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 Ramphis Castro (@jramphis) is the co-founder of ScienceVest, a venture capital fund for hard-tech and life science companies, and Impact Science Angels, an angel group focused on investing in companies that can impact 1MM+ lives. Ramphis is a Kauffman Fellow and co-Chair the NYC chapter of the Society and focused on the funding gaps for radical science companies in the US. In 2016 Ramphis was invited by the White House and was part of the US delegation with President Obama on his historic visit to Cuba. Ramphis has a diversified personal investment portfolio of companies ranging from Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Wearables, EdTech, Productivity Software, eCommerce, MarketPlaces, FinTech to Consumer Apps. He also designed and is on the investment committee for Parallel 18, a global accelerator based in Puerto Rico with a portfolio of 100+ seed/series A companies from over 40 countries across multiple verticals that have collectively raised over $40M in venture capital funding from investors from Silicon Valley, New York, and beyond.     You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * How trade and politics affect economies * Why AI is so important in biotech * What areas of synthetic biology are most promising for investors * The reason impact investing will dominate next generation of investing * How Cuba’s embracing capitalism and the future of startup ecosystems * The reason science and deep tech is underfunded * Why biotech will be the driving force of 21st century * Why CRISPR is such a promising technology to cure incurable diseases * Why Ramphis will probably live forever * The sad truth about startup investing Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.  

Garry Golden (@garrygolden) is a professionally trained futurist who writes, speaks, and consults on complex issues shaping society and business in the 21st century. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, governmental agencies and the US Army on issues related to transportation and mobility, food safety and health, the future of portable power, financial services  and much more. Garry teaches an online course on The Future of Energy & Environment through the University of Houston Futures Studies program, and was Founding Editor of The Energy Roadmap.com Garry is co-author of Designing Your Future (2008) a Fast Futures / ASAE publication, and has co-written several business white papers including the Future of the Social Web and the Future of Green as a Business Strategy published by Future Think. You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * The future of energy consumption and the grid * Why Garry isn’t sold on electric vehicles and battery technology * The 4 types of futures and what they mean for society * How we save the planet while still using fuel * Why consciousness could be a problem with AI * The reason politicians pull progress backward * How futurists help society evolve * Why Garry is quite enthusiastic about automation and AI * Where the US is falling behind the rest of the world — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.    

Dr Pippa Malmgren (@DrPippaM) is a futurist trend spotter, public speaker, best selling author and advisor to investors and governments about macroeconomic policy and investment strategy. She is a former Presidential Advisor who served on The National Economic Council in the White House where she was the point person on Enron and Terrorism Risks to the Economy after 911. She was the initial negotiator on Sarbanes Oxley and the Patriot Act and was on the President’s Working Group on Corporate Governance and the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Pippa anticipated the Financial Crisis in 2007, the slowdown in China, Brexit, Trump and the return of inflation. She is ranked in the top 25 Most Influential Economists in the World and one of the top 10 of global experts on Geopolitics and she was ranked in the top 5 on the Most Powerful Women in Finance list, all in 2017. As an economist, she focuses on how new technologies solve old problems and generate new forms of growth. In 2015 she won the Intelligence Squared Debate on Robotics alongside Walter Isaacson, which was broadcast by the BBC to 80 million homes worldwide, has been published in Wired Magazine, Monocle, The International Economy and other publications and is a regular guest anchor for CNBC, Bloomberg and often on the BBC (radio and TV). In 2016, her book Signals: How Everyday Signs Can Help Us Navigate the World’s Turbulent Economy became a best-seller on Amazon in four categories after being crowd-funded on Indiegogo. She also wrote Geopolitics for Investors which was commissioned by the CFA: She is a Non-Executive Board Member of the Department of International Trade in the UK, advising on Brexit. She also serves on the British Ministry of Defence Working Group on Global Strategic Trends and briefs Britain’s top Generals at Sandhurst. She serves on several advisory boards and working groups: She Chairs the Lewis PR Advisory Board (LAB) and is on the Advisory Boards at Real Vision TV, the Ditchley Foundation and Indiana University’s School of Public Policy and Environmental Affairs as well as the Indiana University Manufacturing Initiative. Pippa founded DRPM Group, an economic advisory firm that helps global firms understand the economic landscape and before that was the Deputy Head of Strategy for UBS and the Chief Currency Strategist for Bankers Trust, ran Bankers Trust’s Asset Management business in Asia from Hong Kong and was named a Global Young Leader by the World Economic Forum. You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * How automation equals more jobs * The reason Pippa is optimistic about the world economy * Why China is investing heavily in Mexico * How the 21st century is flipping leadership and business on its head * Why entrepreneurship is the future and education is broken * The reason our world is becoming more polarized, separated and populist * How drones and autonomy will impact our economy * The problem with healthcare and technological solutions to fix it * Understanding ways of rewriting government * Why capitalism is the best system we have * What Pippa learned from advising George W Bush — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.

