Eric Boyd

Technologist. Investor. Futurist. Maker. Yogi. Philosopher. Spreadsheet lover. Gamer. Programmer. Event organizer. Community promoter. Space geek. Robot lover.

I’ve done a wide variety of things in my life – everything from engineering and making to event organizing to angel investing. I keep busy with a wide variety of projects and I’m always up for a conversation about the future and how to make it better. Currently obsessed with: • Machine Learning & AI: are we close to artificial intelligence, or will that require another 100 PhD level breakthroughs? • Synthetic Biology: Cultured meat, genetic engineering, the design of living things. Engineered creatures; biology as advanced tech. • Angel Investing: Startups and entrepreneurs, the ecosystem of innovation • Educational Reform: making education more hands on and less academic. Creating citizens, not employees or consumers. •Sustainability: Not just climate change mitigation, but also habitat protection, closed loop manufacturing, and utopian dreams in general • Space: NASA and SpaceX love Mars, and I helped start Venus Labs, we promote the cloud city colonization of the planet Venus! • Epistemology and Rationality: Carefully considering the nature of knowledge. How do we know what we claim to know? How does your information consumption make you into who you become?

May 2024