The Production Board’s Dave Friedberg: “Technology will save the day - hopefully”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Dave Friedberg, founder of The Production Board, to talk about the western US’s ‘mega-drought’ (5:15), attracting cash to climate tech (8:30), the economic consequences of climate change (13:15), creating the Climate Corporation (16:15), getting investment from Larry Page (22:10), and Koch Industries (25:25), the future of food (28:00), “printing” drinks (34:05), water (39:15), climate migration (43:45), and how technology has saved the day before (45:45).

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0:00.0	Hello you. It's Glow Time on Magic Radio.
0:05.6	Join me, Gokwan, at breakfast.
0:08.5	With me, Harriet Scott.
0:10.3	We're on Magic Radio with Nikki Chapman, Gabby Roslyn, and me, Mel Gedroich.
0:15.7	And what a team we are.
0:19.1	We're all on Magic Radio, playing the the best variety from the 80s to now.
0:25.2	It's Glow Time on Magic Radio.
0:31.6	Yo, technology.
0:35.2	What is it all about?
0:36.7	We will see breakthroughs in technologies that we do not predict today,
0:41.3	that will have a material effect on the amount of carbon in this atmosphere,
0:45.3	the way that we produce things,
0:47.1	and the way that we are going to kind of adapt and survive
0:49.2	through this phenomenon over the next century,
0:51.3	which is really going to test the survival of our species.
1:04.3	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside the minds of the top people in tech.
1:10.8	We have a very good one for you this week, but I must warn you is more than a little scary
1:16.4	and a tad bit depressing.
1:18.3	But we end on a positive note.
1:19.9	I promise all is not lost necessarily.
1:24.2	Of course, I'm talking about climate change, which is obviously hard to avoid
1:29.6	out here these days. We're in the teeth of fire season. Huge sways of the state are literally
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