270 Episodes

  1. Arthur Ganson: Machines and the Breath of Time

    Published: 9/15/2009
  2. Wayne Clough: Smithsonian Forever

    Published: 8/18/2009
  3. Raoul Adamchak & Pamela Ronald: Organically Grown and Genetically Engineered: The Food of the Future

    Published: 7/29/2009
  4. Paul Romer: A Theory of History, with an Application

    Published: 5/19/2009
  5. Michael Pollan: Deep Agriculture

    Published: 5/6/2009
  6. Gavin Newsom & Stewart Brand: Cities and Time

    Published: 4/9/2009
  7. Daniel Everett: Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future

    Published: 3/21/2009
  8. Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices

    Published: 2/14/2009
  9. Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated

    Published: 1/17/2009
  10. Rick Prelinger: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco

    Published: 12/20/2008
  11. Drew Endy & Jim Thomas: Synthetic Biology Debate

    Published: 11/18/2008
  12. Huey Johnson: Green Planning at Nation Scale

    Published: 10/4/2008
  13. Peter Diamandis: Long-term X-Prizes

    Published: 9/13/2008
  14. Neal Stephenson: ANATHEM Book Launch Event

    Published: 9/9/2008
  15. Daniel Suarez: Daemon: Bot-mediated Reality

    Published: 8/9/2008
  16. Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery

    Published: 7/24/2008
  17. Paul Ehrlich: The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment

    Published: 6/28/2008
  18. Iqbal Quadir: Technology Empowers the Poorest

    Published: 5/22/2008
  19. Niall Ferguson & Peter Schwartz: Historian vs. Futurist on Human Progress

    Published: 4/29/2008
  20. Craig Venter: Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention

    Published: 2/26/2008

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