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Utopia in Beta

Isabelle Castro

A space to explore how emerging technologies and new societal systems are reshaping the human experience and what it means to build for a post-digital society.

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Slightly sleep deprived and my head full with (much welcomed) Bitcoin 2026 optimism, I grabbed a taxi to an unassuming bar off the Las Vegas strip.

The dark room, with reggaeton blaring and plastic wrapped booths momentarily threw me back...

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Utopia in Beta Podcast Ep8 — Boosting Biotech

What if you could adjust your biological make up? Not through years of discipline or careful lifestyle optimization, but through a single, reversible injection. It could make you think clearer, grow muscle mass easier, even reduce your rate...

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Utopia in Beta Podcast Ep7 - How to build a country

So you want to start a new country. What does it actually take? Not theoretically, not the romantic ideal and founding lore or the constitutional ideals, but the practical, unsexy, founder-level grind of it?

Patri Friedman has spent the b...

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Intentional Attention

It was Sunday evening. Three grown adults in their thirties clustered around a table, wine in hand with a Japanese DJ set playing in the background. They have hardly spoken a word for the past hour save a half muttered “oh that goes over th...

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Utopia in Beta Podcast Ep6 - Prediction markets as governance

Prediction markets have always, aside from the current reality of betting and alleged insider trading, promised a smarter way to aggregate information pricing the future through collective wisdom rather than institutional power.

But what...

2 months ago
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    Isabelle Castro is a tech journalist and podcaster exploring the future of AI, emerging technologies, and the digital societies shaping our world. She's here to explore the future, and maybe even survive it. Friend of the Startup States Society

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