Disrupting Good

In Episode Five: * What do our guest foresee is in store at the crossroads of Automation and Humanity? * The Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence * Kurzweil’s Corner: o within this decade (the 2020s), self-driving vehicles begin to take over the roads, and people will no longer be allowed to drive on highways o by the end of the next decade (the 2030s), humanity will be able to upload our consciousness to a network - kind of like a Backblaze service for your mind perhaps?

In Episode Five: * What do our guest foresee is in store at the crossroads of Automation and Humanity? * The Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence * Kurzweil’s Corner: o within this decade (the 2020s), self-driving vehicles begin to take over the roads, and people will no longer be allowed to drive on highways o by the end of the next decade (the 2030s), humanity will be able to upload our consciousness to a network - kind of like a Backblaze service for your mind perhaps?

In Episode Four: * What trends or technology concerns our guests the most? * A group that how societies work, deal with conflict, and deal with complex issues * Kurzweil’s Corner: what the world might look like with futurist, inventor, and author Ray Kurzweil's prediction that by the end of the 2020’s, most diseases will disappear as nanobots become smarter than current medical technology

In Episode Three: * What technologies and trends are our guests excited about the most? * Will the future be an idealist utopia like Star Trek, or a dark dystopia, more like Hunger Games or Blade Runner? * Kurzweil’s Corner: what the world might look like with futurist, inventor, and author Ray Kurzweil's prediction that in the 2020's the Turing Test will be passed by a non-biological entity.

GuestsGuests (& their organizations) who contributed to this episode, in order of first appearance:James StauchInstitute for Community ProsperityJay BaydalaGoodpinLeor RotchildCanadian Business for Social ResponsibilityKarl SwannieEchosec Systems Ltd.Rahim SajanThe Resourceful Human ProjectBriana BrownellPure Strategy Inc.Dr. Alina TurnerHelpSeekerDoug WatsonPropellus: The Volunteer Centre of CalgaryHeather McPhersonAlberta Council for Global CooperationBryan de LottinvilleBenevity Inc.Cool Mission, Will ShareMedicine Hat Community Housing Society (MHCHS)ABSI “Pause” PodcastABSIConnect.ca/podcastMatt on Twitter@MattYouensAttributionsRights for the song used for the Intro and the Outro of this podcast were obtained legally through Rumblefish. The song is “Trip Back to Childhood”, and is performed by the St Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review.“Radio Tuning” sound clip is “FM radio tuning” by MrAuralization, as uploaded to FreeSound.org. This sound clip was shortened from the original. Shared under the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Creative Commons License.The sound clip used during “Kurzweil’s Corner” is “Futuristic Rhythmic Game Ambiance” by Patrick Lieberkind, as uploaded to FreeSound.org. This sound clip was shortened from the original. Shared under the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Creative Commons License.

GuestsGuests (& their organizations) who contributed to this episode, in order of first appearance:James StauchInstitute for Community ProsperityJay BaydalaGoodpinLeor RotchildCanadian Business for Social ResponsibilityKarl SwannieEchosec Systems Ltd.Rahim SajanThe Resourceful Human ProjectBriana BrownellPure Strategy Inc.Dr. Alina TurnerHelpSeekerDoug WatsonPropellus: The Volunteer Centre of CalgaryHeather McPhersonAlberta Council for Global CooperationBryan de LottinvilleBenevity Inc.Cool Mission, Will ShareMedicine Hat Community Housing Society (MHCHS)ABSI “Pause” PodcastABSIConnect.ca/podcastMatt on Twitter@MattYouensAttributionsRights for the song used for the Intro and the Outro of this podcast were obtained legally through Rumblefish. The song is “Trip Back to Childhood”, and is performed by the St Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review.“Radio Tuning” sound clip is “FM radio tuning” by MrAuralization, as uploaded to FreeSound.org. This sound clip was shortened from the original. Shared under the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Creative Commons License.The sound clip used during “Kurzweil’s Corner” is “Futuristic Rhythmic Game Ambiance” by Patrick Lieberkind, as uploaded to FreeSound.org. This sound clip was shortened from the original. Shared under the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Creative Commons License.

In Episode Two: * If our guests were looking into a crystal ball, what do they see for themselves, or society? * What types of organizational changes have our guests undergone, or are about to go through? * Kurzweil’s Corner: what the world might look like with futurist, inventor, and author Ray Kurzweil's prediction that in the 2020's normal human eating will be replaced with nanosystems, and by the 2040’s non-biological intelligence will be a billion times more capable than biological intelligence (aka “us”) .

GuestsGuests (& their organizations) who contributed to this episode, in order of first appearance:Heather McPherson - Alberta Council for Global CooperationLeor Rotchild - Canadian Business for Social ResponsibilityKarl Swannie - Echosec Systems Ltd.James Stauch - Institute for Community ProsperityDr. Alina Turner - HelpSeekerBryan de Lottinville - Benevity Inc.Briana Brownell - Pure Strategy Inc.Cool Mission, Will ShareCCEDNetABSI “Pause” PodcastABSIConnect.ca/podcastMatt on Twitter@MattYouensAttributionsRights for the song used for the Intro and the Outro of this podcast were obtained legally through Rumblefish. The song is “Trip Back to Childhood”, and is performed by the St Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review.“Radio Tuning” sound clip is “FM radio tuning” by MrAuralization, as uploaded to FreeSound.org. This sound clip was shortened from the original. Shared under the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Creative Commons License.The sound clip used during “Kurzweil’s Corner” is “Futuristic Rhythmic Game Ambiance” by Patrick Lieberkind, as uploaded to FreeSound.org. This sound clip was shortened from the original. Shared under the Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Creative Commons License.

In Episode One: * What is disruption * Impacts to how we do good * Kurzweil’s Corner: what the world might look like with futurist, inventor, and author Ray Kurzweil's prediction that in the 2030's, Virtual Reality will become 100% realistic