SciFi Tech Talk #000200 - A Look Back... and Forward
Julie, Jeff, and Mike look back at their favorites of the past 200 episodes and look forward to so many more to come!
Dec 16, 2018•1 hr 14 min
SciFi Tech Talk
SciFi Tech Talk is the podcast where we look at a movie / TV show / book / short story and the tech involved and what it says about THE FUTURE. We may go through some older material and see how much has become reality and how far we have yet to go. And new material could be looked at from the standpoint of how long we think it will take to become reality and how far from the present does it stretch the imagination.
Episodes
SciFi Tech Talk #000199 - Annhiliation
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2018 movie Annihilation : "A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply." - imdb.com
Nov 21, 2018•40 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000198 - Tau
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2018 movie Tau : "A woman is held captive by a scientist in a futuristic smart house, and hopes to escape by reasoning with the Artificial Intelligence that controls the house." - imdb.com
Oct 25, 2018•58 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000197 - Beyond Skyline
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2017 movie Beyond Skyline: "A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship." - imdb.com
Oct 10, 2018•51 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000196 - The Titan
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2018 movie The Titan : "A military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration." - imdb.com
Aug 28, 2018•56 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000195 - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2016 book "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)": Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and i...
Jul 11, 2018•1 hr 11 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000194 - Anon
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2018 movie Anon : In a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, SAL FRIELAND (Owen) stumbles onto a young woman (Seyfried) who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as THE GIRL, she mu...
May 23, 2018•1 hr 2 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000193 - Her
Julie, Jeff and Mike discuss the 2013 movie Her : "Sensitive letter writer Theodore has just ended his marriage. Lonely, he goes out to buy an artificially intelligent Operating System that promises to give him everything he needs. Samantha is more than his average OS. She does secretarial work for him but also becomes his friend whenever he's lonely. They go out on adventures and travel together. He becomes the physical feet to get them places, and she the new eyes in which to see the...
May 15, 2018•1 hr
SciFi Tech Talk #000192 - Version Control
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2016 book Version Control : "Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV...
Apr 29, 2018•1 hr 19 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000191 - The Giver
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2014 movie The Giver - "In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the 'real' world." - imdb.com
Apr 22, 2018•57 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000190 - Children of Men
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2006 movie Children of Men : In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. - imdb.com
Mar 04, 2018•47 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000189 - Infini
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2015 movie Infini : "An elite 'search and rescue' team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak." - imdb.com
Feb 04, 2018•39 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000188 - Arrival
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2016 movie Arrival: "When twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors." - imdb.com
Dec 25, 2017•59 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000187 - The Handmaid's Tale
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1985 book The Handmaid’s Tale: "Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. O...
Dec 19, 2017•1 hr 2 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000186 - Passengers
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2016 movie "Passengers": A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early. - imdb.com
Nov 07, 2017•1 hr 3 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000185 - Forbidden Planet
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet: "A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has." - imdb.com
Oct 22, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 185
SciFi Tech Talk #000184 - Barbarella
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1968 movie Barbarella: "Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in an uninhibited manner, the handsome men who assi...
Sep 10, 2017•49 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000183 - 2312
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the book "2312": "The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future." - Amazon.com
Aug 22, 2017•1 hr 2 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000182 - The Road Warrior
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1981 movie, The Road Warrior: “In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.” - imdb.com
Jul 12, 2017•47 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000181 - The Man Who Fell To Earth
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1976 movie The Man Who Fell To Earth: “Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.” - imdb.com
Jun 25, 2017•58 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000180 - Space Warriors
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2014 movie "Space Warriors": “A group of kid space cadets must help in the rescue of three astronauts whose ship got stranded in space.” - imdb.com
Jun 15, 2017•50 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000179 - Robot Overlords
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2014 movie Robot Overlords: “Earth has been conquered by robots from a distant galaxy. Survivors are confined to their houses and must wear electronic implants, risking incineration by robot sentries if they venture outside.” - imdb.com
May 21, 2017•40 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000178 - The Abyss Beyond Dreams
“The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel—self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental powers in...
May 15, 2017•4 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000177 - A Trip to the Moon
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1902 classic sci-fi movie A Trip to the Moon: A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon..” - imdb.com
Mar 15, 2017•1 hr 2 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000176 - ARQ
Julie, Jeff, and Mike review the 2016 movie ARQ: “Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity.” - imdb.com
Mar 05, 2017•57 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000175 - Star Trek Beyond
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the movie "Star Trek Beyond" - “After stopping off at Starbase Yorktown, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise, halfway into their five-year mission, is destroyed by an unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. With the crew stranded on an unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find themselves fighting against a ruthless enemy with a well-earned hatred of the Federation and everything it stands for. Only a reb...
Feb 25, 2017•1 hr 16 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000174 - Pitch Black
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the movie Pitch Black: “A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.” - imdb.com
Feb 10, 2017•1 hr 7 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000173 - Event Horizon
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1997 movie Event Horizon: “A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.” - imdb.com
Jan 20, 2017•48 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000172 - Stranger in a Strange Land
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the book Stranger in a Strange Land: “Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.” - goodreads.com
Jan 15, 2017•1 hr
SciFi Tech Talk #000171 - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: “After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.” - imdb.com
Dec 25, 2016•1 hr
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