GDay World 390 – David Horn on the Space Elevator Conference
Posted on 05. Aug, 2009 by Cameron Reilly in big brains, entrepreneurialism, entrepreneurship, future makers, Podcast, science, space travel
David Horn works with Microsoft in Seattle and is one of the organisers of the 2009 Space Elevator Conference. What is a “space elevator”, I hear you ask? Only the coolest idea you’ve ever heard! Imagine a day in the not-too-distant future where getting into space involves jumping into something like a luxury train that travels VERTICALLY – up into the air – traveling along a ‘ribbon’ made of carbon nanotubes – for a week until you get outside of the earth’s gravitational pull and THEN you jump in your space vehicle, which is attached to the other end of the ribbon, detach, and get flung into space via centrifugal force!
Links:
Wikipedia entry on Space Elevators.
Book your ticket for the 2009 Space Elevator Conference here.
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G’Day World Video – Peter Ellyard discusses “Designing 2050″
Posted on 05. Jun, 2008 by Cameron in big brains, climate change, environment, future makers, Podcast, TPNTXT, Video
I had the pleasure once again today to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist, one of our most popular public speakers and, of course, author of the historic first book published by TPNTXT:
“Designing 2050: Pathways to sustainable prosperity on spaceship earth”.
The auction for two signed proof copies of the book can be found here. The auction ends 15-Jun-08Â 22:11:27 AEST.
You can buy a new copy of “Designing 2050″, either in paperback or ebook format, here.
Watch the video interview:
G’Day World #323 – Aubrey de Grey
Posted on 19. May, 2008 by Cameron in Australian media, big brains, Podcast, science, transhumanism
In #323 I welcome back a previous G’Day World guest, one of my favourite scientists, Dr Aubrey de Grey.
Aubrey is the founder of The Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit 501c(3) organization committed to the acceleration of progress toward a cure for age-related disease, disability, suffering, and death.
They are running a special conference on aging at UCLA from June 27 – 29 and the Friday night session, with three hours of speeches from leaders in the field, is FREE. Book tickets here.
If you want to learn more about SENS, here’s a link to the show I did with Aubrey back in August 2005:
G’Day World #42 – Aubrey de Grey
The music on today’s show is “1,000,000″ from the new Nine Inch Nails album “THE SLIP“, which is licensed under a creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.
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play it on your podcast,
give it to strangers,
etc..
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G’Day World #264 – Dr Peter Ellyard, Futurist (Part Four)
Posted on 12. Jul, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in big brains, environment, future makers, Melbourne's Leaders, Podcast
Today it’s again my pleasure to catch up with Dr Peter Ellyard, Australia’s leading futurist. We caught up for lunch in South Yarra today and chatted about why visionaries often feel frustrated with their own progress, the need for a world democracy and how shareholders can use their voting power to effect political change.
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