Regular editions of Fareed's Global Briefing will return from January 2, 2018.
On GPS at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN:
First on "The Next Big Idea," a GPS special edition: Flying cars have appeared on screens big and small for decades. But is a personal flying vehicle just the stuff of cinematic magic? Not if Sebastian Thrun, an adjunct professor at Stanford University and CEO of the Kitty Hawk Corporation, has anything to say about it. He specializes in robotics, artificial intelligence and education – and founded Google X. He led Google's self-driving car team, and he has been called the father of the self-driving car. Thrun joins Fareed to discuss what we might be able to expect.
Next: Thomas Edison said genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Is that really the case? Is hard work the reason Steve Jobs transformed our world with the iPhone? What makes a genius? At the Aspen Institute, Fareed sits down with its CEO, Walter Isaacson, to try to answer that question and more.
Also: About one-third of all the food produced in the world each year for humans is thrown out, according to the United Nations. Americans throw away almost as much food as they consume, according to The Guardian. What can we do about this? Dan Barber, chef and owner of the Blue Hill restaurants in the New York area, has some ideas.
Plus: The industrial revolution ushered in the first "machine age." We are now in a second machine age, in which technological advances in artificial intelligence are reshaping our world. The fear across America and the world is that this new era will mean massive job losses. Fareed discusses the issue with Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who direct MIT's Initiative on the Digital Economy. Their new book is called "Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future."
And: While deaths from heart disease have fallen since 2000, deaths from Alzheimer's have more than doubled. Indeed, one-in-three seniors dies with Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, according to the Alzheimer's Association. But Fareed's next guest says this does not have to be our brain's destiny -- that we can and should do certain things that can help stave it off. Lisa Genova, a Harvard-trained neuroscientist and author of "Still Alice," discusses the issue. | |
