The Disruptors Future Snippets
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
What’s the real future of publishing and media? - Karen Dillon
14 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Dillon (@kardillon) is the former editor of Harvard Business Review magazine and co-author of the three books with Clayton Christensen, includin...
What it was like working directly with Bill Gates?_Ramez Naam
09 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ramez Naam (@ramez) is a computer scientist, futurist, angel investor and award-winning author best known for his Nexus Trilogy: Nexus, Crux and ApexH...
How Mark thinks we can redesign government for the 21st century - Mark Stevenson
05 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Stevenson (@optimistontour) is a reluctant futurist, bestselling author, frequent speaker and occasional comedian. He’s one of the world’s mo...
How John became a Board Member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation - John Doran
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Doran(@awaytowellbeing) has been a teacher and guidance counselor for over 24 years and is the author Ways to Wellbeing,. a book about creating a...
What’s wrong with the gig economy and where it heads - Rahaf Harfoush
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rahaf Harfoush (@rahafharfoush) is a digital anthropologist, bestselling author, and speaker researching the impacts of emerging technologies on our s...
Is Huawei actually a threat to US infrastructure - Eric Cole
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Cole (@drericcole) is arguably the #1 cyber security expert in the US with a resume including the Obama administration, the CIA, the Gates Founda...
Why Rohit thinks Facebook will be broken up and likely fall - Rohit Bhargava
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rohit Bhargava (@rohitbhargava) is an innovation and marketing expert and the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of five books on topics as wide-...
Where we are headed with gene editing and designer babies - Gabriel Licina
28 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Licina (@glimsd) is a Molecular Biologist, Research Consultant, hardcore biohacker and the Chief Research Officer of Scihouse, a research-focu...
Ways to use prediction markets to create better outcomes - Robin Hanson
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robin Hanson (@robinhanson)is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institu...
Why debt-based banking is such a damaging and unsustainable model for our future - Jarl Jensen
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jarl Jensen (@jarljensen) is an inventor, entrepreneur and best selling author. He served as President and CEO of EuroMed, Inc. from 2004 to 2009, has...
What technologies Steve is most excited about and how they’ll transform our world - Steve Sammartino
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Sammartino (@sammartino) is an entrepreneur, futurist, author and public speaker focused on finding the truth and creating the future.He has had...
The future of television, entertainment and Apple’s role - Tom Cheesewright
14 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Cheesewright (@bookofthefuture) is a futurist, speaker, engineer and founder of applied futurism practice, Book of the Future and creator of the F...
Which bubble pops first: higher education or healthcare - Bryan Alexander
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bryan Alexander (@bryanalexander) is a futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher with an unconventional background in English and...
How George’s team is working to revive mammoths to combat climate change - George Church
07 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
George Church @geochurch) is a professor of genetics at Harvard & MIT, director of the Personal Genome Project, co-author of 509 papers, 143 patent pu...
What technologies Steve is most excited about and how they’ll transform our world - Steve Brown
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Brown (@baldfuturist) is a speaker, author, strategist, advisor with over 30 years of experience in high tech and is the former futurist and chi...
Could climate change and automation be the recipe for disaster - Martin Ford
31 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Ford (@MFordFuture) is a futurist and the author of the bestselling, award-winning Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless F...
The secret to pesticide-free agriculture - Fatima Kaplan
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Fatma Kaplan (@KaplanSchiller) is the co-founder and CEO/CSO of Pheronym, a company trying to help solve world food crisis and feed the growing wo...
Why we have so many issues adjusting to technology and societal change - Isy Goldwasser
24 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
sy Goldwasser (@isythync) is the founder of Thync, a startup creating breakthrough bioelectronic therapies to advance a frontier and create a consumer...
What can we do to fix politics - Nancy Giordano
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nancy Giordano (@nancygiordano) is an entrepreneur, futurist, consultant and techno-optimist committed to building societal structures and behaviors t...
The future of dating, and online dating - Geoff Cook
18 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Geoff Cook (@geoffcook) is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET), a social dating and live-streaming company w...
The reason Matt’s worried about the slippery slope of safety - Shaun Moore
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shaun Moore (@shaunpmoore) the founder and CEO of TrueFace, the 500Startups funded computer vision and facial recognition startup focused on making th...
Why the indoors is often many times more polluted than outside - Jaya Rao
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jaya Rao (@molekulair) is the co-founder of Molekule, a transformative SF based startup that’s raised $38M+ to tackle the clean air problem worldwid...
Why probiotics and the gut microbiome are actually are a really big deal - Zack Abbott
10 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Zack Abbott (@ZBioticsCompany) is the CEO and co-founder of ZBiotics, a company developing bioengineered probiotics for optimum human performance. He ...
The little known truths about dinosaurs and our their extinction - Jack Horner
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Horner (@dustydino) is one of the best-known paleontologists in the world, the inspiration for (and advisor of the Jurassic Park films and Dr. Al...
Why net neutrality is such a landmark issue and what it means for all of us - Richard Whitt
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Whitt (@richardswhitt) is an 11-year vet of Google, corporate strategist, technology policy attorney and founder of GLIAnet, an organization, ...
What is the truth about sleeping hacking and biphasic sleep - Dan Gartenberg
03 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dan Gartenberg (@dangartenberg) aka Dr. Snooze, is a sleep scientist, TED resident and the co-founder and CEO of Sonic Sleep and also an adjunct assis...
The technologies and trends that most worry this accomplished thinker - Nikola Danalyov
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nikola Danalyov (@singularityblog) is a keynote speaker and futurist, tech philosopher, vegan and the host of Singularity.FM, one of the top tech futu...
What you need to know about asteroid mining and space settlements - Frans Von der Dunk
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Frans von der Dunk is a Professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Director of Black Holes Consultancy, and is generally recognized...
How China’s CRISPR babies change the game for genetic engineering - Paul Root Wolpe
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Root Wolpe (@parowol) is the Raymond F. Schinazi Distinguished Research Chair in Jewish Bioethics, a Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Pe...
The reason renewables have already won and where we'll be 10 years - Mark Disendorf
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Diesendorf (@markdiesendorf) teaches, researches and consults in the interdisciplinary fields of sustainability & energy, energy policy, urban tr...
Why the future of agriculture is inevitably GMOs, and why that’s a good thing - Charles Mann
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Mann (@CharlesCMann) is a science-focused journalist and award-winning author. He’s the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Befo...
What Mozart did better than anyone else - Pierre Barreau
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Pierre Barreau (@aivatechnology) is an entrepreneur, computer scientist, composer and director and the CEO of AIVA, an artificial intelligence that co...
What Michele thinks about the reason crop of tech IPOs and economic future - Michele Romanow
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Michele Romanow (@micheleromanow) is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, the youngest Dragon on Canada’s famed Dragon’s Den and one of the ...
What is the value of astronauts and off-Earth habitats - Ericka Hamden
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Erika Hamden (@erikahamden) is an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona and Steward Observatory and leads the team building FIREBall, a telescop...
How militaries are deploying drones and unmanned aircraft today - Arthur Holland Michel
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Arthur Holland Michel (@writeauthor) is a writer and researcher focused on drones, surveillance, artificial intelligence, robots, the arts, immigratio...
Why the deep sea is an untapped, unexplored goldmine - Karen Lloyd
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Karen Lloyd (@archaearama) is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee and lead of the Lloyd Lab. She’s a deep subsurface microbiologis...