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SciFi Tech Talk

Julie Kuehl, Jeff Syer, Mike McPeekscifitechtalk.com
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 #000110 - Transcendence

Dr. Will Caster is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. High highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him a prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succ...

Nov 23, 201456 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000108 - Edge of Tomorrow

A military officer is brought into an alien war against an extraterrestrial enemy who can reset the day and know the future. When this officer is enabled with the same power, he teams up with a Special Forces warrior to try and end the war. - imdb.com

Nov 09, 20141 hr

SciFi Tech Talk #000107 - In Time

In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage - a connection that becomes an important part of the way against the system. - imdb.com

Oct 21, 201445 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000106 - Guardians of the Galaxy

After stealing a mysterious orb in the far reaches of outer space, Peter Quill from Earth, is now the main target of a manhunt led by the villain known as Ronan the Accuser. To help fight Ronan and his team and save the galaxy from his power, Quill creates a team of space heroes known as the "Guardians of the Galaxy" to save the world. - Written by James Hake on imdb.com

Oct 12, 201458 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000105 - World War Z

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls. -- Kenneth Chisholm on imdb.com

Sep 21, 201456 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000104 - Aeon Flux

Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is a sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found. - imdb.com

Sep 14, 201457 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000103 - Iron Giant

“Something humongous is among us! A young boy rescues a huge robot which has rocketed to earth from space - and tries to protect the giant from a nosy government agent and the military. A captivating animated feature that’s part metal, part magic and all heart.” - iTunes

Aug 31, 201448 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000102 - Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion

"On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those that worship it. There are those that fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolve...

Aug 24, 20141 hr 11 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000100 - Continuum

A detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future. - imdb.com

Aug 10, 201450 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000099 - Snowpiercer

Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges. - imdb.com

Aug 04, 201450 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000097 - Silent Running

In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.

Jul 20, 201455 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000095 - X-Men

Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers. - imdb.com

Jun 08, 20141 hr 3 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000094 - WALL·E

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. - imdb

Jun 03, 201455 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000092 - Oblivion

A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. - imdb

May 18, 20141 hr 1 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000091 - Gravity

A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their shuttle and leaves them adrift in orbit. - imdb

May 12, 20141 hr 3 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000090 - Star Trek: First Contact

Captain Picard and his crew pursue the Borg back in time to stop them from preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. They also make sure that Zefram Cochrane makes his famous maiden flight at warp speed. - imdb

May 04, 201456 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000088 - Repo Men

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed. - imdb.com

Apr 24, 201453 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000087 - Fantastic Voyage

A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream. - imdb.com

Apr 14, 201438 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000086 - Moon

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. - imdb.com

Apr 06, 201451 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000083 - Primer

Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention. - imdb.com

Mar 16, 201456 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000082 - Armageddon

After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet. - imdb.com

Mar 11, 201455 min

SciFi Tech Talk #000081 - Cowboys & Aliens

A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way. - imdb.com

Mar 02, 201451 min
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