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The Good Question PodcastInventing Tomorrow: Pablos Holman on AI, Deep Tech, and Solving Humanity's Biggest ChallengesIn this episode, we sit down with Pablos Holman — legendary hacker, inventor, and futurist — to explore how technology, creativity, and bold thinking can reshape the future. From early work in cryptocurrency and AI for the stock market to developing laser systems that fight malaria and nuclear reactors powered by waste, Pablos has spent his career doing what most consider impossible. As a faculty member at Singularity University and founder of Deep Future, Pablos has guided the next generation of innovators while helping companies like MakerBot, Glowforge, and data.world push the boundaries of what's possible. With over 6,000 pate...
2025-12-1125 min
Champion Mindset CollectiveS2-E162- Deep Future Thinking: How to Innovate for Humanity, Not Just Technology - Pablos HolmanWhat if hacking wasn't about breaking systems, but about fixing the world? This episode dives deep into the mind of Pablos Holman, a true futurist and inventor who believes innovation is about inventing the future, not just predicting it. From his early days with cryptocurrency and AI to help start up Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos, Pablos has consistently been at the forefront of groundbreaking technology.Get ready to challenge your perception of technology, curiosity, and what it truly takes to create solutions that matter. Pablos, a number one best-selling author and the prolific inventor...
2025-12-101h 35
Core MemoryThe Famed Hacker Trying To Find The World's Best Inventors - EP 45 Pablos HolmanPablos Holman has one of the most-watched TED Talks of all time, and that’s sort of the least interesting thing about him.For the past 30 years or so, Holman has been traveling amid the most inventive and eccentric tech circles. He grew up in the wilds of Alaska and turned into a hacker extraordinaire. He helped start the rocket company Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos and sci-fi author Neal Stephenson. And he helped Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, and Edward Jung create an invention factory at Intellectual Ventures.If you like our stories, videos an...
2025-11-261h 35
Epsilon Theory PodcastThe Intentional Investor #41: Pablos HolmanPablos Holman is a legendary hacker, inventor, and investor whose career spans from rural Alaska to Blue Origin and beyond. In this episode of The Intentional Investor, Matt Zeigler explores how curiosity, creativity, and relentless experimentation shaped Pablos’s journey — from hacking onstage and pioneering early web development to building inventions that shoot mosquitoes with lasers and investing in deep-tech founders today. It’s a masterclass in innovation, persistence, and the mindset of people who make the impossible real.
2025-11-121h 33
The Joe Rooz ShowUpsight Vision, Human Potential, and Building a Deep Future with Tom Matte and Pablos Holman (Ep. 194)In this episode, I kick things off with some midweek mayhem, then dive into a riveting two-guest lineup exploring human potential and world-shaping tech. First up is Tom Matte, whose life-changing recovery sparked a phenomenon he calls Upsight Vision—the ability to see and interact with holographic-like imagery that reveals subconscious signals and symbolic patterns. We discuss how he uses this capacity in 1:1 sessions to help people uncover blocks, navigate decisions, and interpret recurring archetypes—plus the forthcoming academic paper from the Institute of Noetic Sciences analyzing his EEG data. Tom’s journey from crisis to consulting is a powerf...
2025-10-302h 11
Finding Genius PodcastInventing The Future Pablos Holman On Technology, AI, & Building What’s Never Been DoneIn this episode, we sit down with Pablos Holman, a legendary hacker, inventor, and technology futurist whose career spans over three decades of innovation. From pioneering cryptocurrency in the 1990s to developing AI for the stock market, Pablos has been at the forefront of doing what has never been done before – and he doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon… Throughout his career, Pablos has worked on projects that solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including Malaria-fighting laser systems that track and eliminate mosquitoes, Nuclear reactors powered by waste with TerraPower, and more. Pablo...
2025-09-3025 min
Inventors Helping InventorsHacker and futurist invents an AI microscope to diagnose malaria more quickly – Pablos HolmanAlan interviews Pablos Holman. Growing up in Alaska, Pablos Holman tinkered with an Apple 2 computer. He became fascinated with computers and soon, he took his knowledge to help companies to implement their first computers. Later, he worked with Nathan Myhrvold on starting up the Intellectual Ventures Lab. Later Pablos invented an AI microscope to diagnose malaria more accurately and quickly. He just published his new book Deep Future. Website: www.DeepFuture.tech
2025-09-2229 min
The Digital ExecutiveBeyond Software: Pablos Holman on Deep Tech, Energy Inequality, and Building a Better Future | Ep 1111In this episode of The Digital Executive, host Brian Thomas speaks with Pablos Holman—hacker, inventor, futurist, and venture investor—whose career spans early cryptocurrency experiments, AI-driven stock trading, building spaceships at Blue Origin, and inventing disruptive technologies at Intellectual Ventures. With more than 100 patents to his name, including collaborations with Bill Gates to fight malaria, Pablos has dedicated his work to solving humanity’s biggest problems.He shares why today’s tech industry has over-indexed on software and why the future depends on deep tech—hardware-driven innovations that transform industries like energy, food, manufacturing, and construction. Pablos exp...
2025-09-1313 min
The Existential Hope PodcastPablos Holman on Creating Technology That Actually MattersThe tech industry we read about every day accounts for only 2% of the global economy. So what about the other 98%? In this episode, host Beatrice Erkers talks to hacker, inventor, and author Pablos Holman about his new book, Deep Future, and why it’s time to look beyond software to solve the world’s biggest problems.Pablos argues that for decades, our brightest minds have been focused on apps and ads while ignoring the fundamental industries that civilization depends on: energy, manufacturing, shipping, and food. He makes the case for "deep tech"—everything but software—and explains...