Driverless cars are coming, faster than anyone anticipates. Today we discuss AI and autonomy and how self-driving cars will transform society and life and we know it.   In today’s episode we discuss: – Uber, Waymo, Tesla and who wins self-driving – How autonomy will transform cities and lives – Unintended consequences of autonomous cars – What happens when location becomes variable   And much much more…   Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity. Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more… Be sure to tune in every Wednesday & Sunday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.         — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.

David Smith (@revodavid) is the Cloud Developer Advocate and R Community Lead at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, David was the Chief Community Officer (and is current editor-in-chief) of Revolution Analytics, a daily news about using open source R for big data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, and visualization since 2008. David has a knack for building user communities and is currently the Vice President of Community for REvolution Computing, David focuses on promoting and supporting the commercial use of the open-source data analysis software system R. David is a co-author of the tutorial manual An Introduction to R, one of the originating developers of ESS: Emacs Speaks Statistics and is also a member of the board of the R Consortium. You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * The ethical problems of analyzing data * Why AI will affect so many massive industries * How governments need to start thinking about AI/ML * The reason David thinks artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it destroys * Why we’re still decades off from artificial general intelligence * The tech giant effect on AI and data science * How Microsoft is leading the way towards tech future * David’s thoughts on the future of tech monopolies * Why the battle for the future is based on attracting developers * Where cloud computing is headed from here * Why open ecosytems and opensource almost always wins — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.    

Kevin Folta (@kevinfolta) is a professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida and host of the Talking Biotech Podcast. He is a plant scientist who has researched how plants react to light, and he started blogging about a variety of topics in 2008, gaining popularity as a speaker on biotechnology. He has faced harsh criticism from many in the anti-GMO crowd over his industry connections and past consulting arrangements with big agriculture, yet brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the areas of farming, food production, ecologies and ecological change and much more. He is very passionate about feeding the world and see GMO as the best, most effective way to feed a growing world population struggling to survive. Should be a fun one. You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * Why GMOs are necessary for humanity’s future * The big prospects of genetic engineering * Where the the agritech industry messed up * How food production of the future will look like * Why Kevin is excited about biotech * The crazy science of super-engineered foods * What happens to humanity as we evolve ourselves * How regulation affects innovation * Why the anti-GMO movement is so strong * What safety guidelines are needed for gene editing * Why you are what you eat * Why big tech isn’t all bad * How to help fight starvation and hunger * What we eat when we expand into space — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.    

Interested in computing and the future of phones, laptops and voice assistants like Alexa, Google Home and Siri? We’re diving into the evolution of smart home/smart speaker voice computing market and considering the implications and effects of where we’re headed from here.   And much much more… Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity. Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more… Be sure to tune in every Wednesday & Sunday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.         — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.

