Nathan Myhrvold is a scientist, inventor, nature and food
photographer, and author of the award-winning Modernist Cuisine
cookbooks. After completing a postdoc with Stephen Hawking and
serving as Microsoft’s first Chief Technology Officer, he founded
Intellectual Ventures, which has spun out more than 15...
Survival Research Laboratories was founded by Mark Pauline in
November 1978 in San Francisco. Since its inception, SRL is made up
of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the tools of
industry, science, and the military. Each performance is a unique
interaction between machines and special effects in...
Tim O’Reilly is the founder, CEO, and Chairman of O’Reilly
Media, and a partner at early stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech
Ventures (OATV). He is also on the boards of Code for America,
PeerJ, Civis Analytics, and PopVox. His book, WTF: What’s the
Future and Why It’s Up to Us, explores what technology...
Ryan Phelan is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Revive
& Restore, with a mission to enhance biodiversity through the
genetic rescue of endangered and extinct species. Ryan works with
some of the world’s leading molecular biologists, conservation
biologists, and conservation organizations to envision and...
Howard Rheingold is author of Tools For Thought, The Virtual
Community, and Smart Mobs, Net Smart; editor of Whole Earth Review,
and Millennium Whole Earth Catalog; Lecturer, Social Media
Literacies, Stanford. You can find Howard on Twitter @hrheingold
and Patreon @howardrheingold.
In each episode of the Cool Tools Show, Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder talk to a guest about some of his or her favorite uncommon and uncommonly good tools they think others should know about.