2025-09-121h 04
The Jim Rutt ShowEP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep TechJim talks with Pablos Holman about the ideas in his new book Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters. They discuss deep tech versus shallow tech, computational modeling and simulation for real-world problems, the hacker mindset, the role of inventors, nuclear power and renewable energy solutions, population growth, development challenges, space-based solar power, the likelihood of fusion power, mistakes in German energy policy, energy storage limitations, the transformation of the apparel industry through automation, and much more.
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Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters, by Pablos Holman
Deep Future (company)
Intellectual Ventures Lab
Pablos is a hacker, inventor, and bestselling a...
2025-09-101h 27
The Authority CompanyThe Possibilist’s Playbook: Solving Humanity’s Trillion-Dollar Problems With Futurist Pablos HolmanInventor and futurist Pablos Holman cuts through AI hype, branding it "just computational models," and argues humans retain agency over dystopian fears. He dismantles Silicon Valley’s obsession with apps, revealing how we’ve prioritized software over transformative deep tech—igniting a call to redirect talent toward trillion-dollar problems like clean energy, disease eradication, and sustainable food/water systems. Rejecting both optimism and pessimism, Holman champions a "possibilist" mindset: "We decide what an awesome future looks like—then build it."Holman unpacks hard truths: modern nuclear reactors (safer than solar panels) could’ve prevented climate change had we "outlawed b...
2025-08-0644 min
CRAFTED.The Deep Tech Innovations That Could Save the World | Pablos Holman (Inventor & Investor) [Rebroadcast] Software is eating the world, right? We've all heard this phrase by now, but inventor and investor Pablos Holman has something important to add: “The world can't eat software.”That’s why Pablos focuses on “deep tech”, i.e. how to invent new solutions to real world problems like energy, water, waste, construction, and sanitation. Pablos says we’re still mostly using version 1.0 technology for these fundamental systems, but recent advances, including AI and the ability to prototype and test in software, are enabling incredible innovation in hardware.Pablos has worked wi...
2025-07-2436 min
Deep FutureJensen's Law
Pablos makes the case for Computational Maximalism.
Recorded on April 19, 2025The post Jensen’s Law appeared first on .
2025-04-2114 min
i-SIGMA On Airi-SIGMA On Air Live Stream with Pablos HolmanIn this conversation we chat with Pablos Holman, Hacker, Inventor, and Investor. Pablos was the Tuesday keynote speaker at the 2025 i-SIGMA Conference. Pablos talks about deep technology, solving the biggest problems, and 10X solutions to those problems. #isigmaconf25 #shredtruckstudiohttps://pablosspeaks.com/
2025-04-0925 min
CRAFTED.The Deep Tech Innovations That Could Save the World | Pablos Holman (Inventor & Investor)Software is eating the world, right? We've all heard this phrase by now, but inventor and investor Pablos Holman has something important to add: “The world can't eat software.”That’s why Pablos focuses on “deep tech”, i.e. how to invent new solutions to real world problems like energy, water, waste, construction, and sanitation. Pablos says we’re still mostly using version 1.0 technology for these fundamental systems, but recent advances, including AI and the ability to prototype and test in software, are enabling incredible innovation in hardware.Pablos has worked with Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and m...
2025-02-2036 min
The Audiences PodcastThe Audience of Nuclear - with Pablos Holman of Deep FutureWho’s the Audience of Nuclear? How has it evolved over the past few years? Where is it going next? ☢️Join us as we speak to Pablos Holman, General Partner at Deep Future - a Nuclear technology advocate who’s been investing in high-tech solutions that reshape the reality and the narrative around nuclear energy. We delve into the evolving public perception of nuclear energy, exploring its history, challenges, opportunities and potential - this episode is a deep dive into the intersection of energy innovation and public opinion. Get into the critical role both play in addressi...
2024-10-151h 09
Deep FutureElectric Motortoys – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about electric toys you can ride.
Recorded on August 16, 2024The post Electric Motortoys – ØF appeared first on .
2024-08-2617 min
Deep FutureMega SSN Leak – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about the massive leak of social security numbers this week.
Recorded on August 16, 2024The post Mega SSN Leak – ØF appeared first on .
2024-08-1909 min
Deep FutureRobot Massage is Alive! – Eric Litman
The AESCAPE robot that gave me my first robomassage.
One of the really important things to solve for is how do we get robots working much more closely with humans. And this is really difficult for a whole bunch of reasons, and you guys know some of them. But the truth is they need to be able to really get close. We need them to touch our bodies.
And right now what we do with robots is we put them in giant cages and keep them away from the humans in case they need it. move at th...
2024-08-1656 min
Silicon ZombiesSZ 130: Implementing Science Fiction Ft. Pablos HolmanJoin us for episode 130 of Silicon Zombies - our first in NYC! 🍎
Tune in for Silicon Zombies as we demystify the future of deep tech and AI investing with the renowned futurist, inventor, and investor, Pablos Holman. We'll dive into how Pablos Holman and other visionaries are pioneering advancements in artificial intelligence, reshaping every landscape imagineable. This insightful discussion will explore the profound impact of technology on entrepreneurs, consumers, and enterprises. Don't miss this opportunity to gain a glimpse into the brave new world of AI and its transformative potential.
Excited for...
2024-08-071h 19
Deep FutureNVIDIA Math – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about the imminent scale of computation on Earth.
Recorded on July 5, 2024The post NVIDIA Math – ØF appeared first on .
2024-08-0514 min
Deep FutureSecuring Physical Infrastructure at Idaho National Labs – Wayne Austad
Demonstration of Emergency Response technology, Bill Bob Brown visit to Wireless Test Bed
When I was at the Idaho National Labs, I got to meet Wayne Austad. We had a conversation about cybersecurity as it relates to physical infrastructure. People always wonder what if hackers shut down the power grid? They have shut down the power grid, in different parts of the world and we talked about that a little bit.
Wayne’s at the forefront of figuring out how do we secure this physical stuff? How do we secure the grid? How do we secure power stat...
