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361 Podcast / Ben Smith, Rafe Blandford & Ewan MacLeod

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The iTunes 5★ reviewed podcast that reviewers call it "A great British spin on the world of tech", "Informing and entertaining" and "the best tech podcast by far…"
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London Futurists

London Futurists

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Anticipating and managing exponential impact - hosts David Wood and Calum Chace Calum Chace is a sought-after keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He focuses on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy. His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions. He ...
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The guest in this episode is Hugo Spowers. Hugo has led an adventurous life. In the 1970s and 80s he was an active member of the Dangerous Sports Club, which invented bungee jumping, inspired by an initiation ceremony in Vanuatu. Hugo skied down a black run in St.Moritz in formal dress, seated at a grand piano, and he broke his back, neck and hips …
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Hello everyone, it's that special time of the year...the time of BOATFEST! This time out, join Amigo Aaron and THE BRENT LIVE from Boatfest 2025 in scenic and lovely Hurricane, WV! As usual, THE BRENT has booked the entire show LIVE, so you never know WHAT WILL HAPPEN! 🔗 Get social!Email: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook: Amigos Retro GamingTwitch: a…
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ARG Presents is BACK this week for an interesting discussion on RACING GAMES WITHOUT VEHICLES! Join Amigo Aaron and THE BRENT for some laughs as we discuss games that fit the bill, and then submit our own as we tackle Iggy's Reckin' Balls on the N64 and Running Wild on the original PlayStation! 🔗 Get social!Email: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook: Am…
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Can we use AI to improve how we handle conflict? Or even to end the worst conflicts that are happening all around us? That’s the subject of the new book of our guest in this episode, Simon Horton. The book has the bold title “The End of Conflict: How AI will end war and help us get on better”. Simon has a rich background, including being a stand-up…
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This week ARG Presents 316, we'll take a long overdue look at the Sony PSP PlayStation Portable handheld! First we'll talk about the PSP and it's successes and failures, and then we'll look at a few of these "MOBILE" games to review. Kick back and and relax as we look at Bancho: Badass Rumble! and Work Time Fun!Email: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook…
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Our guest in this episode is Nate Soares, President of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, or MIRI. MIRI was founded in 2000 as the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence by Eliezer Yudkowsky, with support from a couple of internet entrepreneurs. Among other things, it ran a series of conferences called the Singularity Summit. I…
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Sometimes a game gets pushed a tad too much. Sometimes a game gets a HARD push. And on certain rare occasions, a game get SHOVED DOWN YOUR THROAT! These are BAD, OVERHYPED GAMES! Today on ARG, we'll take a look at a few of these overblown duds, and pick out a few of the offenders to review. Were these games jacked up garbage, or was the hype REAL!.…
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Our guest in this episode is Henry Shevlin. Henry is the Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, where he also co-directs the Kinds of Intelligence program and oversees educational initiatives. He researches the potential for machines to possess consciousness, the ethical ramificati…
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Summer Games...Winter Games...California Games...WORLD Games..THESE are the titles that come to mind when one spouts the phrase "Games" Games. BUT, this week on ARG Presents, join Aaron the Caveman and Brent THE CLOWN as we march out a few Games Games that you NEVER hear about these days. Athletics are for suckers! These games are life and death (N…
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How can a binding international treaty be agreed and put into practice, when many parties are strongly tempted to break the rules of the agreement, for commercial or military advantage, and when cheating may be hard to detect? That’s the dilemma we’ll examine in this episode, concerning possible treaties to govern the development and deployment of …
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This week on ARG Presents, join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron as they dip their toes in the Pico 8 pool! Find out what the Pico 8 is, it's origins, and specifications. Then it's gametime! Join the boys at they look at Spaceman 8 and Pigments!Play some PICO 8 : https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.phpEmail: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook: Amigos Retro Gami…
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In this episode, we return to the subject of existential risks, but with a focus on what actions can be taken to eliminate or reduce these risks. Our guest is James Norris, who describes himself on his website as an existential safety advocate. The website lists four primary organizations which he leads: the International AI Governance Alliance, Up…
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Our subject in this episode may seem grim – it’s the potential extinction of the human species, either from a natural disaster, like a supervolcano or an asteroid, or from our own human activities, such as nuclear weapons, greenhouse gas emissions, engineered biopathogens, misaligned artificial intelligence, or high energy physics experiments causi…
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Let's play phone games like it's 2007, this week on ARG PRESENTS! Join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron as we dive HEADFIRST into the world of SYMBIAN PHONE GAMES! First, we'll try to figure out what the heck that means, and then it's GAME TIME! Kick back and enjoy our look at Crimson After Dark and Karna Fighter! They're flip-riffic!Email: theretrorotati…
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Our guest in this episode, Ramez Naam, is described on his website as “climate tech investor, clean energy advocate, and award-winning author”. But that hardly starts to convey the range of deep knowledge that Ramez brings to a wide variety of fields. It was his 2013 book, “The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet”, that first a…
