Recode Decode: Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Authors Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about their latest book together, The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Disrupting Business, Industries, and Our Lives. They explain why the future is getting harder to predict and how "exponential technologies" — including robotics, AI, biotechnology, AR/VR, and quantum computing — will change everything from education to old age. Diamandis and Kotler also talk about the importance of having a hopeful vision of the future, in spite of the negative facets of technology, such as addiction and loss of privacy. Plus: Why autonomous cars will "reboot the sex industry." Featuring: Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis), XPRIZE founder and co-author, The Future Is Faster Than You Think Steven Kotler (@steven_kotler), Flow Research Collective executive director and co-author, The Future Is Faster Than You Think Host: Kara Swisher (@karaswisher), Recode co-founder and editor-at-large More to explore: On Reset, Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything. On Recode Media, Peter Kafka interviews business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters about the collision of tech and media. On Pivot, Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway talk about the big tech news stories of the week, who's winning, who's failing, and what comes next. And on Land of the Giants, Jason Del Rey chronicled the rise of Amazon. Season 2 will focus on Netflix and is coming soon! About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Follow Us: Newsletter: Recode Daily Twitter: @Recode and @voxdotcom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gideon Litchfield, I'm the editor-in-chief of Oired.
0:02.6	And I'm Lauren Good, I'm a senior writer at Wired.
0:05.2	We're making a new show.
0:06.5	Have a nice future.
0:09.0	I'm more have a nice future, question mark.
0:12.5	It's a show that is honest about how unsettling the future can be.
0:16.9	We're going to be bringing on the people shaping this future.
0:20.6	We're going to ask them about the big challenges we face, about the challenges they're creating,
0:24.9	and how they deal with living in perpetual uncertainty as we all do.
0:29.3	So make sure you follow Have a Nice Future, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-at-large of Recode.
0:38.2	You may know me as someone who can predict the future.
0:40.4	Wait, I'm getting something you're going to listen to a podcast,
0:43.0	but in my spare time, I'm just a reporter and you're listening to Recode Decode,
0:46.1	a podcast about power change, and the people you need to know around tech and beyond
0:49.9	were part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:52.4	Today in the red chairs are Peter, Diamandes, and Stephen Kotler,
0:56.2	the best-selling authors of books about the future, such as Abundance and Bold.
1:00.5	Their newest book together is called The Future is Faster than You Think,
1:04.2	How Converging Technologies are Transferring Business, Industries and Our Lives.
1:08.4	Peter is also the founder of the nonprofit X Prize, and Stephen is the founder of the Flow Research Collective.
1:14.2	Peter and Stephen, welcome to Recode Decode.
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