A companion video series called “Neon Future Sessions” will likely upend expectations for the long haired head banger who sprays champagne on his audience as a matter of course.

In the videos, Aoki interviews such techno eminences as scientist and inventor Ray Kurzweil — behind the singularity theory that envisions the melding of human brains with supercomputers, and Aubrey de Grey — whose books portend man’s ability to overcome the aging process. […]