Future Design Podcast: Recent Episodes
Takatoshi Shibayama
Takatoshi Shibayama, through his discourses with visionaries in various fields, looks to empower listeners with perspectives on how we can challenge the social norm and evolve with new technologies, mindsets, and philosophies. Empowered individuals can have a much stronger voice and influence in bringing about revolutionary changes in the world. Future Design Podcast aims to serve as a catalyst and lead the way towards that change. The podcast is categorized as "Extera"; technologies, businesses, and global views that focus on how we are designing the outside world and "Intera"; ideas mindsets, and philosophies that shape our inner world.Hosted by Takatoshi Shibayama an entrepreneur in blockchain and former hedge fund manager.
This is a short form episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
It's not a regular series but I intend to empower you with a bit of happiness hacks that you can incorporate in your life that I learned over the years.
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Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This is a short form episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
It's not a regular series but I intend to empower you with a bit of happiness hacks that you can incorporate in your life that I learned over the years.
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Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Energy is delivered to the body through not only the foods and liquids that we consume but also from etheric matter. In Indian terminology, our body has also an invisible body known as Pranamayokosha, and Prana (energy) is distributed from the outer world to the physical body through this energy body. When Prana energy is flowing and glowing, we feel positive and healthy. When Prana is subdued, we can feel negative and sick. We can also reverse this energy externally as well.
In this episode, I speak with Peter Paul Parker, a meditation coach, Ki Gong instructor, and sound healer. After an out-of-body experience on the road as a rock musician,
he found out there was something outside of the physical realm. That brought him to meditation and further into the world of Ki Gong, the ancient art of mastering the energy flow.
Here we talk about;
- Who is Peter Paul Parker
- How did he get into meditation and Ki Gong
- What is Ki Gong
- How he thinks the energy flow can change the human consciousness
- What are his views on changing the world we have today
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Guest: Peter Paul Parker (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This is a short from episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
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Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Technology was supposed to bring us together but somehow it has divided us. We have traded in convenience for human connection. We can do every daily activity while staying in the comforts of our house. Shopping can be done on Amazon, food delivery on Food Panda, exercise on Peleton or gym apps, calls on Zoom, etc. Our opinions can even be canceled on social media. Even though we aren't actually isolated, jobless, or friendless, why are we becoming more lonely?
In this episode, Peng Fong, a 20-year veteran journalist and podcast host of Alone Together, discusses the culprits of making us lonely in this world where we are not necessarily alone, and how we can bring ourselves out of our shells in order to feel connected again.
Here we discuss;
- Why she started the Alone Together Podcast
- Addressing loneliness
- Technology's tradeoff of convenience
- Parental hacks for children
- Accepting and being curious about opposing opinions
- Using technology to bring us together
Peg Fong has been writing for the Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, CBC, South China Morning Post, and The Economist. She also teaches Journalism at Langara College in Vancouver.
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Guest: Peg Fong (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This is a short from episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
It's not a regular series but I intend to empower you with a bit of happiness hacks that you can incorporate in your life that I learned over the years.
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Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This is a short from episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
It's not a regular series but I intend to empower you with a bit of happiness hacks that you can incorporate in your life that I learned over the years.
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Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This is a short from episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
It's not a regular series but I intend to empower you with a bit of happiness hacks that you can incorporate in your life that I learned over the years.
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Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Religions create conflict all around the world. However, was religion really created so that it polarizes people? Doesn't all religions teach us how to love each other and seek a peaceful world? Did it also say, as long as it's between religious members? I don't really think so. If it did, was it the original intention, or was it because the teaching became a doctrine to organize people?
In this week's episode, I invited Jerry Zehr, the author of The Peacemaker's Path: Multifaith Reflections to Deepen Your Spirituality. We talk about how we have to look at similarities, not differences between religions to reduce conflict in this world. The old teachings of each religion do not ask us to hate each other but to look for the divine within ourselves, that can love oneself and others to create peace and harmony among us. Our tribalistic nature and power hunger have created walls between us, and we must break through them by understanding that we are all the same.
Here's what we discuss;
- Walking the Enlightened Path
- Why religious conflicts exist and how to overcome them
- Repair by loving oneself
- Kharma is universal
- Human connection creates happiness
Jerry is an ordained minister and has been a leader in Interfaith ministries for over 30 years. His desire is to help bring shalom to our world today. His book The Peacemaker's Path explores six core teachings in the Major World Religions that can bring unity and healing to our polarized society.
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Guest: Jerry Zehr (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This is a short from episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
It's not a regular series but I intend to empower you with a bit of happiness hacks that you can incorporate in your life that I learned over the years.
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Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This is a short from episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
It's not a regular series but I intend to empower you with a bit of happiness hacks that you can incorporate in your life that I learned over the years.
Subscribe to my weekly/monthly newsletter here.
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This is a short from episode that I've started to supplement the normal series.
It's not a regular series but I intend to empower you with a bit of happiness hacks that you can incorporate in your life that I learned over the years.
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Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Nihilism is permeating in Western Societies but it's starting to spread across the world. Distrust in politics, economy, financial markets, science, and perhaps even technology. It isn't just the bifurcation of ideology but the classification of people, failed monetary policies, diversion from value to price, and widespread misinformation and propaganda. Has everything lost its meaning and value?
In this episode, we bring back Jim Mosquera from Episode #24 Reflections on Freedom, to talk about why there's nihilism in pretty much everything we see today and the way out of it. Perhaps we are at the end of the era of Pax Americana and heading towards the Dark Ages. However, we discuss there is a way to mitigate this situation.
Here's what we talk about in this episode,
- Decimation of religion debased morality
- Digitisation of society weakens the physical social fabric
- Categorisation of people widens gaps in society
- Ambiguity created by relying on science
- Decentralisation is about localizing
Jim is a founder of Alliance University that provides a marketplace of knowledge that is dedicated to empowering people to create an objective and fair society.
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Guest: Jim Mosquera (LinkedIn | Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Wajid Hassan is back on our show again to discuss the concept in greater detail that we couldn't get into in our last episode.
Here's what we discuss in this episode;
- What is the significance of the Age of the Aquarius
- Earth's evolutionary history from a spiritual perspective
- What can be these out-of-place artifacts
- Why ancient civilization understood the cosmic consciousness
- What it means that Earth is rising its vibrations
- What can bring people together
Wajid's book The Struggle for World Sanity
Aetherius Society
The 12 Blessings
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Guest: Wajid Hassan (The 12 Blessings)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Have we exhausted our efforts to bring about world peace? We have slowly evolved to have better ethics and principles throughout history. However, does the timeline to cure this world in line with our speed of progress? We only advance in a linear manner.
In this episode, I speak with Wajid Hassan, the author of "The Struggle for World Sanity". He speaks from the view of the Aetherius Society, which sheds a thought provoking perspective of how we can bring about peace and unity. We have tried many methods to make us come together but perhaps it'll help if we had a different approach. He speaks to us about extraterrestrial species that can travel to Earth offering a way to bring sanity to our world.
It coincides with the US government admitting to UFO's existence so maybe the idea is not so "alien" to us anymore.
Here's what's you'll learn from this episode;
- Who is Wajid Hassan
- What is "The Struggle for World Sanity" about
- Why is nihilism pervasive in the world today
- The truth about the UFOs the US government talks about
- What extraterrestrials can tell us about peace
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Guest: Wajid Hassan (The 12 Blessings)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Cryptocurrency is in the spotlight for the seemingly lucrative trade opportunities but there's the almost forgotten aspect of why Bitcoin came about. Trading is for the ones who have a certain level of wealth. What about the others who are left out in the economic activities that we all enjoy and benefit from? Crypto was invented for everyone, and in my view especially for the ones that have no access to traditional finance, the unbanked and underbanked.
In this episode, I speak with Taynaah Reis, the CEO of Moeda Seeds Bank from Brazil. She not only set out the blockchain-based mobile bank but stepped it up further to provide education for finance and business building. They have a marketplace where these people can launch their products via e-commerce. Their projects are being tokenized, and NFTs are minted.
Here is what you will learn in this episode,
- Who is Taynaah Reis
- What is Moeda Seeds Bank and its mission
- Why isn't providing financial services isn't enough
- What the underlying socio-economic problem that needs to be solved
- Her advice for people coming into this industry
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Guest: Taynaah Reis (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Discovering the fountain of youth has been the millennia-old dream of humans. We have seen it in the old stories of Herodotus to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs talk about it. The gene-editing technology such as CRISPR has made possible of preventing diseases before it happens, which could eradicate many of the incurable illnesses we have today. However, it has also allowed us to dream once again to the possibility of eternal life. I've always in the belief that we try to maximize our time in our bodies because life is finite. What will we do with our lives if we can live forever? Will we cherish it or abuse it?
In this episode, I speak with Mark Ryall, an independent researcher and author of the book "Age Decoded". We discuss the virtue of humanity and the need to examine what it means to live life. We are wired by default to think in short term but what if this becomes infinite? There is something more than eternal youthfulness and beauty beyond the lines of a finite life.
Here is what we discuss in the episode;
- Who is Mark Ryall and the inspiration of his book
- What is CRISPR and gene editing
- What is the significant and potential achievements of this technology
- The ethical difference between preventing diseases and prolonging life
- What does it mean for humanity to obtain eternal life
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Guest: Mark Ryall (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In the near future, there will be a society where we all live among robots. They will be utilised for war, work and sex. In this future, we will need to reexamine how to maintain our human dignity. War without mobilizing humans can either turn us more vicious as we aren't the ones pulling the trigger. Needless to say about work; we are already experiencing the replacement for humans for robotic automation. Sex is a big concern, which I think may end our human civilization. How do we maintain our humanity among all of this radical change without us knowing how to prepare for this future? Am I being pessimistic or should I be having a different perspective.
In this episode, I speak with Joshua K. Smith, a pastor and independent researcher who has written a book called Robotic Person - Our Future with Social Robots. We discuss what it is to be human in this time of age where we see this driving force to replace humans with more efficient and productive robots. Through his early adulthood serving for the country in the military, he has seen a different side of humanity and made him examine the ethical value of living with this human creation.
Here in this episode we talk about;
- What made Joshua Smith the man who he is today
- Does robotic warfare dehumanize war
- Radical shift in the way we look at jobs
- How do we ready our philosophical way of life
- Will sexbots end human civilization
Guest: Joshua Smith (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
The more I examine the crypto industry, I can’t help but feel a generational and paradigm shift that started to happen in the backdrop of the global financial crisis in 2008. No longer do the Millenials, GenZs and even GenXers want to accept the economic and systematic construct that keeps them out of control of not only their wealth but how their society is run. The crypto community wants clarity, transparency, and a system that works, not by fuzzy man-made decision-making processes but by technology that truly opens up equal opportunities to all.
