79: Brad Templeton

For the 79^th episode of NEOHUMAN, Agah is chatting with Brad Templeton. Brad Templeton is a Canadian software developer, internet entrepreneur, online community pioneer, publisher of news, comedy, science fiction and e-books, writer, photographer, civil rights advocate, futurist, public speaker, educator and self-driving car consultant. He graduated from the University of Waterloo. He is/was: 

• Chairman of Electronic Frontier Foundation from 2000 to 2010

• Inventor on 21 patents in self-driving cars and telephony

• Founder and CEO of ClariNet Communications, the first company founded to engage in commercial activity over the early Internet

• the first employee of VisiCorp (then called Personal Software Inc.) the first PC applications software company

• a board member of the Foresight Institute, one of the oldest futurist organizations and the leading one in the field of Nanotechnology

• Chair for Networks and Computing on the founding faculty for Singularity University, an educational institution and think-tank devoted to rapidly changing technology and its effects

• In 2010, he joined the Google self-driving car project (now known as Waymo) where he consulted on strategy and technology

• a consulting advisor for Starship Technologies in the delivery robot space and Quanergy LIDAR, among others

Podcast: Download (Duration: 57:14 — 26.2MB)

LINKS: 

Brad Templeton: www.templetons.com/brad

Brad Templeton – Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/#1a971abc4543

Brad Templeton – Singularity University: www.su.org/about/faculty/brad-templeton

Brad Templeton – SingularityHub: www.singularityhub.com/author/btempleton

Brad Templeton – Electronic Frontier Foundation: www.eff.org/about/board/brad-templeton