{"id":121886,"date":"2021-04-24T02:25:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T09:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/making-sense-podcast-special-episode-engineering-the-apocalypse"},"modified":"2021-04-24T02:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T09:25:05","slug":"making-sense-podcast-special-episode-engineering-the-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/making-sense-podcast-special-episode-engineering-the-apocalypse","title":{"rendered":"Making Sense Podcast Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-sense-podcast-special-episode-engineering-the-apocalypse2.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this nearly <b>4-hour SPECIAL EPISODE<\/b>, Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam) about the looming <b>danger of a man-made pandemic<\/b>, caused by an artificially-modified pathogen. The risk of this occurring is far higher and nearer-term than almost anyone realizes.<\/p>\n<p>Rob explains the science and motivations that could produce such a catastrophe and explores the steps that society <b>must start taking today to prevent it<\/b>. These measures are concrete, affordable, and scientifically fascinating\u2014and almost all of them are applicable to future, <b>natural pandemics as well<\/b>. So if we take most of them, the odds of a future Covid-like outbreak would plummet\u2014a priceless collateral benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Reid is a podcaster, author, and tech investor, and was a long-time tech entrepreneur. His <i>After On<\/i> podcast features conversations with world-class thinkers, founders, and scientists on topics including synthetic biology, super-AI risk, Fermi\u2019s paradox, robotics, archaeology, and lone-wolf terrorism. Science fiction novels that Rob has written for Random House include <i>The New York Times<\/i> bestseller <i>Year Zero<\/i>, and the AI thriller <i>After On<\/i>. As an investor, Rob is Managing Director at Resilience Reserve, a multi-phase venture capital fund. He co-founded Resilience with Chris Anderson, who runs the TED Conference and has a long track record as both an entrepreneur and an investor. In his own entrepreneurial career, Rob founded and ran <a href=\"http:\/\/Listen.com\">Listen.com<\/a>, the company that created the Rhapsody music service. Earlier, Rob studied Arabic and geopolitics at both undergraduate and graduate levels at Stanford, and was a Fulbright Fellow in Cairo. You can find him at <a href='http:\/\/www.after-on.' rel='nofollow'>www.after-on.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this nearly 4-hour SPECIAL EPISODE, Rob Reid delivers a 100-minute monologue (broken up into 4 segments, and interleaved with discussions with Sam) about the looming danger of a man-made pandemic, caused by an artificially-modified pathogen. The risk of this occurring is far higher and nearer-term than almost anyone realizes. Rob explains the science and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,11,12,45,42,6,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-finance","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}