2024-08-0200 min
Deep FutureCremation Diamonds – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about turning your dead relatives into diamonds..
Recorded on July 7, 2024The post Cremation Diamonds – ØF appeared first on .
2024-07-2903 min
Deep FutureNuclear Reactor Fuel at the Idaho National Labs – Nicholas Woolstenhulme
One of the awesome guys that got to meet at the Idaho National Labs is Nicholas Woolstenhulme. He’s a mechanical engineer working on the fuel for nuclear reactors, and his whole career has been working on the fuel for nuclear reactors.
He gets to learn about all the fuels that are possible to make, test them out, figure out how to make them better, make them safer, make them more efficient. In this conversation, we dig into that. He brought me an amazing example of a 3d printed model of how fuel can be structured in mo...
2024-07-2529 min
Deep FutureCAD World Game – ØF
Two nerds and an Australian architect bullshitting about turning CAD software into a giant world simulating video game.
Recorded on July 5, 2024The post CAD World Game – ØF appeared first on .
2024-07-2209 min
Deep FutureNuclear Reactors at Idaho National Labs – Ahmad Al Rashdan
Recently, I got to go hang out at the Idaho National Labs in Idaho Falls. There are thousands of people at those labs, working on the future of energy for the United States. They’re working on renewable energy of course. They’re working on all kinds of things that I had no idea were happening. Around recycling and waste processing, but primarily they are working on nuclear reactors. It was such a treat for me to go see all the work they’re doing. We have engineers who spent their entire careers working on the technologies for nuclear reacto...
2024-07-1817 min
Virtually SpeakingPablos Holman: Renowned Hacker, Inventor, Top Tech Futurist On Innovation, AI, Big Data, Blockchain And IoTPablos Holman is one of the most renowned hackers in the world, an inspiring technology futurist, and an inventor with over 70 patents. He has a unique view into problem-solving and breaking, then building new technologies – talents he used for more than a decade at the Intellectual Ventures Lab in Seattle, where 150 scientists and engineers are inventing solutions to world’s biggest problems.Pablos’ TED talks have gone viral totaling over 27 Million views. He has spoken for the World Economic Forum at Davos, the United Nations, and many other world-famous events.Pablos has worked on a wide variety of futuri...
2024-07-1754 min
Deep FutureCollege Experience Alternatives – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about alternatives to college that would provide some of the same benefits.
Recorded on July 7, 2024The post College Experience Alternatives – ØF appeared first on .
2024-07-1520 min
Deep FutureChaos Computer Club of Germany – Frank Rieger
Frank Rieger is a hacker in Germany and one of the most well-known spokesman for the chaos computer club. This organization is unlike anything we have in the United States, unlike anything I’ve seen anywhere else in the world. It’s computer hackers who’ve taken an interest in figuring out how to be activists for policy decisions in government that affect technology, especially computers, privacy, data. All the things that actually matter, but get thrown by the wayside by our corporate overlords.
It’s amazing getting to hang out with these guys. They’re doing something...
2024-07-121h 21
Deep FutureLinkedIn is D＆D – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about LinkedIn basically being Dungeons & Dragons for squares.
Recorded on July 5, 2024The post LinkedIn is D＆D – ØF appeared first on .
2024-07-0811 min
Deep FutureMassagebot 5000 Part I – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about robots that can give a good massage.
Recorded on May 15, 2024The post Massagebot 5000 Part I – ØF appeared first on .
2024-06-1809 min
Deep FuturePsychedelics in Science ＆ the Origin of Life – Bruce Damer
I got to hang out with Dr. Bruce Damer recently on the beach at Kaplankaya in Turkey. Bruce is an amazing scientist, a humble guy. Who has spent his whole career trying to figure out how did life begin on Earth?
He and his co-conspirator Dr. David Deamer have figured out something that not only works as a hypothesis for how life began on Earth – but they’ve been able to reproduce it – in hot Springs.
Bruce is also a brave pioneer of using psychedelics to change his own mind, to change his own life, and to h...
2024-06-131h 05
Deep FutureAmino Acid Anal Bead Toy for Kids – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about making amino acid Legos that kids can plug together to make proteins. This turned into a completely unrelated conversation about delivering personalized pharmaceuticals.
Recorded on May 15, 2024The post Amino Acid Anal Bead Toy for Kids – ØF appeared first on .
2024-06-1012 min
Deep FutureGenome Sequencing for Kids – Robert Green
Robert Green is a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School. He’s the director of Genetics Research at Brigham and Women’s hospital and the co-founder of Nurture Genomics, where they’re doing genomic screening for infants to detect and mitigate actionable genetic conditions.
If you don’t understand what that means, you’re in the right place because we have a long conversation, digging into that topic and picking it apart for your understanding.
Robert Green and Pablos
This is a super exciting frontier for medicine. We are at a point where we kno...
2024-06-061h 00
Deep FutureIndustrial Ouroboros – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about feeding the output from one industrial process as the input for another.
Recorded on May 15, 2024The post Industrial Ouroboros – ØF appeared first on .
2024-06-0310 min
Deep FutureHardware is Hard – Dan Shapiro
Dan Shapiro with his game Robot Turtles. Photo by Jonathan H. Liu
I met Dan Shapiro years ago when I went out to fly kites with Elan Lee. What a delightful guy! Dan is an inspiring entrepreneur with boundless energy, always upbeat.
He’s had, I think, four companies that succeeded, maybe three that were venture backed.
Dan did something super cool. He got excited about making a board game that would teach kids how to program called Robot Turtles. He made that game using Kickstarter or something, and in the process really figured ou...
2024-05-301h 25
Deep FutureNuclear Reactor Kickstarter – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about using X-PRIZE and Kickstarter to get nuclear reactors built.
Recorded on May 15, 2024The post Nuclear Reactor Kickstarter – ØF appeared first on .
