October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
James Thornton is a remarkable individual who has dedicated his life to fighting for climate and environmental justice. As a Wall Street lawyer, he won over 80 cases to force the Reagan Administration to clean up polluted water. It was in 2007, when he moved to Europe that ClientEarth was…
19-10-2023 12:15:23
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” by The Atlantic magazine, Tristan Harris spent three years as a Google Design Ethicist developing a framework for how technology should “ethically” steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens. He is now co-founder & president of…
19-10-2023 12:15:25
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Jaron Lanier is a renaissance man, and one of the most profoundly important thinkers of our age on the relationship of technology to humanity. He is a computer scientist, composer, artist, and author who writes on numerous topics, including high-technology business, the social impact of technology, the philosophy of consciousness…
19-10-2023 12:15:25
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt is one of the world's foremost computer scientists. He is chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He is a leading researcher in artificial intelligence and was one of the originators of the interdisciplinary field of web science. He is…
19-10-2023 12:15:25
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
The philosophy of science has sought to introduce order into the chaos of existence by replacing supernatural and mystical with reason, logic and frameworks. Like most of our progress as a species- this isn’t a smooth curve, but unpredictable leaps forward in our knowledge that create platforms from which humanity…
19-10-2023 12:15:54
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Steven Pinker (Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard) is a remarkable thinker. He is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He has won numerous prizes for his research, his teaching, and his nine books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, The Blank Slate,…
19-10-2023 12:15:54
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Formula One (F1) racing is an incredible sport.  Some of the brightest minds in the world of engineering and human performance, equipped with multi-billion-dollar budgets, create staggeringly high-performance cars, run by similarly high-performance teams and drivers.  Nico Rosberg raced in Formula One for eleven years, claiming the title of World…
19-10-2023 12:15:56
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
To learn more about the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) ‘Coronavirus’ pandemic, and to learn more about what we can do now, and in the future, to respond to virus outbreaks, and pandemics, I spoke to the world’s foremost experts: Professor John Oxford (The UK's top expert on influenza and Emeritus Professor…
19-10-2023 12:15:56
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
Martin E. Hellman is a remarkable man.  He is perhaps best known for his invention, with Diffie and Merkle, of public key cryptography- the technology which (amongst other uses) enables secure internet transactions and is used to transfer trillions of dollars each day.   His work has been recognised by numerous…
19-10-2023 12:15:57
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October 19th, 2023 · by Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL
To understand more about the exponential changes affecting our culture, economy and society; I spoke to entrepreneur, author and thought leader, Peter H. Diamandis – Founder & Executive Chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, Executive Founder of Singularity University  and Co-Founder of BOLD Capital Partners.  Peter was recently named by Fortune as one…
19-10-2023 12:15:58
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