Neil deGrasse Tyson
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: Designer drugs will be available by 2050, tailored to individual genomes.
“we will have designer drugs they'll analyze your genome find drugs that will have no side effects for you”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you plot an exponential growth on a linear scale, it will look mostly flat until the last time frame, which will show a steep increase.
“if you plot it it will look like it's mostly horizontal and just in the last time frame it goes up like this and you're at the top of that because you're in modern day”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: Accelerating the future into the present will be a key driver of progress.
“if you get everyone to think to themselves gosh we're such idiots compared to what we'll be in a 100 years that might be another engine of progress because nobody wants to be an idiot”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: Nothing about 1960 would be recognizable to anyone from 1930.
“I think not let's keep going”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: The scientific ratio of the motivator of fear to curiosity is infinite.
“the ratio of the defense budget to the science budget is infinite”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: By 2050, all cars on the road will be self-driving and electric.
“By 2050, all cars on the road will be self-driving and electric.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: Suborbital flight will become a reality, allowing for rapid travel between major cities.
“I want suborbital flight so that I can go to Tokyo have lunch and come back for dinner to New York.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: The next names we will memorize will be those of the first people to land on Mars.
“For sure. And by the way, when we land people on Mars, you'll have to rename your podcast.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: Mars missions will be funded by government defense interests to protect space interests against adversaries.
“No, knowing him well enough, he will spend every one of his last dollars making a mission to Mars happen, even if the government doesn't want it.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: One-way missions to Mars will occur.
“I do foresee uh one-way missions.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: Finding life on Mars, specifically microbial life, is a high target for the search for life.
“If that's the case, that would be a very high target in for the search for life.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: We will only go to Mars if other countries, like China, show interest in setting up a base camp there.
“If China says they want to set up base camp, then we're going to Mars. If China doesn't do that, my read of history tells me we're never going to Mars.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: By the time we can do that on Mars, all of your dreams of mining asteroids will be true.
“By the time we can do that on Mars, all of your dreams of mining asteroids will be true.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: California legislature will approve a bill with sweeping AI restrictions.
“This week California legislature approves a bill with sweeping AI restrictions.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: Deep fakes will become so convincing that people will default to disbelief within 5-3 years, leading to a collapse of internet integrity.
“within 5-3 years, an internet where the deep fakes are so good that even people who believed that fake news was real will no longer believe the fake news.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: By 2040, there could be 1 to 10 billion humanoid robots on the planet, more than cars.
“Um you know, on the order of by 2040 somewhere between 1 to 10 billion 1 to 10 billion humanoid robots on the planet.”
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open Neil deGrasse Tyson: There are things happening today that Neil Diamandis had no idea would be going on in the world in 2024.
“And as you said earlier, a lot of it has been in the digital Digital information. First of this world.”
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