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The Future of Everything

Host Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine at Stanford, is your guide t

Episodes

Total: 329

Guest Sergiu Pasca is a physician-scientist who turns skin cells into stem cells and then into brain

With TikTok in the hands of 170 million Americans, cybersecurity expert Amy Zegart says it’s time to

A best of episode where Russ interviews one of his bioengineering colleagues,  Fan Yang, about some

A best of episode where Russ interviews computer scientist and electrical engineer, Dorsa Sadigh. Th

We’re bringing back an episode about trust and AI. In a world where the use of Artificial Intelligen

The future of addiction

2024/4/5

Guest Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and a specialist in the behavioral sciences who studies addictio

Humans and computers making music together, it’s the best of both worlds.Ge Wang is a professor of m

Laura Simons is a clinical psychologist and an authority on pain, particularly chronic pain in child

Guest Olivier Gevaert is an expert in multi-modal biomedical data modeling and recently developed ne

The future of reading

2024/3/8

Rebecca Silverman is an expert in how humans learn to read. It’s a complex process, she says. First

The future of culture

2024/3/1

Professor and cultural psychologist Michele Gelfand’s latest book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, explo

We’re taking you into our archive of over 250 episodes to re-share an interview Russ Altman did in 2

The future of bioprinting

2024/2/16

Mark Skylar-Scott is one of the world’s foremost experts on the 3D printing of human tissue, cell by

Cognitive scientist Michael Frank studies differences in how children and AI learn language. There i

We’re re-running an important episode on Alzheimer’s disease — a topic that touches many people. We

The future of immigration

2024/1/26

Ran Abramitzky studies the economic history of immigration by tapping into now-public government rec

We’re re-releasing a wonderful episode about the positive impact art has on individual and societal

As the pandemic made a doctor visit as easy as a Zoom call and computer vision proved able to distin

To kick off 2024, we’re bringing you an episode that’s been one of our most popular. The timing is j

Russ's curated playlist of six episodes from our archive to accompany you through the holiday season