In this episode, I speak with Leslie Lamb, the podcast host of Crypto Unstacked, where she interviews the greatest minds in the crypto/blockchain space, covering topics of the latest decentralized finance projects, web3.0, and crypto investing. She's also the Head of Partnerships at Amber Group, a crypto financial services company based in HK. We dive into the reasons why crypto and decentralized finance have a place in this world.
Here is what you’ll learn from this episode;
- What drew Leslie into the world of crypto
- How decentral finance (DeFi) is furthering Bitcoin’s original narrative
- What social constructs we are taking down with the crypto networks
- How the generational shift is the power shift
- How the stable coin projects are the game changer
Do check out Leslie Lamb’s Crypto Unstacked here. She engages with pioneers of the industry with well-researched questions that keep you fully engaged. Also if you are interested in getting into yielding products in crypto, check out here company Amber here.
Guest: Leslie Lamb (Twitter | LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
We need to challenge the definition of success that society showcases for all of us. The stardom, the big house, and cars, the luxurious vacations. All of that is empty without the human connection. The ties to family, friends, colleagues, etc are fundamentally more important. Without them how do you enjoy your so-called success? We have seen people like Chris Cornell, Robin Williams, Anthony Bourdain, Chester Bennington, etc take their lives even though from the outside, all they looked were nothing but successful.
In this episode, I speak with Jonathan Troen, a life master coach who spearheads the self-love revolution. Nothing is more important than loving thyself and then you can spread the love around. He and I discuss the new pathway to success and how we can set ourselves and our children for a better way to view our lives.
Here in this episode, we discuss;
- How to remove the labels we put on ourselves
- Why the pursuit of financial success is empty in itself
- How we need better role models of successful people
- How leading by example is the way to teach our children
- How to take the leap to reboot your career
Jonathan Troen has spent 20+ years in the music and entertainment industry where he felt deeply unhappy. After discovering yoga post-surgery, he began to understand that self-love was not taught enough and the only lasting love comes from the inside. He is the co-founder of Austin Yoga Tree, runs his own Self Love Revolution life mastery practice, and has been a speaker at South x SouthWest in 2019.
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Guest: Jonathan Troen (Personal Website | LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Why are governmental incentives and punitive measures not enough to drive societal change to tackle problems like climate change, ethical sourcing of labor, etc? Shareholders demand profit at all costs and that most likely won't change. But what if we the consumers, end-users, and economic participants demand change and influence their value in society? How do we do that?
In this episode #57, Justin Goldston, professor of Penn State University, talks about the use of technologies like blockchain that already has incentive structures built-in, and also the transparency system can directly influence how we value corporations that are doing the right thing and this will incentives good behavior. Otherwise, the penalty will be a loss in corporate market value that they are so afraid of.
In this episode we talk about;
- How Justin started to think about ethical supply chain
- What are the certain bottlenecks to just tech solutions
- How the sharing economy ties into the corporate actions
- What are the other uses of blockchain that can contribute to incentives
- How he is involved in Bitcountry and the excitement he sees in this project
Justin Goldston is a certified supply chain and organisational change professional who has developed and executed comprehensive digital transformation, organisational change, and supply chain strategies, resulting in optimal customer satisfaction and profitability for clients around the world. Experienced in serving on boards within industry and academia, with his previous consulting, planning, and leadership experience, delivers value to small, medium, and large organisations in a variety of industries.
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Guest: Justin Goldston (Personal Website | LinkedIn | Sydtek)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Is it possible to live a life in tranquility when you have to face the forces of capitalism in your everyday life? You have sale targets to hit, shareholders you have to answer to and make sure your family is provided for. Does the life of zen can really exist in this busy modern lifestyle that we experience?
In this episode, I speak with Dan Tricarico, a zen teacher, who has left his life as a school teacher and been teaching how to incorporate zen into the capitalistic society we live in. We always talk about work life balance but he tells us it isn't the balance that we should be seeking but the harmonization. It's not about looking for a 50/50 split but a unification of both and finding peace within both.
Here in this episode we learn about;
- How Darwinism shouldn't be mixed with capitalism
- How education should be less about capitalistic drives
- How to make zen co-exist with corporate life
- The 3 teachings that makes the unification of zen live within capitalism
- How to reevaluate what you want out of life
Dan Tricarico is the author of the books The Zen Teacher: Creating Focus, Simplicity, and Tranquility in the Classroom and Sanctuaries: Self-Care Secrets for Stressed-Out Teachers and teaches Zen to corporate and school teachers. He also has a podcast called The Zen Teacher Experience.
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Guest: Dan Tricarico (The Zen Teacher| LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
What does it take to survive in a world where traditional jobs are being destroyed and new ones created? There are no job descriptions or a full set of skillsets that can be brought into these roles. You have to have the flexibility to mold into these new positions. You have to piece together the skills that you have accumulated and dive right in with a mindset that you are going to have to figure it out as you go.
In this episode, I speak with Michael Pachan, CEO of Mountain Made, a CBD brand in Colorado, USA. He dove into this world on the unknown when everything was grey. The legislation was changing constantly and nothing was laid out straight. His story resonates with mine as the crypto industry is going through the same situation.
Here you will learn about;
- How he got into the industry
- How he learned that nothing stays status quo and to live with it
- Types of businesses that survive through the chaos
- Types of people that can fit into new industries
- How to future-proof your business
Mike Pachan is a startup junky, entrepreneurial addict, team builder, functional fitness enthusiast, dog dad, and loyal husband. As CEO of Mountain Made, I #GoLikeHell with 9 years of experience in cannabis, cofounded a company with annual gross sales of over $35 million in the product.
When he's not leading the team at Mountain Made or out in the field selling product, he's embodying the Go Like Hell spirit. He thrives in high-intensity environments such as: Jiu Jitsu, Downhill Mountain Biking, Trail Running, Home Remodels, and Yard Work.
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Guest: Michael Pachan (Mountain Made | Personal Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
The reality that you think you are living in is actually what you create. There is no such thing as a pre-destined future. What we create in our minds who we think we are becoming a reality. Then why not shift that reality.
In this episode, I have Ellie Shoja, the founder of PeaceUnleashed and an author of The 13th Planet. She motivates her clients through touching consciousness within our inner selves. We also talk about how we are now in a creative cocooning moment where were are going to come out of this pandemic with an explosion of creativeness that the world has never seen before.
Here we discuss;
- How she overcame her childhood difficulties
- How we can channel our negativities into being present in our minds
- How to create high energy
- How to shift reality into creating your own world
- Creative cocooning into a new world
Ellie is an award-winning Author, Mindset Expert, and Motivational TEDX Speaker, whose passion for uplifting and empowering others is at the core of the Peace Unleashed philosophy.
A first-generation immigrant who moved to the United States at the age of 15, Ellie Shoja started her first company at the age of 19 and has spent her 20-year professional career pushing beyond conventional limitations and demonstrating to others how to do the same.
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Guest: Ellie Shoja (Facebook | Instagram)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Crypto is the talk of the streets these days, almost similar to 2017. What's different is that corporates and institutional investors are getting involved. It's not just a retail craze anymore. I thought it would be good to get back on the topic to talk about all things crypto and perhaps make it into a regular topic to pick up.
In this episode, I speak to Naomi Oba, the marketing director of Bitcoin.com Exchange. We get into the topics of crypto payments, DeFi, derivatives and education. We've kept it broad just so that we cover many topics as possible but after the show, we realized we left out Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT). Perhaps that could be a topic for next time.
Here we talk about the following;
- How is crypto going to be used for payments
- How can institutional investors can invest in crypto derivatives
- How Dex's and DeFi lending works
- Use of crypto for corporations
- How DeFi can get into the underbanked
Naomi Oba is heading up Marketing for the Bitcoin.com Exchange, doing everything from editorial to content creation and social media management.
She's has a deep understanding of the crypto industry and a track record of solving problems and taking the initiative to drive projects to completion.
A studied linguist, she became fascinated with the idea of a decentralized financial system and have been studying financial concepts ever since. She is self-taught, relentlessly doing online courses and questioning knowledgable peers to deepen her understanding.
She has a blog @naomioba on Medium, to showcase what she has learned in the esoteric world of crypto.
Guest: Naomi Oba (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Research is underway, after many decades, psychedelics are back in the spotlight for academics and physicians to discover safe ways to cure people with trauma and mental illnesses. Some states in the US are decriminalizing them. However, in the past 2 episodes, I've covered that.
In this episode, we dive a little bit deeper into how we can heal, integrate and transform our lives. It's not just for the mentally ill, but even for all of us. There are self-discovery and transformation that can be done. We are all buried in everyday life that we don't get to understand who we are anymore. Isn't it time we get back in touch with ourselves before life passes us by?
Here in this episode, we will learn,
- How we can find where we need to heal
- If psychedelics is right for us
- What is the experience could be
- How to integrate what we learned
- How to know when we conclude the help from psychedelics
Greg Lawrence is a psychedelic integration and transformation coach. He runs a practice called Psychedelic Integration Specialist. He tells us how he used it for himself to heal and helps people to discover themselves and take that back into their daily lives.
This is not an episode for recreational use, but a way to find out who we really are and be in touch again with yourself, your true self.
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Guest: Greg Lawrence
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
3D printers are going to revolutionize manufacturing as we know it. They have been around for a while now but it’ll be years until we see a complete transformation of the manufacturing industry. The environmental impact could also be phenomenal when manufacturers will start producing products that are designed to be reused by personal 3D printers and their business model will change into a recurring revenue-focused business like the software industry. Ideas around it are limitless.
However, we do need to think about, after we see a world full of 3D printers, the considerations around job replacement, bionic humans, and personalized weapons. Out of any new technology comes its pitfalls as well.
What you will learn from this episode;
- How will 3D printers transform manufacturing
- How designers and engineers can monetize their skills
- Business model shifts for the manufacturing industry
- The ecological case for 3D printing
- Ethical challenges we will face
In this episode, I have Cesar Keller, Chief Experience Officer of Alliance Systems that assists B2B companies and startups bring meaningful innovations, technologies, services, and products to life. He is a design thinking specialist and UX architect optimizing systems professionally and personally, bringing the human-first approach to everything.
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Guest: Cesar Keller (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Peace of mind is what I look for in life but especially in this time of a pandemic, happiness is something that we should look for to get by on a daily basis. If you don't taste the sour, you never know what sweet is. We should be looking for happiness for every bitterness we have in life.
In this episode, I have Vernon Brown a Happiness Coach, who talks to us about his upbringing and how we can find the happiness in our every day lives.
Here what you will learn in the episode,
- Vernon's upbringing
- How he rises above negativity
- How to get rid of excuses
- How happiness is a choice
- What defines happiness
- What is factual reality or perspective reality
- Is empathy the path to happiness
Vernon is a keynote speaker, certified life coach & happiness coach. He helps clients find their happiness through a proven process that helps you uncover your passion & make changes on how you approach & navigate the twists & turns that life throws at them.
