Podcast #51 – The Dynamics of Global Collaboration for the Greater Good – with Howard Rheingold

While California may have Silicon Valley, it's New England that's making waves in the angel investment community, and Chris Mirabile is one of the people leading the way. Mirabile is the co-managing director of Launchpad Venture Group, the largest angel group in New England.

Trak Lord is head of US marketing with Metaio, one of the world's largest augmented reality (AR) companies – and he believes that a lot of what we think of as "augmented reality" today is going by the wayside. The little "pop-ups" that come out of magazines when we hover our smartphone over them (like this one) aren't going to be the furthest extent of AR. When these little pop-ups or pop-outs ad little value to the user's actual experience, he called them "bunnies in newspapers," a playful way of referring to them as a gimmick.

Joe Rampolla was like any other police officer assigned to a cybercrime unit. But after seeing the posibilities for extreme good and potential abuse with VR and AR technologies, he wanted to go deeper. He's not one of the most connected people in the Augmented Reality community, and in this interview he talks about the considerations that responsible people might want to make now with respect to the "good" and "bad" use of technology.
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Dr. Mihail Lebedev is a widely published brain-machine interface (BMI) researcher currently at Duke University. In this episode, we cover the past of BMI technology, dating back to the 1950s, into a surprising and unknowable future of enhanced human potential.
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Ariel Waldman loves space, and once wanted to work for NASA. Badly. So badly, in fact, that NASA could sense it when they read her letter to them – stating that she wanted to be involved in any way. Though she got to learn about dark matter and black holes, and though she got to send objects into space, she realized she didn't need NASA for this job.