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In the second season of Anatomy of Next, explore every aspect of going to Mars, transforming it into a habitable world, and building a new branch of human civilization. How do we bring a col...
Nearly 30 years after publishing “The Diversity Myth,” Peter Thiel sits down with Mike Solana to unpack what the book got right and wrong. T...
What if we just... left? The challenges facing our cities are enormous. Our problems could take years to correct, or decades. The purpose of...
Why is the traffic so bad? And why is so hard to build new transportation infrastructure? Robert Poole is the co-founder and director of tra...
Flock Safety is building a national network of security cameras monitoring neighborhood traffic. In some cities, their work has been instrum...
In San Francisco, how does government work? Who is in charge, what can they do — structurally, what are they actually capable of? — and most...
There's almost nothing more terrifying than losing communication in the heat of a blazing wildfire. In recent months, California has been br...
Who owns our streets? Our bus and train stops? Our public walls and public parks? If public property truly belongs to the public, can member...
Consider the computer mouse. It takes a massive, sprawling, global system, and thousands of parts and people from all over the world, many m...
Separate from our government's anti-housing policies, a big piece of our crisis in affordability comes down to the way we think about new ho...
The housing crisis is the root of almost every serious challenge San Francisco faces. From property to construction to regulation, when it’s...
Almost every infrastructural challenge our cities face begins with the question of density. How many people are actually in the city? Where...
Ryan Delk is the founder and CEO of Primer, a company rethinking the way we educate our children, beginning with tools to help out homeschoo...
Overcomplicated bureaucracy has been a plague on human productivity, with a disproportionately adverse affect on the poor and poorly connect...
As we continue our conversation on the city, we turn to traffic and begin with the big related tech story — what happened to self-driving ca...
How do we get our stuff? Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, a freight forwarding and customs brokerage company. We sat down t...
This season on Anatomy of Next we return to Earth, and we take a look around the neighborhood. How do our cities work, where do they need wo...
SEASON TWO FINALE: and we enter the galaxy. From an atmosphere and an ocean to genetically-modified flora, new AR construction paradigms, an...
This season we've talked a lot about different ways of doing things. Now let's talk about a country that IS doing things differently — at le...
Sex, reproduction, and marriage have been linked for most of human history, but today that paradigm is evolving. This season of Anatomy of N...
In our last episode, we looked at the technologies that are fundamentally changing biological reproduction. Now, we conclude that conversati...
Augmented and virtual realities are introducing a digital layering to the human experience that will dramatically impact every city of the f...
In our second episode on materials science, we take a look at metal. Christina Lomasney is the CEO of Modumetal, a company nanoscopically-en...
Dan Widmaier is the founder and CEO of Bolt Threads. They make materials from nature that are high performance, but hard to extract, and dev...
What if you could plant a seed, and grow a building? A few episodes ago we talked to Paul Dabrowski, CEO of Synthego, a company building too...
As we plan the shape of our future Martian capital, we continue our conversation with Adrian Aoun, founder of Forward, a company changing th...
What will the first city on Mars look like? From a brief history of urban planning and utopianism on Earth, to selecting the site for our fi...
Technology has changed the nature of the threats our society is facing, but the defense industry is still mostly approaching these questions...
Founders Fund recently hosted a panel on defense: a conversation at the intersection of the U.S. government and the technology industry, or...
What if instead of changing the Martian environment to better suit human life... we changed the human being — genetically? In conversation w...
What if we had to rebuild human civilization from scratch — on Earth? Could you build a power plant with your own hands and some raw materia...
In this supplemental episode we sit back down with biologist Gabriel Licina, founder of Sci-House, a small nonprofit running community educa...
Anatomy of Next returns, and we design the Martian forests and fields. We've built an atmosphere on Mars, warmed the planet, and jumpstarted...
Invention proceeds from ideation, but where do ideas come from? Jamie Hyneman is best known for his work on the Discovery Channel TV show My...
Separate from the question of how to build a world is the question of what makes a world worth living in. Let’s talk about art. Maisie Willi...
In an age of digital identity, how do we protect ourselves in an increasingly insecure world? In 2008, Dan Kaminsky identified a critical fl...
Nothing can be achieved without some convincing that it’s possible – we need to be inspired. Barbara Moreau was my third grade teacher, and...
What happens when the most intelligent being on earth is smarter than the average human by an order of magnitude? Dr. Nick Bostrom is Direct...
Dr. George Church leads Synthetic Biology at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. Author of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and O...
Dr. Stuart Armstrong researches the potential for intelligent life across the universe. In this work, he’s speculated on the kinds of engine...
The AON team tells you what's up next for the podcast.
Let’s talk about the ethics of terraforming. Dr. Chris McKay is a Senior Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center’s Planetary Systems Branch a...
Mars is a frozen, irradiated desert world with almost no hope for life…but it doesn’t have to be. In this episode, we explore the mechanics...
Martian colonization is one of the most dangerous goals humanity has ever undertaken, and there are no shortage of ways to die in space. Fro...
In Episode 2.3, we look at “strange” rockets: nuclear, antimatter, and ion thrust. The tremendous amount of time it takes to move through sp...
Why is Mars important? In Episode 2.2, we explore the philosophies that dominate our thinking on the subject of Mars — humanism and anti-hum...
Before we can approach the task of building humanity’s second home on Mars, we need to get there. In Episode 2.1, we explore the most likely...
If it’s probable intelligent alien life exists, where’s the evidence? In our season two teaser – Episode 2.0 – we discuss Fermi’s paradox. T...
In Episode 1.5, we explore virtual, augmented, and simulated worlds. What is the nature of reality?
In Episode 1.4, we conclude our look at robotics, and we challenge commonly held fears regarding machine intelligence. The “angry god” AI of...
In Episode 1.3, our first week on robotics, we look at the automation of labor. We explore how humans are currently living and working with...