He can be reached at vernon@whatsyourhappi.com
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Guest: Vernon Brown (LinkedIn | Facebook)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
The cannabis industry has grown exponentially grown in the last decade or so. But this plant medicine has been around since ancient civilizations. It has been pushed into the abyss of a century now but it’s coming back from the darkness.
In this episode, I speak with Colleen Higgins, who is a cannabis pharmacist, and author of the book The Cannabis Prescription, one hell of a book with so much information that it’ll be all that you need to know about the medicinal usage of marijuana.
Here you will learn about;
- The misconception of the substance
- How it was suppressed by the cotton industry
- How it was thrown into the abyss by the petrol industry
- Why governments didn’t want to deal with cannabis
- What’s the reason for the prohibition of cannabis
Colleen is a pharmacist, author, and speaker who helps translate the complex world of pharmaceutical and cannabis medicine into an accessible language for patients and caregivers.
Colleen has been helping patients understand how to get the most out of their medications for almost thirty years, first in various retail pharmacies, and most recently as a cannabis pharmacist in the medical marijuana program in Connecticut.
She created SwayInnovations.com, an educational website designed to translate cannabis science, in order to make it more accessible for both patients and healthcare professionals.
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Guest: Colleen Higgins (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Half Timer is here (Website | YouTube)
Have you ever woken up and realized you are in your dreams? That’s lucid dreaming. You are in this fuzzy area where your conscious mind meets your subconscious mind. You can fly, you can have sex with the person of your dreams, but also tune in to the psychological trauma you have inside you. No need for therapy, no need for drugs, you can get in touch with your subconscious and understand yourself and heal.
In this episode, I speak with Aldo Barba, a lucid dreaming coach from Mexico, about why we need to have lucid dreams and how. He left his day time job to pursue his dream to help people, he wrote a book about it and hosts his podcast (in Spanish).
Here’s what you will learn in this episode;
- Why we should have lucid dreams
- Messages we will receive from the dreams
- How the subconscious mind works in the dream
- How to achieve lucid dreams
- How to prolong the effects
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Guest: Aldo Barba (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Zoom fatigued? I guess we are in the same boat. Nobody wants to be on another Zoom call or attend a webinar. We just want to get back to meeting people, listen to live music and get inspired by live speeches.
Certainly, during this time, people got creative and thought of new ways to interact online and there were new trends that were starting to spark pre-COVID. In this episode, I speak with Ed Vincent, CEO of festivalPass, a market place for live events, talks to us about what types of live events we are going to see in the future and how technology is helping festival organizers be creative about combining the best of live and virtual shows.
Here is what we will learn;
- Why is Austin becoming the hot destination
- How festivalPass is improving the way we find live events
- How is the pandemic going to change our relationship with events
- Ways of human connectivity changing how events are organized
- Pre-COVID and future trends of festivals
Ed Vincent is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of business, technology, and management experience including 6 years of banking and valuation experience. Founded an e-commerce business in 1999 which was sold to a competitor in 2001. Repeat Founder including SimplyEngage, myProducer, & Predict Ventures. Currently Founder & CEO of festivalPass.
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Guest: Ed Vincent (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In this episode, I speak with Dustin Miller, the host of The Polymath Polycast, who has been interviewing polymaths to learn about their traits and mental modes to become multi-disciplinary in numerous fields.
I have read many articles and books about the debate of whether being a specialist or generalist is better. Being a jack of all trades, master of none, is not a disadvantage anymore. Moreover, having many different skills and continually mastering them is something we should be doing.
Here is what you will learn in this episode,
- What is a polymath
- Modular education models are the future
- Positivity from AI disrupting jobs
- Connecting the educational dots together
- Common traits and motivation of polymaths
Dustin is also creating a modular education system. Modular education breaks down degrees into smaller, Lego-like building blocks of learning, and allow both children and adults to tailor their education background to better position them for job prospects and career mobility.
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Guest: Dustin Miller (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In this episode, I speak with Shalaka Verma, Director of Microsoft about the kind of future we can see with quantum computing. She was previously a guest on my COVID-19 Special series: “What’s Next for AI” and wanted to get her back on the show.
The use cases for quantum computing are vast, ranging from agriculture, medical, finance, etc but still, the technology can be only used on a small scale as the results still need to be validated by quantum simulators. However, the future is promising as many of the ambiguities in science can be potentially solved with much more accuracy than the present.
Here is what you will understand in the episode;
- What is Quantum Computing
- What Does it Solve and the Future Applications
- How Businesses Needs to Quantum Proof Their Data Encryption
- Can Quantum Computing Help with Developing General AI
- Philosophy of Quantum Physics
Shalaka Verma leads a team of Global Cloud Solution Architects to drive the development of differentiated industry-aligned solutions on Microsoft Cloud and Services around it.
She also leads the Azure Quantum adoption within Microsoft partner ecosystem to develop early use cases and PoCs.
Previously she drove Technology Sales Strategy Transformation towards the next-gen at IBM. Delivered several first of its kind wins for IBM across Data and AI platforms, Hybrid Cloud, and DR/BC Strategies. Chosen to be the first Quantum Ambassador for IBM in the ISA region.
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Guest: Shalaka Verma (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In this episode, I speak with Jonathan De Potter, founder of Behold Retreats, which provides bespoke holistic wellness programs incorporating plant medicine retreats in beautiful, safe, and legal locations. The information we read and/or hear about the healing effects of plant medicine, but there’s no point to this if the experience is a one-off situation. It’s only effective if it can be integrated into our stressful and busy modern life.
Here’s what to expect from the episode;
- How modern life created a void in Jonathan’s life
- Comparison with the West and Eastern perspective of society
- 5 Reasons for Plant Medicine
- What are the healing, growth, and transcendence
- Integration with Modern Life
- Spirituality in Modern Society
Jonathan de Potter is the Founder of Behold Retreats, passionate about plant medicine, and believes that absolutely everyone can improve their mental health and consciousness. He believes that in these times of change, the single most valuable contribution any of us can make is to focus upon our own personal and spiritual development.
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Guest: Jonathan De Potter (LinkedIn )
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
The first episode of 2021 is on redesigning social media that can incentivize better content sharing to reduce fake news and propaganda using reputation as an indicator. The relationship with the original content creator and who’s sharing is disconnected. There’s the reputation of the publisher and the sharer that needs to be set straight to understand the quality behind the information that is spread.
Jenna Pilgrim is the CEO of Streambed, a company that is building a social media content analytical tool for content creators on top of blockchain infrastructure. By being able to track the content for its virality, it can put the source and the people who share it accountable and be able to get the network of those people closer than before.
Here is what to expect from the episode;
- Lessons learned from blockchain leader from the early days
- How she thinks the influencer market can be better
- Thoughts about corporations and governments on content censorship
- How reputation capital will work on social media and blockchain
- What reputation in virality should really mean
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Guest: Jenna Pilgrim (Twitter | LinkedIn )
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In this 2020 year end special, I had an awesome chat with my friend and also the music producer of the Future Design Podcast, DJ toMU:吐夢 (aka ShowNing).
We explored the future of turntablism and DJing as technology has been changing how musicians are creating and recording music. Also the landscape of DJ has changed drastically since DJ toMu started DJing.
This episode is a special one for me as I was a turntablist when I was back in school, obviously not as good as DJ toMU. He went on to become the 1st runner up in DMC NY in 2005, which is the most prestigious DJ competition in the world and he's the only Japanese that made it that far.
He created a DJ toMu FDP Special Set for us just for this show. Check his set out on 1:05:40!
Here's what to expect from the episode;
- How has technology changed DJing
- Different concepts of DJs
- Finding your sound
- Why he got into Hip-hop and moved to NYC
- DMC NY experience
- Future of Music
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Guest: DJ toMU:吐夢 aka ShowNing
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Decentralized Finance, DeFi as it’s called in the crypto community, has gained so much popularity during this year. The market size went from just under U$1bn to over $11bn, which is still small compared to the colossal size of the traditional finance markets, but it’s becoming a force to be reckoned with.
In this episode Edmund Lowell, CEO of KYC-Chain, talked to us about all the nuts and bolts of the DeFi industry and how AML/KYC is an essential part of keeping this industry together if and when another crash comes along.
Here’s what you can expect from this episode;
- What is decentralized finance
- How do many of the DeFi platforms work
- What are the existential threats to this industry
- How does AML/KYC play a key role in the DeFi space legitimized
- How self-sovereignty through protecting our digital identity is important in this digital world
- Is monetization of digital identity the right incentive model
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Guest: Edmund Lowell (LinkedIn: )
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
You can go here to find more about projects that Edmund is involved in;
KYC-Chain | Self Key | Key Fi
In this episode, I speak with Johnson Chong who was my former yoga teacher but also he’s so much more. He’s an artist, life coach, and dharma teacher. Currently, he resides in Sydney and released his book Sage Sapien. It’s an autobiography about his difficult upbringing and how he reconciled with his past by embracing the emotional adversities and finding his opportunities for growth to be his true authentic self.
Here is what you will find in this episode;
- Struggles between family values and influences from a multicultural city of New York
- Acting as a way to escape the emotional dilemmas and rebellious times
- Inflection point from finding yoga practices
- Breaking free of the past patterns and judgment from others
- Finding spirituality and oneness
- Busting the myths of positive thinking and result-oriented mindset
- Finding the beauty in tragedy and understanding dharma
He is a dharma teacher at Ten Percent Happier and a Shamanic guide helping conscious leaders break through the mental and emotional obstacles that keep them in self-doubt and fear ... so that they can lead more powerfully without sacrificing their inner peace and joy. You can find his sessions here.
You can also find him here;
Exodus Retreats | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn
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Guest: Johnson Chong (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
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In this episode, I speak with Johnson Chong who was my former yoga teacher but also he’s so much more. He’s an artist, life coach, and dharma teacher. Currently, he resides in Sydney and released his book Sage Sapien. It’s an autobiography about his difficult upbringing and how he reconciled with his past by embracing the emotional adversities and finding his opportunities for growth to be his true authentic self.
Here is what you will find in this episode;
- Struggles between family values and influences from a multicultural city of New York
- Acting as a way to escape the emotional dilemmas and rebellious times
- Inflection point from finding yoga practices
- Breaking free of the past patterns and judgment from others
- Finding spirituality and oneness
- Busting the myths of positive thinking and result-oriented mindset
- Finding the beauty in tragedy and understanding dharma
He is a dharma teacher at Ten Percent Happier and a Shamanic guide helping conscious leaders break through the mental and emotional obstacles that keep them in self-doubt and fear ... so that they can lead more powerfully without sacrificing their inner peace and joy. You can find his sessions here.
You can also find him here;
Exodus Retreats | Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn
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Guest: Johnson Chong (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
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In this episode, I speak with Eugene Wang, CEO of Sophie’s BioNutrients, a Singapore based food biotech company that’s developing large scale facilities to grow alternative protein using micro-algae.
