Guest: An author, techno futurist, creator, TED speaker, and Trekkie, Galit Ariel is at the forefront of exploring the depths of how Augmented reality can affect our culture and personal perception of reality. With a career spanning various disciplines and industries, from design to retail and experiential activations, she seeks a future that integrates technology into our daily lives without controlling it. With a well respected education in degrees from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and Savannah College of Art and Design, Galit has provided strategic design consultation to international brand agencies across product, luxury, retail, content and experience creation fields.

Her latest book Augmenting Alice: The Future of Identity, Experience and Reality offers an in-depth conversation about the future of augmented reality applications and their impact on public, personal, and even intimate spaces.

Some questions asked: -Where in Star Trek did you first see a hint of the AR space? (8:55) -What is your definition of the Holodeck? (12:00) -Where have you seen a real life Holodeck example? (14:00) -What examples in Star Trek can give you an idea of where Augmented reality could go? (18:46) -What are some positive things you feel AR will do in the near-future? (24:25) -Tell me more about developer opportunities to use the existing technology for their own design (29: 45) -What are some positive Star Trek philosophies derived from the show that otherwise might be viewed as negative? (35:20) -What are some traits of Spak you feel humanity should pay more attention to? (43:50)

In this episode you will learn: -Stacey Abrams is a HUGE Trekkie (2:20) -Origins of the term “meta verse” (14:30) -How Commercial entities involvement in meta verse differs from the norm (16:30) -What is a heterotopian? (22:15) -How we’ll be able to amplify everyday objects and their use (26:30) -What deploying this technology, physically, in our world actually means (40:15)