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Welcome to the ARG PRESENTS! We're BACK at it with the ULTIMATE TEAM match up! Get Your School Pals and pack some Poke Ball - It's TEAM Fighting this week on ARG PRESENTS 311!Email: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook: Amigos Retro GamingTwitch: amigosretrogaming#argpresents #Retrorotation#Retrocomputing
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Join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron as we take a look at the Game Park GP32. The GP32 was a South Korean handheld console with a twist - it was a totally open system, and the first "all emulation" system around...or was it? And why?!?!? We'll discus it, and then join us as we look at two games for the system. Kick back and relax as we play Raphael and B…
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In this episode, our guest is Rebecca Finlay, the CEO at Partnership on AI (PAI). Rebecca previously joined us in Episode 62, back in October 2023, in what was the run-up to the Global AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park in the UK. Times have moved on, and earlier this month, Rebecca and the Partnership on AI participated in the latest global summit…
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Welcome to ARG Presents 309! This time out, we ponder a questions as old as time - Do games look better on a CRT?!?!? Obviously, old games were made to play with old TV's...but is there enough of a difference to bother? We'll discuss this very point, and then we'll examine a few games more closely that WE have chosen to make this very point. Join u…
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Welcome to the long awaited, ONE TIME BONUS SPECIAL - It's Ask THE BRENT! Enjoy THE BRENT's on the fly answers to the chat's BURNING questions, including THE BRENT's views on film, Valentines Day, zombies, and SPRAY RUBBER! It's all here in live and living color as we ASK THE BRENT!Email: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook: Amigos Retro GamingTwitch: a…
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Welcome to ARG Presents 308! This time out, we explore the fun filled and wacky world of Game Show Games! Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Family Feud, The Price is Right, and many MANY more game shows have made their way to your favorite classic consoles and computers, and we'll chat about our favorites! They, we'll discuss a few we've chosen for this …
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The most highly anticipated development in AI this year is probably the expected arrival of AI agents, also referred to as “agentic AI”. We are told that AI agents have the potential to reshape how individuals and organizations interact with technology. Our guest to help us explore this is Tom Davenport, Distinguished Professor in Information Techn…
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Welcome back to ARG Presents 307! This time out, we explore the rarified air of games that were ahead of their time! First we discuss what makes a game fit this catagory...does hardware innovation qualify, or what about programming in a new way or using new gaming ideas?!?! We'll try to make sense of it before we make a case for our chosen games. P…
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In this episode, we return to a theme which is likely to become increasingly central to public discussion in the months and years ahead. To use a term coined by this podcast’s cohost Calum Chace, this theme is the Economic Singularity, namely the potential all-round displacement of humans from the workforce by ever more capable automation. That lea…
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Our guests in this episode have been described as the world’s two oldest scientifically astute longevity activists. They are Kenneth Scott, aged 82, who is based in Florida, and Helga Sands, aged 86, who lives in London. David has met both of them several times at a number of longevity events, and they always impress him, not only with their vitali…
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This week on ARG Presents, join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron as they have a look at The MANY Games of Inufuto, MYSTERY game developer from Japan and MASTERS of the game port! Join us fas we play Osotos and Battlot on MANY systems!Email: theretrorotation@gmailFacebook: Amigos Retro GamingTwitch: amigosretrogaming#argpresents #Retrorotation#Amiga #Retro…
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Our guest in this episode is Jeff LaPorte, a software engineer, entrepreneur and investor based in Vancouver, who writes Road to Artificia, a newsletter about discovering the principles of post‑AI societies. Calum recently came across Jeff's article “Valuing Humans in the Age of Superintelligence: HumaneRank” and thought it had some good, original …
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Join John "Boatofcar" Shawler, Amigo Aaron and THE BRENT for the 2024 END OF THE YEAR AWARDS SHOW! We'll pick the best, and the worst, of games featured in 2023 on Amigos, ARG Presents, Our Sinclair, The CoCo Show, and the Atari ST Show! We'll also see what game YOU, the listener thought were the big winners and BAD losers! Kick back, relax, and le…
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Our subject in this episode is altruism – our human desire and instinct to assist each other, making some personal sacrifices along the way. More precisely, our subject is the possible future of altruism – a future in which our philanthropic activities – our charitable donations, and how we spend our discretionary time – could have a considerably g…
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Our guest in this episode is Amory Lovins, a distinguished environmental scientist, and co-founder of RMI, which he co-founded in 1982 as Rocky Mountain Institute. It’s what he calls a think do and scale tank, with 700 people in 62 countries, and a budget of well over $100m a year. For over five decades, Amory has championed innovative approaches t…
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Some people say that all that’s necessary to improve the capabilities of AI is to scale up existing systems. That is, to use more training data, to have larger models with more parameters in them, and more computer chips to crunch through the training data. However, in this episode, we’ll be hearing from a computer scientist who thinks there are ma…
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DEM BOYS are back in action with an all new ARG Presents! This time around, we're checking out the Games of Universal Entertainment! UE is known for it's incredibly popular MR. DO series, but it's so much more. We'll chat about the history of UE, and then it's game time. Join Amigo Aaron and The BRENT for Space Panic and Mrs. Dynamite! It's episode…