2024-05-2721 min
Deep FutureBlack T-Shirt Review – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about their search for the ultimate black t-shirt.
We tried shirts from Vollebak, Ministry of Supply, ETON, Wyr.
Recorded on March 13, 2024The post Black T-Shirt Review – ØF appeared first on .
2024-05-2310 min
Deep FutureA Thousand Words for a Picture – Rob Angel
Paris, 1987. Rob Angel, during the game’s launch in France
Rob Angel is the inventor of Pictionary. You have played this game. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t.
He Invented the game in 1985 and started manufacturing it in his studio apartment in Seattle, and then literally went out onto the streets, trying to sell it to people face to face.
Since then, 38 million copies of Pictionary have been sold worldwide. It’s one of the biggest games of human history. Is just staggering how many people have enjoyed this game.
He and his pa...
2024-05-201h 21
Deep FutureYouTube of Alexandria – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about a decentralized YouTube.
Recorded on March 13, 2024The post YouTube of Alexandria – ØF appeared first on .
2024-05-1308 min
Deep FutureCybersecurity for LLMs – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about adapting cybersecurity to LLMs.
Pablos: I have a totally different angle here. The topic is cybersecurity for AI so right now people are definitely doing cybersecurity to keep their
models proprietary and keep their weights to themselves and this kind of thing. That’s not what I’m talking about. Cybersecurity for AIs is: I need to be able to test a bunch of failure modes for a model that I’ve made. So if I’m a company, I’ve trained a model on my internal data, and I don’t want it gi...
2024-05-0606 min
Deep FutureAn Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything – Garrett Lisi
Garrett Lisi by Martin Schoeller
I’ve got a real soft spot for heretics and people who carve their own path outside of the institutions and societal norms and things that everyone is so pressured into because it creates this echo chamber and there’s these cookie cutter outcomes, it’s not conducive to getting to new ideas, it’s not good for figuring out new things and to discover how the world works and invent new things.
It’s always a real privilege to spend time with a true heretic and today we’re hanging out with Garret Li...
2024-05-021h 39
Deep FutureE-ink Everywhere – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about E-ink T-Shirts.
Recorded on March 13, 2024The post E-ink Everywhere – ØF appeared first on .
2024-04-2906 min
Deep FutureMaterials for Biomimetic Robots – Rob Shepherd
Rob Shepherd by Matthew Palumbo
I’ve gotten to spend a little bit of time with Rob Shepherd over the years. He’s working on soft robotics and all the different kinds of materials advancements that could really help us make robots that are more naturally integrated into the world.
Things like polymer colloidal suspensions as inks for 3d printers so they can fabricate microfluidic devices, synthesizing single micron to millimeter scale parts in glass and silicon and all kinds of other stuff, like tiny gears. Imagine if you were trying to make a micro machinery like Swis...
2024-04-251h 11
Deep FutureMother of all Tattoos – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about augmented reality tattoos.
Pablos: I don’t know if this exists, but AR tattoos should totally be a thing. and this is just I think there’s a couple different embodiments for this, but basically there should just be an app where you aim it at anybody and they can set their own tattoos on, right?
So like if I hold up my phone and I aim it at you, I can see the tattoos that you put on your bod, right? On my phone or goggles or whatever you got. But...
2024-04-2204 min
Deep Future3D Printing Meth on the Moon – Lee Cronin
Lee Cronin by Business Wire
Lee Cronin is a true mad scientist. He’s a professor of chemistry in Glasgow, where he also founded Chemify. This is a company that has invented a new type of approach to accomplish chemistry, very analogous to using the tool chain that we use in computers and then adapting that to chemistry.
I think this analogy holds very tightly. He’s built this machine called a Chemputer, which is basically a 3D printer for chemistry. To make that work, he had to make a programming language for chemistry, a GitHub for chemis...
2024-04-181h 31
Deep FutureKiller Cap – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about an augmented reality baseball cap.
Pablos: With AR, I think we got it wrong.
Everybody’s been trying to put dragons in the room or have a whale in the room or whatever. And they’re going for this super realistic, photorealistic, immersive experience. And I think the only thing that really matters is dashboards. And even if you get an Apple Vision Pro and it’s an extraordinary image quality, what you mainly find yourself using it for is dashboards.
You just put stuff around. It’s like here’s m...
2024-04-1506 min
Deep FutureMother of all Annotators – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about being able to annotate everything.
Recorded on March 13, 2024The post Mother of all Annotators – ØF appeared first on .
2024-04-0906 min
Deep FutureNew Senses for Humans – David Eagleman
If you ever get the chance to hang out with David Eagleman, first of all do it. The first thing you’re going to notice is that he’s extremely nice, fun, outgoing and very friendly. He’s lit up in the brain and he’s prolific, he’s doing a zillion different things and he’s still somehow nice enough to hang out and listen and chat.
Davis is a neuroscientist teaching at Stanford. He’s got an amazing TED talk you have to watch. He’s an author of – I don’t know how many books – fiction and no...
2024-04-051h 37
Deep FutureMother of all Bug Trackers – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about a worldwide bug tracker.
Recorded on March 13, 2024The post Mother of all Bug Trackers – ØF appeared first on .
2024-04-0107 min
Deep FutureBrain Music made with Neuroscience — John Vitale
Music producer & sound engineer John Vitale is creating music to help people optimize brain states. After co- founding Focus@Will, where he designed music and soundscape channels for flow state he moved on to found Brain Music Labs Where he’s crafting new ways to use entrainment based music and media for reducing stress, anxiety, and cravings with partners like Total Brain and Felix.
John is a great guy and I’m thrilled to be able to share this conversation about the importance and potential for audio as a technology frontier. Also, John created the intro you hear...
2024-03-211h 30
Deep FutureFingers for Robots – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about robots getting some of mammals’ greatest hits.
Recorded on February 4, 2024The post Fingers for Robots – ØF appeared first on .
