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“Thanks to tech, the world’s gotten fast, fused, deep”
3-time Pulitzer winner THOMAS FRIEDMAN on 3 accelerating global crises: nature, humans, technology
“AI can get a little scary – but it's all super exciting”
AI entrepreneur ERIC DAIMLER, Google VP PEEYUSH RANJAN & ethicist IRENE SOLAIMAN on the promise & peril of AI
“Thanks to brain chips, patients are able to control a device with thought alone”
Rehab innovator & Chief Mad Scientist DAVID PUTRINO on going beyond body barriers. Thanks to cutting-edge tech
“I am the most genetically modified person on the planet”
Biohacker. "Patient Zero". Living lab. LIZ PARRISH on the awe, ethics & science of age reversal
“Our ancient civilisation has answers for how to think about tech prosperity”
Value tech entrepreneur SRIDHAR VEMBU on upturning the model of enterprise. And an Indian approach to tech
“For mediocrity, turn to AI. If you want the masters, call us”
Bollywood veterans JAVED AKHTAR, SHEKHAR KAPUR, RAJKUMAR HIRANI & SONU NIGAM on art vs AI
“With tech unemployment, how do we distribute wealth if not through work?”
Economist DANIEL SUSSKIND on future jobs & the future of work
“What enrages me is the lack of reverence for psychedelics”
Neuroscientist VIDITA VAIDYA on the science of psychedelics. And why they are going from taboo to trend
"I have signed up to be frozen. Because future technology could revive me"
Radical futurist ANDERS SANDBERG on the far, far future. And rerouting human evolution
“Why mimic the human brain when you can harness its power. On a chip”
Neuroscientist BRETT KAGAN on brain without bodies & intelligence in a dish
“AI technologies could change what it means to be human”
Rockstar Harvard philosopher MICHAEL SANDEL on the real anxiety of AI – how it’s rewiring our very nature
“I’m a risk taker. I’d rather fail than not try”
‘Edison of Medicine’, ROBERT LANGER on his medical “missions impossible”. Feats that have touched 4 billion lives
Synapse Conclave - Day 1
2 days. 40 speakers. Debate. Dialogue. Discovery.
“AI is one more proof of the uniqueness of consciousness”
Vedanta Master SWAMI SARVAPRIYANANDA on the spirituality vs science of consciousness
“Social media is making the world insane”
Silicon Valley savant JARON LANIER on AI, empires of attention. And taking back control over technology
“The Indian startup system is all about AI: All About India”
Innovation accelerator RAJAN ANANDAN on today’s unique moment for Indian startups
"The JWST is taking us back 13.8 billion years. Here’s a peep"
Astrophysicist MARK McCAUGHREAN on galaxies & planets. Origins of the universe. And life beyond Earth
“Anyone monetising data is evil. Even if they pretend not to be”
Public tech evangelist SHARAD SHARMA on India’s approach to tech. The public goods – and the lurking dangers
“Stories are our species’ unique ability to update our genetic software”
Polymath philosopher-artist ANAND GANDHI on the power of the story, and imaging new heroes & thought frameworks for a new century
“To protect nature is the most self-serving thing humans can do”
MARTIN GREEN, PETER SELIGMANN & MALAIKA VAZ on the climate crisis. And the role of nature, humans, tech
“The phone is more powerful than a battle tank”
Lt Gen MU NAIR, ANSHUMAN TRIPATHI & EFRAIM HALEVY on new theatres of war. And tech as the new minefield
“Birds and whales use quantum navigation. We can do it too”
Quantum physicist URBASI SINHA and entrepreneur FERNANDO DOMINGUEZ on the next frontier of global competition
“Social media: the biggest threat to democracy”
Journalist TOBIAS ROSE-STOCKWELL on toxicity, discontent, outrage. How the internet is breaking our brains
“Diseases are dynamic. So are humans. AI can connect the two”
White space investor AJIT SINGH and big data scientist HANY ELOSMAN on data, disease. And next gen healthcare
“The great confidence that tech gives me: it can improve the profoundly broken nature of government”
Politician P. THIAGA RAJAN and former Obama advisor ERIC DAIMLER on how states are approaching – and deploying – AI
“Children today won’t know a world without AI”
Educator ORLY FRIEDMAN on 21st century classrooms and the hopeful world of edtech
“If I create something on Sora, does it belong to me or does it belong to Sora?”
2 ambassadors of tech – actor RANA DAGGUBATI and director NAG ASHWIN – on AI vs artist and art vs business of entertainment
Synapse Conclave - Day 2
