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EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech - The Jim Rutt Show

EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech - The Jim Rutt Show

Update: 2025-09-09
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Jim talks with Pablos Holman about the ideas in his new book Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters. They discuss deep tech versus shallow tech, computational modeling and simulation for real-world problems, the hacker mindset, the role of inventors, nuclear power and renewable energy solutions, population growth, development challenges, space-based solar power, the likelihood of fusion power, mistakes in German energy policy, energy storage limitations, the transformation of the apparel industry through automation, and much more.

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Deep Future: Creating Technology That Matters, by Pablos Holman
Deep Future (company)
Intellectual Ventures Lab

Pablos is a hacker, inventor, and bestselling author of Deep Future: Creating Technology that Matters, the indispensable guide to deep tech. Now Managing Partner at Deep Future, investing in technologies to solve the world’s biggest problems. Previously, Pablos worked on spaceships at Blue Origin and helped build The Intellectual Ventures Lab to invent a wide variety of breakthroughs including a brain surgery tool, a machine to suppress hurricanes, 3D food printers, and a laser that can shoot down mosquitos—part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates. Pablos hosts the Deep Future Podcast and is a top public speaker—his talks have over 30 million views.
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EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech - The Jim Rutt Show

EP 323 Pablos Holman on Deep Tech - The Jim Rutt Show