Peter Thiel // The Diversity Myth, 30 Years Later
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...
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Anatomy of Next
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...
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Patri Friedman // Starting Over
What if we just... left? The challenges facing our cities are enormous. Our problems could take years to correct, or decades. The purpose of...
Robert Poole // Gridlock
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...
Garrett Langley // Standing Guard
Flock Safety is building a national network of security cameras monitoring neighborhood traffic. In some cities, their work has been instrum...
ASYLUM #3 — Trivial Pursuit
In San Francisco, how does government work? Who is in charge, what can they do — structurally, what are they actually capable of? — and most...
Daniela Perdomo // A New Signal
There's almost nothing more terrifying than losing communication in the heat of a blazing wildfire. In recent months, California has been br...
Fnnch // Brand New Paint Job
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...
Matthew Putman // Nano City
Consider the computer mouse. It takes a massive, sprawling, global system, and thousands of parts and people from all over the world, many m...
Alexis Rivas // House Factory
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...
ASYLUM #2 — Legalize Housing
The housing crisis is the root of almost every serious challenge San Francisco faces. From property to construction to regulation, when it’s...
Andrew Farah // Density
Almost every infrastructural challenge our cities face begins with the question of density. How many people are actually in the city? Where...
Ryan Delk // School is Not a Place
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...
Joshua Browder // An Army of Robotic Lawyers
Overcomplicated bureaucracy has been a plague on human productivity, with a disproportionately adverse affect on the poor and poorly connect...
Delian Asparouhov // Machines That Drive
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...
Ryan Petersen // Global Trade and Civilization
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...
ASYLUM #1 — Boomtown, USA
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...
NEW WORLD #11 — Interstellar
SEASON TWO FINALE: and we enter the galaxy. From an atmosphere and an ocean to genetically-modified flora, new AR construction paradigms, an...
Kai-Fu Lee // China
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...
NEW WORLD #10 — Sex in Space, Part One
Sex, reproduction, and marriage have been linked for most of human history, but today that paradigm is evolving. This season of Anatomy of N...
NEW WORLD #10 — Sex in Space, Part Two
In our last episode, we looked at the technologies that are fundamentally changing biological reproduction. Now, we conclude that conversati...