- The emergence of a novel app ecosystem on the new internet.
- The role of the new crypto economy in the transformation of the internet.
Further reading:
- “Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problem it Created: Blockchain” (The New York Times, 2018)
- “The Emergence of Web 3.0” (Hackernoon, 2019)
- “Can’t Be Evil vs. Don’t Be Evil” (Exponential View newsletter, 2020)
- “Beyond Digital Gold” (Exponential View newsletter, 2020)
Welfare in the Exponential Age
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
03/11/20 • 34 min
Existing social institutions are not adequate to meet the challenges of the exponential age. Social entrepreneur and author, Hilary Cottam, proposes a radical overhaul of the welfare system. In discussion with Azeem Azhar, she also argues that we must reject the old economic model for humanity, Homo econonomicus (guided by ration to maximize economic gains), and embrace Sapiens integra, a new theoretical human with stronger connections to nature and other humans.
In this conversation, they discuss:
- The New Industrialists and their role in the social revolution.
- How a switch from the mindset of efficiency to the mindset of care can transform our institutions.
- The role of new technologies in this transformation.
Further reading:
- “Radical Help” (Hilary Cottam, 2019)
- “Revolution 5.0: A Social Manifesto” (Hilary Cottam, 2019)
- “The Future of Public Service and Governance” (Exponential View podcast, 2018)
Science Fights the Coronavirus
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
03/24/20 • 40 min
The exponential growth of COVID-19 is threatening to bring down the world economy. To understand the pandemic, Azeem Azhar chats with professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, President of the New England Complex Systems Institute, who worked on the response to Ebola with pioneering complex-systems mathematics.
In this conversation, they discuss:
- Why we need to crush, rather than flatten, the curve.
- What lessons the Ebola outbreak offers us for dealing with COVID-19.
- What complexity mathematics offers beyond traditional epidemiological modelling.
Further reading:
- “A Better Way: Building Capacity, Adaptation and Resilience” (Exponential View, 2020)
- End Coronavirus: Map, Guidelines, Community (2020)
- “Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance” (Tomas Pueyo, 2020)
- “Transition to Extinction: Pandemics in a Connected World” (Yaneer Bar-Yam, 2016)
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@azeem
@exponentialview
Note: a previous version of this episode included an excerpted conversation with Dr. Adam Kucharski, author of “The Rules of Contagion: How Things Spread – and Why They Stop.” That excerpt has now been removed, and the full conversation with Dr. Kucharski can be found here: https://www.exponentialview.co/p/-modeling-the-pandemic.
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How many episodes does Azeem Azhar's Exponential View have?
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View currently has 164 episodes available.
What topics does Azeem Azhar's Exponential View cover?
The podcast is about Economics, Business, Government, Science, Technology and Management.
What is the most popular episode on Azeem Azhar's Exponential View?
The episode title 'The New Science of Aging' is the most popular with 1 listens and 1 ratings.
What is the average episode length on Azeem Azhar's Exponential View?
The average episode length on Azeem Azhar's Exponential View is 41 minutes.
How often are episodes of Azeem Azhar's Exponential View released?
Episodes of Azeem Azhar's Exponential View are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Azeem Azhar's Exponential View?
The first episode of Azeem Azhar's Exponential View was released on Nov 15, 2016.
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