SciFi Tech Talk #000050 - I Am Legend
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. - imdb.com (2007)
Jun 30, 2013•40 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 #000049 - Soylent Green
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. - imdb.com
Jun 24, 2013•49 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000048 - The Running Man
A wrongly-convicted man must try to survive a public execution gauntlet staged as a TV game show. - imdb.com (1987)
Jun 19, 2013•39 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000047 - Andromeda Strain
A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped. - imdb.com
Jun 04, 2013•41 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000046 - Hunger Games
In a dystopian future, teens Katniss and Peeta are drafted for a televised event pitting young competitors against each other in a fight to the death. - Netflix
May 26, 2013•1 hr 1 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000045 - Science Fiction vs. Fantasy
This week we did something a bit different. What separates science fiction from fantasy? Why are some movies/shows/books classified as one or another? Julie, Mike, and Jeff talk through this topic and their favorite sci-fi properties.
May 19, 2013•50 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000044 - Iron Sky
The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018. -- imdb.com
May 12, 2013•46 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000043 - Dredd
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down a gang that deals the reality-altering drug, SLO-MO. -- imdb.com
Apr 28, 2013•38 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000042 - Galaxy Quest
The alumni cast of a cult space TV show have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. -- imdb.com
Apr 21, 2013•56 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000041 - Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick’s ideas have influenced the development of real-life breakthroughs in everything from robotics to law enforcement. [He] is perhaps the most influential innovator in the science fiction world because of the dark view he took on technology’s impact on mankind. [He] suffered the loss of his twin sister shortly after birth and it had a pronounced effect of the rest of his life. -- The Science Channel
Apr 14, 2013•1 hr 2 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000040 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
A pair of astronauts heads to Jupiter to investigate a radio signal sent from a mysterious monolith on the moon, but their tranquil trip is endangered when their on-board computer begins acting oddly. The simple plot of director Stanley Kubrick’s inspired space adventure (co-scripted with noted science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke) belies the profound philosophical implications of this classic film, which inspires viewers to ask questions about the nature of advanced civilizations … and of hu...
Apr 07, 2013•53 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000039 - District 9
Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National Unit (MNU), a private com...
Mar 31, 2013•50 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000038 - Blade Runner
The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants – visually indistinguishable from adult humans – are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as by other "mega–manufacturers" around the world. Their use on Earth is banned and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and "retired...
Mar 23, 2013•40 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000037 - Rule 34
Rule 34: If you can imagine it, there’s pornography about it on the Internet.Meet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise know at the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, analyzing trends in the extreme fringes of explicit content. And occasionally, even more disturbing patterns arise...Three ex-cons have been murdered in Germany, Italy, and Scotland. The only things they had in common were arre...
Mar 17, 2013•52 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000036 - Men in Black
Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) is a member of the Men in Black (M.I.B.), a secret non-government agency that polices extraterrestrial aliens seeking refuge on Earth, living normal lives in disguise as humans around New York City. Operating from a base at a Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority ventilation station, they fund themselves using patents on alien technologies released to the public and maintain secrecy using neuralyzers to erase memories of alien sightings, also disguising aliens as human...
Mar 08, 2013•58 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000035 - Looper
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent 30 years into the past, where a hired gun awaits. Someone like Joe, who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by transporting back Joe's future self. - imdb.com
Mar 03, 2013•1 hr
SciFi Tech Talk #000034 - Spaceships
Spaceships are a crucial part of many sci-fi stories. In this episode we talk about our favorite spaceships and the technology behind them including craft from Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and others.
Feb 24, 2013•57 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000033 - Ender's Game
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly...
Feb 15, 2013•57 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000032 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy is book written by Douglas Adams that has been at one time or another a book, a radio play, a tv show, a computer game and a feature film. Originally written as a trilogy it grew to 5 books and adopted the subtitle ‘an increasingly misnamed trilogy’. The story revolves around the misadventures of the human Arthur Dent and a cast of disreputable associates.
Feb 08, 2013•56 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000031 - Alien
The crew of a commercial deep space mining ship, investigating a suspected S.O.S., lands on a distant planet and discovers a nest of strange eggs. - imdb.com
Feb 07, 2013•54 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000030 - Inception
In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception. (2010) - imdb.com
Jan 25, 2013•38 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000029 - Legion of the Damned
In the future, the terminally ill can prolong life by surrendering their consciousness to a cybernetic life form that is then recruited into the notorious Legion of the Damned, an elite fighting unit charged with protecting humanity. (published 1993) - iTunes
Jan 13, 2013•48 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000028 - Minority Report
Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where "PreCrime”, a specialized police department, apprehends criminals based on foreknowledge provided by three psychics called "precogs”. - Wikipedia
Jan 06, 2013•1 hr
SciFi Tech Talk #000027 - Artificial Intelligence
Since the dawn of man, we have tried to create things in our image. Attempts have been made through painting, sculpture and even robotics but they have always lacked the one thing that sets man apart from every other living creature, intelligence. Even though real artificial intelligence has yet to be achieved science fiction has been playing with the idea for decades. And that is the center of our discussion, sci-fi’s vision of man’s ultimate achievement or final demise.
Jan 01, 2013•52 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000026 - Forever War
William Mandella is a physics student conscripted for an elite task force in the United Nations Exploratory Force being assembled for a war against the Taurans, an alien species discovered when they apparently suddenly attacked human colonists' ships. The UNEF ground troops are sent out for reconnaissance and revenge.
Dec 23, 2012•52 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000025 - Iron Man
Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile, he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find...
Dec 13, 2012•37 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000024 - Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson. The series first aired as a three-hour mini-series (comprising four broadcast hours) in December 2003 on the Sci-Fi Channel, and ran for four seasons thereafter, ending its run on March 20, 2009.
Dec 09, 2012•1 hr 7 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000023 - Time Travel
Time travel is travel from one distinct time to another distinct time, physically. Movement can be forward or backward and often involves some sort of device to cause the movement, i.e., a “time machine.” The time travel may take the traveler to an alternate time stream that may bear little resemblance to the traveler’s origin. Time travel is a popular theme among science fiction writers.
Dec 02, 2012•55 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000022 - The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 American science fiction action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality or cyberspace created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer progr...
Nov 23, 2012•45 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000021 - Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published (in abridged form) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (October, November 1959, as "Starship Soldier") and published hardcover in December 1959.The first-person narrative is about a young soldier from the Philippines named Juan "Johnnie" Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry, a futuristic military service branch equipped with powered armor. Rico's ...
Nov 16, 2012•42 min
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