We have lost nearly three-quarters of our land environment's biodiversity due to industrialized agriculture to raise livestock. Like cell-based protein, this can be produced in a lab but unlike lab-grown food, this can be scaled bigger and faster.
Here are the highlights from this episode;
- How is micro-algae so much more nutrient than most protein sources
- How is micro-algae such an efficient way to grow protein
- How does this compare with plant/cell-based protein
- Why he thinks bio-processing is the way we will grow food in the future
- Why we won’t be compromising our culinary culture with this protein source
Eugene started this business when his daughter, Sophie, suffered an allergic reaction to seafood. Since then he has been finding a way for people to get nutrients from the ocean without using animals.
Sophie’s Bionutrients is on a mission to unleash the limitless possibilities of nature, restore our planet, and eliminate food allergies by creating plant-based, protein-rich alternatives to meat and seafood using microalgae, the mother of all food and plant life.
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Guest: Eugene Wang (LinkedIn) Sophie's Bionutrients (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
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In this episode, I speak with Dr. Betty Kovacs, author of Merchants of Light, about how the ancient civilizations had higher interconnectivity with cosmic consciousness through their shaman-mystic traditions.
Today this consciousness is surfacing once again all around the world. It is rising out of the dreaming, symbolic, visionary mind that is sensitive to deeper orders of reality and in tune with the creative principles of both the human psyche and the universe. This mode of consciousness can heal the wounds of our current worldview by igniting these creative principles within modern, rational consciousness.
Here’s what you can expect from the episode;
- What is Merchants of Light?
- What are the misunderstandings of our view of ancient civilizations?
- How the ancient people were using sacred plants and other techniques to reach altered state of consciousness
- How the Duerteronomists reversed the course of our spiritual and religious construct
- What she thinks the ancient civilizations will say about our modern society
She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, in Comparative Literature and Theory of Symbolic/Mythic Language. She taught Literature, Writing, and Symbolic/Mythic Language for twenty-five years. She served many years as Chair and Program Chair on the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont in California and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation. She speaks to national and global audiences through webinars, keynote presentations, and media interviews. Dr. Kovacs is the author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World, winner of the Nautilus Silver Book Award and The Scientific & Medical Network 2019 Book Prize. She has also written The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life.
See her detailed explanation of the Merchants of Light here.
Her book is on Amazon.
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Guest: Betty J. Kovacs PhD (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
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In this episode, I have Tim Panagos, CTO of Microshare. He is developing smart sensors in buildings for contract tracing and preventative cleaning.
In the first half of the episode, we focused on how we can prevent ourselves from a data-driven surveillance state. There is a dire need for us to flip the script from handing over our data with no accountability from the data collector to reclaiming our data rights.
Here’s what to expect from the episode;
- Why radical transparency is needed for both data collectors and producers
- Why we shouldn’t wait for governmental regulations for data privacy and take action ourselves
- What we can learn from our digital twins that exist online
- How data transparency can prevent us from a Big Brother scenario
- How Microshare’s smart sensors work to prevent diseases to spread in buildings
- Why Microshare’s solution can improve employee/employer relationship
Tim is a technology executive with 20 years of experience in Enterprise Software. Tim was most recently Chief Architect of Accenture’s global Business Process Management (BPM) practice leading architecture innovation. Prior to that, Tim was CTO at Knowledge Rules, a global consulting start-up, and held multiple engineering leadership roles at Pegasystems (PEGA).
Tim holds a Masters in the Management of Technology from MIT and studied Computer Science at UNH.
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Guest: Tim Panagos (LinkedIn | Twitter) Microshare (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
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In this episode, I have Eugene Capon, CEO of Studio Capon. They are known for creating the first TV-style VR talk show called “Glitched”, you can find it on YouTube here.
AR/VR is known for its application in gaming, but it’s not just about that. Immersive experiences can be created in social media, a leap from the existing relationships we have online.
Here’s what to expect from the episode;
- How did Eugene construct his career from an intern at a digital signage company to running a VR content creation company?
- How do you create your brand image and continue recreating your image even when that previous image no longer suits you anymore?
- How do you differentiate yourself from the pack when everyone is using social media for self-branding?
- What VR offers that the current social media experience can’t offer
- Why VR can increase empathy towards others
- The technologies that can take VR to another level
Eugene is a prolific public speaker on the subject matter of XR and social media. His speaking credits include VRLA, Seattle Creators Day, Vloggerfair, Twitch Stage Live at Emerald City Comicon, Eastside VR, Augmented Reality Los Angeles and Seattle After Effects Meetup (The country’s largest AE meetup). Eugene has also made numerous media appearances in various forms including DOPE Magazine, Pixvana blog, Nextshark online magazine, GoMedia, Pro Video Podcast, Rev VR Podcast, Studio 110 with DJ Dirty Harry, and Becoming Human Podcast.
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Guest: Eugene Capon (LinkedIn | Twitter) Studio Capon (Website) Capon Design (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
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In this episode, I have Ole Kristian Sivertsen, CEO of Desert Control. I found about him and his company from reading a CNN article and I immediately reached out to him.
They have invented “Liquid Nano Clay”, a liquified form of clay to be sprayed onto the desert so that farming can be done. It attaches to sand particles and retains water/nutrients and it has turned a small part of the Dubai desert green.
Here’s what to expect from the episode;
- What is Liquid Nano Clay?
- How does Liquid Nano Clay work?
- How is Desert Control changing the deserts of Dubai?
- How can countries with limited water resources become more self-sustainable?
- How does their Liquid Nano Clay compare with other farming technologies?
In 2018 Ole joined as CEO of Desert Control, fueled by his passion for creating hope for a better future for "people and planet." In this role, he is promoting global stewardship for our planet's vital soil ecosystem.
His leadership philosophy is to inspire action and growing hope by making people successful; Empowering employees to achieve success creates a great workplace. Inspiring people to make customers successful creates a great company. Creating a great company to make the world a better place makes it magnificent!
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Guest: Ole Kristian Sivertsen (LinkedIn) Desert Control (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In this episode, I have Adam Andros Aronovich, a researcher for the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC). He also conducts workshops at the Temple of the Way of Light in the Peruvian Amazon.
Psychedelics, after being criminalized in the 1970s, for 4 decades of being in the shadows, have now started to be researched for its profound impact in curing mental diseases. But it also allows us to see a different perspective of reality, one that is not molded in the rationalistic, and materialistic world view that we are accustomed to.
Here’s what to expect from the episode;
- What exactly defines a psychedelic drug?
- How does Ayahuasca work in the body?
- What are the medicinal benefits being discovered?
- What actually is a psychedelic experience?
- How psychedelics awakes us from what we perceived as reality
- What is the altered consciousness that made Adam realize?
Adam Andros Aronovich is a doctoral candidate focusing on Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry. He is an active member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) and part of the Ayahuasca Community Committee at the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. In the last four years, he has conducted extensive fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon, where he has been doing qualitative research in collaboration with ICEERS, the Beckley Foundation, and, more recently, the Centre for Psychedelic Studies at Imperial College. Beyond his work conducting and coordinating research, Adam regularly facilitates workshops at the Temple of the Way of Light, a prestigious healing center in the Iquitos area.
*The Future Design Podcast does not endorse the recreational use of psychedelics. While these substances often carry a negative stigma and taboo, we ask that you learn for yourself and make an informed decision.
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Guest: Adam Andros Aronovich (Facebook) Temple of the Way of Light (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | IG | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In this episode, I chat with Peter Voss, CEO of AIGO.ai (Ahy-go) and the gentleman who coined the term “Artificial General Intelligence".
AGI has been long talked about for decades but it wasn’t because of computational power that is helping it become a reality but a diversion from how AI has been developed. Data scientists and cognitive psychologists both are needed to make this AI come to life.
Here’s what to expect from the episode;
- The 3 waves of AI - the history of AI
- The difference between Programmers / Data Scientist v.s. AGI
- Are Quantum computers important for General AGI?
- What are the elements necessary for AGI?
- What is the mechanism of “Understanding”?
- Can AGI connect with humans?
- The human limitation that AGI can make a breakthrough
- How AGI will deal with the Trolley Problem
Peter Voss started in electronics engineering, then fell in love with software. The first major success was developing a comprehensive ERP package and taking that company from Zero to 400-person IPO in seven years.
Currently, he’s focused on commercializing the second generation of our AGI-based ‘Conversational AI’ technology called 'Aigo' (say: I-go). Aigo.ai is the most advanced natural language interaction platform available. It is implemented using a brain-like cognitive architecture – also known as ‘The Third Wave of AI’.
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Guest: Peter Voss (Twitter | LinkedIn) AIGO.ai (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | IG | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
This week on the Future Design Podcast we chat with Leslie Maliepaard, CEO of The Planet Calls, on the pressing issue of Climate Change and more essentially, the Plastic Crisis. With new economical models of thinking such as the Circular Economy, can foundational pillars of these systems help us to re-think how we handle Climate Change?
Here are a few episode highlights:
- The Linear vs Circular Economy.
- The false advertising of Recycling: Why it doesn’t really work.
- Is money involved in the Circular Economy system?
- How can we make a difference as consumers and encourage our governments to do the same?
Leslie has a background in building and leading tech, financial, and SaaS startups in Europe and Africa for the past 20 years. Her current passion projects include Circular Economy, Clean Water, and Sustainability. She has sat on a number of different advisory boards in the past, in Quantum Encryption, SaaS sectors as well as the World Business Angel Forum Global Women Leaders Committee.
She has also co-founded Fortrino, a consulting company that advises and invests in late-stage / growth companies in Cyber Security, Data Privacy, Social and Impact sectors (post-seed in Europe), and The Planet Calls Foundation. The latter aims to progress the ‘sustainable future’ movement and boost the resilience of companies. They work with companies and many other dimensions of sustainability, building a more sustainable future TOGETHER.
Check out their YouTube documentary called "The Planet Calls" here.
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Guest: Leslie Maliepaard (LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | IG | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
We talk to Brian Reddy about the impact of carbon on our environment and his plans to encourage carbon circulating practices. Are there better ways to mitigate the impact of carbon in our environment which is causing ripples of problems — security of food and water for our future generations due to our chronic use of land? Is this a catalyst for change to the way we “feed the future”?
Here are a few episode highlights:
- Mitigating the social costs of carbon, who are the key stakeholders and what role can they play?
- Addressing the importance of the growing need for food, feed protein, and sustainable alternatives.
- Global warming/Climate Change and it’s a relationship with the Sustainability of Food Supply Chains
- The business model for circulating carbon. What is methane's value?
Brian Reddy is the Founding Executive Director of Kinnva A, Synthetic Biological Startup with a domain-focus across Biotech, Feed Tech, Food Tech, Agritech, and Cleantech. Kinnva utilizes innovative fermentation technologies (with both wild and engineered strains) and intensified processing methods. They produce high-value biochemicals and biomaterials for Food, Feed, Nutraceuticals, Cosmetics/Skincare, and TCM markets.
