Eli Dourado on the Key Tech Breakthroughs For the 2020s

Eli is an economist and regulatory hacker living in Washington, DC, and a senior research fellow at the Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. Before that he was head of global policy at Boon supersonic. In this podcast, we discuss:

1. Why we haven't a replacement for Concorde (yet)
2. How vaccine/mRNA breakthrough can help with HIV and cancers
3. Anti-ageing and blood plasma transfer
4. The problem of energy storage and renewables
5. Breakthroughs in geothermal energy
6. The future of transportation
7. SpaceX Starship could open a new frontier in space travel
8. Minitiarisation of chips and circuits and 'escaping' Moore's law
9. Why Ethereum has a brighter future than Bitcoin
10. A book that influenced Eli: Finite and Infinite Games (Carse)