Gail Z. Martin , Emillie P. Bush , Jim S. Bernheimer and Theresa Bane are our featured guests. Topic: Writing for the Web is radically different from writing for print. This episode explores the down and dirty facts of those differences. For example: its immediacy (and the dangers of that immediacy); how it is used, miss-used, tweaked and manipulated; how it can be promoted and cross promoted; how what is written stays available for years; examples of people who have mastered its power to the be...
Jul 06, 2011•38 min
Gail Z. Martin , Emillie P. Bush , Jim S. Bernheimer and Theresa Bane are our featured guests. Topic: Writing for the Web is radically different from writing for print. This episode explores the down and dirty facts of those differences. For example: its immediacy (and the dangers of that immediacy); how it is used, misused, tweaked and manipulated; how it can be promoted and cross promoted; how what is written stays available for years; examples of people who have mastered its power to the bene...
Jun 29, 2011•35 min
Nancy Kress (award winning science fiction author) is our featured guest. Topics: how the great ebook stampede going on now within the publishing industry is affecting her and her novels (she is working to get her earlier books up on the Kindle); the anti-vaccination movement; the growing political struggles over fresh water; extending our healthy years; TV cameras in public places and intersections which are leading to a loss of privacy; the future of robots; stem cell research; gene sequencing...
Jun 22, 2011•41 min
Michael A. Stackpole ( New York Times best selling author) is today's featured guest. Topics: Artificial intelligence verses artificial crazy; the rise of robots and how we will develop relationships and affections for them including romance and love; the possibility that marrying a robot will go through the same controversies we have today concerning gay marriage; extreme human longevity; human augmentation for life extension verses augmentation for improved senses or IQ; authors he knows who w...
Jun 15, 2011•35 min
Nine diverse interviews from ConCarolinas 2011 . Gathered from locations scattered throughout the Hilton Hotel in Charlotte NC during the weekend of ConCarolinas, these interviews provide trends and insight into what is happening behind the scenes in a wide variety of professions, interests, enthusiasms and fields. This collection is partly intended give you a sense of what is likely to come in the future, but also to provide you with a feel for the flavor of the annual convention. Our guests to...
Jun 08, 2011•2 hr 36 min
Nancy Kress (award winning science fiction author) is our featured guest. Topics: how genetic engineering is used as a fake issue to manipulate international trade and promote French isolationism; why she disagrees with Greenpeace on genetic engineering; and the massive life-saving achieved by producing insulin far more cheaply through genetic engineering than was possible using the former method of extraction from the pancreas of slaughtered animals. Also: her involvement in Sigma (the science ...
Jun 01, 2011•43 min
This is the 200th episode of The Future And You . Over a hundred never-before-heard predictions about the future from dozens of past guests, a few possible future guests, several listeners and an assortment of people actively building the future we are all going to live in. Predictions and Congratulations from: Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Frederik Pohl, Catherine Asaro, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford, John Varley, Extropia DaSilva, CJ Cherryh, CJ Henderson, David Orban, Dave Freer, Giulio Pris...
May 25, 2011•2 hr 30 min
Michael A. Stackpole (New York Times best selling author) is today's featured guest. Topics: why print publishing is now in a severe crisis; how some literary agents have taken on a conflict of interest in their attempt to help their clients benefit from electronic rights; how the big book publishers will no longer publish any physical book if they can't get the far more lucrative electronic rights; when it is to an author's advantage to skip having physical books made at all, and just go with t...
May 18, 2011•33 min
Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of teaching experience) is today's featured guest. Topics: Practical verses theoretical matters in the classroom based on his years of experience as a teacher in public schools. Also: anecdotes from the early days of Internet radio, as well as some behind the scenes stuff from StarWarsFanworks and ChronoRadio . Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the May 11, 2011 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 37 minutes]. Nathan P. Butl...
