ELECTRIFICATION OF ROAD FREIGHT – WITH DAVID CEBON
Forget cars, what does the transition to electric FREIGHT look like? How capable are HEAVY electric vehicles? What’s the future for shippers, logistics companies and charging infrastructure? I travel to Cambridge to ask David Cebon, a visionary in ...
FUTURE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES - WITH PAUL NEWMAN
What is driving the NEXT generation of AVs? Why are they inevitable everywhere, and how will they transform industries, cities and even economies? I checked in with Paul Newman, a trailblazer in robotics and autonomous systems, and a BIG thinker on the future …
FUTURE OF CARBON PRICING - WITH CAMERON HEPBURN
Can carbon pricing incentivize a sustainable future? What lessons have early-movers learned? How to neutralize the politics? How will the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism shape our future? Prof. Cameron Hepburn answers these questions and more …
FUTURE OF EPIGENETIC MEDICINE - WITH BEN OAKES
Imagine a future where your doctor gives you a customized infusion with a top-up every 5 to 10 years that “dials down” your genetic risk factors for all kinds of diseases WITHOUT making permanent changes to your DNA. Welcome to the world of epigenetic editing …
FUTURE OF CYBERSECURITY - WITH BRUCE SCHNEIER
What are the pathways to a more secure digital future? I asked Bruce Schneier, the biggest name in cybersecurity, about incentives, IoT laws, data decentralization, ransomware and cryptocurrencies, quantum computers, crypto-agility, continuous authentication and more …
CALIFORNIA’S 100% RENEWABLES REVOLUTION
For 41 of the past 49 days, the fifth largest economy in the world has met >100% of electricity demand using solar, wind and hydro generation, frequently exceeding 140% of demand. What lessons can be learned? What does this tell us about future of energy? I asked Prof. Mark Jacobson, the most respected renewables voice on the planet …
Future of Energy
What will the global energy mix look like in 2060? Which technologies will dominate in future, and which will dead-end? What about the toughest problems, like powering long range ships and aircraft? What happens to nuclear? I asked Michael Barnard, consultant to the biggest energy investors on the planet ...
INTERFACING WITH THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
What does the future of medical devices look like when microchips and nervous systems speak the same language? I learned about the EXPONENTIAL opportunities from the inspiring Dr Elisa Donati, a senior scientist working at the intersection of neuroscience, technology and medicine …
COUNTDOWN TO AGE-REVERSAL
Affordable age-reversal. Xenotransplants to eliminate organ shortages. Rewriting health economics. Virus resistant livestock and crops. What are the imminent genomics pathways to a better future? I asked George Church, the greatest genomic pioneer in the world …
George Church Interview Transcript
GEORGE CHURCH: two things I'd like to see happen, is affordable healthcare to get us up out of poverty, and then something that will solve the 90% of disease that will get us past our normal retirement age. If we extend life by 30 years, and we extend retirement by 30 years, then …
What's Next in CAR T-Cell Therapy?
The future of medicine is one where all cancers are either 100% curable or turned into manageable diseases. You’ve heard me tell the story in my keynotes for many years. Now it’s time for you to hear from one of the heroes of that story, Bruce Levine …
Bruce Levine Interview Transcript
BRUCE LEVINE: The dream is that we will have in vivo therapies of many types. We're going to have them soon with sickle cell disease and perhaps some other hemoglobinopathies … I think we'll see in vivo CAR T-cells, whether that's an autoimmune disease or blood cancers …
A.I. and the Future of Inequality
Will AI exacerbate inequality? Can we stop that from happening? As the world grapples with guardrails to protect us from future dangers of AI, I thought it timely to talk to an ethicist who has lived and breathed these challenges for decades. Enter, Wendell Wallach, Carnegie-Uehiro fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs …
WendEll Wallach Interview Transcript
WENDELL WALLACH: That's what really concerns people who see gender bias and racial bias and so forth: the ‘existential risk’ is sucking the air out of the room and it's not letting us address the near-term things that we could actually address. One of the things we could address is just making the bloody people who deploy these things accountable ...
Three New Frontiers In Cancer Medicine
The story of cancer medicine is multi-threaded. It’s a story of early detection, of surgical removal, of radio- and chemo-therapies, of understanding lifestyle factors, of sequencing and pinpointing genetic factors, and lately of immunotherapies, with each new weapon overlapping and complementing the others. Dr Ben Stanger and his team at the UPenn Perelman School of Medicine are working on 3 new entire armories …
Ben Stanger Interview Transcript
BEN STANGER: The biggest impact I think in cancer will come not from treating cancer, but from preventing it from happening in the first place. So there is an emerging concept out there now called cancer interception. It's subtly different from prevention …
Gene Editing to Prevent Heart Disease
We all know someone who has died of a heart attack. That’s because heart disease is the number one killer on our planet today. At a cutting-edge facility at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr Kiran Musunuru is developing something truly extraordinary, a ‘one and done’ gene therapy to reduce heart disease across ALL of humanity …
Kiran Musunuru Interview Transcript
KIRAN MUSUNURU: What if we could deploy those good mutations across the entire population? Basically what you're doing is you're shifting the entire bell curve [for heart disease]. There's still going to be people who are still at higher risk than the general average population, but they're much better off …
The Real Threat From A.I.
“I've never loved anyone the way I loved you,” Theodore Twombly tells Samantha, and Samantha, replies, “Me too. Now we know how.” It’s a soulful exchange from a beautiful movie – Her – and it leaves the viewer in no doubt that Theodore, played Joaquin Phoenix, is truly and deeply and go-to-sleep-dreamy, in love …
The Future of Insurance in a Warming World
Insurance companies must deal with the financial realities of climate change. They must make quantitative decisions and translate risks into dollars. They must do it for today’s impacts and predicted future impacts. And behind the insurance companies are the reinsurance companies who act as shock absorbers to the industry on a global scale …