Your ideal future home? 🤔💭🏠 Happy New Year! 🎇 In this episode, Justin and Mattimore discuss their ideal future smart homes, as well as potential future scenarios related to smart home and IoT technology. 🔭 Questions Asked & Answered: What function does a home serve, fundamentally? Assuming all tech is possible, what is your ideal future smart home? Ideal bedroom, office, play room, kitchen, living room, laundry room, garage, and any other type of room? Robotic chefs, robotic maids, and ...
Jan 01, 2019•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Religion in 2050? 🙏 In this episode, Justin and Mattimore explore how religious beliefs will change and evolve in the future. Questions Asked & Answered: What’s similar about all the major world religions? What’s different about all the major world religions? Is science at odds with religion? Which religions are growing the fastest and why? Which religions are declining and why? How do different generations view religion? How might technology (mass joblessness, UBI, VR/AR, smart homes, etc....
Dec 25, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 22
What does it mean to die? 🌌 In this episode, Justin and Mattimore explore the topic of death. Questions Asked & Answered: • Is thinking about death useful? • How do different cultures view death? • How do different cultures deal with burial? • Is dying bad, good, or neutral? • What does it mean to “die well”? • When (if ever) is suicide justified? • When (if ever) is euthanasia justified? • What is the best way to die naturally? • How might we overcome fear of pain/death? • How do psychedel...
Dec 18, 2018•1 hr 23 min•Season 1Ep. 21
What is real? 🤔 In this episode, Mattimore and Justin explore philosophical questions related to consciousness, free will, higher dimensions, quantum uncertainty, and of course, the nature of reality itself. Questions Asked & Answered: • What is reality? • How have our ancestors perceived reality? • How do modern people perceive reality? • What are some different states of perceiving reality? • How does one perceive reality as a child versus as an adult? • What is reality like for those who...
Dec 11, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 20
How to Build Smart, Green, Livable Cities 🌇 In this episode, Justin and Mattimore are joined by NYC architect and urban planning expert Tim Galano in exploring "The Future of Cities." Questions Asked & Answered: • What is a city? How has the nature of cities changed over time? • What are the main principles / best practices of good urban planning? • How do we move from urban sprawl to walkable, livable cities again? • What challenges do we face in building cities and urbanization? • What do...
Dec 04, 2018•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 19
How to Solve America's Healthcare Woes 👩⚕️🇺🇸 In this episode, Justin and Mattimore are joined by health tech entrepreneur (founder of Preferral) Jon Gautch in diagnosing and proposing solutions for America's healthcare woes. Specifically, we address: • How the quality of healthcare has changed throughout history • How life expectancy has changed throughout history • What we can learn from countries that have the best healthcare • What we can learn from countries that have the worst healthcar...
Nov 27, 2018•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 18
How Does Media Shape Human Development? 📺⚡️🧠 In this episode, Justin and Mattimore explore how media consumption of all forms (TV, Movies, Video Games, Audio, News, Social Media, VR/AR) impacts the course of human development. Specifically, we discuss: • How algorithms determine what people talk and car about • How TV is giving way to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube + others • Why people are spending more and more time consuming media • How audio consumption is shifting from traditional r...
Nov 20, 2018•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Ready for an autonomous world? ♻️🚁 In our latest episode, Mattimore and Justin discuss the rapidly changing transportation industry with Daniel Carney. Daniel is a technologist who works at a San Francisco company that develops advanced sensor hardware and vision algorithms for autonomous cars and drones. Questions Asked & Answered: • When will self-driving cars become mainstream? • Who is currently in the lead (Google? Tesla?) • What are the pros and cons of flying cars vs tunneling? • Wha...
Nov 13, 2018•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 16
It's election day! 🇺🇸 What will be the future of US politics? In this episode, Mattimore and Justin sit down with government relations specialist and public affairs strategist, Brett Ewer, to discuss how four (4) levers are driving the future of American politics... 1. The Power of the Media (news, pundits, social media, algorithms, etc) 2. The Power of Persuasion (visuals, fear, identity politics, etc) 3. The Power of the Vote (electoral college, voter suppression, etc) 4. The Power of Money ...
Nov 06, 2018•2 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Will robots inherit the universe? 🤖 In this episode, Mattimore and Justin explore what might happen once humanity creates something more intelligent and capable than itself... This includes a discussion of the various robots that exist today, and how these robots may evolve and change going forward into the future: • Boston Dynamics "humanoid" and "dog" robots • Google machine-learning sorting robots • Asimo human companion / servant robots • Bomb-dissembling robots • Military surveillance and ...
Oct 30, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 14
How do we feed 10B people by 2050? 🍕 In this episode, Mattimore and Justin discuss the Health, Environmental, and Ethical implications of food. They also discuss high-tech solutions including "clean [lab-grown] meat," vertical farming practices, and a more humane treatment of animals. Also taken into consideration are the various gradations of consciousness among animals, compared to how those animals are treated (for example: dogs vs. cows). As always, Justin and Mattimore give their worst cas...
