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Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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Brave New World is a look into the transformation of humanity by machines in the post-COVID era. It examines a wide range of topics around how technology and "virtualization" of our lives is impacting work, health, faith, emotional well being, government, democracy, and freedom. It is hosted by AI-pioneer Vasant Dhar.

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🇫🇷 France - technology
23/03/2026
#99
🇨🇦 Canada - technology
12/03/2026
#77
🇺🇸 USA - technology
30/12/2025
#90

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https://bravenewpodcast.com/episodes/2021/03/18/episode-8-how-social-media-threatens-society/
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Ep 101: Deepak Chopra On Consciousness and Reality

Episode 101

Thursday, December 11, 2025 • Duration 01:14:23

Useful Resources:

1. Deepak Chopra
2. Donald D. Hoffman
3. Awakening: The Path to Freedom and Enlightenment - Deepak Chopra
4. Seymour Reichlin
5. Digital Dharma: How AI Can Elevate Spiritual Intelligence and Personal Wellbeing - Deepak Chopra
6. The Hard Problem Of Consciousness
7. Rosalyn Yalow
8. Neuropeptides
9. Psychoneuroimmunology
10. Candace Pert
11. Molecules of Emotion - Candace Pert
12. Richard Dawkins
13. The Physics of Consciousness - Richard Dawkins & Brian Greene
14. Naïve realism
15. Stephen Hawking
16. Qualia
17. Panpsychism
18. Advaita Vedanta
19. Sufism
20. What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches - Erwin Schrodinger
21. Brave New World Episode 94: Anil Seth On The Science of Consciousness.
22. Wayne Dyer
23. Ludwig Wittgenstein
24. Jill Bolte Taylor
25. My Stroke Of Insight - Jill Bolte Taylor
26. TED - My stroke of insight: Jill Bolte Taylor
27. Scott Galloway

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Ep 100: David Ko, From Panic to Purpose

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 • Duration 01:01:12

Episode 100 of Brave New World features David Ko, CEO of Calm, a digital health company focused on mental wellness and mindfulness. From experiencing panic attacks as a teenager to being the driving force behind Calm, his journey is an inspiring exploration of resilience, purpose, and the intersection of vulnerability and innovation.

Useful Resources:

1. David Ko, CEO of Calm
2. Recharge: Boosting Your Mental Battery, One Conversation at a Time - David Ko
3. Jonathan Haidt
4. Brave New World Episode 08: How Social Media Threatens Society
5. Severance
6. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
7. Recharge with David Ko

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Ep 91: Michael Levin on the New Frontiers of Biological Intelligence

Season 1 · Episode 91

Saturday, January 11, 2025 • Duration 01:07:04

Memory, consciousness and the self aren't what you think they are. Michael Levin joins Vasant Dhar in episode 91 of Brave New World to explain why the distinction between machines and organisms will soon fall apart.

Useful resources
1. Michael Levin at Tufts, Wikipedia, Twitter, Google Scholar and The Levin Lab.
2. There's Plenty of Room Right Here: Biological Systems as Evolved, Overloaded, Multi-scale Machines -- Joshua Bondard and Michael Levin.
3. Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue -- Michael Levin.
4. The Space Of Possible Minds -- Michael Levin.
5. Endless forms most beautiful 2.0 -- Wesley Clawson and Michael Levin.
6. My Octopus Teacher — Pippa Ehrlich and James Reed.
7. Pippa Ehrlich on the Mysteries of the Sea -- Episode 77 of Brave New World.
8. Turing Patterns.
9. Mark Solms' theory of consciousness -- SelfAwarePatterns. 10. . Check out on Substack. Subscription is free!

Ep 90: Sandeep Robert Datta on Smell and the Brain

Season 1 · Episode 90

Friday, December 13, 2024 • Duration 01:05:13

We take it for granted -- but we shouldn't: smell is incredibly powerful and plays a critical role in our lives.

Sandeep Robert Datta joins Vasant Dhar in episode 90 of Brave New World to discuss what neuroscience has taught him about the power of smell.

Useful resources:
1. Sandeep Robert Datta at Harvard, Datta Lab, LinkedIn and Google Scholar.
2. Alex Wiltschko on the Sense of Smell -- Episode 81 of Brave New World.
3. Dmitry Rinberg on the Mysteries of Smell -- Episode 62 of Brave New World.

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Ep 89: Missy Cummings on Making AI Safe

Season 1 · Episode 89

Thursday, November 14, 2024 • Duration 01:08:40

There's always risk at the cutting edge of technology. Driverless cars are awesome -- but can we rely on the tech? Missy Cummings joins Vasant Dhar in episode 89 of Brave New World to share her insights on why we need to proceed with caution.

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1. Missy Cummings on LinkedIn, Wikipedia, GMU and Google Scholar.
2. California Bans GM's Cruise Robotaxis After Near-Fatal Pedestrian Accident -- Justin Banner.
3. Setbacks and Prospects for Autonomous Vehicles -- Henry Petroski.
4. Joshua Brown, Who Died in Self-Driving Accident, Tested Limits of His Tesla -- Rachel Abrams & Annalyn Kurtz.

