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Human Devolution Morlocks & C.H.U.D.s

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Humanity has evolved in the face of much hardship and turmoil, and invented technologies to aid us, but could an end to hardships be our undoing and cause us to devolve?

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Credits:
Human Devolution: Morlocks & C.H.U.D.s.
Episode 409, August 24, 2023
Written, Produced & Narrated by:
Isaac Arthur.

Editors:
Jerry Guern.
Donagh Broderick.
David McFarlane.

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Meet The Future Of AI. It’s Not ChatGPT, Bard AI, Or Code Whisperer. It’s A Texas A&M Second Year Undergraduate Named Hannah

These 120 people (91 pictured due to size restrictions) have dedicated their lives, their ideas and often a lot of capital to bring these amazing ideas to practice. Their language is passionate and the ideas they have can at one end be big and bold, and at the other end it can get extremely technical and nuanced. Imagine trying to take these vast ideas covering so many dimensions and the hundreds of thousands of words in these conversations and try and see patterns or signals. These interviews form the underbelly of the next book I am working on, titled Envisage, 100 ideas about the world of ten years from now.

Two years ago, maybe one year ago, this would have either been a very manual and forensic examination by a team of people with expertise in the areas or a building a database. Days, weeks and even months would go by with lot of revisions.

Like Super Enzymes — Chemists Develop Synthetic Catalysts To Break Down Biomass

On a drizzly afternoon, Yan Zhao pointed to the trees visible from his campus window.

As a chemistry professor at Iowa State University, he is pioneering the creation of novel synthetic catalysts that break down cellulose, the plant fibers responsible for the trees’ height and strength.

“Cellulose is built to last – a tree doesn’t just disappear after rain,” Zhao said. “Cellulose is a huge challenge to break down.”

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