Juan Enriquez and I confront the case for geoengineering—from runaway methane and ice-core climate shocks to cloud ships, reflective drones, and the politics of cooling Earth.
I closed with Marc on holding two futures at once — paperclip apocalypses, the stories in our heads, and why I still believe we have volition in the toolkit we are building.
I pressed Marc on cheap energy as a civilizational discontinuity — and whether AI is actually different in kind, or just another hockey-stick story we tell ourselves.
I asked Marc how a vision actually spreads inside a company — Alan Kay’s goal cloning, hiring people who already see it, and pulling from the future instead of pushing from the present.
I sat down with Marc Porat about personal technology as a north star — and how information as power runs from his family history through Stanford, Apple, and General Magic.
I talk with Kevin Slavin about building a transaction layer for genomic data: a Spotify-like system that rewards countries and scientists for nature's inventions while keeping research data usable.
I talk with Kevin Slavin about using wastewater, airplanes, sequencing, and genomic surveillance to detect outbreaks early, and why the missing pieces are political will, infrastructure, and business models rather than technology.
I talk with Kevin Slavin about Situationist psychogeography, location-aware games, bees, sewers, and the invisible microbial layers that make one city biologically different from another.
I talk with Kevin Slavin about raising curious children, the power of light-touch mentorship, childhood memory, wonder, and the distance between intention and lived experience.
Sarah Rose Siskind and I trace humanity’s dance with nature—from childbirth and AI filmmaking to universal basic salt, software abundance, and technological progress.
Sarah Rose Siskind and I talk about invisible progress, technology as connection, AI scribes, and why humanity needs a global pizza party for its biggest wins.
Sarah Rose Siskind and I talk data moats, the feature-vs-platform trap, why fire is technology, and accessibility wins from disability automated speech recognition to Be My Eyes.
Sarah Rose Siskind and I on AI panic, technological disruption, and the work machines should take — plus what humans get back when robots handle the dirty, dreary, and dangerous.
