In this first video episode of LMTF, co-hosts Daniel Valenzuela, Michael Currie, and Michael Olorunninwo discuss the Covid-19 crisis and its implications and possible opportunities.

Special guest Sina Parsnejad is an electrical engineering Ph.D. student at Michigan State University and a serious gamer. He joins the regular panelists to talk about future trends in video games: the huge potential of esports and the changing demographics of gamers.

How will our experience of health care change in the near future? Will we take advantage of new technologies and data to empower us as patients? Or will AI centralize analysis and make health care efficient but even more inscrutable?

Recent discoveries in the science of sleep have introduced new techniques to help people feel more well-rested and have increased cognitive abilities.

Can ethics keep up with the emergent possibilities of genetic engineering? Prof. Teresa Blankmeyer Burke, a bioethics specialist and member of the Deaf community, helps the LMTF team to challenge popular understandings of what it means to perfect our genome.

How can we reliably come up with more and better ideas? Creativity doesn't have to be just left up to chance. With the right techniques, the process can be systematized. Google Brain's Jeremy Nixon joins the regular panelists for a discussion and workshop on ways we can become more creative.

A new wave of food startups promises to up-end how food is produced and consumed, with potentially huge benefits to our health and to the environment. From meatless meats to meal replacement drinks, we have more nutritional options than ever.

We look at how we will communicate and relate in the future, how politics and media will look in an era of data abundance, and how all this will shape society.

The panelists discuss climate engineering approaches and the ethical implications of large-scale intervention in Earth's climate system.

The panelists discuss the prospect of artificial general intelligence and what it would mean for humanity.

The panelists discuss the future of military technology and its implications for global security.

What are the implications for society of a widely available anti-aging treatment? What if this treatment is possible but extremely expensive and thus only available to the very rich?

Solar panels have increased in efficiency to the point that they're now cost-competitive with fossil fuels. How will the rise of photovoltaics change power production and the world's economy?

We talk about developments toward self-flying and people-carrying drones with legendary Silicon Valley software engineer John Sokol.

Will robots and artificial intelligence replace human workers and create mass unemployment? The panel discusses whether we will see a jobless future and the implications of widespread automation.

Our special guest this week is Sondre Rasch, a former political advisor to the parliament of Norway, and founder of freelance platform konsus.com and safety net SafetyWing.

Measurable Metrics for a Better Society: GDP is fundamentally flawed as a measure of happiness. In this episode we discuss potential replacement measures.

This week, we discuss the prospect of robot spouses.

This week, we discuss the concept of arcologies: very densely populated, ecologically low-impact human habitats.

Three friends discuss the prospect of lifelong artificial intelligence companions.

Three friends discuss the latest trends in cryptocurrencies.

The panelists discuss entrepreneurship in conflict zones and the challenges and opportunities it presents.

The implications of the new wave of peer-to-peer enabling social technologies for society.

The implications technology has for the way people obtain appreciation or status in society.