Foresight Institute Radio

“Humans are the only species that understand that they are aging and dying. So we try to avoid thinking about aging and we are now starting to think about prevention.”

Alex Zhavoronkov, Ph.D., is the …

“We are here representing the field of the science of aging. And we think that this is a historical day for us, because we're going to offer something that will be paradigm changing.”

Dr. Nir Barzilai…

“For me being able to quantify aging is one of the most important endeavours in the field. There is a lot of emphasis on intervening in aging, to either reverse or slow it, but I would argue that the…

“Did the first amendment protect us from the atomic bomb, or the nuclear arms race, or Vietnam or Iraq? No, it didn't. Everybody kept their mouths shut.” 

Daniel Ellsberg is the 90-year-old whistleblo…

“Is it possible to take the principles of what is possible and impossible that already exist in physics, and formulate the whole of physics in terms of these statements in a way that gives us a new t…

“Humans play with social rules - that way we can test the boundaries without actually violating the rules”

Robin Hanson is a pioneer in rigorous futurism, an Economics professor at George Mason Univer…

“If your view is that the future per se matters as much as the present, then you are led to maximizing sustainable economic growth.”

In this episode, we are joined by Tyler Cowen, an economist at Geor…

“Whenever you take venture capital it immediately creates the expectation of this being worth 10 times more within 3 years.” 

Tom Chi is a business leader and innovator who started out doing astrophys…

“To me democracy is a form of technology, so as a technologist I’m equally excited about each and every new governance proposal and mechanism.”

In this episode, we are joined by Taiwan’s digital minis…

“Think about a situation in which 5 years from now half of the developed world is going to shift from an expectation that they will live only slightly longer than their parents did, into an expectati…

“In some sense, we already have very special purpose quantum simulators that already do things that are interesting to physicists, it's just that most of those systems, we don't call quantum computer…

Welcome to the Foresight Institute’s podcast! Since 1986, Foresight has been advancing technologies for the long-term benefit of life and the biosphere. We focus on three areas: molecular machine nan…

“Very few institutions that predated the internet will survive the internet.”

Balaji S. Srinivasan is an angel investor and entrepreneur, formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen…