Upgrading Society (UPSO)

Perry Gruber, the founder of Copiosis, has served nine years in the Unites States Marine Corps as a Journalist and editor, nine years in the federal government working in Power Marketing as a media relations executive and four years representing Intel on boards of many Oregon nonprofit organizations. In the last ten years Perry has worked in the start up field as a founder, co-founder and COO of several startups. Perry also has a Masters of Business Administration with an emphasis on leadership and entrepreneurship from George Fox University and a journalism certificate from the Defense Department. Gheric Speiginer, co-Founder and CTO of Copiosis, is a computer scientist and researcher who has worked at Fortune 500 companies such as Goldman Sachs, Apple, Intel Labs, and Microsoft Research. Gheric is the co-inventor of two patents in the XR space, and is currently completing his PhD in Human Centered Computing at Georgia Tech, specializing in tools and abstractions for developing spatially adaptive immersive applications. Enjoy! http://copiosis.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upsoshow/message

Jamie Joyce is the founder and Executive Director of the Society Library - a non-profit that creates structured knowledge databases of media concerning debates and discussions around complex social issues. Her goal is to improve humanity's relationship with information online. The Society Library projects include the Great American Debate, the Internet Government, COVIDConvo, and one day - the AI Politician. Jamie has a background in international sustainable development. She oversaw 30 projects in more than 20 countries and served as a representative to the United Nations on behalf of the NGO she served. Jamie is also currently on the board of Wikitongues, a non-profit organization creating a seed bank of the world's 7000 languages and seeding revitalization efforts around the world. Enjoy! https://www.societylibrary.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upsoshow/message

Peter Smith and Raven Hernandez are the co-founders of Earth Rides, a ride-hailing app focused on providing fair living wages via employees as drivers and reducing carbon emissions by utilizing a 100% electric vehicle fleet. Peter is a Doctor of Chiropractic and has spent the last 15+ years growing his own businesses though fresh approaches to customer acquisition and growth marketing. Raven received her B.A. in Philosophy from Lipscomb University in 2016 and her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law in 2019. As a natural relationship builder, she focuses on developing strategic alliances at the city and state level as well as amongst national clean technology organizations. http://earthrideshare.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upsoshow/message

Moritz Bierling is an independent researcher, writer, programmer, and open source operative. He has served as Chief Catalyst at Holo and was a senior strategist at Exosphere. We had a great conversation exploring how Holochain is different than blockchain, the fundamental definition of “currency”, how the natural world influenced the metacurrency project, and we also covered some examples of people using alternative currencies to solve real-world problems. Enjoy! http://metacurrency.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upsoshow/message

This week's guests are Mike Gilliand and Euvie Ivanova. They are the hosts of Future Thinkers, a series of podcasts and videos about evolving technology, society, and consciousness to create a more sustainable future for all of humanity. The podcast explores questions such as “what does the future of humanity hold, and how can we help create it?”, ”how can we create societies where all human beings thrive?”, and “what is the nature of reality and consciousness?” in the form of a discussion between the co-hosts and guests. Some of the topics discussed include emerging technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality, transhumanism, future societies, consciousness, meditation, psychedelics, and the philosophies that connect all these things. Future Thinkers has been featured as one of the best podcasts in Forbes and BBC, and in the iTunes Top 40 in the tech category. Enjoy! https://futurethinkers.org/village/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upsoshow/message

Jubilee Briscoe is a moderator for the Game B Facebook page - a group dedicated to exploring the possibilities that arise when we work together. She discovered this group in the fall of 2019 and has been an active member of the community ever since. She is co-creating TogetherTec, a space for "meta-projects" to develop that will help other projects in the community blossom. She also hosts “Solution Raising” events every Wednesday at 9am pacific, which are powerful one hour conversations that are designed to generate improvements to our current situations. Their goal with each event is to brainstorm how 10,000 people and $100,000 can begin to make a difference, and they tackle issues such as food, education, poverty, climate change, prisons, and slavery. Enjoy! Game ~B - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1447251258838263/ TogetherTec (Game ~B Projects) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1142306489471197 Rule Omega - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQA93ulyigg --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upsoshow/message

Today’s guests are Dr. David L. Brock and Trevor Gormley. Dr. Brock is Founder and President of Liquid Intelligence, a next-generation platform that networks artificial intelligences for industrial and consumer applications. He was a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Founder and Director of the MIT Data Center, as well as former co-Founder and Director of the Auto-ID Center. Previously Dr. Brock was a Research Scientist at MIT's AI Lab where he founded and directed a research group focused on semi-autonomous agents within large virtual worlds for the Department of Defense. David was also Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Hangout Industries, Inc. an online 3D social networking virtual world, as well as the Founder and former Chief Technology Officer of endoVia Medical, Inc., a manufacturer of computer-controlled surgical and interventional devices. He holds Bachelor's degrees in Theoretical Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering, as well as Masters and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. Before joining David to build Liquid Intelligence, Trevor Gormley founded the Millennial View, a consulting firm dedicated to helping companies effectively integrate their current operations with new strategies to better fit the incoming generation of workers and consumers. Trevor has frequently appeared on CNBC's Closing Bell to discuss market growth strategies and consumer market sentiment for companies like Apple, Tesla, and IBM. He is also a contributor to BecomingHuman and Data-Driven Investor. We had a lot of fun with this interview and covered some pretty mind-blowing stuff. Enjoy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/upsoshow/message