Kinnva’s vision is about “feeding our future” and its mission is to “build a sustainable platform to produce high-value biochemicals and biomaterials from an abundant resource that does not compete with the human food chain”.
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Guest: Brian Reddy (LinkedIn) Kinnva (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | IG | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
We discuss a lesser-known philosophy, Sentientism. Sentience is defined as the animal's capacity to experience. It is a framework that focuses mainly on logic, evidence, and morals to improve our thinking as well as decision-making regarding the development of a social construct. Does this mode of thinking reprogram our society towards functioning more effectively as a sentient whole rather than being human-centric?
Here are a few episode highlights:
- Understanding Sentientism: What defines a Sentientist?
- How can sentient-harming industries move away from it?
- Sentientism and its benefits in the modern world.
- Can Sentientism work in developing nations?
- Debunking issues around de-growth.
- The importance of our decisions.
Jamies is an advocate of Sentientism which commits to the use of evidence, reason and granting moral consideration to all sentient beings. This philosophy could give us a better chance to solve the world’s problems.
He also has been working on a wide range of NGOs / charity / open data /learning / private investment/community building projects. (e.g. https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism/) He is also working as a ski instructor and ski race coach (trainee).
Writer, (e.g. https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/07/humanism-needs-an-upgrade-the-philosophy-that-could-save-the-world/) campaigner, non-exec director, coaching and advisor.
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Guest: Jamie Woodhouse (Twitter | Facebook) Sentientism site (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | IG | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In this episode, we will talk about the dark side of fashion and its impact on our everyday life. Founder of 365Fashion Networks and former model, Anina Net shares with us the issues she has to face first hand as a fashion model and how she wants to bridge the gaps through Technology in the industry.
Fashion is one of the largest causes of pollutants in the world. With consumer culture constantly promoting the need for new and trendy pieces, the evolution of fast fashion has since sparked a number of problems. Issues such as inhumane working conditions and the large amount of textile waste accumulating in landfills.
Here are a few episode highlights:
- The dark side of fashion: Its impact on the environment
- How industrialization has changed the way we view our clothes.
- What it means to consume fashion more purposefully.
- Ways Technology can help solve some of these issues.
Growing up with a family of computer engineers and having worked as an international top model, Anina has emerged as an innovative fashion technologist for the last 10 years. She has partnered with brands such as Nokia, Samsung, Intel, IBM, and many more to apply the latest technologies to the fashion industry.
She runs the 360Fashion Network in China and her HQ in Michigan. The developer of the 360Fash Tech Kits – IOT maker kits for the fashion industry and soft circuit e-textiles, Anina just recently launched a line of tech-enabled fashion products for women who travel featured in Target Open House.
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Guest: Anina Net (Twitter | Facebook | IG) Anina's site (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | IG | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
We discuss the workings of the subconscious mind with a certified hypnotherapist, Wendi Friesen. She shares with us her intimate experiences and personal stories. Hypnotherapy has been said to provide a range of impacts from curing addiction to enhancing brain functions. We find out how we can create the most fulfilling life just by changing the way we think!
Here are a few episode highlights:
- Does hypnotherapy really work?
- How effective is it when applied to our professional and personal lives?
- Hypnotherapy techniques to unlock your potential.
- Insomnia: Cure sleep deprivation and how to heal negative thought patterns.
- What it really means to be wealthy.
Wendi is on a mission to change the way the world treats addiction. The crisis of addiction is one that she takes personally. Her success in helping those who've lost hope is proof that she can change the minds, hearts, and lives of both addicts and their families.
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Guest: Wendi Friesen (Facebook | Twitter | IG) Website
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
We often perceive the future of technology leading us to either a dystopian versus utopian society or us versus the robots. But how far is that from our reality? Are we closer to that than we think?
“ Strap yourself in; technology is going to change the world. The current political and economic turmoil is nothing compared to what the next two decades will bring.”
Here are a few episode highlights:
- Trends in technology and why we need to adapt.
- The future of jobs; will AI really take over?
- The education debate: How relevant is the education system in these changing times.
- Pandemic and its effects on retail, commerce, and innovation.
- Debt driven economy; how will we crawl ourselves out of this mess.
- Discussions on Universal Basic Income (UBI).
Michael Baxter is a technology and economics writer with an entrepreneurial background. Julien de Salaberry, is an entrepreneur, CEO, digital health thought-leader, and investor. Authors of Living In The Age Of The Jerk. Enjoy!
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Guest: Michael Baxter (LinkedIn | Twitter) / Julien De Salaberry (LinkedIn)
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According to Buddha, all problems originate from misunderstanding life's reality. In this week's episode, we discussed with David Roylance, a Buddhist teacher, about the nature of reality. In the modern world, we seek success, and it is often tied with power, money, and fame, preventing us from understanding what is most important in life. How can we apply Buddha's philosophy in conjunction with our current mode of operation?
Learn the basic Buddhist teachings and ways to apply its philosophy to everyday life.
- “Buddhism awakens the mind to the Natural Law.” What is "The Natural Law"?
- The importance of meditation and the techniques to attain complete peace of mind.
- Finding importance and meaning in life and why happiness is only temporary.
- Navigating through and out of our human desires for material success, cravings, desires etc.
David Roylance is a dedicated practitioner and teacher of Gotama Buddha’s teachings. He has been part of the Thai community since 2001. He visited Thailand for the first time in 2002 and brought back the Traditional Thai Healing Arts back to the United States of America to share with people in the Western World. He now resides in Thailand.
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Guest: David Roylance (Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
In the last 40 years, the region that has moved out of the poverty line and over the income bracket of over $5 was the Asia Pacific. However still nearly half of them live below that line. Africa has increased its population but still the majority of them live underneath this line.
Perhaps fintech's super USP is being able to serve the un / under-banked population due to the rise in mobile phone penetration. However financial literacy is still an issue amongst all other societal issues.
Naureen Hyat is the co-founder of Tez Financial Services based in Pakistan. Her social responsibility and business acumen have led the company to be the leading neo-banks in the country. She tells us that she's not even close to being satisfied yet.
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Guest: Naureen Hyat (Website | LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Ever wondered why you have trouble getting new habits to stick? Or simply struggle with dropping old patterns? The problem might be found in our subconscious mind, the part of our brains we use 95% of the time. How can we stir the auto-pilot brain to work for us? First, let’s go deeper into what the subconscious mind means.
The subconscious mind is our operating system and the conscious mind is the application. If we improve the OS, we can also improve the application.
Neuroscience is backing what hypnotherapy has been doing for centuries. Norman Plotkin, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist explains it to us on our show!
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Guest: Norman Plotkin (Website | LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
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The political and monetary systems haven't been working for the majority of the developed nations for quite some time. We ask the government to come up with better solutions and bit by bit we offer our freedom in exchange for more intervention in our economic and political lives. Are we expecting too much from our governments, when they are head deep into conflicts and stagnation themselves?
Inequalities in our world are further distancing us from an egalitarian future. The failure of how we put our dependency on capitalism, at least the version of capitalism we run today, is no longer functioning as the original theory suggested.
How do we maintain our liberty and sustainable economic lives?
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Guest: Jim Mosquera (Website | LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
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The political and monetary systems haven't been working for the majority of the developed nations for quite some time. We ask the government to come up with better solutions and bit by bit we offer our freedom in exchange for more intervention in our economic and political lives. Are we expecting too much from our governments, when they are head deep into conflicts and stagnation themselves?
Inequalities in our world are further distancing us from an egalitarian future. The failure of how we put our dependency on capitalism, at least the version of capitalism we run today, is no longer functioning as the original theory suggested.
How do we maintain our liberty and sustainable economic lives?
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Guest: Jim Mosquera (Website | LinkedIn)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
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The polarization of people, especially in the US stems from inequality in my view. Inequality isn’t just about the capital-rich and the working poor. There’s much more depth in the definition of rich and poor. Future Design Podcast hopes for an egalitarian future but if the system is already set up so that equal opportunities can’t turn into reality, hoping for it, voicing for it, won’t simply do.
If governments were to tax the rich, the ideology can be based on the egalitarian start of a new life, not the equal result of every life, reducing the wealthy down towards the lower denominator.
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Guest: Preity Upala (Uupala Foundation)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
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The U$720bn dairy industry is about to be disrupted. Being a large polluter of greenhouse gas emissions, representing about 10%, and water, it is an unsustainable product and business. An alternative is on its way.
Turtletree Labs is using stem cell technology to reproduce dairy without animals. Not only it can create dairy products but it can also produce human breast milk. For mothers having difficulty in expressing, this can be the best solution without relying on formula milk.
Guest: Max Rye (LinkedIn | Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
Music: ShowNing (Website)
Energy medicine has its deep roots in traditional methods of medicine. Be it Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Ayurveda or shamanic traditions. They are oriented around a different model where healing is based on energy fields of the body unlike its Western counterpart that focuses on matter and chemical.
As of today, many academics are researching the existence of our meridians (primo-vascular system). Soon we will be equipped with hard science for creating applications and architectural designs to prevent or neutralize dissonance from electromagnetic pollution to the energy field of our body.
Guest: Mark Hernandez (LinkedIn | Business Website)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (LinkedIn | Twitter | IG)
Music: ShowNing
Future Design Podcast website
The original use of cryptocurrency was for peer to peer electronic payment. This got lost somewhere between the in-fighting of the Bitcoin community and the ICO madness. However there are people who believe in Satoshi Nakamoto's idea of using crypto for medium of exchange. Akane Yokoo is one of them.
Akane is the founder of Satoshi's Angels who is organizing Bitcoin Cash meetup groups since the early days of Bitcoin and still keeping the dream alive by grassroots movement. She knocks on the door of merchants to empower them with the ideals and structures available to adopt crypto as a form of payment.
Guest: Akane Yokoo (Twitter | Satoshi's Angels)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | IG | LinkedIn)
Music: ShowNing
How do we trust our inner-callings for more in a world geared towards external gratification? How can we fill in the gaps and live more fulfilling lives? Harry Sherwood, founder of Consciously.org, deep dives into all things that limit ourselves with human psyche, ego, identity and the masks we choose to wear in society and how we can see ourselves from a different light.
Harry Sherwood aspires to help people transform their lives by choosing a conscious lifestyle. Harry’s journey into holistic living took a true leap of faith when he left behind the only world he knew in 2010 and went “off to see the wizard.”
You can join him for his online meditation group
https://consciously.org/online-group-meditation/
Guest: Harry Sherwood (https://consciously.org/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com/)
How do you prepare yourself financially when the economic tides are changing? Governments and central banks are working on a monetary solution to COVID19 recession but public spending and Keynesian policies have diminishing returns every time they are executed.
"No longer can people expect a hand out from the government, so we need to invest more. However, education in investment is necessary to grow capital in the future"
Becoming a financial expert is not the immediate answer but looking at local communities for investment opportunities where you have information advantage or preserving wealth through gold or cryptocurrency maybe the answer.