Dr. Bill Walsh is the president of the Walsh Research Institute (@WalshResearch), a non-profit focused on improving human psychiatry and mental health conditions with nutrient based therapies, rather than drugs. Over the past 30 years, Dr. Walsh has developed biochemical treatments for patients diagnosed with behavioral disorders, attention deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, autism, clinical depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, and Alzheimer’s disease that are used by doctors throughout the world. After working with over 30,000 patients, Dr. Walsh has achieved some incredible results, including groundbreaking studies reporting reduced violent behavior following nutrient therapy, the 1999 discovery of undermethylation and copper/zinc imbalances in autism, the 2000 finding of metallothionein protein depletion in autism, the 2007 published study linking copper overload and post-partum depression, the identification of five biochemical subtypes of clinical depression, the 2011 development of the Walsh Theory of Schizophrenia and the direction of the Beethoven Research Project that revealed that the composer suffered from severe lead poisoning. Dr. Walsh has been called in to conduct chemical analyses of more than 25 serial killers and mass murderers, including Charles Manson, Richard Speck, James Oliver Huberty, Patrick Sherrill and Arthur Shawcross to diagnose causes while also assisted medical examiners, coroners, Scotland Yard, and the FBI in these forensics studies. But mental health/performance isn’t limited, Bill has designed nutritional programs for Olympic athletes, NBA players, major league baseball players, a heavyweight boxing champion, PGA and LPGA golfers and continues to make a difference. In addition to his ongoing research, Dr Walsh leads medical practitioner training programs in advanced, drug-free biochemical/nutrient therapies in Australia, Ireland, Norway, the United States and is a frequently invited guest lecturer having given more than 200 presentations at regional, national and international conferences and symposiums, including the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Senate, and the National Institutes of Mental Health. On top of all that, he has authored numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and scientific reports, been granted five patents and is the author Nutrient Power: Heal Your Biochemistry and Heal Your Brain which describes the evidence-based nutrient therapy system.   You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * The true cause of mental health issues * Why medications often make you less health * What Dr Walsh learned from analyzing Charles Manson’s brain * The problem with conventional psychiatry * How nutrients and epigenetics affect gene expression and our personality * The reason convicts can’t escape the prison grind * How the Walsh Institute operates outside conventional medical system * Why CRISPR is such a promising technology to cure incurable diseases * The 5 major causes of depression and how to fix them * Why we’re entering a new era of mental health * The sad truth about serial killers Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with

Clay Collins (@claycollins) is one of the top internet marketers in the world. After leaving home at age 15 to start his first software company, Clay has gone on to co-found Leadpages which raised $38M and was later acquired for a sizable exit. In addition, Clay has presented on some of the largest internet marketing conferences and stages in the world and was recently featured in the documentary “Add To Cart” which follows the history of internet marketing pioneers such as Christian Lander (Stuff White People Like), Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library TV), Andy Jenkins (Kajabi), Tucker Max, and Frank Kern. More recently Clay has been focusing extensively on the blockchain & cryptocurrency space where he is the co-founder of Nomics, which produces a free crypto market data API for enterprise level crypto investors and runs Flippening, a top 3 crypto podcast. You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * How blockchain and cryptocurrency threatens current political order * The big problem with government fiat money * Where Clay sees us headed in terms of the internet * How your privacy is bought and sold, well beyond what you already know * Why Clay would bet it all on Bitcoin * The future of governance and governments * How IoT will affect all of us * Why building a venture funded tech startup is harder than almost anything else * How libertarians want to recreate the internet * Why blockchain is still a long ways off from mass market success * What futures Clay is most worried about * Why AI won’t be replacing all jobs soon — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.    

 Joseph Meany (@crimsonalkemist)is an application scientist and materials engineer and co-author of Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World. Together with his co-author Les Johnson, the two make a compelling case for graphene, the near-term super metamaterial that’s both fascinated and bewildered scientists, technologists and futurists for years. Imagine a material stronger than steel and thinner than paper, that’s graphene – at least what it is supposed to one day be. We welcome one of the foremost experts on the topics of graphene and nanomaterials to examine the issues and implications on our future and much more. ​ You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * The accidental invention of graphene * Why theory and practice aren’t always perfectly aligned * How material science and nanotechnology will transform life as we know it * What graphene means for human’s expansion into space * Why Joseph is optimistic about reducing plastic and pollution * The limiting factors hold humanity back from sustainable space colonization * How AI affects nanotech research * The science seems to happen by chance * How nanotechnology will impact human longevity and medical efficacy * The reason science is often slower than expected * Can humanity actually build a functional space elevator * Which industries will most benefit from graphene — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.      

Eric Ladizinsky is the co-founder and Chief Scientist of D-Wave Systems (@dwavesys), the world’s first quantum computing company and the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems and software. Their mission is to use quantum computing to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. D-Wave’s systems are being used by world-class organizations like Lockheed Martin, Google, NASA, USC, USRA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Volkswagen, and many others and they have been granted over 160 U.S. patents and has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in leading scientific journals. As a leader in the space, Eric is often called upon to evangelize on all aspects of quantum computing.Prior to D-Wave, Eric was a principal investigator at Northrop Grumman Space Technology (formerly TRW, Inc.) where he ran a multi-million dollar DARPA program in Quantum Computing using superconducting integrated circuit technology. You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * How quantum computing unlocks new paradigms * The reason quantum computers are a race akin to AI * Why countries are investing heavily in quantum * How to simulate the future with perfect accuracy * Why reality isn’t what you think and physicists often get it wrong too * The reason we may all be living in a quantum computer simulation * How quantum computing can help solve many of the world’s impossible problems * Understanding the origins of life * When quantum computers will pass conventional computing in terms of price efficiency — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.    

