Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are often heralded as a transformative tool in healthcare. They are envisioned as the ultimate tool for streamlining medical services, promising efficiency and comprehensive patient care. However, the reality reveals a more intricate picture.

Delve into the intersection of privacy, ethics, and technology with Dr. Rand Hindi, CEO of Zama. We discuss Dr. Hindi's early fascination with encryption, the future of homomorphic encryption, and its profound implications for various sectors including healthcare and advertising.

Hindi explains advancements in bioinformatics, his vision of ubiquitous computing, and how individualized medicine can benefit from encrypted data.

He also shares his personal experiments with diet and fitness, promising advancements in medtech, and the future outlook on transhumanism.

00:00 Introduction to Privacy and Ethics

00:07 Meet Dr. Rand Hindi: Deep Tech Entrepreneur

00:53 The Personal Connection to Encryption

03:26 Homomorphic Encryption Explained

05:34 Advancements and Applications of Homomorphic Encryption

07:22 The Future of Ubiquitous Computing

09:36 AlphaFold and the Future of Biology

12:12 Homomorphic Encryption in Healthcare

14:47 Personal Experiments in Weight Loss & Fitness

19:41 The Role of AI in Job Automation

21:53 Ethereum and the Future of Blockchain

24:17 The Potential of Precision Psychedelics

26:55 Transhumanism and Extending Human Lifespan

34:43 Geoengineering and Climate Change

37:32 Final Thoughts and Farewell

The Quantified Self is an international community of people who use self-tracking tools and share an interest in self-knowledge through numbers.

Quantified self experiments can track many different types of health data such as, mood, sleep, weight, step count, blood sugar, cholesterol levels, symptom severity, heart rate variability, and microbiome composition.