2024-03-1821 min
Ignite: Conversations on Startups, Venture Capital, Tech, Future, and SocietyIgnite VC: Rethinking Venture Capital Through the Lens of Deep Tech with Pablos Holman | Ep49In this episode of the Ignite Podcast, host Brian Bell engages in a profound conversation with Pablos Holman, founder and managing partner of Deep Future, delving into the realm of deep tech and the transformative power of invention. Pablos, a seasoned innovator with a background that includes working on pioneering projects like cryptocurrency in the 90s and co-founding Blue Origin, shares his journey and insights into the tech industry's evolution. He critiques the industry's overemphasis on software, arguing for a broader focus on solving significant global issues through deep tech.
Pablos outlines the mission of Deep Future: to scout...
2024-03-1853 min
Deep FutureHacking the Brain – Moran Cerf
A true polymath, Moran started out in the Israeli military, in one of their elite intelligence units. Then ended up working as a hacker in computer security. And to this day is still in demand for that, but he had a weird experience when Francis Crick told him to junk hacking and get into working on neuroscience, and he did.
And so Moran’s had this amazing career some of the research that underpins things like Neuralink. These days, he’s a professor in the business school at Columbia, where we recorded this conversation. I can’t tell y...
2024-03-142h 06
Deep FutureInternet Random Mail Reader ＆ Nipple Detection – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about stunts on the internet.
Another idea I had a long time ago. That, unfortunately never deployed widely. I prototyped in the late nineties, it was called the Internet Random Mail Reader. For people who don’t know the way networks work is like your computer is just broadcasting all the packets out on the network and all the other computers on the network just ignore the ones that aren’t addressed to them.
This is how networks worked. And so you can just sit and listen to everybody else’s packets. And this...
2024-03-1109 min
Deep FutureAutopsy of a Failed 3D Printer Company – Riley Knox
Riley Knox is an entrepreneur that I met when I was hanging out in Austin, Texas, and I was just truly impressed with him, his energy, his outlook, his technical approach to building these companies that are hard. He had this company called Accelerate3D that he built to advance 3D printing for manufacturing, make it fast enough and cheap enough that it will be compelling, which has been one of the big challenges in 3D printing. Accelerate3D had some real trouble, unfortunately getting the support it needed to go all the way.
Riley was kind...
2024-03-072h 11
Deep FutureLashbot5000 ＆ Miyagibot – ØF
Two nerds bullshitting about possible robots.
The Lashbot5000 is a concept for adapting a surgical robot to install lash extensions. Apparently this has now been accomplished by LUUM in Oakland. You can see their robot in action here:
Then we eventually get around to describing the totally genius but as of yet unbuilt Miyagibot which can find flies and grab them with chopsticks!
Recorded on February 2, 2024The post Lashbot5000 ＆ Miyagibot – ØF appeared first on .
2024-03-0422 min
Deep FutureKnowledge Graph vs. LLM – Bryon Jacob
Years ago, I got to be an advisor for this company called data.world, and at the time, they were just getting started on helping figuring out how do you converge all the data sets that are in the world and help people work with them and combine them and share them. They built this thing that was kind of like GitHub for data.
I was interested in it because I could see at the time where the world was going and we’re going to need these much more advanced tools for being able to manage da...
2024-02-291h 29
Deep FutureAI Beyond Deep Learning – Ryad Benosman
One of the things that’s on the verge of excitement and annoyance for me is the way that Artificial Intelligence work has all kind of converged around deep learning. Deep learning is amazing and super powerful, and we’ve gotten a lot out of it, but what it has done is, both attracted a lot of people to Artificial Intelligence, but also, steered all the research efforts away from other approaches into deep learning.
And you could say that makes some sense, because for a long time, we weren’t making a lot of advancement with these...
2024-02-161h 49
Deep FutureGyroGlove – ØF
Short episode where Ash & Pablos marvel at this ingenious invention called the GyroGlove that can ameliorate the jittery hands of folks with Parkinson’s disease.
If anyone can introduce us to the inventor, Dr. Faii Ong, we want to get him on the podcast!
Recorded on February 4, 2024The post GyroGlove – ØF appeared first on .
2024-02-1204 min
Deep FuturePostmodernist Cuisine – Chris Young
Well, if you ever got tired of listening to me, talk. Today’s the day when you just get to hear from my buddy, Chris Young, because I wound him up and clicked go, and he just talks, and it’s great. He has so much, interesting experience and amazing insights. So Chris Young, if you don’t know, I met him back when we started the Intellectual Ventures Lab, because he was the guy that Nathan Myhrvold hired to start the cooking projects.
We built an experimental kitchen there. Chris ran the project called Modernist Cuisine. Which en...
2024-02-082h 16
Deep FutureMixtapes: a Lightweight Plan to Save the Internet – ØF
Pablos: People are pissed off about social media all the time. They think that Facebook is making people vote for the wrong person.
It’s still very difficult to find somebody who thinks they voted for the wrong person because of Facebook, but they think everyone else did. Never mind that, there’s this kind of, uh, very popular sensibility, which is to blame Facebook for all the problems in the world. They’re doing fake news, they’re doing, disinformation they’re doing , every possible thing that could be wrong.
Everybody wants to blame Facebook f...
2024-02-0539 min
Deep FuturePrimer on Fusion Reactors — Bob Mumgaard & Steve Renter
This is a conversation with Bob Mumgaard and Steve Renter, founders of Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So these guys spun out of MIT. An incredible, ambitious, company to figure out how to commercialize fusion, and it’s really the first fusion company in the world that has been able to show publicly that they have no new science needed in order to make it work, which is a major milestone.
They also published a series of seven papers a couple of years ago now, showing exactly how they can build a fusion reactor. This is th...
