The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 5: Join Xapiens Co-Director Bobby Johnston in a discussion with Alex (Sandy) Pentland. Sandy is a professor at the MIT Media lab, is on the advisory board for the UN Secretary General, UN Foundation, Consumers Union, and OECD, co-led the World Economic Forum leading to GDPR, and has delivered keynote addresses for OECD, G20, World Bank, and JP Morgan. He has co-founded a long list of companies (for example https://cogitocorp.com/, https://www.ginger.com/, and https://www.endor.com/). He is the author of several books, the two discussed in this podcast are Social Physics (https://www.amazon.com/Social-Physics...) and Building the New Economy (https://www.amazon.com/Building-New-E...) which was published in October 2021. We did not have enough time to cover in the breadth nor depth necessary to really understand all of his ideas, so I highly encourage you to read his books (social physics is also available as an audiobook), or watch some of his great video content available online, for example: https://www.media.mit.edu/articles/re... REFERENCE LINKS: Paper discussing social physics as spin glass: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.1357 Crowd sourced rare disease website: https://www.patientslikeme.com/ Why healthcare doesn't screen healthy patients: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158... We don't know the mechanism of action for Tylenol (acetaminophen / paracetamol): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21054... US Healthcare spending as percent of GDP: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statisti... Links to 1980s China Diet Study: https://www.cornell.edu/video/playlis... http://web.archive.org/web/2009022322... https://nutritionstudies.org/the-chin...

The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 4: Join Xapiens Co-Director Bobby Johnston in a discussion with MIT Media lab professor Pattie Maes. Pattie is the head of the Fluid Interfaces group at MIT, focusing on building devices that integrate seamlessly (hence, 'fluid') and is involved with dozens of exciting projects that help people with attention, cognition, memory, focus, and much more. You can find a full list of her projects here: https://www.media.mit.edu/people/patt.... She is also a successful entrepreneur, having sold Firefly Networks to Microsoft in the 90s and recently had the startup Tulip Co. valuated at $1B. As a core principle she focuses on practically improving peoples lives using existing advanced digital technology. Hopefully we will get to talk again soon in the near future.

The Xapiens Podcast (XPC) Episode 1: Join Xapiens Co-Director Loyd Waites in a discussion with Deblina Sarkar about low temperature electronics as tools for human enhancement. Deblina is an MIT Media Arts an Sciences Professor and the Founder and Director of Nano-Cybernetic Biotrek research lab. You can find more information about her lab and current work here: https://web.mit.edu/deblina-sarkar/