What if your body is just software waiting to be updated?

⁠Andrew Hessel⁠ has spent decades at the frontier of synthetic biology — a field that treats DNA like code, cells like processors, and diseases like bugs to be patched. In this conversation, we go deep.

We talk about programming life from scratch, designing personalized cancer drugs for one single patient, and his company Chromosome 24 — a plan to back up human beings the way we back up our phones.

Biology, DNA, viruses as USB sticks, AI-designed proteins, headless bodyoids, human cloning... and yes, we talk about death too.

This one will mess with your head. In the best way.

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What if every transparent surface around you—car windshields, building windows, even glass walls—could augment your reality without wearing any device?

Jussi Mäkinen from Distance Technologies reveals how computational optics is turning ordinary surfaces into mixed reality portals.

We explore the technology reshaping human perception and ask: who decides what we see in this augmented future?

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Episode link + article: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes/50-jussi-makinen-mixed-reality-surfaces-transforming-our-perception

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What if we could shrink the intelligence of ants and bees into robots smaller than a coin?

Elio Challita, a Schmidt Science Fellow at Harvard's Microrobotics Laboratory, is making this sci-fi dream reality. From studying termites that spit like 3D printers to cicadas that spray with chainsaw-level power, Elio explains how swarms of biodegradable micro robots could detect environmental disasters in minutes instead of weeks.

We dive into surface tension physics, biological materials as robot parts, and why insects might be the world's greatest engineers.

Could armies of tiny guardians be monitoring every forest, ocean, and city by 2075?

This conversation will change how you see the bugs in your backyard forever.

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Episode link + article: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes/49-elio-challita-micro-robots-inspired-by-insects

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What if we're living in the dumbest timeline possible? Scientist James Glattfelder thinks we have all the technology to create paradise, but our bad ideas about reality are building hell instead.

We dive deep into how information theory is revolutionizing physics, why consciousness might be the universe's operating system, and how ancient shamanic wisdom could guide our future.

From quantum computers to psychedelic insights, from symbolic thinking to collective intelligence - this is about breaking free from the mental prison that's keeping humanity stuck.

The re-enchantment of existence isn't just philosophy - it's our survival strategy for the next 50 years.

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Full episode with transcripts: ⁠https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes⁠

Jame's book, The Sapient Cosmos on Amazon.

Jame's on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesglattfelder/

Mizter Rad records this episode 11 meters underwater in one of Ocean Builders' revolutionary SeaPods off the coast of Panama.

Grant Romundt, CEO of Ocean Builders, shares how they're solving humanity's space crisis by building high-tech floating homes that create marine habitats instead of destroying them. From smart toilets to liquid-cooled AI brains, from jet ski elevators to waste treatment systems that clean water better than land-based plants - discover how ocean living might become as common as city apartments in the next 50 years. With floating cities already under construction in the Maldives and Saudi Arabia, Grant reveals why the ocean might be our next frontier for human habitation.

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Full episode with transcripts: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes

More about Ocean Builders: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oceanbuilders/

What if technology could make you feel like a whale or walk with elephants in the Serengeti?

Ulrico Grech-Cumbo, founder of Habitat XR, is using virtual reality to create "empathy at scale" - connecting millions to nature through immersive experiences that make your body believe you're actually in the wild.

We explore how XR might replace traditional zoos, why virtual nature creates real physiological responses, and whether digital experiences can solve our disconnection from the natural world. From filming lions in 360° to building the "zoos of the future," this conversation challenges everything you think you know about conservation and human connection.

Is this the future of environmental education, or are we just building more sophisticated barriers between humans and real nature?

The answer might determine the next 50 years of life on Earth.

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More about Habitat XR: https://www.habitatxr.com/

More about Ulrico's foundation: https://www.linkedin.com/company/habitat-nature-parks-foundation/

Episode with transcripts: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes/46-building-empathy-at-scale-xr-human-connection-with-ulrico-grech-cumbo

Gracias totales to our sponsor: The Berlin School of Podcasting

On the Mizter Rad Show we talk to visionaries about how the world will look like in the next 5 decades

In episode 45, Mizter Rad speaks with Dr. Aron D'Souza, founder of the Enhanced Games - a revolutionary sports competition embracing performance enhancement technologies rather than banning them.

Aron shares his vision for a future where human potential meets cutting-edge science, potentially transforming not just sports, but aging, work, and what it means to be human.

From pharmacological enhancements to potential brain-computer interfaces, learn how these technologies might help us evolve from "Human 1.0" to "Human 2.0" - and why Aron believes this shift could solve major societal challenges like our aging population crisis.

If you've ever wondered what athletics and humanity might look like in 2075, this conversation offers a provocative glimpse into a possible future where enhancement is not just accepted, but celebrated.

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Episode with transcripts: https://www.mizter-rad.com/episodes

Follow Aron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arondsouza/

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This episode was sponsored by The Berlin School of Podcasting