Guest: Patrick Young (https://exchangeinvest.com/welcome-to-the-exchange-of-information/about-us/the-team/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (Twitter @taka_shibayama / IG @takashibz / LinkedIn )
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com/)
Have you started to notice more and more international content like Money Heist and Dark hitting the global market through Netflix and other streaming services? We are now in the era of being able to access so many varieties of movies and series than ever before. It's only about to accelerate.
Vuulr is a company that's creating an open marketplace for global content creators to have access to distribution channels that were never accessible before. Ian McKee, their CEO talks to us about how they are driving the traditional film industry into a game-changing digital transformation.
Guest: Ian McKee (https://www.vuulr.com/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.linkedin.com/in/takatoshi-shibayama-9a7b022/)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com/)
Have you felt that you are limited in the capacity to make an impact in the world? You are not a CEO, a social activist, or working for an NPO so you can't make a difference. I have that feeling too but Carol Sanford shows us a different perspective.
She has advised many Fortune 500 companies as a regenerative thought leader, received the Lifetime Trust Award, and has recently been added to the 2018 Top Conscious Company Leader's List. She also has 5 multi-award winning books (The Responsible Entrepreneur, The Responsible Business, The Regenerative Business, No More Feedback) and her upcoming book The Regenerative Life.
We all can create a life that goes beyond the financial impact, in the organizations, communities, and societies we live in. Every one of us can play an important role to generate extraordinary social returns.
Carol calls it the Regenerative Life. She explains the 9 regenerative roles that we all can play in society.
She can be found on
Carol Sanford Institute (https://carolsanfordinstitute.com/)
TEDxBerkeley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqza5Uo1cFE)
TEDxBGI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpbYiZcfcJw)
TEDxBellevue (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqLg-0dBiyc)
SEED Communities (http://seed-communities.com/)
Second Opinion on Business Practice Podcast (https://carolsanford.com/business-second-opinion/)
Email Carol Sanford (carol@carolsanford.com)
Guest: Carol Sanford (https://carolsanford.com/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.linkedin.com/in/takatoshi-shibayama-9a7b022/)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com/)
Ayurveda is considered one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful mind-body health systems.
It is not just a system for treating illness or preventing diseases, but Ayurveda is a science of life (Ayur = life, Veda = science or knowledge). According to the ancient Ayurvedic proverb “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need”. From the advancement of Western medicine, we have slowly forgotten that, if nature and our constitution are not living in harmony, we cannot be healthy . Maybe we should be listening to the ancient words of wisdom.
Vaidya Priyanka offers the wisdom that our mind has the power to heal our body and how to keep it vibrant and healthy to reach our full potential as humans.
Guest: Vaidya Priyanak (http://www.aumcuisine.com/vaidya-priyanka/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.linkedin.com/in/takatoshi-shibayama-9a7b022/)
Creative Producer: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-singh-87909625/)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com/)
What do you do when you have a strong message that you want to share with the world but you don't have the ability to project and make good use of your voice that it sounds convincing and captivating?
Cynthia Zhai, who's a voice coach and TEDX speaker, shares her techniques to give your voice color and dynamism.
You can find her at https://www.powerfulexecutivevoice.com/
Just because we are in a post-COVID19 world, or the people are standing up to racial justice doesn't mean you should jump on the bandwagon. However, it's a good time to re-evaluate what your brand should mean to the world.
What Joe Escobedo means by this is that it's hard for anybody to sell anything at the moment so take some time to think about what you are providing to the world with your brand. Think about value creation rather than financial creation.
Guest: Joe Escobedo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-escobedo/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.linkedin.com/in/takatoshi-shibayama-9a7b022/)
Creative Producer: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-singh-87909625/)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com/)
I want to give massive gratitude to everyone who has been listening to my podcast, especially the COVID19 Specials.
I will focus on creating content to focus on topics, technologies, and ideas that will build a better society with planetary value.
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If we can predict human mobility, we can potentially stop deadly diseases before they turn into a pandemic in cities. How are researchers who are building our smart cities, with the use of AI, IoT, and image sensors, going to combat future pandemics?
Pieter Fourie, and academic at the Future Cities Laboratory for Singapore ETH Centre, and his team is working with digital twins, a virtual version of yourself, to see how people move around in cities and what happens when a contagious virus is dropped into a city like Singapore.
While our physical lives merge more into our virtual lives, cyberbullying has become a social problem, whether it's an adult or a child. Studies show that 50% of parents with children aged 6 -18 have reported them to be bullied. 1/5th of that takes place online so with that in mind how do we prepare our children for the negative effects of social media?
Anuradha Rao, Ph.D. of Communications and New Media, also a founder of Cyber Cognizanz, works with people to understand the promises and perils of living and working in cyberspace and how to combat its negativities.
She talks about what parents can do when their children are bullied, how parents can avoid them from getting bullied, and how we can educate our children to prepare them from potential adversity from being online.
We also get into topics like the consequences of buying social media followers, tackling fake news, and the constant focus and envy towards just on the positive sides of life.
Haven't we been extracting more from Mother Nature than it can provide us? The population of the world is going to reach 10 billion by 2050 by the rate of growth that we are experiencing so our extractive nature, especially for our food sources, needs to stop.
KaYi Ling, the co-founder of Shiok Meats, is on a mission to replace our habit of consuming live animals to cell-based meat, using stem cell technology. No longer do we have to kill wild animals or lock up animals and slaughter them for human consumption. As pandemics rooted from consuming animals are on the rise, it's a no doubt a healthier alternative.
She shares with us her personal journey into this field, what goes into the research for creating this meat, how she plans to scale the business to take it to commercialization and assures us of any health safety concerns.
Guest: KaYi Ling (https://shiokmeats.com/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-sing...)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
AI is already deployed in many different industries. Just look at your smartphone, it's running in the back of the music/video streaming sites, ads on your social media feed, or the e-commerce sites. In one fashion or another it's out there. It has even detected a peculiar case of pneumonia that broke out in Wuhan in December 2019, 9 days before the WHO declared it a pandemic. So what's next for AI?
According to Shalaka Verma, Director of Partner Technology of Microsoft says the COVID19 pandemic reset the reality for businesses to bring forward the digital transformation into AI. We have the technological infrastructure, computer power, cloud solutions, etc to excel AI in various sectors vertically and horizontally.
What is lacking is 1) Trust; credibility in the data analysis output is still lacking. Her solution is to create an universal standard policy of collecting data, security and the right to control. 2) System interoperability: one silo AI model wouldn't be as useful if it's not integrated with other systems across not just the division, but across the enterprise and even with the client's.
There are still challenges that need to be thought of from a holistic level in order to see it go to the next level.
Global carbon emissions reduced by 17% during this pandemic. We still need to reduce 7.6% p.a. until 2030 to meet the target set by the 2015 Paris Agreement. Aren't we going back to the same way we consumed energy pre-Covid-19? If we can't change our behavior, we need to change the system.
There are many smarter devices that are energy efficient and DIY solar energy generators being made for household use, but digging deeper, what technologies are out there that can be both high in energy generation and clean? Green energy has yet to prove that it can be a fully functional base loader.
Jimeno Fonseca, a senior researcher of energy sources for ETH Zurich, is back on our show to explain how various nuclear reactor technologies are being experimented to replace the old, which can avoid catastrophes like the Cherynoble, Three Mile Island and Fukushima.
Peter DeMeo, Global Sales Leader for IBM's Digital Asset's team, continues to discuss various topics that are going on in the crypto and blockchain world. In this part 2. he explains the currently trending decentralized finance application and how it can be done better to get better adoption on a retail level.
Also the pros/cons of private and permission-based blockchain, which is getting more traction in the enterprises and governments. Hyper Ledger is becoming the most adopted blockchain and many business consortiums are being built on top of it. Governments are experimenting on CBDC (central bank digital currencies) starting off from China. We discuss where are all these projects going.
Lastly, we bring it back to the wonderful world of crypto custody solutions again. There are a few options that custody can be done technologically. We get down on the nitty-gritty of all that.
Guest: Peter DeMeo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdemeo/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-sing...)
Sound/Camera: Dylan Tan (https://www.willdylan.com)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
Bitcoin is now well known among institutional investors as an asset class as a hedge against inflation and political uncertainty. However, not only is the cryptocurrency infrastructure user un-friendly, but the news about crypto exchanges being hacked also doesn't give us much confidence that we can safeguard our cryptocurrency. If we know how crypto gets hacked, it can prepare us for entering the esoteric world of this new shiny digital gold.
The industry is following the traditional securities market, monetary authorities are laying down regulations so that investors can trade with industrial-grade custody services. We don't hear much about custody services and how they work in the securities world, as much of that is thought of as a given. Crypto should be no different but it's stimulating to know how this works as it's one of the most technical solutions offered in the industry.
Peter DeMeo, Global Sales Leader for IBM's Digital Assets team, in this Part 1. of this episode lays down his knowledge on how crypto gets hacked, measures to avoid such hacks, and a deep dive into the complexities of crypto custody that usually never gets the spotlight on.
Guest: Peter DeMeo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdemeo/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-sing...)
Sound/Camera: Dylan Tan (https://www.willdylan.com)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
Fasting has been around for thousands of years. The Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims practice it and now for a few years it has made a come back into the mainstream with the health coaches and athletes raving about it. It's called Intermittent Fasting and it's trending. There are many ways to practice it, and whichever form it is, I believe it will outlast any diet fad out there.
The science is there. Once 12 hours into fasting, your body depletes the sugar (glucose) as its energy source and turns to fat inside your body to burn. This is called the ketosis state. But it doesn't stop there. Not only does it help lose weight, the beta hydroxybutryate (BHB) that is a form of ketones does wonder for the body, including supercharging the cognitive function, prevents and fights cancer, optimizes heart function, etc.
Kajal Khuana is a nutritionist and also a health and business coach. She explains how we can incorporate this into our daily life and enhance our mindset for work. She has an upcoming book "Why Me First?" (https://www.amazon.com/Why-Me-First-Destress-Self-Love-ebook/dp/B0897XK7PJ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kajal+khuana&qid=1590928332&s=books&sr=1-1-spell) and is a podcast host for Bonfire Entreprenuers.
Every building that we enter, we are getting our temperature checked and ID scanned but does this really help detect COVID-19? With all the promises of AI and IoT, haven't they delivered anything better than this?
Rather than taking the unrealistic sci-fi approach, Jordan Kostalec, head of JLL Asia's Proptech talks to us about building managers re-purposing existing tech and upgrading it for this corona virus situation: voice activated lifts, AR, drones and robot cleaners...
We also talked about the future of the office space, how remote working can redefine the purpose of why we need to have an office and the ultimate use of our time in the office to be with fellow colleagues.