May 11, 2011•37 min
Stephen Euin Cobb (author, futurist, magazine writer--and your host) is today's featured guest. Topics: Progressive Auto Insurance Company now offers lower rates-- if they can place a device in your car to spy on you ; a new robotic seagull developed for aerial spying; a new system which can test 10,000 chemicals for toxicity in a single move; the rapidly growing number of universities in the US which offer degrees in robotics; an artificial pancreas for controlling blood sugar for type 1 diabet...
May 04, 2011•28 min
Noel Patton (founder of T.A. Sciences) is today's featured guest. This is the second half of our interview begun in last week's episode. Topic: The snowballing research which supports the effectiveness of a substance which may allow you to extend your healthy years and maybe extend your life. Examples of this research include: a study published on the 12th of this month in the peer-review journal Aging Cell , and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study released in February of this year. Skepticis...
Apr 27, 2011•30 min
Noel Patton (founder of T.A. Sciences) is today's featured guest. Topic: The snowballing research which supports the effectiveness of a substance which may allow you to extend your healthy years and maybe extend your life. Examples of this research include: a study published on the 12th of this month in the peer-review journal Aging Cell , and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute study released in February of this year. Skepticism is an essential component of science, but after thousands of years of...
Apr 20, 20110
Lester Madden (smart phone app developer consultant) is today's featured guest. Topics: How secret tags inside the digital photos you post online reveal your GPS location; how criminals will use Augmented Reality to evade the police and commit crimes more efficiently; how advertisers will annoy us using Augmented Reality; and the free app which may put TomTom and Garmin out of business. Additional topics include: Ricky Gervais, Starbucks, Google Goggles, Snap Tell, the inaccuracy of GPS, future ...
Apr 13, 2011•34 min
Lester Madden (smart phone app developer consultant) is today's featured guest. Topics: Augmented Reality such as Face Recognition in smart phones, Google Sky and wikitude. Also, Augmented Reality helicopter drones controlled by smart phones; some of the goings on at Augmented Reality Conferences; and rumors about the next version of the iPhone (which may feature a Face Recognition app). And Eyeglass Computers: existing prototypes; many of the engineering hurdles which must be overcome before we...
Apr 06, 2011•38 min
Bryan Bishop (Assistant Director for R&D at Humanity Plus ) is today's featured guest. Topics: Life Extension and how long he expects to live; how the old "core literacy" is no longer valid; the accuracy of Ray Kurzweil; artificial intelligence and the singularity; patent reform; big pharmaceutical companies; Bryan's H-plus video website of conference presentations and his Quantified-Self project; the importance of cheap gene sequencing and the even greater importance of cheap gene synthesis. Ho...
Mar 23, 2011•35 min
Bryan Bishop (Assistant Director for R&D at Humanity Plus ) is today's featured guest. Topics: open source hardware and software; 3D printers (sometimes called rapid prototyping machines or RepRap machines); The GADA Prize (a contest for people who build 3D printers); do it yourself biotechnology and do it yourself transhuman augmentation; the possibility of using 3D printers to print tissues and organs for transplant into patients who need them; artificial intelligence and the singularity; and ...
Mar 16, 2011•30 min
Extropia DaSilva (speaker, essayist, magazine writer, and Digital Person) is today's featured guest. Extropia DaSilva is an essayist, magazine writer, lecturer and host of a weekly discussion group inside Second Life called Thinkers . Her description of herself on her Blog reads, "I am a digital person, seeking independence from my human. On this blog, I write about how technological development in areas like nanotech, biotech, infotech, robotics and computing may lead to redefinitions of what l...
Mar 09, 2011•42 min
Dr. James J. Hughes (author, professor and transhumanist) is today's featured guest. Topics: his doubts about the probability of the Singularity; Techno-Progressive Transhumanism verses Libertarian Transhumanism; Embracing Change with All Four Arms: A Posthuman Defence of Genetic Engineering; his new book Cyborg Buddah; Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future; Terry Shivo and brain death; the recent protests in the middle east for more freedom ...
