2016

S1.E1 ∙ Flexport - An App for Global Trade

Sun, Nov 27, 2016

Ryan Petersen, founder of Flexport, believes that nothing helps people improve their lives more than the ability to trade with one another. And, yet, even in the era of free trade, international shipping for businesses is still way too cumbersome. If Flexport succeeds, the chair you're sitting on, the phone you're holding, and the clothes you're wearing will all cost less.

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S1.E2 ∙ Vicarious - Teaching Computers to Think Like Humans

Sun, Dec 04, 2016

Impossible. Crazy. Dangerous. Scott Phoenix, founder of Vicarious, knows that people are scared and skeptical of human-level artificial intelligence. But he's building it anyway because he believes smart machines could one day cure cancer, create new forms of energy, and solve virtually every problem that humans simply can't.

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S1.E3 ∙ Transatomic - Powering the World with Nuclear

Sun, Dec 11, 2016

Transatomic is designing a nuclear reactor that can produce a lot more electricity than a conventional reactor, while creating a lot less nuclear waste. But they'll need to take on a deeply entrenched industry and convince a cautious public that they can safely harness the most powerful energy in the world.

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S1.E4 ∙ AltSchool - What Will Schools Look Like in the Future?

Sun, Dec 18, 2016

Everyone wants America's education system to do better. Ex-Googler Max Ventilla has a radical idea for how to make schools work more like a social network. Ventilla's AltSchool is building a highly-personalized education experience that gets better and cheaper as more students use it. A decade from now, AltSchool may have built a new school system that ALL will be able to join.

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S1.E5 ∙ 8i - Virtual Reality Could Change Your Life

Sun, Dec 25, 2016

Imagine if you could climb Mount Everest and go on stage at a Beyonce concert with your friends...before breakfast. Linc Gasking and his team of visual effects experts at 8i thinks they can make holograms of humans so real, that VR will go mainstream and they'll alter the human experience forever.

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