Link mentioned during the talk "Vice News: China's Big AI Advantage - Humans"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMZgRTQ-hv4
Jordan's article on South China Morning Post, 26 May, 2020
https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3085980/voice-activated-lifts-augmented-reality-coronavirus-spurs-use-proptech?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=share_widget&utm_campaign=3085980
Mentorship is taking a different shape as organizational structures change; less hierarchy, smaller divisions and fluid workforce. Before people committed to working up the corporate ladder and that's no longer the case. Millennials and Gen Zs are looking at working culture than career advancement as their choice for an organization to work for. Also as the gig economy expands, where are people going to seek mentorship from?
Lawrence Young and Yen Lu Chow from Asia Institute of Mentoring talks to us about how they are bringing mentorship as a culture to young and older generations of people.
https://asiainstituteofmentoring.com/
Taking care of your mental stillness by yourself, each day if you have to, is the way to future proof yourself from any potential anxiety meltdown. Negativity accumulates and if you don't peel them off piece by piece, there will be no room for positivity. Ideally you can do this every day and build it into your daily routine, but if not, you need to take a moment to shed off the negative feelings that start nipping at you.
Heiko and & Selina Niedermeyer practice and teach the Power of Releasing for nearly 30 years now. It's so simple at first you think this can't be true. It works, otherwise they wouldn't be doing this as a profession for so long. No religious or spiritual element to this at all. I tried it, and it works!
https://thepowerofreleasing.com/
The cannabis industry, by legalization of medical and recreational use, attracted institutional and retail money and created a bubble with sky high valuations. Sound familiar?
This industry was no different to the internet boom or the ICO boom. Exuberant expectations and investment into this industry, bloated the market by over expansion of production, especially in Canada. Cash rich companies (not by profit) had to expand into other countries that legalized cannabis and acquire distribution channels and production facilities. However, many countries had a much stricter regulation around the industry and it fell short of many investors expectations.
However on a positive note, there are more countries looking at this industry, particularly on benefits from tax revenue, job creation and law enforcement cost saving, and there is a chance to re-do this industry all over again in other geographical locations.
Many cannabis companies now have to roll up their sleeves, bluntly re-examine their business model and decide if they need to blow this joint (industry).
Blair Jordan, a restructuring advisor specialized in the cannabis industry, dissects the industry from a business perspective and pulls the covers off of the ever so promising sector.
Guest: Blair Jordan (https://www.restructuradvisors.com/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-sing...)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
What are we educating our children for? Are we setting them up to be our future workers or is there something else that should be in the forefront when we think about our children's education.
The boomer's generation had a powerful economic growth so there was optimism for the future. Right now, with the stagnating economy, the future is not so clear. However, our world is changing so drastically, especially with technology's exponential growth and its strong relationship in our lives, it's hard to keep up. AI and automation is replacing our jobs and leaving us with choices that we weren't expecting to have.
Fiona Edwards Brown, the assistant principal of the International School Singapore, shares with us the approach she takes on educating children in a complex time we live in.
How will we care for our healthcare workers after the COVID19 pandemic?
First responders and health care workers are fatigued, stressed, and scared being already 2 months into the coronavirus crisis. Many have not been home for many weeks afraid to pass on the virus onto their loved ones, not enough breaks and mentally distressed from seeing patients lose their lives on a daily basis.
Dr. Erin Smith, who is an associate professor of Edith Cowan University, a specialist in Disaster Emergency Response, says;
"The 2nd wave of the pandemic is a mental health crisis from the carers and doctors"
Event organizers have been hit hard during the pandemic quarantine. Many have now pivoted to virtual events and webinars using the accessible technology that we have now. If you haven't already, Eric Sciberras describes to us how to set up a virtual event as he is doing right now for his upcoming Crypto Asia Summit scheduled for 18-23 May (http://chaintalk.media/summit/)
Eric is the Director of Teamz Inc. a blockchain solutions company that provides strategical services to projects globally. Also he is the podcast host of Chaintalk, that interviews cryptocurrency investment funds and blockchain projects.
When working remotely, customer loyalty retention is a concern. What can we do to keep our customers and what can we do to offer our support to them?
Also as remote workers, how can we increase our productivity? We have so much to balance when at home, we need work but have to deal with personal issues on top of it.
Wesley Dunn, is a digital transformation advisor to C-suites across small, medium to multinational companies.
What do people love about a certain brand or company?
Is it the quality, price, looks, or is it the story behind it?
When we think of Apple, Microsoft or Amazon, we think of its founders, how they communicate, how they look on stage or on TV, and associate the company around their image. Companies also project their image around how their product or service looks to their end customer.
Storytelling a brand is not something new, it's been done for so long. If you ever watched an episode of Mad Men, even in the 60s they were spinning stories. Then why are we talking about it these days?
I believe in a world of so many options for consumers, if it's not the story of the brand, it's hard to differentiate anymore. Even their stories become tiring because it stinks of commercialism.
Then how do we do storytelling now? People say "authenticity" but we need to dig deeper into what that means. That's how we do it on the Future Design Podcast.
Graham Brown was the host of the Asia Tech Podcast, that hosted guests like Tony Fernandez (CEO of Air Asia) and Rod Drury (former CEO of Xero). Currently he is a public speaker, author and advises company on topics of leadership, storytelling and podcast creation.
Guest; Graham Brown (http://www.pikkal.com/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-sing...)
Sound/Camera: Dylan Tan (https://www.willdylan.com)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
When working remotely, leadership, whether you are a business owner or a team leader, is required more than ever. How do you manage people's productivity? How do you balance people's private matters and most of all, if you have to let your staff go, how do you conduct it under the circumstances that we are in right now?
Wesley Dunn, is a digital transformation advisor to C-suites across small, medium to multinational companies.
What's happening to all the pilots, cabin and ground crew?? The airline industry has screeched to a halt during this COVID19 pandemic, pushing them all but to park all their passenger planes in the hangar and on the runway. In an already cash intensive business, where airline companies frequently go bust even in normal economic times, this will kick them into the coffin.
Audomaro Lasta, a captain of an international airline company, talks to us what is happening in the front line of the industry.
If you are an owner of a business, or a team leader in your company, your leadership skills are expected more than ever. While the employees are working remotely juggling with their family duties, and possibly your business running into a wall, how do you show an example of strong leadership as well as empathetic?
Adam Mendler is the CEO of The Veloz Group, owning various ventures across industries, and also a thoughtleader, public speaker in business leadership. He has consulted blue chip enterprises and hedge funds. He also hosts the Thirty Minute Mentors, a podcast where he interviews business leaders on the topic of leadership.
www.adammendler.com
www.thirtyminutementors.com
The COVID19 pandemic is throwing us into the abyss and without a vaccine we are not sure about when we can get back out in society. Yes, you can social distance, hand sanitize, cough into your elbow but what we are seeing here is a complete new normal. New viruses need time to be examined and it's not like you can Google it, snap your fingers and BOOM you have a vaccine. We are gonna be in this situation for a long while. While not killing your anticipation to go back into previous social life, we are going to be confined until we find measures on how to get back out there.
Dr. Derrick Tin says in the meantime, telehealth is one way to cope with this situation.
You can find about Derrick's business at Alpha Zodiacs https://www.alphazodiac.com/
As long as we're online today, there is a high probability we would have encountered ads that cater to our needs and behaviours - and more often than not, with degrees of accuracy that would make us scratch our heads and wonder;
"How on earth does my computer/smartphone know me so damn well?!"
Welcome to the world of programmatic advertising. With great leaps in AI, advertisers have been able to send out highly targeted ads for products and services you are likely to be interested in without even you asking for them!
On one hand it sounds almost magical and looks like real progress. On the other, it does seem like our privacy and autonomy to choose are no longer in our hands.
On to discuss this much talked about topic is Niraj Nagpal, a specialist in this field and more tellingly, ExchangeWire Ad tech personality of the year for 2019.
With his dry humour and astute insights, he unravels the business, technology and purpose behind this exciting but somewhat controversial industry.
Guest: Niraj Nagpal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nirajnagpal/)
(https://www.iponweb.com/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-sing...)
Sound: Dylan Tan (https://www.willdylan.com)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
Media and journalism by the introduction of the internet, especially in the recent decade, was brought down its barrier to allow many amateur content creators to flood the market with information of all sorts and styles. During this quarantine lockdown, we are constantly seeing / reading news about the pandemic, whether they are real, fake or somewhere in between.
Teymoor Nabili, a former reporter of BBC, CNBC, Al Jazeera, Channel News Asia, etc, dives into his thoughts on where the future of media production is going.
Now an Executive Producer at Tech for Impact (https://www.techforimpact.asia/)
The next generation will need to "invest into user friendly technology and quality production such that its relate-able to everybody." - (paraphrasing Teymoor)
We have entered the age of artificial intelligence and big data. Businesses, governments and individuals are harnessing the power of data to get a leg up in strategizing and decision making.
As our technology has advanced, so has our accessibility to devices that can deliver information to us at great speed. This ability to be fed information at our beck and call is dramatically changing the ways by which we interact and conduct ourselves in our day to day lives.
There is however a darker side to it all, that with governments or corporations now having the power to invade our privacy and use our data for commercial or political purposes.
Actionable Intelligence, as Dr Carter explains, is;
"The right information, in the right persons hands, at the right time".
Dr Keith Carter, an associate professor at the NUS School Of Computing unpacks the various dimensions of the technology itself and its broader ramifications.
Guest: Keith Carter (https://www.keithbcarter.com/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-sing...)
Sound/Camera: Dylan Tan (https://www.willdylan.com)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
Digital assets, namely Bitcoin, has morphed from an electronic cash system to a store of value like gold. In moments like this, safe haven asset classes are meant to be investor's top choice. Will Bitcoin perform as they are expected to in these turmoil times?
Matt Dibb, COO of Stack Funds (a long only Bitcoin fund) explains how this digitally shiny new gold is put to test in this volatile markets.
COVID19 has pushed businesses to halt non-essential spending and marketing expenditure has been hit quite hard. Neal Moore shares how businesses can continue marketing but with a different emphasis.
Neal has a 20 year career spanning across TV, publishing, advertising and film in the UK, USA and Asia where he is currently based. In January 2019, he launched Moore's Lore Media (https://www.mooreslore.com/) - Content Strategy & Storytelling Solutions with the goal of helping people and organisations tell better stories for business impact.
Cutting and pasting business models globally obviously doesn't work. Business leaders need to understand that cultural consideration is necessary when landing their business on foreign shores. In respect to Asia, the region is not just one block of the sameness, each country has its own culture, generational preferences and business etiquette.
Prethika explains in her framework called "TRUST" - Trust, Relationships, Up-close, Shake-up and Talent.
Prethika is a writer with a background in international relations. Her interests lie in political and socioeconomic developments in the Southeast Asian region. She has written articles for some of Asia's top brands including Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Grab among many others.
