Dan Buettner
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 18 Jan
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And that's my work.
First, I set three world records for biking across five continents and realized that expeditions of the future.
I work with National Geographic.
I'm a National Geographic fellow and explorer.
The expeditions of the future have to add to the body of knowledge.
not just go to the top of Everest for the 3,000th time.
So for these quests, the idea was to harness the intuitive power of a huge online audience, many of whom were kids.
We had a team of professional archaeologists and media people, about 14 people, laptop computers, which were new at the time, and satellite dishes that enabled us to receive a daily vote from our audience.
We had over a million people
That vote would direct our exploration efforts.
And then at night we would upload our findings and we would count on the online audience to make sense of them and add to solving the problem.
And it actually worked.
We did 15 of those interactive expeditions called quests.
Maya quest was the most popular.
Is that your term, skill stack?
I love that.
I've never heard it before.
Oh, it's a great term, and that's exactly what we did.
So the quest, we did 15 of them, and we solved mysteries, everything from Denmark to China to the origins of the human species to the origins of Western civilization.
And this required, A, the ability to read academic papers, which is almost like learning a foreign language, and number two, getting good at networking your way to the very top scientists.
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