Can robots become our best friends… or will they eventually kill us?!

We sat down with Julian Johnson to explore how AI and tech advancement might help us move toward an age of deepened connection.

Together we weave a mycelium of futurist ideas and earth-rooted principles, dreaming up systems that address scarcity, regenerate nature, accelerate innovation, and superpower the globe.

Julian speaks to the collective fears around robots, gives insight from his personal journey as an entrepreneur, and tells us the project he’s most excited about – his school in the slums of Kenya.

P.s. the audio quality is best from 15m50s onwards, but the conversation is great from the very start!

Julian Johnson

Serial entrepreneur and investor Julian Johnson is on a personal mission to become ‘Earth’s Hypeman’. Climate conscience drives his involvement in purpose-led ventures, and via his fund, Tejo Ventures, Julian supports, advises and invests in ‘companies being built by brilliant people with a vision to make a better world’.

Connect with Julian Johnson

• Little Lions School, donate here: www.littlelions.life
• Julian’s venture fund: www.tejoventures.com
• Twitter: @julianjohnson
• Instagram: @julianpsjohnson
• LinkedIn: @johnsonjulian

In this episode, we discuss:

• 6:28 Robot carers for the elderly: can robots be our best friends?
• 11:20 The space between thought and the manifestation of thought
• 15:57 Addressing scarcity and reshaping the future with tokenized systems
• 20:01 Energy distribution and how we can better power the globe
• 23:03 Mycelium as the API for how we interact with nature
• 28:49 Plant medicine, microdosing and the importance of integration
• 36:17 Boomeranging Ideas: Welcome to Modern Mantra
• 44:43 Entrepreneurs and the reality distortion field
• 52:07 The Age of Connection: Can AI give rise more to the feminine?
• 53:26 Embracing Robots… Until they kill us. Why are we so afraid of artificial intelligence?
• 01:01:03 How Julian invests in ‘human flourishing’
• 01:11:33 What’s the burn rate of your dreams?
• 01:14:55 The dilemma of wealth: leveraging comfort, trust and fear
• 01:22:34 Reclaiming attention, our most precious commodity
• 01:25:22 Resource scarcity vs money like mycelium, and planting your resources
• 01:28:09 Regeneration – Nature’s ROI
• 01:33:29 Little Lions: Julian’s School Project in Kenya

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