Description
For the 79th 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
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