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Ep 62 - The Generic Drug Trap
A new analysis quantifies what we’re losing in the pharmaceutical supply chain — and the data confirms something worse than dependence. It confirms a…
 • Alexander Titus
22:24
Ep 60 - The Org Chart Dies Last
Microsoft says the Frontier Firm is born. The real frontier is whether we can govern what we’re about to delegate.
 • Alexander Titus
21:20
Ep 57 - Who Decides the Zone of Proportionality?
The goal is not unanimity, but a process that surfaces assumptions, documents disagreement, and allows decisions to evolve with evidence
 • Alexander Titus
18:59
Ep 52 - The Science of Responsible Innovation
A TCIP Primer and Roadmap for 2026
 • Alexander Titus
13:30
Genesis Undone: The Long Arc of Echoes
Closing reflections on the series and the world that birthed it
 • Alexander Titus
Ep 51 - Teaching Science to Know Itself
The coming age of scientific superintelligence and the technologies that will make it possible
 • Alexander Titus
13:56
Hubris Rising: When Science Fiction Starts Reading Like a Policy Brief
On the launch of Book 2 in the Echoes of Tomorrow series — and why storytelling belongs in the rooms where we decide the future of technology.
 • Alexander Titus
Synthetic Eden: Why We Needed a New Story About the Futures We’re Building
On the launch of Book 1 in the Echoes of Tomorrow series — and why fiction might be our best tool for understanding the technology shaping our lives.
 • Alexander Titus
Ep 50 - Moral World Building and the Launch of a New Partnership
I brought the science, and Sean brought the fiction. How a novel partnership built Synthetic Eden into a hard science fiction take on modern bioethics…
 • Alexander Titus
43:54
Ep 49 - Mammoths, Moonshots, and the Messiness of Life
What the discovery of a new mammoth lineage in Mexico teaches us about the shifting paradigms of life
 • Alexander Titus
13:29
Ep 47 - Seven Moonshots for the Century of Biology
From decoding life to redesigning society, the moonshots that chart our biological future
 • Alexander Titus
15:34
Ep 46 - Manhattan Genomics and the Kobayashi Maru of Biology
At the frontier of technology, humanity is the experiment. The question now is, who is designing the experiment?
 • Alexander Titus
12:29
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