2024-02-011h 20
Deep FutureLLMs are Superstition – ØF
Pablos: So what happens right now in scientific research is, if you’re going to do a research study on something, like “are M&Ms is bad for you?” It’s impossible to do that study. You have to be very specific and ask a much more fine grained questions like ” how many M&Ms does it take to, Kill a mouse?” or to cause a mouse to vomit. You just have to be very specific cause that’s something testable. You could test that, you can get multiple mice, you can feed them enough M&M’s that they eventually...
2024-01-2913 min
Deep FuturePioneering Computer Graphics & Animation – Richard Chuang
Part of what I love about getting to create a podcast like this is sharing conversations I’ve had with some of these extraordinary people that you just never hear about otherwise or never get to meet. They’re working behind the scenes, inventing new technologies that become part of our lives.
And they’re out of the spotlight. I’ve been lucky enough to get to know Richard Chuang, who’s with us today, because we both served as board members at the University of Silicon Valley, where he is still a trustee. Richard is a pioneer in...
2024-01-251h 22
Deep FutureWhisp Subvocal Input – ØF
Pablos: Here’s one of the things I think is a critical area of invention that remains unsolved, but it’s definitely a part of the future. So if you’re using an iPhone anywhere in the world, cultures vary. I’ve been working with this guy in Venezuela on a project. I text him on WhatsApp and then he replies with a voice memo like every time and so his, culture and worldview is just like talking to the phone and probably because I know Venezuelans do a lot more talking or something.
Whereas I never use voic...
2024-01-2217 min
Deep FutureCoffee ＆ Cement – ØF
Pablos: There’s this idea that was just published that you could produce concrete and make it stronger by adding charred coffee grounds to the mix. And this is some research out of Australia.
So concrete, if it’s not obvious, is like the most used material on the entire planet, aside from oil, which we burn. Cement, is in everything, and it’s this like staggering scale problem. Partly because of its contribution to greenhouse gases, right? So when you make cement, you’re burning some shit to make a bunch of heat to make the cement a...
2024-01-1633 min
Deep FutureScience Historian — George Dyson
I got to know George Dyson 23 years ago. When we started Blue Origin, one of the really cool and unusual things that happened is we hired a historian. We hired George to be there at the beginning and kind of see where this all began. We thought – not just because of hubris – we thought it was such a unique moment in history, to be able to try and make a go at going to space. George had us print shit out and stick it in a box. He said one of the big problems for historians is these days ever...
2024-01-111h 05
Deep FutureSmart Traffic Lights – ØF
Here’s the dumbest thing in the world. You pull up to an intersection, the light is red, there’s no one else in sight and you have to sit there and wait for it to turn green.
Traffic lights are the dumbest thing in the world. And this is insufferable because right now, if you, if you’re in a Tesla, the Tesla knows, Oh, no one’s coming from any other direction. It would totally be safe to go, but you can’t because the light is red. I think what somebody needs to do is rip the...
2024-01-0814 min
Deep FutureSamy is My Hero — Samy Kamkar
This is probably the conversation I had in mind when I decided to start this podcast. Samy Kamkar is an old buddy of mine, a genius hacker. When you guys hear me praising the minds of hackers and how brilliant they can be and how they think, Samy is the example in my mind that I’m thinking of, and I always love to share him.
Samy’s famous for having written a computer virus that he was using to meet girls on the internet, which is probably ill-advised. The virus he wrote took over MySpace. It was in...
2024-01-041h 29
Deep FuturePrimer on Nuclear Reactors — Nick Touran
Today we get to hang out with my buddy Nick Touran. Nick is a nuclear engineer who’s focused on the practical deployment of clean, renewable, carbon free energy.
I met Nick when we were both working at the Intellectual Ventures Lab. He is on the TerraPower team, and even though we don’t discuss the TerraPower reactor, or any of that technology on this episode, Nick and I try to dig into history of nuclear a bit. trying to explain what’s possible with nuclear reactors, so people can really understand how that fits into our future...
2023-12-151h 50
Crazy WisdomThe Tomorrow Blueprint: The Science Behind Fiction - Pablos HolmanIntroduction: In this episode, the renowned Pablos Holman (Website) discusses how science fiction is transitioning into reality, particularly in the realm of technology. Drawing on his expertise, Pablos sheds light on revolutionary concepts that are pushing the boundaries of what was once believed impossible. Main Points: Space-based Solar Energy: Pablos recently witnessed the conception of a company aiming to place solar panels in space. The primary challenges on Earth, such as clouds and nighttime, are nonexistent in space, which experiences constant light. The innovative solution involves capturing this 24/7 solar energy in space and transmitting...
2023-09-0547 min
Noble Warrior with CK Lin163 Pablos Holman: Lessons from Working with Tech Titans and Mad ScientistsMy next guest is Pablos Holman, a world-renowned hacker, inventor, and technology futurist with a unique ability to distill complex technology into practical tools.His past projects include building spaceships at Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos, working on an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates, and founding Intellectual Ventures Lab for Nathan Myhrvold to support a wide range of invention projects, such as a brain surgery tool, a machine to suppress hurricanes, a nuclear reactor powered by nuclear waste, and a machine that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers. With over 70...
2023-03-112h 18
Deep FutureHelium Airships (Short)
Short opinion piece about these helium airships and the need to preserve helium.
Back before there were memes as we know them, the meme for a disaster was the Hindenburg. The Hindenburg was this giant Zeppelin, an Airship filled with hydrogen gas that’s lighter than air. Like a helium balloon. So it would just float but it had a huge passenger compartment. This is back in. 1937, so 80 years ago, the Hindenburg famously ignited and turned into a giant flame in the sky and scared the shit out of everyone forever and these things have not gotten a lo...
