Building Tomorrow

Updated: 02 Oct 2023 • 99 episodes
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Building Tomorrow explores the ways technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship are creating a freer, wealthier, and more peaceful world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Paul Matzko & Chelsea Follett + Michael Munger + Cory Doctorow + Ruth Cowan 17 Feb 2022 • EN

The Future of Stuff

Your home is full of technological miracles, devices that your ancestors would have regarded as near magic because of the life of relative ease they provide us with. However, something is changing. In the past, we got richer by owning more stuff; but in the future, we will have more by owning less. In this final episod

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If you're the kind of person who carefully sorts out your recyclables from your trash, cleans it, and puts it out in the blue bin for pickup, you probably don't realize that as much as 90% of that material either just ends up in a landfill or, worse, is dumped into the ocean. Indeed, much of the plastic litter in the P

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11 Nov 2021 • EN

The Underpopulation Crisis

People are afraid. Afraid that they are consuming too much, emitting too much, having too many kids, and running the planet into the ground. Eight billion people seems like too many. But a growing number of experts are sounding the alarm that a far worse problem is on the horizon, an underpopulation crisis. People are

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14 Oct 2021 • EN

Data is the New Guano

What happens when a raw material that is valueless suddenly becomes valuable? If it's bird guano in the 19th century, you mine it and save the agricultural economy. If its data in the late 20th century, you collect it and create a new digital economy.  Music attributions can be found here: https://www.libertarianism.or

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30 Sep 2021 • EN

Building Tomorrow is Back!

The Building Tomorrow podcast is back in a new format. This season we will be focusing on wanting more. The desire for more embraces a prosperity mindset, the belief that growth and wealth are not a zero-sum game. We will release one in depth episode per month for 6 months. We would love for you to listen along as we l

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