Core Memory
by Ashlee Vance
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The Man Who Sees The Future - EP 94 Neal Stephenson
The Man Who Sees The Future - EP 94 Neal Stephenson
About this podcast
Core Memory is a podcast about science and technology hosted by best-selling author and filmmaker Ashlee Vance.
Vance has spent the past two decades chronicling advances in science and tech for publications like The Economist, The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek. Along with the stories, he's written best-selling books like Elon Musk’s biography, made an Emmy-nominated tech TV show watched by millions and produced films for HBO and Netflix. The goal has always been to bring the tales of complex technology and compelling people to the public and give them a path into exceptional and unusual worlds they would not normally have a chance to experience.
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Episodes
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- The Man Who Sees The Future - EP 94 Neal Stephenson · 1 h 37 min · Episode 94Neal Stephenson came on the podcast. What else do I have to tell you? The man has a weird mind portal into how technology will develop and has influenced generations of nerds. As…
- The Future Of Fighter Jets - EP 93 Hermeus With Zach Shore And A.J. Piplica · 54 min · Episode 93We’re heading into fighter jet territory this week with Zach Shore (CEO) and A.J. Piplica (Co-Founder and Executive Chairman) of Hermeus. Founded in 2018, Hermeus has set out to…
- Robots Like Us - EP 92 Andrew Kiguel and Matt McMullen From Realbotix · 1 h 12 min · Episode 92Our guests this week are Andrew Kiguel and Matt McMullen from Realbotix. Realbotix makes humanoid robots that actually look like humans. McMullen, who founded the company, has…
- He Bought A Ghost Town And Became A YouTube Star - EP 91 Brent Underwood · 56 min · Episode 91This week’s guest is Brent Underwood, the proud owner of Cerro Gordo Mines. That’s right. In 2018, Underwood bought the ghost town of Cerro Gordo, located near Death Valley in…
- He’s Here To End Death - EP 90 Dr. Emil Kendziorra · 1 h 30 min · Episode 90A few years ago, some people put me in a van and drove me to the edge of Moscow. And by “the edge of Moscow,” I mean where things started to get a bit rural. We turned off a road…
- The Wordcel Queen Of Silicon Valley — EP 89 Anna Gát · 1 h 28 min · Episode 134We’ve heard a lot of moonshot ideas on this podcast, but this week’s guest may have the most impossible one yet: making tech more cultured. In this episode, Ashlee sat down with…
- Solar Energy's Second Act — EP 88 Joel Jean · 1 h 29 min · Episode 88In this episode, Ashlee sits down with Joel Jean, CEO of Swift Solar, a San Carlos-based startup trying to create new solar technology using perovskite. We previously published a…
- The Xbox Nearly Destroyed Him - EP 87 Seamus Blackley · 1 h 23 min · Episode 87This episode is nerd catnip unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Ashlee sat down with Seamus Blackley, who you might know as the man who talked Microsoft into building the…
- Gene Therapies That Work? - EP 86 Adrian Veres · 1 h 34 min · Episode 86We have been promised glorious gene therapies for decades. This is supposed to be the stuff of reprogramming the body to blunt or cure diseases with something approaching a…
- The Realest Longevity Guru - EP 85 Alex Colville · 1 h 39 min · Episode 85Over the past five years, Alex Colville has become one of the most influential figures in the longevity and aging fields. There’s a decent chance you have not heard of him, which…
- AI Will Cure Us All!! Or Not!! - EP 84 Abhi Mahajan · 1 h 58 min · Episode 84Every couple of days, a new AI-meets-biotech startup sends me a pitch, and the pitches all sound the same. AI is amazing, and it can now tame biology. We’re on the cusp of…
- The Google Engineer Who Set The Skydiving Record At 58 - EP 83 Alan Eustace · 2 h 7 min · Episode 83Most people think that the Red Bull guy Felix Baumgartner holds the skydiving record. But this is not the case. The real record-holder is Alan Eustace. In 2014, at age 58, the…
- An Implant That Tracks And Treats Cancer Tumors - EP 82 Ben Woodington · 1 h 22 min · Episode 82Treating cancer remains a crude practice. We cut, burn and poison tumors, and we do all this with relatively little precision around both the initial treatment and our ongoing…
- Inside The Media Marvel That Is TBPN · 6 minThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.corememory.com Running a media business is hard. You’re competing for people’s attention. You must produce a…
- Quantum Everything Explained - EP 81 Prineha Narang · 1 h 38 min · Episode 81Prineha Narang is one of the rising stars of science and the field of quantum technology. She earned her PhD in applied physics at Caltech, taught materials science at Harvard…
- He Came From Oz To Save American Manufacturing - EP 80 Chris Power · 58 min · Episode 80A few years ago, I was lunching with a young Australian man who told me he hoped to modernize manufacturing in America. This man seemed enthusiastic and ambitious, but I must…
- The Manufacturing Phenomenon That Is SendCutSend - EP 79 Jim Belosic · 1 h 20 min · Episode 79If you spend any time inside a company that actually makes things in the U.S., then you’ll hear about SendCutSend. Started in 2018, SendCutSend has become an American…
- Body Scanners, Banned Models, and DeepMind's Space Game Obsession - EP 78 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison · 1 h 26 min · Episode 78Did Kylie and I attend the Midjourney Scanner event? Yes, we did. Did Kylie compare notes on her skincare routine with Bryan Johnson at the event? Also, yes. Meanwhile, I formed…
- The Future Of Our Brains And Bodies - EP 77 Max Hodak Live Event · 1 h 9 min · Episode 77Max Hodak is back. The co-founder and CEO of Science Corp. joined me for our first-ever live podcast recording, which took place at the Brex headquarters in San Francisco. Thanks…
- The Space Race Is So Back — EP 76 Ashlee Vance And Kylie Robison · 1 h 22 min · Episode 76The theme for this week’s episode is tick, tick, boom. America is running out of time to catch up with China on manufacturing, and we’re physically incapable of spending an hour…
