Phil and Stephen welcome blogger, futurist, and fellow web broadcaster Nikola Danaylov (AKA “Socrates”) to FastForward Radio. Nikola reports daily about major trends in science, technology, and society which indicate big changes to come. He also discusses these changes with some of the world’s most fascinating people on his podcast, Singularity One on One.
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Wednesday, 5 December 2012 7:00 PM PST / 10 PM EST
About Our Guest
Philosopher, singularitarian, infopreneur and a fellow party animal Nikola Danaylov was born in Bulgaria.
In 1998 Nikola moved to Canada where he completed an HBA in Political Science, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Toronto plus an MA in Political Science at York University.
It was at York University that Nikola got deeply interested in the Technological Singularity and wrote a research paper titled “Hacking Destiny: Critical Security at the Intersection of Human and Machine Intelligence.” After university Danaylov started SingularityWeblog.com and the popular Singularity 1 on 1 podcast.
During the summer of 2011 Nikola completed the Graduate Studies Program at Singularity University and returned home to Toronto, Canada where he lives with his beloved wife Julie.
3 Comments at "Socrates on the Future"
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I thought this was an excellent interview with Nikola. He was very articulate and displayed a great deal of knowledge and insight regarding his views on exponential technological progress. My one minor criticism was when he said that George Bush stopped all stem cell research within the US, which was inaccurate. George Bush only stopped federal funding of embryonic and fetal stem cell research within the US that did not use pre-approved stem cell lines. Private funding of stem cell research within the US was unaffected unless federal funds were somehow involved.
I thought this was an excellent interview with Nikola. He was very articulate and displayed a great deal of knowledge and insight regarding his views on exponential technological progress. My one minor criticism was when he said that George Bush stopped all stem cell research within the US, which was inaccurate. George Bush only stopped federal funding of embryonic and fetal stem cell research within the US that did not use pre-approved stem cell lines. Private and state funding of stem cell research within the US was unaffected unless federal funds were somehow involved.
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