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).
AstroForge's Matt Gialich: "We can eradicate mining on earth”
SciFi Foods' Joshua March: "Most 'clean meat' startups won't be successful"
Lumo's Devon Wright: "Helping farmers save water"
Trevor Neilson: “I helped start Extinction Rebellion. Here is why they are getting it wrong”
Securiti’s Rehan Jalil: “Where there’s chaos, there’s opportunity”
UC Berkeley’s Hany Farid: “With AI, we’re making the same mistakes that we did with social media”
Sightful's Tamir Berliner and Tomer Kahan: "The world's first augmented reality laptop"
Outreach’s Manny Medina: “Most founders give up too soon”
Runway’s Cristobal Valenzuela: “Pushing AI-generated film past the ’mom threshold’”
Stability.ai's Emad Mostaque: "We're all going to die - but not from AI"
Loyal's Celine Halioua: "The first life extension drug for dogs"
Andreessen Horowitz's Vijay Pande: "AI doctors"
SuperFocus.ai's Stephen Hsu: “AI study buddies”
Precision Neuroscience's Ben Rapoport: "Write an email with your thoughts"
Fixie.ai's Matt Welsh: "The 12-cent engineer"
Interlude: Back next week
Rippling’s Parker Conrad: “We raised $500m in one day to survive the SVB collapse”
Primer’s Sean Gourley: “AI is the biggest change to war since the internal combustion engine”
Earth’s Tom Harries: “Turning people into soil”
UC Berkeley’s Stuart Russell: “ChatGPT is a wake-up call”
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