Mar 02, 2011•46 min
Dr. James J. Hughes (author, professor and transhumanist) is today's featured guest. Topics: challenges facing transhumanism today; the many flavours of transhumanism; fighting for the rights of the non-human person; and his expriences interviewing guests for his show Changesurfer Radio . Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 23, 2011 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 42 minutes] This interview was recorded as a Skype-to-Skype call on February 18, 2011. Dr. James J. Hugh...
Feb 23, 2011•42 min
This is Part Ten of ten weekly instalments which contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and released in ten parts over a ten week period) contains the complete text of the original paperback version (which was...
Feb 20, 2011•39 sec
Paul Levinson (author, media commentator and professor) is today's featured guest. Topics: eyeglass computers will replace smart phones; group decision-making as opposed to individual; the one benefit of writer's groups; debating on TV the banning of violent videogames; being told to Shut-Up! while on-air by Bill O'Reily; playing God as a fiction writer; how the viral nature of the internet not only defeats the traditional gate-keepers but it can let every artist--no matter how small or isolated...
Feb 16, 2011•49 min
This is Part Nine of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and being released in ten parts over a ten week period) will contain the complete text of the original paperback ve...
Feb 12, 2011•39 sec
Paul Levinson (author, media commentator and professor) is today's featured guest. Topics : how protests (such as the one going on at the moment in Egypt) will be forever changed because of the media technology available to the public; why he calls the Internet the medium-of-media; Freedom of speech and Kieth Olbermann; the impact of cell phones, whether it is better for an author's career to be published online or on paper or through the Amazon Kindle. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb , this is the ...
Feb 09, 2011•43 min
Marshall Brain (founder of HowStuffWorks.com ) is today's featured guest. Topics: Netflix verses Blockbuster; his essay Robotic Nation ; how jobs are created and destroyed by technological innovation; a new bio-fuel; human population may plateau at about 9 billion; his project DecidingToBeBetter.com . Marshall Brain is best known as the founder of HowStuffWorks.com, which grew into one of the top Web sites in the country. He sold it to Discovery Communications in 2007 for $250 million. He hosted...
Feb 02, 2011•36 min
This is Part Seven of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and being released in ten parts over a ten week period) will contain the complete text of the original paperback v...
Jan 30, 2011•54 min
Marshall Brain (founder of HowStuffWorks.com ) is today's featured guest. Topics: How and why he created HowStuffWorks.com ; his work on Brain Stuff and DecidingToBeBetter.com ; behind the scenes while making his TV show Factory Floo r ; and why he promotes the idea that starting a business is a great idea. Marshall Brain is best known as the founder of HowStuffWorks.com , which grew into one of the top Web sites in the country. He sold it to Discovery Communications in 2007 for $250 million. He...
Jan 26, 2011•44 min
This is Part Six of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and being released in ten parts over a ten week period) will contain the complete text of the original paperback ver...
Jan 23, 2011•52 min
Stephe n Euin Co bb (author, futurist, magazine writer--and your host) is today's featured guest. Topics: Technological news items with my commentary on each. (1) Though the benefits to consumers will be wonderful, the dangers to investors both large and small of investing in solar cells during the next few years may be devastating; (2) a newly discovered, and possibly useful, fundamental property of light--under the right conditions, it can generate lift ; and (3) the surprising discovery that ...
Jan 19, 2011•25 min
This is Part Five of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black . Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spacecraft's engines to keep it on a trajectory to burn up in the sun, and then remains aboard the craft to murder and torment its passengers and crew. This audio-book (read by the author , and being released in ten parts over a ten week period) will contain the complete text of the original paperback ve...
Jan 16, 2011•35 min
Michael A. Solomon (illustrator and 3D animator) is today's featured guest. Topic: 3D animation. An assessment of its explosive growth in the last ten years; a behind the scenes look at the software and hardware being used to create it; and why it is now possible for a home hobbyist to create professional grade 3D animations. Michael A Solomon is a professional illustrator and 3D animator. His company, Eye of Solomon , does a wide variety of commercial art for its clients including 3D animations...
Jan 12, 2011•45 min
