"I recently saw an Italian company make a patent for batteries that you can actually eat. So try to consider this. It is just stunning. You can eat batteries."
"I love science. I love the truth."
"It's very curious that AI was like eating the most boring part of many different professions."

Season 01 Episode 03

Smartware and emerging technologies

Featuring Leandro Agro

Which technologies synergize with artificial intelligence? Leandro Agro joins Dirk and Jon to explore big data, the Internet of Things, virtual and augmented realities, 3d printing, and the identity graph.

Digital Design Director Leandro Agro joins Dirk and Jon to go beyond artificial intelligence and learn about complementary smartware technologies that, in combination with AI, will transform the ways we live and work. We talk about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s really important.

Leandro Agro

Digital Design Director

Leandro Agro is an award-winning IxD/UX Director, Internet of Things pioneer, and patents contributor with over 20 years of design and team leadership. He is a Digital Product Director for Design Group Italia, working with clients such as PepsiCo, 3M, and ABB. i just hacked that together form his website

Dirk Knemeyer

Producer

Dirk is a social futurist, helping to imagine and implement social systems that better humanity. His research on the human condition has taken him around the world, from North Korea to Nepal, and from an anti-immigration parade in Germany to meeting with a community leader in Ferguson, Missouri. Previously a design entrepreneur, he created successful technology companies in Silicon Valley, Boston, and his native Ohio.

Jonathan Follett

Producer

Jon is a writer, musician, and emerging tech researcher who is a principal at GoInvo, a design practice dedicated to innovation in healthcare. His published books include science fiction novel "Marvin and the Moths" with Scholastic and "Designing for Emerging Technologies" with O’Reilly. He produces electronic dance music under the name Jonny Fallout.

Season 01 Episode 03

Smartware and emerging technologies

Featuring Leandro Agro

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Leandro Agro

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Jonathan Follett

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