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Ep 88: Raghu Sundaram on Building a Great University

Season 1 · Episode 88

Thursday, October 10, 2024 • Duration 01:11:10

He lifted The Stern School of Business up significantly in the rankings, and is now making NYU a major global player in higher education. Raghu Sundaram joins Vasant Dhar in episode 88 of Brave New World to share his learnings about higher education where so much is changing, and yet, some foundational truths persist.

Useful resources:
1. Raghu Sundaram on LinkedIn, Wikipedia, Google Scholar and NYY Stern.
2. Nandan Nilekani on an Egalitarian Internet — Episode 15 of Brave New World.
3. The Future of Liberal Education — Episode 11 of Brave New World (w Michael S Roth).
4. Indebted: How Families Make College Work at Any Cost — Caitlin Zaloom.
5. Caitlin Zaloom on the Explosion of Student Debt -- Episode 37 of Brave New World.
6. Susan Dynarski's papers on education and student debt.
7. Degrees of Return: Estimating Internal Rates of Return for College Majors Using Quantile Regression -- Liang Zhang, Xiangmin Liu and Yitong Hu.
8. Law and Education in Our Modern World — Episode 5 of Brave New World (w John Sexton). Check out on Substack. Subscription is free!

Ep 87: Andrew McAfee on the Geek Mindset

Season 1 · Episode 87

Thursday, September 12, 2024 • Duration 01:12:34

What does it mean to be geeky -- and how are geeks changing the world? Andrew McAfee joins Vasant Dhar in episode 87 of Brave New World to share his insights on how geeks have created a brave new innovation culture.

Useful resources:
1. Andrew McAfee on Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, MIT and his own website.
2. The Geek Way -- Andrew McAfee.
3. The Second Machine Age -- Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.
4. Elon Musk -- Walter Isaacson.
5. No Rules Rules -- Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer.
6. Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 -- AnnaLee Saxenian.
7. The New Argonauts -- AnnaLee Saxenian.
8. What the Dormouse Said -- John Markoff.
9. John's Markoff's interview of Raj Reddy.
10. The Secret of Our Success -- Joseph Henrich.
11. The Knowledge Machine -- Michael Strevens. 12. -- Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi and Charles Sull. 13. -- Vasant Dhar. Check out on Substack. Subscription is free!

Ep 86: Natalie Foster on the Guarantee

Season 1 · Episode 86

Thursday, August 8, 2024 • Duration 01:03:06

Imagine an America where the government provides a floor for all our needs, from housing to health care to college to an income. Natalie Foster joins Vasant Dhar in episode 86 of Brave New World to argue that such a shift is possible -- and the time to make it is now.

Useful resources:
1. Natalie Foster on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, the Economic Security Project, the Aspen Institute and her own website.
2. The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America's Next Economy -- Natalie Foster.
3. The Economic Security Project.
4. Pulp Fiction and Dirty Dancing.
5. The Narrow Corridor -- Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.
6. James Robinson on What Makes a Successful State — Episode 19 of Brave New World.
7. Pippa Ehrlich on the Mysteries of the Sea -- Episode 77 of Brave New World.
8. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better -- Jennifer Pahlka. 9. -- Internal Revenue Service. 10. . 11. . 12. — Episode 37 of Brave New World. 13. — Caitlin Zaloom. 14. -- Suzanne Mettler. 15. -- Matthew Walker. 16. — Episode 27 of Brave New World. 17. — Episode 29 of Brave New World. 18. -- Episode 73 of Brave New World. 19. -- Thomas Piketty. 20. -- Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr. Check out on Substack. Subscription is free!

Ep 85: Seth Shostak on Extraterrestrial Life

Season 1 · Episode 85

Thursday, July 11, 2024 • Duration 58:33

Does life exist outside our planet? Are we alone in the universe? Seth Shostak joins Vasant Dhar in episode 85 of Brave New World to describe his search for the answers.

Useful resources:
1. Seth Shostak at The Seti Institute, Wikipedia, TED, Amazon and his own website.
2. Life in the Universe -- Jeffrey Bennett, Seth Shostak, Nicholas Schneider and Meredith MacGregor.
3. Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life -- Seth Shostak.
4. Confessions of an Alien Hunter -- Seth Shostak.
5. The Copernican Revolution -- Thomas Kuhn.
6. Peter Ward on Life on Earth -- Episode 76 of Brave New World.
7. Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe -- Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee.
8. The Drake Equation.
9. The Gaia Hypothesis.
10. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth -- James Lovelock.
11. -- Episode 80 of Brave New World. 12. . Check out on Substack. Subscription is free!

Ep 84: Vlad Barbalat on Immigration, Insurance and America

Season 1 · Episode 84

Thursday, June 6, 2024 • Duration 01:25:54

He came to America as a ten-year old, and became invested in both the country and its world of finance. Vlad Barbalat joins Vasant Dhar in episode 84 of Brave New World to discuss his life and learnings.

Useful resources:
1. Vlad Barbalat on LinkedIn and Liberty Mutual Investments.
2. The Story Of My Experiments With Truth -- MK Gandhi.
3. The Coddling of the American Mind -- Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
4. The Future of Liberal Education -- Episode 11 of Brave New World (w Michael S Roth).

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