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Tech Trends 2025: Exploring Futures of Living Intelligence

Episode Summary

Sean and Andrew geek out over Apple’s newest releases—including the sub-$1,000 MacBook Air and the AI-powerhouse Mac Studio—before breaking down highlights from Amy Webb's Future Today Strategy Group’s 2025 Tech Trends Report, covering living intelligence, agentic AI, humanoid robots, metamaterials, the climate crisis, quantum computing, and even private space development.

Episode Notes

Grab your flip flops and beach gear and join is us on this laid-back spring break episode, Sean and Andrew cover Apple’s latest hardware announcements, spotlighting the MacBook Air’s new M4 processor and the powerhouse M3 Ultra chip in the Mac Studio—both of which promise to accelerate AI workloads and offer impressive longevity. Andrew does his best to keep Sean from spending big $$$ on new computer hardware. Reminiscing about early computing nostalgia, they also explore the Future Today Strategy Group’s 2025 Tech Trends Report, discussing the merging of physical, digital, and biological technologies, the rise of humanoid robotics, and agentic AI pushing boundaries in research and day-to-day life. Along the way, they touch on metamaterials, tech alliances, the urgent innovations prompted by the climate crisis, breakthroughs in quantum computing’s error correction, and the burgeoning potential of private enterprises moving into cislunar space.

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