David Orban On Decentralized, Exponential Technologies
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2017
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
David explains how exponential organizations work vs. more traditional, centralized and hierarchically organized corporations. David compares traditional means of producing energy using fossil fuels (requiring tremendous infrastructure, time, capital, and more) vs. solar and other renewable energy solutions (more simple, decentralized, and distributed).
Also discussed are some of David's favorite companies such as Modern Meadow (applying the latest advances in tissue engineering to develop novel bio-materials to address global animal slaughter by 3d-printing meat, requiring substantially less land, water, energy, food, and chemical inputs.
This is a fascinating talk with another singularity university faculty member. Listen, review, subscribe, and keep tuned to Future Tech Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:08.0 | Future Technologies Boys to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Almost here, means these technologies are now here and |
| 0:16.7 | starting to be used. |
| 0:18.2 | We're just around the corner. |
| 0:19.7 | From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, |
| 0:22.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, this is Richard Jacobs with Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | Today I have a great guest, David Orbán, |
| 0:32.0 | the founder and chair of Network Society Ventures. |
| 0:35.0 | David, how you doing? |
| 0:37.0 | I'm very well. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, thanks for taking the time. |
| 0:42.0 | I know David was also a faculty member at |
| 0:46.2 | Seularity University and when we talked to people of that caliber that are |
| 0:51.2 | associated with Singularity University. |
| 0:53.0 | They have many, many interests. |
| 0:55.0 | So we always have to focus just on one. |
| 0:57.0 | So today, we'll talk about the network of interest activities. |
| 1:01.0 | So David, you know, tell listeners what do you do network ventures? What's the goal of a company there? |
| 1:08.0 | Network Society ventures is an early stage, seed stage venture capital investment firm. We focus on the |
| 1:17.0 | intersection of exponential technologies and decentralized networks and maybe it is worth unpacking already what that means. |
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