Special project
Build the Future Podcast
Conversations with people pursuing bold ideas and possibilities: founders, scientists, artists, historians, and science fiction writers. Hosted by Cam Wiese.
Latest episodes
Getting Food Robots Out of the Lab — Rajat BhageriaRajat Bhageria explains how Chef Robotics deploys food-assembly robots, learns from factory operations and tackles real-world automation.
Don Davis — Space Art & Humanity’s FutureDon Davis on painting space settlements, working with Carl Sagan and imagining life beyond Earth.
Isaiah Taylor of Valar Atomics — Nuclear Fission and Energy AbundanceIsaiah Taylor explores nuclear power, synthetic fuels and what abundant energy could make possible.
Recorded live at Pioneers
Our talks are episodes too, with video, chapters, and transcripts.
Pioneers Medicine
Saving Lives & Buying Time
Laura Deming, co-founder of Until
Pioneers Oceans
Building Robots for the Ocean
Will O’Brien, co-founder of Ulysses
Pioneers Food
Growing Salmon from a Cell
Aryé Elfenbein, co-founder of Wildtype
All episodes
- Getting Food Robots Out of the Lab — Rajat Bhageria
- Don Davis — Space Art & Humanity’s Future
- Isaiah Taylor of Valar Atomics — Nuclear Fission and Energy Abundance
Rick Guidice — Art, Science, and Space Settlements
Jim Pethokoukis — Building an Up-Wing Culture
Isaac Arthur — From Physics to YouTube
Don Clark — Art & Optimism
Eliot Peper — Science Fiction & Culture
Jason Green — Vertical Farming & Food
Ian Rountree — Venture & the Near Frontier
Sam Bhagwat — Gatsby.js & Open Source
Alex Trembath — Policy, Food, & Energy
Thomas Eiden — Atomic Alchemy and Radioisotope Production
Adrian Fenty — Building Better Cities Through Policy and Technology
Courtney Boyd Myers — Akua & Kelp
Justin Kolbeck — Wildtype & Cultured Salmon
Gary Sheng — Civics Unplugged & Politics
Aaron Slodov — Atomic Industries and the Future of Manufacturing
Laura Crabtree — Epsilon3 & Space Exploration
Pat Riley — Bitcoin & Freedom
Rohit Krishnan — Investing in the Future
Robin Dechant — Aveo & Manufacturing
Chris Power of Hadrian — The Future of Manufacturing, Space, and America
Dan Grech of Global OTEC — Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
Dr. Yael Joffe of 3x4 Genetics — The Future of Genetics, Health, and Biology
Jonathon Barkl of AirGarage — The Future of Parking, Cities, and Community
Liam Cadigan & Nick Warren — inspectAR and Augmented Reality for Electronics
Derek Morris of United Therapeutics — 3D Printing Organs
Nick Donahue of Atmos — The Future of Homes, Building, and Community Living
Zach Dwiel of Terran Robotics — AI, Drones and Construction
Adam Keating of CoLab — The Future of Engineering, Collaboration, and Work
Dr. Celeste Holz-Schietinger of Impossible Foods — The Future of Food, Sustainability, and Meat
Noor Siddiqui of Orchid Health — The Future of Families, Conception, and Genetics
Doug Petkanics of Livepeer — Decentralized Video Infrastructure
Roman Teslyuk of Earth AI — The Future of Mining, Energy, and Materials
Phnam Bagley of Nonfiction — The Future of Design, Experience, and Space Architecture
Dr. Anton Howes of The Royal Society of Arts — Innovation, Invention, and Great Exhibitions
Ro Gupta — Maps, Autonomous Transportation and Urban Mobility
Anna Cheniuntai — 3D-Printed Buildings on Earth and Mars
Geffen Avraham — CubeSats and a More Accessible Space Economy
Elliot Roth — Algae, Food and the Future of Space
Samuel Ian Rosen (“Captain Planet”) — Water, Plastic and Tap
Dival Banerjee — 3D-Printed Metal and Better Manufacturing
Sri Kosuri — Engineering Biology for Complex Diseases
Galen Wolfe-Pauly — Urbit, Communities and Personal Computing
Celine Halioua — Helping Dogs Live Longer
Dryden Brown — Cities, Herofuturism and Immortality
Manu Ignatius — Underwater Networks and the Future of Oceans
Rahul Rana — Making Moonshots and Building the Future
Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski — Braintrust and the Future of Work
Michael Levin — Regeneration, Xenobots and the Software of Life
Jamie Gull of Talyn — Electric Flight Between Cities
Justin Glibert — Factories on the Moon
Dr. Sandhya Sriram — Growing Seafood from Cells
Tyler Hayes — Artificial Limbs and the Future of the Human Body
Matteo Franceschetti — Sleep Fitness and the Connected Bed
Gonzalo Espinoza Graham — Building a Flying Car at Watfly
Garrett Scott — Pipedream and the Future of Delivery
Alexis Rivas — Building Homes Like Products at Cover
