The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on tech tycoon Naveen Jain to talk about solving bigproblems (2:30), turning the moon into the “eighth continent” with his company Moon Express (6:25), getting approval for interplanetary travel (8:10), the new space race and moon (10:15), modifying humans to live in space (12:30), why we should bother (15:00), spending $50m to get to a moon launch (17:00), how outer space is like the Internet (18:30), the first baby born on the moon (21:50), making illness “optional” (22:45), the universe of universes in our guts (24:45), faecal matter transplants (27:15), poop by post (29:00), how spinach is toxic for many people (31:10), how chronic disease is a subscription business (33:00), growing up poor (37:30), food as personalised medicine (39:50), why we need to relax before we eat (42:20), starting out as an intern on $3 per hour (44:20), why expertise is useless (45:45), what lesson you can learn from X-Prize (47:15), the death of scarcity (48:30), and how individuals are solving problems once left to nation-states (50:30).
Enhanced Games’ Aron D’Souza: “The Olympics are broken”
Rainmaker's Augustus Doricko: "Cloud seeding is a risk worth taking"
DoNotPay's Josh Browder: "We need laws to protect AI's"
Arbol's Sid Jha: "Insurance in the era of climate calamities"
Orchid's Noor Siddiqui: "Super-babies"
Replika’s Eugenia Kuyda: “Your AI soulmate”
Perplexity.ai’s Dmitry Shevelenko: “The battle for the front page of the Internet”
Eion's Ana Pavlovic Hans: “Rocks that clean up the planet”
Andreessen Horowitz's Chris Dixon: "Back to the future of the Internet"
Pachama's Diego Saez Gil: "Building software to save nature"
Expensify's David Barrett: "Venture capital is a scam”
Climactic's Raj Kapoor: "We need 1,000 climate tech unicorns"
The Hacking Games' Fergus Hay: "Most hackers are kids"
Investing in Us’ Dmitri Mehlhorn: “Tech and America’s $30bn election year”
Longevity enthusiast Bryan Johnson
Khan Academy’s Sal Khan: “Building an AI tutor for every student”
Metaphysic’s Martin Adams: “Copyrighting humans”
Common Sense's Jim Steyer: "I'm more worried than ever for our democracy"
Babson’s David Stein: “Succeeding where Theranos failed”
Apeiron’s Christian Angermayer: “AI, psychedelics and living for hundreds of years”
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