Can Electric Aircraft Revolutionize Aviation?
I asked someone who was flying one. The person who made me think differently about electric aviation was an engineer by the name of Joshua Portlock. I had big lingering doubts about the battery/weight compromises, but here was this guy making noise about the subject, trying to get approvals to set up a commercial sightseeing service …
CRISPR and the Future of Food
How do we feed a planet? How do we do it through peak population, without wreaking catastrophic destruction on the biosphere and losing all semblance of the planet we once had? In October 2022, I had the privilege of spending an afternoon with Distinguished Professor Rodolphe Barrangou and visiting his CRISPR lab at North Carolina State University …
NET ZERO: TALKING POINTS I FIND USEFUL
A few talking points I find useful to cut-though all the misinformation and get people connected to the CERTAINTIES and enormous OPPORTUNITIES in the future of energy …
THE FUTURE OF SUPERCONDUCTORS — WITH PAUL CHU
Last week I was lucky enough to spend time with Paul Chu, the God of superconductors. Superconductors conduct electricity with zero resistance and are vital to MRI machines, wind turbines, mag-lev trains and more …
FUTURE OF CANCER THERAPIES AT MD ANDERSON
Privileged to visit Nobel Laureate Jim Allison’s lab at MD Anderson in Houston, where they are making stellar progress on their mission to ‘make cancer history’ (isn’t THAT a great mission statement!) …
FUTURE OF AI - ARTIFICAL NEURAL NETWORKS MY TOP DISRUPTOR
A.I. will drive exponential change, all industries, all sectors, through the next 10 years. No question. Artificial Neural Networks are my top disruptor ...