What Tech Breakthroughs Are Needed For Asteroid Mining?

<p>Futurized goes beneath the trends to track the underlying forces of disruption in tech, policy, business models, social dynamics and the environment. I’m your host, Trond Arne Undheim <a href='https://twitter.com/trondau'>(@trondau)</a>, futurist, author, investor, and serial entrepreneur. Join me as I discuss the societal impact of deep tech such as AI, blockchain, IoT, nanotech, quantum, robotics, and synthetic biology, and tackle topics such as entrepreneurship, trends, or the future of work. On the show, I interview smart people with a soul: founders, authors, executives, and other thought leaders, or even the occasional celebrity.</p> <p>Futurized is a bi-weekly show, preparing YOU to think about how to deal with the next decade's disruption, so you can succeed and thrive no matter what happens.</p> <p>In this episode of the podcast, the topic is: What Tech Breakthroughs Are Needed For Asteroid Mining? Our guest is space technologist Joel C. Sercel, President and CEO of TransAstra.</p> <p>In this conversation, they talk about [propulsion, telescope tech, creating a lunar mining outpost, space manufacturing, the impact of reducing the $/pound to access space, further privatization, geopolitics, and space law/regulation.</p> <p>If you're new to the show, seek particular topics, or you are looking for a great way to tell your friends about the show, which we always appreciate, we've got the episode categories. Those are at <a href='https://www.futurized.org/episodes/'>Futurized.org/episodes</a>. They are collections of your favorite episodes organized by topic, such as Entrepreneurship, Trends, Emerging Tech, or The Future of Work. That'll help new listeners get a taste of everything that we do here, starting with a topic they are familiar with, or want to go deeper in.</p> <p>The host of this podcast, Trond Arne Undheim, Ph.D is the co-author with Natan Linder of Augmented Lean published by Wiley in 2022, author of Health Tech: Rebooting Society's Software, Hardware and Mindset--published by Routledge in 20