Daniel Kraft, MD - This is a unique time in the history of health and medicine, due to technology

A Techno-Optimistic View of the World by James Bedsole, science journalist, December, 2017

David Eagleman - You first proposed possibilianism in 2009. Has it gained academic acceptance?

David Eagleman - Do we live in a simulation?

David Eagleman - Will a perfect replica of a dead person's connectome allow them to be reanimated?

David Eagleman - Musk, Hawking, & Gates all fear the rise of strong A.I. Do you share this fear?

David Eagleman - How will technology change what it means to be human?

David Eagleman - Do you consider yourself to be a techno-optimist?

Ramez Naam - Why are sci-fi stories often dark & dystopian?

Ramez Naam - Why are Singularity University & Silicon Valley so optimistic?

Ramez Naam - Do you consider yourself to be a techno-optimist?

Ramez Naam - Why are you so optimistic about clean energy solutions?

Ramez Naam - Geoengineering solutions to climate change, such as artificially darkening the skies

Ramez Naam - What role will nuclear power play in the clean-energy mix? What about fusion?

Ramez Naam - The climate-change crisis will be eased by abundant clean energy

Ramez Naam - the critical role batteries and grid-level storage play in the success of clean energy

Peter Diamandis - His response to techno-optimism detractor Robert Gordon, Northwestern economist

Peter Diamandis - Some thinkers describe a dark, dystopian future. What's your reply to this?

Peter Diamandis - We quickly forget how bad things used to be, and take for granted new technology

Peter Diamandis - Do you consider yourself to be a techno-optimist?

Andrew Szentgyorgyi: will the Giant Magellan Telescope help to estimate the number of galaxies?

Andrew Szentgyorgyi: Giant Magellan Telescope - superior resolution to the James Webb Telescope?

Andrew Szentgyorgyi: Adaptive optics utilized by the Giant Magellan Telescope

Andrew Szentgyorgyi: Major research goals for the Giant Magellan Telescope

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: Hawking, Gates, & Musk fear the rise of A.I.

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: Is the techno-optimism of most futurists justified?

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: The greatest existential threats to humanity's future.

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: Paul Gilding's warnings about techno-optimism

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: How do you define the Internet-of-Things?

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: How 2008 was a turning point in the history of IoT

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: The primary driving force behind the IoT revolution

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: Major technical hurdles affecting IoT growth

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: How many Americans know the term, "Internet of Things"?

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: Internet-of-Things can improve education & medicine

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: How the Internet-of-Things benefits business & commerce

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: IoT data collection can improve our lives

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: Massive data collection by IoT sensors

Dave Evans: Kurzweil predicts nanobots in our bodies by the 2030's. Far-fetched or realistic?

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco - Is IoT data collection an invasion of privacy?

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: Internet-of-Things data used for malevolent purposes

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco - IoT sensor security: preventing hacking & stolen data

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: The great challenge of connecting our brains to the cloud

Dave Evans, Former Chief Futurist, Cisco: The Internet-of-Things Interview, by James Bedsole

Ray Kurzweil 30-minute interview, February 15, 2017, by James Bedsole

Ray Kurzweil: the Internet-of-Things revolution & how it will impact our privacy and quality of life

Ray Kurzweil discusses how brain plasticity will give humans enhanced abilities

Ray Kurzweil comments on the privacy of our mental lives once our minds are on the cloud

Ray Kurzweil discusses high bandwidth, fast brain-to-brain communication through the cloud

Ray Kurzweil: our neocortex will directly connect with the cloud during the 2030's

Ray Kurzweil predicts a revolution in health & medicine due to biotechnology breakthroughs

Ray Kurzweil answers: Are you comfortable being labeled an optimist?

Ray Kurzweil responds to fears by Hawking, Gates, and Musk about the rise of strong A.I.

Sara Seager, Astrophysicist, MIT - The Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Ray Kurzweil Interview - Kurzweil discusses living forever

Ray Kurzweil Interview - how are you able to make such accurate technology predictions?

Ray Kurzweil Interview - The future of the human/A.I. relationship

Ray Kurzweil Interview - his thoughts on God

Ray Kurzweil Interview - Of your many achievements, what are you most proud of?

Ray Kurzweil Interview - Kurzweil explains the expansion of our neocortex into the cloud

Ray Kurzweil Interview - As Google's Director of Engineering, what projects are you working on?