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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 cold, dead planet back to life? Can we build an atmosphere on Mars, thaw the frozen plains, and build an ocean? H...
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52 episodiPeter 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. Thiel argue...
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 purpos...
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...
Garrett Langley // Standing Guard
Flock Safety is building a national network of security cameras monitoring neighborhood traffic. In some cities, their work has been instrumental in r...
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 important...
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 brought to i...
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 members of the p...
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 months, or...
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 homes. In Ja...
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 possible...
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 are they s...
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 homeschoolers.
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 connected, for hu...
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 cars? In thi...
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 to talk abo...
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 work, and wh...
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, and the dire...
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 least... dif...
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 Next we've...
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 conversation with a...
NEW WORLD # 9 — Multiplanar Humanity
Augmented and virtual realities are introducing a digital layering to the human experience that will dramatically impact every city of the future. In...
Christina Lomasney // Material Advance, Part Two
In our second episode on materials science, we take a look at metal. Christina Lomasney is the CEO of Modumetal, a company nanoscopically-engineering...
Dan Widmaier // Material Advance, Part One
Dan Widmaier is the founder and CEO of Bolt Threads. They make materials from nature that are high performance, but hard to extract, and develop techn...
Paul Dabrowski // Biological Factory
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 tools that he...
Adrian Aoun // Martian Sick Day
As we plan the shape of our future Martian capital, we continue our conversation with Adrian Aoun, founder of Forward, a company changing the way we t...
NEW WORLD #8 — City in the Stars
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 first colony...
Palmer Luckey // A New Defense
Technology has changed the nature of the threats our society is facing, but the defense industry is still mostly approaching these questions with a tw...
Technology and Defense at Founders Fund HQ
Founders Fund recently hosted a panel on defense: a conversation at the intersection of the U.S. government and the technology industry, or D.C. vs. S...
NEW WORLD # 7 — Make Man Martian
What if instead of changing the Martian environment to better suit human life... we changed the human being — genetically? In conversation with Josiah...
Lewis Dartnell // The Knowledge
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 material? Let's s...
Gabriel Licina // Biohackers
In this supplemental episode we sit back down with biologist Gabriel Licina, founder of Sci-House, a small nonprofit running community education, outr...
NEW WORLD #6 — Alien Ecology
Anatomy of Next returns, and we design the Martian forests and fields. We've built an atmosphere on Mars, warmed the planet, and jumpstarted it's hydr...
Jamie Hyneman // Eureka deconstructed
Invention proceeds from ideation, but where do ideas come from? Jamie Hyneman is best known for his work on the Discovery Channel TV show Mythbusters,...
Maisie Williams // Art, identity, and this is your brain on Twitter
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 Williams is an...
Dan Kaminsky // Security
In an age of digital identity, how do we protect ourselves in an increasingly insecure world? In 2008, Dan Kaminsky identified a critical flaw in the...
Barbara Moreau // Raising astronauts
Nothing can be achieved without some convincing that it’s possible – we need to be inspired. Barbara Moreau was my third grade teacher, and one of the...
Nick Bostrom // Superbrains and simulated worlds
What happens when the most intelligent being on earth is smarter than the average human by an order of magnitude? Dr. Nick Bostrom is Director of the...
George Church // Genetically modified everything
Dr. George Church leads Synthetic Biology at Harvard’s Wyss Institute. Author of Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves,...
Stuart Armstrong // Dyson swarms and death rays
Dr. Stuart Armstrong researches the potential for intelligent life across the universe. In this work, he’s speculated on the kinds of engineering we s...