Interested in bitcoin, blockchain and crypto? Today we’re diving into the crypto rabbit hole to explore Ethereum, ICOs, the future of money, governance, non-governmental digital currencies and a whole lot more. Be sure to add any questions to the live chat and we’ll cover those on the stream! Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity. Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more… Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.           — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.

Geoff Ralston (@gralston) is the founder of Imagine K12, an education focused vertical within the super successful startup accelerator YCombinator. Collectively, Y Combinator and Imagine K12 have backed over 100 education technology startups. In addition to his work with YC, Geoff’s a prolific angel investor, with over 80 portfolio companies and 18 exits to date. Prior to joining YC as a Partner, Geoff was the CEO of Lala Media, a music startup which was acquired by Apple for $80M in 2009. He also spent 9 years at Yahoo and was the Former Chief Product Officer a decade before the company became irrelevant. ​ You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * The major problems with America’s education system * How startups and YC are working to redesign education * Is college still necessary? * How venture capitalists can make outsized differences in the world * Why education and healthcare as so expensive and slow to adapt * What angel investors need to know to avoid losing money * How Geoff thinks about industries and investment philosophies * Why Geoff started an edtech accelerator and merged with YCombinator * The reason Geoff is incredibly optimistic about biotech and AI * The ethical issues of education and access and how we can fix them * Why education NEEDS to be personalized * How to hone your craft and becoming worldclass * Which industries Geoff is most excited about — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.      

Dr. James Canton (@futureguru) is a renowned global futurist, social scientist, keynote presenter, author, and visionary business advisor. He is the CEO and Chairman of the Institute for Global Futures, a leading think tank he founded in 1990 that advises business, the Global Fortune 1000 (like IBM, GE, HP, Boeing, Intel and more) and many governments on future trends in innovation, financial services, health care, population, life sciences, energy, security, workforce, climate change and globalization. In addition, James is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Research in Innovation at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, on the advisory board of the Corporate Eco Forum and has advised three White House Administrations, the National Science Foundation and MIT’s Media Lab, Europe. Dr Canton is the author of the following books: * The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the 21st Century (2006) * Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends That Will Transform Your World (2015) * Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Technology Will Transform Business in the 21st Century (2004) And James is no stranger to media. He was named “the Digital Guru” by CNN and “Dr. Future” by Yahoo, is a commentator on CNN and has been featured on/in CNBC, Fox, PBS, ABC, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg Report, The New York Times, US News and World Report, CEO, CIO and CFO Magazines. And finally, Dr. Canton serves as Co-chairman of the Futures and Forecasting Track at Singularity University. You can listen right here on iTunes In our wide-ranging conversation, we cover many things, including: * How the pace of technology acceleration is accelerating * The 5 most impactful areas of tech * How government surveillance and privacy as balanced in the future * Why James is optimistic about the future * The future of work, even including AI * How humanity needs to reinvent healthcare * What it is like working in a governmental think tank * Why quantum computing will change the world * How James advises government and corporations about change and the future * What James learned working at Apple Computer * How systems thinking changes can solve most of the world’s problems * Why our education system is broken and how to fix it — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.    

Interested in robotics and the future of AI? In today’s episode we discuss: – Asimov’s Laws of Robotics – The evolution of robots in society – The effects of automation and robotics on jobs and economy – The unexpected implications of artificial intelligence   And much more…   Welcome to Tech Talks, a weekly livestream where serial entrepreneur, angel investor and host of Fringe.FM discusses transformational technologies and trends shifting the future of humanity. Frequent topics include AI, genetic engineering, space, robotics, biotech and much more… Be sure to tune in every Wednesday at 12:30pm EST (6:30pm EST) and bring your questions for our live Q&A sessions.         — Make a Tax-Deductible Donation to Support FringeFM FringeFM is supported by the generosity of its readers and listeners. If you find our work valuable, please consider supporting us on Patreon, via Paypal or with DonorBox powered by Stripe.