2022-12-1908 min
Deep FutureTop Sleep Doctor's Brain Dump - Michael Breus, Ph.D
Sleep is the most natural process that you can do other than breathing. Like breathing, we don’t need technology to help us sleep. The reason many people don’t sleep is because of what’s between their ears – their mental stability, anguish, or stress. Do you fall asleep easily or does the slightest noise wake you up? Dr. Michael Breus, gives me a full brain dump as I try to learn everything I can about sleep in one session. He takes on taboo ideas like polyphasic sleep and the role of nutrition and the microbiome in having a good nig...
2022-01-231h 17
Deep FutureUrban Transportation ＆ the Truth about Garbage — Assaf Biderman
About two billion people that are going to move into cities by 2050 and with that growth, the demand for efficient transportation is going to increase dramatically. In an era where we’re already seeing inefficiencies in urban mobility having a massive impact on the economy, public health and environmental health, it’s hard to imagine a future of transportation that doesn’t border utter chaos. Cognizant of these projected problems, Assaf Biderman, is working on solutions that harness the power of artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies that are already within our reach. Assaf is founder and CEO of Superp...
2022-01-1652 min
Deep FutureReimagining Entertainment, Work ＆ Education — Brent Bushnell
Brent Bushnell is one of the most positive people I know. He’s created Two Bit Circus to reimagine how the newest developments in computing technology can shape the future of entertainment, work, education and human interaction. Brent grew up in the house that built Atari and has been a lifelong hands-on maker that brings a prototyping mindset to everything he does. Listen in to this candid and eclectic conversation and learn about the mass of possibilities that we can bring into fruition with just a little stretch of our imagination.
Pablos: We’re rolling.
2022-01-021h 33
Deep FutureKids Building Dyson Swarms — Levi Hurt
Probably whatever you were doing with your life as a kid isn’t as cool as building a Dyson swarm. 12 year old Levi Hurt has already decided to devote his life to doing so.
Levi is a delightful kid. It will warm your heart to hear his curiosity and excitement about these ideas. Even with my antagonistic questioning, his sense of wonder is infectious.
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2021-12-2150 min
Deep FutureExosomes, Stem Cells, Ketamine ＆ VR — Dr. Melissa Selinger
My friend, Dr. Melissa Selinger is a Doctor of Neuropsychopharmacology who has done actual research on using psychedelics and virtual reality for treating things like depression, anxiety, and PTSD. A huge frontier where there are all kinds of potential, and very little actual scientific research has been done here so far. It’s an exciting frontier to be able to help a lot of people who we don’t have any real idea how to help otherwise.
I’m super thrilled about that and the potential for it. It’s great to get to talk to somebody who know...
2021-09-121h 19
Deep FutureSex on Demand for Women — Saundra Pelletier
There’s this kind of pattern you can see sometimes, when you dig behind very successful projects, a lot of times there is some woman who is dead set on making it happen. And for a lot of them, she’s working behind the scenes and you don’t find out until you get real close, what’s really going on.
But occasionally you meet these women who are badass leaders that are so dogged that they’re going to make something happen by force of will. And I’m always honored to get to meet them. Today we get...
2021-07-061h 02
Deep FutureDiving Deep into the World of Computer Hacking & Becoming a Hacker — Riley Eller
One of the things I get asked the most about is questions about how to be a hacker and how to learn hacking skills. And I think there’s a few people I know who really epitomized what that’s all about, and we’ve had pretty deep journeys and in their lives and their careers about about computer hacking.
We talk a lot about the mindset of hackers, which is one of the things I’m super interested in and attracted to. I find to be very helpful way of thinking about things. But you know, when we’...
2021-03-242h 21
Deep FutureDiving Deep Into The World Of Computer Hacking And Becoming A Hacker – Riley EllerComputer hacking appeals differently to different people. For some, it is no more than just tinkering with the computer. For others, it is a way of life, a technical profession that shapes a person’s life and career. To help us get clear on what being a hacker truly is, who better to invite in this episode than someone who has had a deep journey with computer hacking? Pablos Holman sits down with famous hacker Riley Eller to talk about being a hacker and learning hacking skills. Beyond that, Riley takes us into his career experiences, from winning the DEF C...
2021-03-242h 21
Deep FutureDiving Deep Into The World Of Computer Hacking And Becoming A Hacker – Riley EllerComputer hacking appeals differently to different people. For some, it is no more than just tinkering with the computer. For others, it is a way of life, a technical profession that shapes a person’s life and career. To help us get clear on what being a hacker truly is, who better to invite in this episode than someone who has had a deep journey with computer hacking? Pablos Holman sits down with famous hacker Riley Eller to talk about being a hacker and learning hacking skills. Beyond that, Riley takes us into his career experiences, from wi...
2021-03-242h 21
Deep FutureInto the World of Genomics ＆ Entrepreneurship — Adina Mangubat
Today we get to hang out with Adina Mangubat, a friend of mine that I know from a salsa dancing, and also hanging out with computer hackers. She’s probably the youngest founder that I know. And she’s been running her company for almost a decade since starting it in college at age 22 called Spiral Genetics.
It could be considered probably the most advanced bioinformatics technology for population genomics. And what that means is DNA sequencing, massive populations, hundreds of thousands of people, if you can, and then correlating that data to see what can be lear...
2021-03-172h 06
Deep FutureDiving Into The World Of Genomics And Entrepreneurship – Adina MangubatThere are two ways to dive into entrepreneurship: you can either pick your skillset and match it or pitch an idea. Adina Mangubat chose the unique path and picked her skillset to dive into a business that is all about impacting disease, one that is not only intellectually fit for her but also close to her heart. Now, she is the President and CEO of Spiral Genetics, a company that works on comparing genomes at a population scale that will power novel discoveries for diagnostics and drugs. The youngest CEO on the show thus far, she...
2021-03-172h 06
Deep FutureVideo Games: Optimized Learning Environments — David Edery
David Edery is a buddy of mine who I think you guys are really going to love. Dave is one of the co-founders he’s the CEO of Spry Fox, which is a unique game development studio here. They’re based here in Seattle, but they have people spread out. They made Alphabear, Steambirds, Triple Town, and Realm of the Mad God.
