StarTalk Live: Building the Future with Jason Silva – Video

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StarTalk Live: Building the Future with Jason Silva
On November 27th, 2012, StarTalk Live brought a little science to the world of dollars and cents at the Business Insider IGNITION conference. Now you #39;re invited to hear astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Eugene Mirman and guest futurists Jason Silva and Melissa Sterry answer questions that lie at the intersection of technology, human biology and urban planning. Will bio-ware and nanotechnology allow humans to reprogram our biology? Can smart-materials, adaptive structures and sensor nets help city planners and policy makers create smart cities that adapt to environmental change the way forests do? Are we really approaching a "technological singularity" of emerging super-intelligence beyond which events cannot be predicted -- and has humanity actually experienced one before? Co-Host: Eugene Mirman, comedian Guests: Jason Silva, futurist Melissa Sterry, futurist Music: Segment 1: The future of space exploration, and robots and machines as extensions of the human mind. The Future is Now, The Offspring Reach for the Stars, Will.i.am Segment 2: Bionics and bio-mimicry, taking design from nature, the singularity, transportation, eliminating the banal. Bionic, Christina Aguilera Travellin Man, Mos Def Segment 3: Smart cities of tomorrow. This City, Patrick Stump, featuring Lupe Fiasco Empire State of Mind, Alicia Keys and JayZ Segment 4: Asteroid impacts, hurricanes, geo-engineering. Eve of Destruction, Screaming Jets (cover) Orbital, Impact (The Earth is Burning ...From:JordanArdenViews:26 1ratingsTime:39:16More inPeople Blogs

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