In this installment of the Future Grind podcast, host Ryan O’Shea is joined by bestselling author and futurist speaker Nikola Danalov. Nikola writes about the future at his website Singularity Weblog and hosts the Singularity.FM podcast. His 2017 book Conversations with the Future (available on Amazon here) features highlights from his interviews with some of this field’s most noteworthy individuals, including Ray Kurzweil, Kevin Kelly, Verner Vinge, and more. They discuss the importance of ethics and the influence of Socrates in Nikola’s work, as well as his path from serving in the armed forces of Bulgaria to studying drone warfare in North America, and how that ultimately lead to his fascination with the technological singularity.
00:00 - Introduction
01:38 - What Nikola does
02:28 - Where to start? Ethics.
05:00 - How drone warfare introduced Nik to the Singularity
09:17 - Governments jobs & the benefit of rejection
10:27 - Beginnings in communist Bulgaria
13:45 - The growth of Singularity Weblog
22:09 - What is the Singularity?
25:24 - How Nikola became Socrates
28:05 - Singularity Weblog as a modern Greek Symposium
31:15 - The Emperor Has No Clothes - critique of Singularity University
40:26 - The fallout from the Rotterdam talk
43:14 - How the book came to be
45:28 - The struggles & rewards of a vegan diet
55:14 - Is Nikola a Transhumanist?
56:32 - The risk of nuclear weapons & climate change
1:06:56 - Parting messages
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