Oct 24, 2018•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Can you answer these 8 philosophical questions... • What is the best moral system? ☯ • Does God exist? ⚡️ • Is there life after death? 👼 • Do we have free will? 🧠 • Can we experience anything objectively? 🔬 • Why is there something rather than nothing? 💫 • Is our universe real? 🌌 • What are numbers? ✖️ Justin and Mattimore discuss their answers on today's podcast. Don't miss out! Website: www.hencethefuture.com/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/hencethefuture/ Twitter: twitter.com/hencethefutur...
Oct 16, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 12
What will be the fate of earthlings? 🌎 Will we colonize other planets and continue to flourish for aeons among the stars? Or will we be obliterated by a meteor, global climate change, or some other mechanism far before that ever happens? Tune in to Episode 11 of Hence, The Future to explore the farthest reaching future scenarios ever discussed on this podcast! We also delve into the Fermi Paradox, and the question of "Are we alone in this universe?" 🔭 Website: www.hencethefuture.com/ Instagram...
Oct 11, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 11
What will be the future of life on earth? 🌎 In 1 billion years, the sun will be so hot that all the world’s oceans will have evaporated away. Life, as we know it, will no longer be able to exist on earth at that time. However, this is the least of our problems... Asteroids, nuclear war, black holes, climate change, epidemics, autonomous weaponry, super-intelligent AI: these are just some of the challenges we may face in the course of earth's lifecycle. What can we possible do to mitigate these ...
Sep 18, 2018•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Advertising is already scary good at hacking human behavior... With each day, Ads are becoming more + more: 👩🚀 Immersive - with VR and AR blurring reality 🕵️♂️ Personalized - via enormous amounts of data 🤖 Automated - with little need for human input How might these and other trends portend the future of advertising? If we are already able to hack human behavior to some extent ourselves, how much better would a Super-Intelligent AI system be? What's the worst case, best case, and most like...
Sep 11, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 9
How do we prepare future generations for what's to come? 🎓 Our kids and grandkids are going to be faced with incredible challenges, including autonomous weapons, quantum computing, widespread unemployment, economic upheaval, income inequality, nano technology, and the most pressing issue of all, artificial super-intelligence... How can we best prepare these future leaders of tomorrow, today? In this episode of HTF, Justin and Mattimore discuss alternative methods of schooling including Montesso...
Aug 27, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Will humans become immortal? 🐉 This seems like an absurd question. Yet already doctors can replace our organs, give blood transfusions, and surgically attach bionic limbs. If we continue to make any progress whatsoever, we will someday be able to replace and/or repair neurons, nerves, DNA strands, individual cells, and even perhaps the brain itself. 🧠 Which leads us to another question... What makes you YOU? If scientists could download all your memories, along with the exact blueprint of your...
Aug 21, 2018•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Big Brother is always watching in more than one potential future scenario... 👁🗨🌐 And he's got technology that allows him to keep tabs on all citizens at all times, even their facial expressions and thoughts. Tune in to Episode 6 of HTF to hear the full spectrum of scenarios for the future of privacy and security: from Orwell's 1984 (but worse) to Buddha-like enlightenment worldwide. Mattimore and Justin also discuss best practices for how to keep your data safe! Enjoy. Website: https://www.h...
Aug 14, 2018•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Robots are coming to take our jobs 🤖🛠, but is that such a bad thing? After all, isn't the goal to spend our lives doing that which we find to be truly valuable and enjoyable... not laboring away in some cubicle doing tasks that could be better performed by an Artificial Intelligence system? Whatever your opinion may be, irreversible trends are taking hold. Every day, AI systems are getting better at doing YOUR job. Eventually, these AI systems will be better than ALL humans at ALL jobs ALL of ...
Aug 07, 2018•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 5
How will Big Tech companies: specifically Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, and Microsoft, evolve over the next 10-20 years? • Already, Amazon is becoming the backbone of the US economy. • Google has released the most sophisticated machine voice intelligence the world has ever known. • Apple is making technology so advanced and seamless that it's becoming invisible. • Netflix is growing so fast and creating so much content for everything that it's about to surpass Disney, a nearly 100 ye...
Jul 31, 2018•55 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Do you think people in general are becoming happier over time? ☀️ On the one hand, the standard of living has improved substantially around the globe. On the other hand, we are facing fierce challenges such as income inequality, technology-related anxiety, global climate change, and the prospect of source of meaning (jobs) being taken away by machines. What can we learn from the happiest countries in the world? What can we learn from the unhappiest? And how should we optimize our own lives for m...
Jul 24, 2018•35 min•Season 1Ep. 3
What does the future of intelligence look like? 🧠🤖 Well, if we continue to make any progress whatsoever, machines will eventually be smarter than humans. So it's not a question of IF machines will be smarter than humans, but WHEN! “The power of AI lays dormant in machines just like the power of nuclear weapons lay dormant in the atom” - Nick Bostrom 2040 is the median year that researchers predict machines will achieve "human-level general intelligence;" however, there are many ways that this ...
Jul 17, 2018•53 min•Season 1Ep. 2
What will our future look like - not in a century but in a mere two decades? Find out on the very first episode of Hence, the Future! In this episode, we touch on all the major technological shifts that are going to occur during our lifetime. We explore the best case, worst case, and most likely scenario for our future. We also highlight the opportunities that these changes present, and suggest ways for how you can capitalize on them. Our goal is to help you: 1. Become aware of what the future h...
Jul 10, 2018•13 min
