As commercial space exploration grabs headlines, many of us are left wondering why space exploration matters. Shouldn’t we worry about saving earth from the ravages of climate change before we inhabit another planet?
To address part of that question, we are kicking off with an insightful discussion between two incredible female entrepreneurs — Tiffany Vora and Shahreen Reza — about how and why food in space is relevant to all of us.
R&D is accelerating in the vital field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI). Elon Musk recently disclosed in a Clubhouse interview that at Neuralink, his BMI venture, a monkey is playing video games via neural implants. He also made some signature provocative projections like his ultimate goal of connecting brains with a powerful AI. “The future of the world will be controlled by the combined will of the people of the earth.” He said, “That might be the most important thing that a device like this achieves.”
A breakthrough stunned world-leading scientists at the close of 2020.
“This will change medicine. It will change research. It will change bioengineering. It will change everything.”
“But when I first saw these results, I nearly fell off my chair.”
“…a once in a generation advance.”
“I was beginning to think it would not get solved in my lifetime.”
“It has occurred decades before many people in the field would have predicted.”
What will be the fastest-growing jobs in ten years? That’s hard to say, which is a great concern for students choosing fields of study, parents anxious for them to have jobs upon graduation, and professionals planning their next career phase.