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This week on ARG Presents 304, join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron as they have a look at Soviet Era Arcade Games! YES, this was a thing! After a discussion about how the heck arcades existed in Soviet Russian, we'll look two of them! Join us for Snezhnaya Koroleva AKA The Snow Queen and Konyok-Gorbunok AKA Little Humpbacked Horse!Email: theretrorotatio…
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In David's life so far, he has read literally hundreds of books about the future. Yet none has had such a provocative title as this: “The future loves you: How and why we should abolish death”. That’s the title of the book written by the guest in this episode, Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston. Ariel is a neuroscientist, and a Research Fellow at Monash Uni…
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Our guest in this episode is Sterling Anderson, a pioneer of self-driving vehicles. With a masters degree and a PhD from MIT, Sterling led the development and launch of the Tesla Model X, and then led the team that delivered Tesla Autopilot. In 2017 he co-founded Aurora, along with Chris Urmson, who was a founder and CTO of Google’s self-driving ca…
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Our guest in this episode is Parmy Olson, a columnist for Bloomberg covering technology. Parmy has previously been a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and for Forbes. Her first book, “We Are Anonymous”, shed fascinating light on what the subtitle calls “the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency”. But her most recent…
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This week on ARG Presents, join Amigo Aaron and THE BRENT as they have a look at Games THEY Can "Beat" on ONE CREDIT! In a world DEDICATED to parting a player and his cash, there are very very few arcade machines that one can truly defeat, but the boys pick a few machines they can take to school and share them with the world! 00:00 - 02:57 Intro02:…
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Our guest in this episode is Andrea Miotti, the founder and executive director of ControlAI. On their website, ControlAI have the tagline, “Fighting to keep humanity in control”. Control over what, you might ask. The website answers: control deepfakes, control scaling, control foundation models, and, yes, control AI. The latest project from Control…
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Our guest in this episode is David Wakeling, a partner at A&O Shearman, which became the world’s third largest law firm in May, thanks to the merger of Allen and Overy, a UK “magic circle” firm, with Shearman & Sterling of New York. David heads up a team within the firm called the Markets Innovation Group (MIG), which consists of lawyers, developer…
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This week on ARG Presents, join THE BRENT and Amigo Aaron as they have a look at 2-D Games on the Sega Saturn! Was this the high water mark for 2-D console gaming?!?!? We'll attempt to find that out as we play Shinobi X aka Shinobi Legions and Keio Flying Squadron 2! 00:00 - 01:31 Intro01:32 - 00:00 What's the pinnacle of 2-D Console Gaming discuss…
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Our guest in this episode is Matt Burgess. Matt is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wyoming, where he moved this year after six years at the University of Boulder, Colorado. He has specialised in the economics of climate change. Calum met Matt at a recent event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and knows from their conversations then that Matt h…
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It's a special episode this week, as THE BRENT recovers from illness! It's HERE! Boatfest 2024 - The Interviews. Join Amigo Aaron as he talks to several of the luminaries that attended the show. We have many of the names you've heard over and over on this and other channels, and we get to hear from them first hand in a relaxed interview from the sh…
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Our guest in this episode is Karl Pfleger. Karl is an angel investor in rejuvenation biotech startups, and is also known for creating and maintaining the website Aging Biotech Info. That website describes itself as “Structured info about aging and longevity”, and has the declared mission statement, “Everything important in the field (outside of aca…
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Welcome to ARG PRESENTS 301! This time out, we'll be taking a look at the Spectravision / Spectravideo computers and games! I'm talking SV 318, 328, AND 728! If you don't know what the heck those are..neither did we! Tune in and find out!🏆 Please check out our Patreon to support The Coco Show and our other wacky endeavors!https://www.patreon.com/Th…
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Welcome to an ARG Presents Special Feature! This week, myself and THE BRENT had the honor of chatting with Dean Bent! Dean is a rags to riches story in the gaming business. From starting out working the phones at US Gold to Game Testing at Rage to QA work on the N-GAGE! This man worked for companies like Eidos, Code Masters, Rovio, and more! He's h…
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Our guest today is Pedro Domingos, who is joining an elite group of repeat guests – he joined us before in episode 34 in April 2023. Pedro is Professor Emeritus Of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He has done pioneering work in machine learning, like the development of Markov logic networks, which combine probabilis…
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Well, it's been over 6 years in the making, but WELCOME to BIG Episode 300 of ARG Presents. Join Amigo Aaron and THE BRENT as we ponder what the hell we've been doing with out lives for the last six years. We talk about the show start with our buddy John "Boatofcar" Shawler. We get into the technical challenges for people with no experience, skill.…
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Our guest in this episode is the journalist and author James Ball. James has worked for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, The Guardian, WikiLeaks, BuzzFeed, The New European, and The Washington Post, among other organisations. As special projects editor at The Guardian, James played a key role in the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the NSA…
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In this episode, we have not one guest but two – Brett King and Robert Tercek, the hosts of the Futurists Podcast. Brett King is originally from Australia, and is now based in Thailand. He is a renowned author, and the founder of a breakthrough digital bank. He consults extensively with clients in the financial services industry. Robert Tercek, bas…
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