Guest: Prethika Nair (https://www.linkedin.com/in/prethikanair/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-design-podcast/)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-singh-87909625/)
Sound/Camera: Dylan Tan (https://www.willdylan.com)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
Guest: Kamil Haque http://www.kamilhaque.com/, https://methodactingasia.com/
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-design-podcast/
Creative Producer: Kash Singh https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-singh-87909625/
Sound Capture & Recording: Dylan Tan https://www.willdylan.com
Music: ShowNing https://www.showningdj.com
"The artist is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
Those words have held true for generations and as we enter a new era where artists are facing never before seen challenges ranging from socio-political upheavals to technological disruption, the need to disturb the status quo has never been more pressing.
Why was Harvey Weinstein so influential in the movie business and how has the MeToo movement affected behaviour within the industry? Will AI and DeepFake technology spur more creativity in filmmaking? How can actors/artists make themselves more relevant to society? Will the disruptive influence of streaming platforms eventually usurp the big movie theatres and the box office revenue model?
Kamil Haque, a multi-ethnic actor, director, producer and acting coach, discusses some of these hot button topics and unravels what it means to be an actor in this modern age.
Having starred in award-winning productions around the world, he is also the founder of Haque Centre of Acting & Creativity (HCAC), Singapore’s first professional acting studio. His journey began in Los Angeles where he enrolled in the American Music & Drama Academy (AMDA) where he graduated top of his class with a BA (Hons) in Acting.
Following that, he attained the distinction of being the first Singaporean and the only Asian at that time to train and teach at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute (LSTFI). He is currently the only coach in Asia experienced in teaching the Strasberg Method of Acting.
Kamil was also the Head Acting Instructor at East West Players, the USA’s oldest Asian American Theatre group, as well as the role of Global Internship Director at the Company of Angels (CoA), Los Angeles’ oldest repertory theatre company. He is a working observer at The Actor's Studio - the first Singaporean to be given this title.
To date, Kamil has coached well over 1000 students, many of whom have gone on to star in major Hollywood blockbusters as well as Emmy award winning productions. Like the founding members of the Group Theatre, Kamil hopes to inspire the 'Fervent Years' in the lives of people he meets and works with.
Guest: Pieter Fourie https://fcl.ethz.ch/people/CoreTeam/PieterFourie.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieter-j-fourie-392b4092/
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-design-podcast/
Creative Producer: Kash Singh https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-singh-87909625/
Sound: Dylan Tan https://www.willdylan.com
Music: ShowNing https://www.showningdj.com
“Run for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?” You may recall when Marty McFly and Doc Emmet Brown went back to 1885, and Doc in a saloon was rambling with the gents about how horse carriages became motorized carriages called automobile, and people just run for fun. Will zero marginal cost and autonomous vehicle usher in a reality where we will just walk for fun?
Dr Pieter Fourie is the project leader of the Engaging Mobility group at FCL. Pieter has more than 10 years experience in agent-based transport simulation and has been an active developer of the open source MATSim project since 2008.
https://fcl.ethz.ch/research/responsive-cities/engaging-mobility.html
He wants to bring these tools into practice, and see simulations used in neighborhood sketch-planning. Pieter obtained his PhD from ETH Zurich while at FCL and received the ETH Medal for his PhD thesis 'Data-driven Transit Simulation'.
Much of his research deals with the generation of models depicting more realistic populations of households and individuals that are derived from limited and incomplete information. Along with this team he has developed an integrated approach to modelling coordinated activity such as ride-sharing behavior and speeding up agent based transport simulations through meta-modelling techniques.
Guest: Bidushi Bhattacharya (https://www.astropreneurs-hub.com/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-design-podcast/)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-singh-87909625/)
Sound/Camera: Dylan Tan (https://www.willdylan.com)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
Bidushi says that the new space race is going to be in India and China. However, if we want to explore space, it shouldn’t be a race but something that the human race should be doing united as one, by sharing knowledge, information and resources. Humans have an everlasting hunger for knowledge and we will be pushing the boundaries way beyond Mars and there are so many developments from space pharma to agriculture that are happening to make this possible.
An ex-NASA scientist-turned-astropreneur, she has three decades experience in spacecraft development and operations, NewSpace startup growth, academic administration, scientific research, and technical writing.She is Founder of Astropreneurs HUB, a Singapore- and US-based startup dedicated to space workforce development through software solutions and sector-related training.
Her previous experience includes over two decades with NASA as a scientist and engineer. She has analyzed and synthesized technical information and played a key role in fostering communication between academic and industrial teams with varying priorities and work cultures, both within the US and overseas. NASA projects have included the Hubble Space Telescope, the Mars Rover Program, the Galileo Mission to Jupiter, the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, and others.
Dr. Bhattacharya also has experience in higher education research development and established the Office of Sponsored Research for science programs at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, in Claremont, California, where she increased federal award rates by 67%, and managed $4 million in active grants.Dr. Bhattacharya holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in space physics from the UCLA as well as dual degrees from Rutgers University, a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a B.A. in physics.
Guest: Siddarth Sthalekar (https://www.sacred.capital/)
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama (https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-design-podcast/)
Creative Producer: Kash Singh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-singh-87909625/)
Sound/Camera: Dylan Tan (https://www.willdylan.com)
Music: ShowNing (https://www.showningdj.com)
Traditional monetary capital is based on zero-sum and absolute standards. However, this does not capture all the human value creation because we do so much more than what can be captured by simple monetary terms. How do we integrate this into quantifiable value?
A graduate of IIM Ahmedabad, Siddharth was the head of South Asia’s largest trading floor until 2011. He then spent four years in the Gandhi Ashram where he explored new paradigms for economics.
He is based out of Singapore where he has founded Sacred Capital. Together with team-mates around the world, they are building a reputation based economy to unleash multi-dimensional wealth. Their reputation interchange enables scaling of new forms of capital: social, cultural and intellectual.
Over the past 8 years, Siddharth has spoken at hundreds of public forums - from weekly features on television channels, to academic institutions like MIT, platforms for ideas like TEDx and more. His story has also been featured in publications like Forbes Asia, GQ and more."
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...
Guest: Jimeno Fonseca https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimenofonseca/
https://www.jimenofonseca.com/
Creative Producer: Kash Singh https://www.linkedin.com/in/kash-sing...
Music: ShowNing https://www.showningdj.com
Sound: Dylan Tan https://www.willdylan.com
We live in a world powered by the burning of fossil fuels. While it has enabled industrialization, delivered electricity to our homes and exponentially increased our mobility, it has come at tremendous cost to our environment and has proved to be unsustainable in the long run.
Jimeno Fonseca from Future Cities Laboratory, is a senior researcher and part of a team of scientists and professionals from related disciplines that is currently reimagining and designing cities of the future. An expert in urban energy systems, he shares with us some of the innovations and emerging new models and that will pave the way for greener and more cost effective solutions to the distribution of power in cities.
Future Cities Laboratory is an arm of ETH Zurich and is run in collaboration with the National Research Foundation. It’s aim is to shape cities through innovations in science and urban design. Feel free to drop by at their home page at:
https://fcl.ethz.ch/
Do we just want quick dopamine hits? Is it true that we are really so starved for attention, desperate for the “likes” we get on social media, that we post whatever makes people react?
Do we really want instant gratification? Do we wish to stuff our faces with junk food, then snap our fingers and expect to have a body like a demi-god?
Have we lost our attention span? Can we listen to a speech for more than 10 minutes without pulling out our smartphones?
The internet has lowered barriers to create and distribute content. We are drowning in so much information and content, and making rapid choices on the kind of content that we take in. On top of that we now have a polarization of quality. How do we make these choices? Why do we spend time on one content and not on another? How do content creators create content that sticks?
Watch Neal Moore break these down for us in our latest podcast.
Neal has a 20 year career spanning across TV, publishing, advertising and film in the UK, USA and Asia where he is currently based.
He was originally trained as an actor and then as a journalist. He co-founded Click2View, Singapore’s first dedicated content marketing agency in 2010, which served world-class clients including AIA, Ben & Jerry's, Canon, Cisco, Citibank, Google, HSBC, Panasonic, Singtel & Visa.
After selling his business in 2017, he spent a year writing, developing and producing two short films, a sitcom and a podcast series, before taking a role as Head of Content & Business Development with Southeast Asia's largest independent production company.
In January 2019, he launched Moore's Lore Media (https://www.mooreslore.com/) - Content Strategy & Storytelling Solutions with the goal of helping people and organisations tell better stories for business impact. He has been featured in Asian Entrepreneur, Inc. ASEAN, Marketing Magazine, Mumbrella Asia, Singapore Business Review, South China Morning Post, The Guardian, on Australia+, BBC Asia Business Report and the BBC’s Talking Business with Linda Yueh.
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...
Guest: Neal Moore https://www.mooreslore.com
Music: ShowNing https://www.showningdj.com
Sound: Dylan Tan https://www.willdylan.com
What do we need to spiritually harness an empowering technology such as blockchain?
Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, technology is as well. While it can be used to scam people or launder money, it can also be used to create a society that is more open and transparent. The internet has given people so much access to information that it has limited government’s power to control the people with propaganda. Blockchain technology is taking it to another level by further giving people the accountability and control of that information. We are at the cusp of that change and with an egalitarian society it can be a reality. Is the human race ready to embrace this technology with the right mindset?
I believe when creating technology or business, if it weren’t for the betterment of humanity, society and the planet that we live in, there is no point. This desire to elevate ourselves to a higher level of social connectivity derives from our heart, and our spirit. Blockchain can help us achieve this greater purpose.
But is blockchain just another fad? Weren’t there scams that entrenched the whole industry a few years ago?
Bitcoin was created so as to send money peer to peer by circumventing the central bank’s authority to control money flow. The underlying technology called blockchain allows for value and information to be exchanged without an intermediary. It is now being explored from startups to multi-national companies, which is making a groundbreaking impact on how we store, exchange and trace data.
Watch Karthik explain how we can take a step forward with spirituality.
Karthik Iyer is the ambassador of the P2P-Foundation (https://p2pfoundation.net/) and runs Blockchain Monk (http://blockchainmonk.com/) a DLT / DAO think tank out of Singapore and San Francisco. Due to his P2P-Foundation links, he has been involved in the Blockchain space for close to a decade. He was featured in the top 100 Fintech influencer list and mentors dozens of DLT startups in 4 continents.
He is a serial entrepreneur and founded Asia’s first neural network in the matching space and was part of the team that built one of the first tablet devices way back in 2007; he has successfully exited all his ventures to date. He holds close to half a dozen degrees from leading schools in the world like KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, Fudan University in China, among others.
He is regularly featured in Forbes, Economist and leading newspapers in Scandinavia, India and other Asian countries for his work on Blockchain & AI.
Host: Takatoshi Shibayama - https://www.blockshinesg.com/future-d...
Guest: Karthik Iyer - http://forums.theasianbanker.com/Bitc...
Music: ShowNing - https://www.showningdj.com
Sound: Dylan Tan -