These are games that all together have 50 to a hundred million people playing them worldwide. Dave is a very successful game developer making really delightful games. They’re trying to make the world a happier place. Y...
2021-03-102h 02Deep FutureVideo Games: Optimized Learning Environments – David EderyThe scale of the video game industry is actually bigger than movies, TV, and music and books combined. With 99% of kids under the age of 18 playing games, it’s a staggering and significant market. Joining Pablos Holman on today’s show is David Edery, the Co-founder and CEO of Spry Fox, a game development studio focused on making the world a happier place. David shares how video games are optimized learning environments with the capacity to help millions of kids with emotional self-regulation and allow us to make complex models of the real world where we can run a bunc...
2021-03-102h 02
Deep FutureBuilding the Right Thing at the Right Time - Jeremy Bornstein
One of the things I really like to be able to do is go track down some of the friends that I’ve made over the years who have grown up with technology and grew up with computers as kids hackers, computer programmers, people who eventually became engineers and just pick apart their experience.
A lot of us had similar experiences and I think there’s a lot that can be learned from that. And sometimes it’s just learning that there are parallel experiences that led us into very technical careers. But but also I think it is...
2021-01-221h 59
Deep FutureThe Future of Modern Photography - Steven Sebring
Steven Sebring is an artist, photographer & inventor. This is a guy who’s invented new technology and advanced the art of photography with the tools that he’s built in a world-class fashion. By his own admission, he is not a technical guy, but when you see what he’s built, you’re going to be blown away.
There’s nothing else in the world like it. There’s a lot of work going on to develop new kinds of capture systems for virtual reality that work in 360° environments.
Steven came at it from a complet...
2021-01-221h 08
Deep FutureCan Robots be Artists? — Hod Lipson
Today, I spent some time with Hod Lipson who is a professor at Columbia University. In fact, we recorded this episode right out in front of the university with crying babies going by and kids playing in the park. So it’s a little noisy, but I’ve been inspired by Hod for a long time, because he’s another inventor that worked on 3D printing early on. He is at the forefront of what we’ve been able to do with computers. That’s the kind of thing I’m always really interested in.
He was actually inve...
2021-01-2256 min
Deep FutureHot Seat: Pablos Interviewed by Bill Scannell
This is an unusual episode where my old buddy Bill Scannell actually interviews me. Mostly this is a way for people who don’t know me very well to get a sense of who I am and how I think and where I come from. A lot of it’s really about my philosophy and what informs that. Bill does a lot to try and tie that back to how I grew up in Alaska, which may or may not be as relevant as it seems. We don’t really talk too much about projects I’ve worked on, this is ju...
2021-01-222h 24
SoLeadSaturdaySoLeadSaturday - Episode 36 - Pablos Holman #manufacturing #ai #datascience #leadership #growth #career #dataHello Everyone,
The guest we have today @Pablos Holman, The only person I met until now in person who has 72 patents. Currently he is a Founder & CEO @Komposite
We discussed about his career journey as well as how these three pillars Technology + Innovation = Social Cause, can be used more wisely for a larger mass. Also we covered topics in #manufacturing industries and #artificialintelligence
While talking about career choices he mentioned that "It's totally fine sometimes if someone has to make the career choices on the basis of priorities" , but one should always try to pu...
2020-08-0759 min
Virtually SpeakingPablos Holman: Renowned Hacker, Inventor, Top Tech Futurist On Innovation, AI, Big Data, Blockchain And IoTPablos Holman is one of the most renowned hackers in the world, an inspiring technology futurist, and an inventor with over 70 patents. He has a unique view into problem-solving and breaking, then building new technologies – talents he used for more than a decade at the Intellectual Ventures Lab in Seattle, where 150 scientists and engineers are inventing solutions to world’s biggest problems.Pablos’ TED talks have gone viral totaling over 27 Million views. He has spoken for the World Economic Forum at Davos, the United Nations, and many other world-famous events.Pablos has worked on a wide variety of futuristi...
2020-05-2254 min
Virtually SpeakingPablos Holman: Renowned Hacker, Inventor, Top Tech Futurist On Innovation, AI, Big Data, Blockchain And IoTPablos Holman is one of the most renowned hackers in the world, an inspiring technology futurist, and an inventor with over 70 patents. He has a unique view into problem-solving and breaking, then building new technologies – talents he used for more than a decade at the Intellectual Ventures Lab in Seattle, where 150 scientists and engineers are inventing solutions to world’s biggest problems.Pablos’ TED talks have gone viral totaling over 27 Million views. He has spoken for the World Economic Forum at Davos, the United Nations, and many other world-famous events.Pablos...
2020-05-2254 min
Exponential Africa#302 Exponential Africa - Pablos HolmanExponential Africa Show - Pablos Holman - Hacking & Disruptive Innovation!Today on the Exponential Africa Show, Mic Mann welcomes Pablos Holman - SingularityU Futurist, Hacker, Inventor, and Disruptor!Pablos’s hacking career started in his childhood years. Growing up in Alaska, Pablos had a lot of free time to get to know his computer, which led to his coding and hacking skills. Pablos explains the computer to be a tool that lights up your imagination.His incredible mindset led him to work on and implement an extensive number of disruptive & innovative projects. From 3D...
2020-02-2011 min
Real Leaders PodcastEp. 3 Pablos Holman, Hacking for GoodKevin sits down with Pablos Holman who is a futuristic badass hacker redefining how business approaches the worlds biggest problems. In this podcast, he takes you inside the mind of a hacker, what he’s doing to eradicate malaria as well as harness nuclear waste to supply the world with enough energy for 1,000 years. He’s a genuine guy with big dreams to make all of our lives better.
2018-09-0441 min