Season 5, Episode 10 - What is the future that you would like to build?

We are releasing this episode a couple days after a former US president had an attempt on his life. Without getting political, I believe it emphasizes the gravity of the question that we always try to pose: what is the future that you would like to build?

We wrap up Season 5 by covering breakthroughs in passive insulation and cooling, self-powering blood monitors, and how AI has developed never-before seen bioluminescent proteins. We also cover new solutions to flow algorithms, and how they might underpin all the advancements in the other discoveries.

Please enjoy our final episode for Season 5, we’ll see you again soon!

Sean’s links:

• Blood-powered sensors

• Wearable sweat-powered sensors

• EvolutionaryScale designing new bioluminescent proteins

• Etched building AI model-specific chips

• Radioactive rhino horns

• BONUS (NSFW): lab-grown skin on robots

Ben’s links:

• Breakthroughs in flow algorithms

• Passive heating and cooling with plastics

• Vision Pro and Apple Intelligence

• The long-term benefits of multivitamins

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