Katie Rae — Building an Ecosystem for Tough Tech
Felix Ejeckam — Satellites and Internet Access for Everyone
Indra Sofian — Rethinking High School at Sora
Wes Wagner — Learning, Incentives and Outcomes-Based Payments
Josh Clemente — Metabolic Health and Real-Time Feedback
Alex Bouaziz — Remote Work and a Borderless Workforce
Jill Carlson — Money, Hyperinflation and Financial Access
Ken Chong — Restaurants and the Food Delivery Economy
Evan Goldin — Parking, Public Space and the Future of Cities
Jason Crawford — Progress, Prescriptive Optimism and Useful Knowledge
Patri Friedman — Charter Cities, Law as Code and Governance Experiments
Goke Olubusi — Digital Healthcare Infrastructure and Telemedicine
Ryan Dunn — Carbon Fiber 3D Printing and the Next Generation of Machines
Jon Dishotsky — Co-Living, Community and the Future of Cities
Kelly Smith — Microschools, Mastery and Empowered Learners
Tyler Shaddix of GoGuardian — Building the Future of Learning
Welcome to Build the Future
Trailer credits
Build the Future — World’s Fair Co.
Narration: Cameron Wiese
Music: Signal to Noise by Scott Buckley
https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/library/signal-to-noise/
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Music edited and mixed beneath narration.
Footage and photography credits
NASA
KSC_69-71212-sRGB
https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC_69-71212-sRGB
Astranis
Astranis official satellite factory film
https://www.astranis.com/
Boom Supersonic · XB-1 flight
XB-1 official website flight hero
https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1
Disney
Casey's First Trip to Tomorrowland — official Disney clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaJvqq8t4q8
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Virtual Tour of the CFS Commercial Fusion Campus (April 2026)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp1rcZ-daBU
The Ocean Cleanup
System 03: captured plastic extraction
https://theoceancleanup.com/media-gallery/
National Geographic
Cosmos Season 3 trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghZ5gsr6MAk
California magazine / UC Berkeley
Inside a CRISPR Lab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV91sxtS03k
Disney — license pending
Disney EPCOT presentation / Tomorrowland footage (archive labels 1967; Walt presentation filmed 1966)
https://archive.org/details/epcot1967
MPO Productions / Prelinger Archives
The Unisphere: Biggest World on Earth (1964)
https://archive.org/details/Unispher1964
Ford / Audio Productions / Prelinger
Harvest of the Years (1938)
https://archive.org/details/0750_Harvest_of_the_Years_A_Story_of_the_Triumph_of_an_Idea_The_14_30_52_20
Jam Handy Organization / General Motors / Prelinger Archives
To New Horizons (1940) — GM Futurama, 1939–40 New York World’s Fair
https://archive.org/details/ToNewHor1940
Helion · Official company film
Helion Polaris company film (Vimeo title: DT Video)
https://www.helionenergy.com/polaris
Helion
Helion homepage fusion-machine reel
https://www.helionenergy.com/
Helion
Helion homepage manufacturing reel
https://www.helionenergy.com/
ICON
Design and build homepage film
https://www.iconbuild.com/
NASA
Apollo 11 restored Moonwalk highlights — Buzz Aldrin steps onto the surface
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10451/
Perimeter Institute
Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime in the 21st Century — public lecture trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_k01PqdUcs
NASA / SpaceX
IMAP liftoff — SpaceX launch angle 1
https://images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-20250924-MH-SPX01-0001-SpaceX_IMAP_Launch_Angle_1-M16779
Tesla
Flying Through Giga Berlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-4yOx1CnXE
Disney · Tomorrowland (2015)
Tomorrowland official trailer
https://video.disney.com/watch/tomorrowland-trailer-521ee4800ae907ebb4db40d8
Vast · Haven-1 hardware / Haven Demo engineering
Haven-1 Development — September 2025 hardware film
https://www.vastspace.com/media
Wildtype
Cultivated salmon preparation
https://www.wildtypefoods.com/
Wildtype
2023 Wildtype Fishery Video - final cut
https://www.wildtypefoods.com/press-resources
Zipline
Homepage brand film
https://www.zipline.com/
International Space Station · NASA
International Space Station above Earth, photographed from Crew Dragon Endeavour
https://images.nasa.gov/details/iss066e081311