Hello listeners! Welcome to a very special episode of the EnterVR podcast. On today's show I speak Manish Gupta, James Blaha, Aaron Frank and Steve Gerhman. Come along as we discuss the future of the human species. \n\n1:00 Catching up with James and Manish from Vivid Vision. \n\n2:40 Catching up with Aaron Frank from Singularity University. \n\n5:00 Why game engines are awesome.\n\n6:00 How far are we away from being able to control thought and memory? Will VR become the human thought control interface?\n\n8:00 Sword Art Online Spoilers start here:\n\n11:30 Where does VR fit in, in the eventuality of us having 1 trillion connected devices?\n(Read the book "What technology wants" by Kevin Kelly.\n\n21:00 How will we deal with grieving when we can live longer than any other humans that came before us?\n\n24:00 Discussing the universal basic income.\n\n28:00 Finding an economic solution to climate change.\n\n34:00 Why the universal basic income paired with the Metaverse economy will save humanity from the AI economy. \n\n37:00 How long do we have before civilization collapses because of the AI economy?\n\n40:00 Why the rise of AI will be bad for the human species.\n\n46:00 What goals should we give AI? What are we suppose to do with AI once its born?\n\n49:00 Today's recurrent neural networks can give you the ability to do amazing things.\n\n55:00 Ex Machina spoilers begin here.\n\n59:00 What will the first human brain augmentations look like?\n\n1:01:00 Discussing transcranial direct current stimulation devices.\n\n1:05:00 How much do we know about the human brain in 2015? Discussing Opti genetics.\n\n1:10:00 The importance of philosophy in our time. What does it mean to be free?\n\n1:21:00 What is the likelihood of AI not killing us all?\n\n1:26:00 What would you say to your future self of 10 years from now? Being able to record our experiences and reliving our memories in VR.\n\n1:29:00 The business model of the first AI? Using AI for Cybercrime? What is crime?\n\n1:34:00 What will human organization look like in the 21st century?\n\n1:37:00 (as of June 12th 2015, TPP has been blocked by the U.S House of Representatives). How to fight back corporate interests that want suppress a free and open internet. \n\n1:42:00 What does it mean to be a millennial? How will this generation be remembered? What is the purpose of being human? \n\n1:48:00 How will we keep up with the pace of change as the future seems to accelerating towards us?\n\n\n1:49:00 Closing thoughts and how to stay in touch. \n\n\nStay in touch with the links below:\n\nhttps://twitter.com/Afrank26\n\nhttps://twitter.com/jamesblaha\n\nhttps://twitter.com/manishiwa\n\nsgehrman@gmail.com \n\nhttp://www.seevividly.com/\n\nhttp://singularityu.org/