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Tracy Ingram's mother was misdiagnosed with a brain aneurism and placed on bed rest for two years - a problem that likely resulted from a typo or similar minor…

Dr. Hal Blumenfeld is a pathbreaking neuroscience researcher in the domains of deep brain stimulation and epileptic conditions. His recent Yale research work pe…

Dr. Rudolph Tanzi is a neuroscientist and renowned researcher at Harvard University. Selected as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2015 for…

Dr. Steve Omohundro earned degrees in physics and mathematics from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Today…

Vivek Wadhwa began as a software entrepreneur and now is a well-known speaker, writer, and Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University…

Dr. Steve Fuller is philosopher and professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. After writing "Humanity 2.0" in 2011, Steve has received increasing attent…

Juan Enriquez gave a TED talk in 2009 called "The next species of human," and video went viral - and is now one of the most popular futurist talks in TED histor…

Decades ago, Cornell's Dr. Joe Halpern wrote a book called "Reasoning with Uncertainty." In this interview, we discuss alternative approaches to handling large-…

Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor became remarkably well-known following her TED talk called "My stroke of insight," where she explained her experience of having a stroke f…

Dr. John MacCormick is the author of the book "Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers," and in this interview…

Dr. Gregory Hickok is working on modeling brain circuits related to hearing and auditory information at the University of California, Irvine. Listen into this i…

Dr. Nils Nilsson was one of the early researchers in emerging technology back in the 1960s - graduating with his doctorate from Stanford before it had a compute…

Zoltan Istvan doesn't believe that issues of life extension, genetic modification, and neural prosthetics are the problems for the president in the year 220, bu…

Gray Scott's mission is to bring the concerns of the future to the public - and with recent coverage in Psychology Today, New York Post, and the World Future So…

Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman is no slouch when it comes to understanding the human mind - particularly the diagnoses and treatment of mental illness. In addition to be…

There are "techno-optimists" and "techno-pessimists"… and there's those who just don't know what they're talking about. Skeptic Magazine's founder Michael Sherm…

It's called "transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)," haven't you heard about it? The process involves zapping your brain through subtle electrical stim…

Dr. James McLurkin works with swarm robots at Rice University, and his unique work on robot communication has landed him on PBS's "Nova," in addition to speakin…

David Brin is recognized as one of the most iconic futurist fiction writers of our time. With huge bestsellers like "The Postman" (later turned into a movie sta…

Regis Kopper runs the Duke Immersive Virtual Environment, or "DiVE." His research focuses on the interactions of virtual and real humans. In this interview, he…

Ofer Leidner is co-founder of Happify, and app aimed at supporting behavior change for well-being. In this interview, Ofer explains his views on the potential f…

Sean Ellis is recognized as the originator of the term "growth hacking," and is widely recognized as one of the world's best startup and technology marketers. H…

Tool creates cool digital experiences for big companies all over the world (including UX work for online giants like Google and Facebook), and when they created…

Current brain-machine interface technologies like MUSE or Mellon detect your mental activity with a headband, and represent it in unique apps. Thync is aiming t…

Our podcast frequently covers the business and research sides of emerging technology, but in this episode we talk about some of it's direct applications. Alisa…

Ketan Joshi and Vishal Shah of Atheer Labs share their ideas about the immediate future of augmented reality, and how interactive computing can be facilitated t…

Dan Ostrower gets to work with some amazing and innovative companies at Altitude (a creative consultancy), and has a keen eye for for the future. A writer for W…

Ever wanted to run, jump, crawl, or otherwise really MOVE in virtual reality? Virtuix has created a harnesses 3-D treadmill to help people do just that, the Omn…

Max is project head at Birdly, one of virtual reality's most curious projects. Birdly is a full-body kind of "table" that one lays upon while wearing an Oculus…

Mr. Kushnir, MBA is current CEO of InifinityAR, an augmented reality company based in Israel. Their augmented reality technology aims to accurately interpret li…