The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Mark Moore, head of engineering at Uber Elevate, to talk about flying cars (2:05), starting out at NASA (2:35), why air taxis are inevitable (4:05), why were are in a “Wright Brothers era” of air taxis (6:50), planning to launch in five years (8:05), the gridlock problem (10:35), going pilotless (12:15), taking air taxis to the mass market (15:25), seeding a manufacturing boom (17:20), the pilot shortage (18:20), why our skies are about to get very crowded (20:45), how much it will cost (23:25), and why air taxis could convince us to give up our cars (25:25).
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Dr Phyllis Gardner, Stanford professor and Theranos critic: "I'll only really feel good if she's convicted"
Troy Carter: "There was no Plan B"
Jon Vlassopulos: "We're all nano-influencers"
BeeFlow's Matias Viel: "Bionic Bees"
Renee DiResta: "Information gone haywire"
Patreon's Jack Conte: “People used to pay for things”
Academia.edu's Richard Price: "The end of the paywall"
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Credit Karma's Nichole Mustard: "Self-driving finance"
DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "Your very own robot lawyer”
Y Combinator's Michael Seibel: "Stupidity or genius"
Pioneer's Daniel Gross: “Everything big starts small”
Chargepoint's Pat Romano: "Hiding in plain sight"
Five Questions with... Tim Draper
IndieBio’s Arvind Gupta: “Recoding life”
Houseparty’s Ben Rubin and Sima Sistani: “An epidemic of loneliness”
Five Questions with... Louis Hyman
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