SciFi Tech Talk #000080 - Contact
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine. - imdb.com
Feb 23, 2014•1 hr 6 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 #000079 - The Terminator
A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs. - imdb.com
Feb 16, 2014•56 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000078 - Bicentennial Man
An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions. - imdb.com
Feb 09, 2014•54 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000077 - The Island
A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvestable being", and is being kept as a source of replacement parts, along with others, in a Utopian facility. - imdb.com
Feb 02, 2014•1 hr 6 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000076 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. - imdb.com
Jan 26, 2014•1 hr 2 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000075 - Back to the Future
Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction comedy film. Michael J Fox plays Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time to 1955. He meets his future parents in high school and accidentally attracts his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by causing his parents-to-be to fall in love, and with the help of scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd), he must find a way to return to 1985. - Wikipedia
Jan 25, 2014•55 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000074 - Quantum Leap
Get ready to join Dr. Sam Beckett on the adventure of many lifetimes - a time traveler who never knows whose body he is going to “leap” into next and at what moment in history he may find himself! Who will he be this time? Mafia hit man. Air Force test pilot. Professional boxer. Sam does it all in Season 1 on the groundbreaking, five-time Emmy award-winning series.We’re focusing on the Season 1 two-part pilot, Genesis.
Jan 12, 2014•51 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000073 - Our Favorites
Well, it's not exactly a top ten list, but we took some time at the start of a new year to think about what some of our favorite sci-fi book, movies, shows, and stories might be.
Jan 05, 2014•1 hr 1 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000072 - Ghost in the Shell
A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. - imdb.com
Dec 15, 2013•56 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000071 - Spaceballs
Planet Spaceball's President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them. - imdb.com
Dec 08, 2013•56 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000070 - Sunshine
In the year 2057, a crew of eight courageous men and women must embark on a journey to the Sun to reignite the dying star and save mankind from extinction. But when a terrible accident throws their mission into jeopardy, the crew find themselves not only fighting for their lives and their sanity, but for the future of us all. - iTunes
Dec 03, 2013•51 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000069 - Europa Report
An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon. - imdb.com
Nov 24, 2013•57 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000068 - Ender's Game (The Movie)
The International Military seek out a leader who can save the human race from an alien attack. Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young mind, is recruited and trained to lead his fellow soldiers into a battle that will determine the future of Earth. - imdb.com
Nov 10, 2013•54 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000067 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne’s classic about a ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings which encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
Nov 03, 2013•58 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000066 - War of the Worlds
The H.G. Wells classic story “War of the Worlds” was depicted as a radio drama crafted by Orson Welles 75 years ago this week. The story of an alien invasion of the earth left a lasting impact on science fiction.
Oct 28, 2013•51 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000065 - The Last Starfighter
A video-gaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force. - imdb.com
Oct 20, 2013•46 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000064 - A Sound of Thunder / Nightfall
This week it's two short stories --A Sound of Thunder: “A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine in the June 28, 1952 issue. As of 1984 it was the most re-published science fiction story up to the present time. It is based on the idea of the butterfly effect (though the story predates that phrase).Nightfall: “Nightfall" is a 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people...
Oct 13, 2013•53 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000063 - Dune
Set in the far future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides as his family accepts control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the "spice" melange. Melange is the most important and valuable substance in the universe, increasing Arrakis' value as a fief. The story explores the multi-la...
Oct 06, 2013•55 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000062 - Avatar
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. - imdb.com
Oct 02, 2013•37 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000061 - Flying Cars
A roundtable discussion of flying cars, with special guests JJ and Renee Valentine.
Sep 15, 2013•43 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000060 - Independence Day
The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, man's best weapon is the will to survive. - imdb.com
Sep 08, 2013•43 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000059 - The Postman
A drifter with no name finds a jeep with the skeleton of a postman and a bag of mail and dons the postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in the post apocalyptic America. - imdb.com
Sep 02, 2013•44 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000058 - Fahrenheit 451
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clar...
Aug 25, 2013•59 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000057 - Source Code
An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. - imdb.com
Aug 18, 2013•47 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000056 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it. - imdb.com
Aug 11, 2013•1 hr 8 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000055 - Robot & Frank
Set in the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team. - imdb.com
Aug 04, 2013•51 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000054 - Robocop
Set in old Detroit, a crime-ridden ghetto of the not too distant future, a cop killed in the line of duty is robotized then dispatched to fight crime. But Robocop is haunted by memories and dreams of who and what he used to be. As he rediscovers his past, he uncovers a murder conspiracy at the highest level of police management. -- Amazon.com
Jul 28, 2013•58 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000053 - Neuromancer
The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Mo...
Jul 21, 2013•55 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000052 - Childhood's End
Men called them OverlordsThey had come from outer space—they had brought peaceand prosperity to EarthBut then the change began.It appeared first in the children—frightening, incomprehensible.Now the Overlords made their announcement:This was to be the first stepin the elimination of the human raceand the beginning of—What?—Original back cover quote, paperback edition
Jul 14, 2013•52 min
SciFi Tech Talk #000051 - Brian Hall Interview
Brian Hall is a writer for ReadWrite and writes about the "Smart Social Mobile Web" and how it is rapidly re-constructing markets, industries, business models and relationships around the world. And author of the book “Love in the Time of Caller ID”
Jul 07, 2013•47 min
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