Sharat Satyanarayana

SciFi afficionado | Collector of graphic novels | Entrepreneur (2x 🏆+ 4x 📉 + many stillborn; 20 years) Love: working on science-fiction-to-reality themes, assisting students with career design Vices: Hot Chocolate | #tsundoku (buying more books than available lifetime) | Getting lost in used book stores | talking sci-fi Currently building (7th venture): Privacy-preserving hyperpersonalization for consumers (https://colorit.io) | "Making the Internet truly personal" | Accel seed funded Audacious goals: Build a school to train professionals (scientists, engineers, doctors, etc.) into astronauts

Science fiction & graphic novels. Specifically, sci-fi based prototyping / backcasting, and using graphic / comic form to communicate complex ideas. I strive to own my time, and not the other way around. Also passionate about assisting youngsters with designing fun & rewarding careers that also brings them material prosperity.

"A pipeline of trained astronauts will be required within the next decade." I believe we will successfully become a space faring species. The next step in that direction, following the exponential commoditization of space travel, will be manufacturing in low or zero gravity conditions. In the next decade we will have to train human talent to work at, and manage, LowEarthOrbit or moon-based manufacturing. These ambitions will require properly trained talent pipelines. For reference, consider the premise of the phenomenal Japanese anime series 'Planetes', or the premise of Daniel Suarez's exceptional novel, Delta-V. How might we develop a program and curriculum to select the right kind of women and men to build humanity's future in space?

I used to be a super fan of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) trio, Trance Around The World (TATW) and was showcased in the first episode of their transition to Above & Beyond Group Therapy (ABGT). Hosted them at my home in Bangalore, India (2013). Still enjoy their music.