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#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics

Posted November 16, 2021 • 03:20:48

Boris Sofman is the Senior Director Of Engineering and Head of Trucking at Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car project. He was also the CEO...

#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity

Posted November 11, 2021 • 02:47:54

Neal Stephenson is a sci-fi writer (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and new book Termination Shock), former Chief Futurist at Magic Leap and first employee...

#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth

Posted November 8, 2021 • 02:48:49

Niall Ferguson is a historian at Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of 16 books on the history of money, war, power, and catastrophe....

#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Posted November 5, 2021 • 01:33:22

Francis Collins is the director of the NIH and former head of the Human Genome Project. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: –...

#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

Posted November 3, 2021 • 03:19:01

Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including autonomous...