Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies Voice to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.

Almost here, means these technologies are now here and

starting to be used.

We're just around the corner.

From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast.

I've got a really interesting guest, guest as usual, but this one's probably even more interesting than most

Dr. Basil Harris of the Basil Leaf team the X Prize winner. Dr Basil how you

doing? I'm doing doing great thanks Rich thanks for having me yeah so can you tell a listener's a little bit about your

background and then we'll get into the the ex-price contest you're involved in

to her so I'm an ER, that's what I'm still doing full-time, but before that I was an engineer working with materials and mechanical and structural engineering and now I'm building tricorters.

So you went through engineering

which I did.

Then you decided, oh, I'm not done punishing myself,

so you went through medical school

to become a doctor, too?

That's right, yeah.

My wife says, I like to be a perpetual student.

So I went through, did a PhD in engineering,

and then decided, hey, medicine sounds cool

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