Topic: Ghostwriting (Part 2): How to work with a ghostwriter, who most needs a ghostwriter, and how much ghostwriters typically cost. Our guest is Claudia Suzanne . Claudia Suzanne has been a professional ghostwriter for decades and has participated in the creation of 132 books. She has watched firsthand how the negative trends in publishing have produced positive trends in ghostwriting. Based on her considerable experience, she has created, and teaches, a master's level college course called " ...
Jan 07, 2015•43 min
Topic: The Year in Review--2014. Stephen Euin Cobb provides a wide variety of commentary on the wide variety of topics discussed on the show during this past year of 2014. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the December 31, 2014 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 50 minutes] This monologue was recorded on December 28, 2014 using the free "Voice Recorder" app on your host's Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone. Stephen Euin Cobb has interviewed over 350 people for his work as an author, ...
Dec 31, 2014•50 min
Topic: "The World's First Robotic Psychiatrist" (Part 2) Joanne Pransky has spent decades working to alert people to the impact that robots will eventually have on their lives. Dubbed "the real Susan Calvin" by Isaac Asimov in 1989, Joanne's lifelong mission has been to prepare the world for living and working with robots on a daily basis by humorously discussing these social issues at national and international conferences, and by appearing on numerous television shows and film documentaries wi...
Dec 24, 2014•41 min
Topic: "The World's First Robotic Psychiatrist" (Part 1) Joanne Pransky has spent decades working to alert people to the impact that robots will eventually have on their lives. Dubbed "the real Susan Calvin" by Isaac Asimov in 1989, Joanne's lifelong mission has been to prepare the world for living and working with robots on a daily basis by humorously discussing these social issues at national and international conferences, and by appearing on numerous television shows and film documentaries wi...
Dec 17, 2014•41 min
Topic: Ghostwriting: how the process works, as well as it's limitations and benefits. Also: how ghostwriting has been affected by the powerful trends going on throughout the publishing industry. (A ghostwriter is a person hired to write for, with, or even instead of, the author of a book.) Our guest is Claudia Suzanne . Claudia Suzanne has been a professional ghostwriter for decades and has participated in the creation of 132 books. She has watched firsthand how the negative trends in publishing...
Dec 10, 2014•44 min
Topic: Book Promotion and Marketing: methods, tips and useful advice [Part 2 of 2]. Our guest is Simone Pond . Simone Pond is an advertising executive with a Los Angeles advertising agency. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in English. She is the author of three novels ( The City Center, The New Agenda, and The Mainframe ) in which she explores transhumanist and cyberpunk themes, such as virtual reality and mind-uploading in a d...
Dec 03, 2014•38 min
Eight Interviews from Atomacon. Guests include: Gregory French (actor from the TV show The Walking Dead), Randy Richards (author of novels in the "Hidden History" genre including "The League of Founding Fathers"), Winfield H. Strock (author of several novels including one involving a vampire inside a soviet submarine), Rob Hemelsbok (co-chair for CostumeCon 33 ), Ken Spivey (Atomacon's Musical Guest of Honor), T. Julian Bell (creator of Kromore, a table top roll playing game ), Jada Diaz (concha...
Nov 26, 2014•1 hr 26 min
Topic: Book Promotion and Marketing: methods, tips and advice based on today's continually shifting trends. Our guest is Simone Pond . Simone Pond is an advertising executive with a Los Angeles advertising agency. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in Communications and a minor in English. She is the author of three novels ( The City Center, The New Agenda, and The Mainframe ) in which she explores transhumanist and cyberpunk themes, such as virtual reality a...
Nov 19, 2014•38 min
Topic: What Would War in Space Really Be Like? (Part 2 of 2) Speakers: John Ringo , Dr. Charles E. Gannon , Timonthy Zahn , and Dr. Travis S. Taylor as the moderator. [Essay:] Your host describes his expectations concerning a dangerous form of AI which may propagate through the Internet long before the Singularity. An AI capable of aggressively hacking its way into millions of computer systems, though it has only the cleverness and intellectual capacity of a small animal, and no understanding of...
Nov 12, 2014•37 min
Topic: What Would War in Space Really Be Like? (Part 1 of 2) Speakers: John Ringo , Dr. Charles E. Gannon , Timonthy Zahn , and Dr. Travis S. Taylor as the moderator. Timothy Zahn is a New York Times best selling author. John Ringo is a New York Times best selling author. Dr. Charles E. Gannon is a New York Times bestselling author; and as a member of the think-tank SIGMA, has advised the Pentagon, Air Force, Army, NATO, DARPA, DHS, NASA, and other agencies. Dr. Travis S. Taylor is an aerospace ...
Nov 05, 2014•33 min
Six Topics: (1) A new way the insurance companies are using clever software to trick 75% of their customers into paying a lot more money than the remaining 25%. (2) Two recently developed vision correction methods which may allow you to throw away your eyeglasses and contact lenses forever. (3) An interactive webpage which allows you to play at zooming into the microscopic world , from viewing a coffee bean to a carbon atom. (4) The free-to-play MMO game WarThunder , which allows you to particip...
Oct 29, 2014•41 min
Topic: Science in the Classroom: the good, the bad and the ugly. (Part 2) Speakers include: Jim Craig , James Maxey and your host. James Maxey is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels, and often introduces himself as "a big science geek." Jim Craig is the director of the James H. Lynn Planetarium at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia NC. He is an outspoken activist for science education, critical thinking, skepticism and free thought. News Item: The Future And You is now available on Stitc...
Oct 22, 2014•30 min
Topic: Science in the Classroom: the good, the bad and the ugly. (Part 1) Speakers include: Jim Craig , James Maxey and your host. James Maxey is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels, and often introduces himself as "a big science geek." Jim Craig is the director of the James H. Lynn Planetarium at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia NC. He is an outspoken activist for science education, critical thinking, skepticism and free thought. This is the first half of the panel. The second half wi...
Oct 15, 2014•28 min
Topic: 3D Printing -- It's advantages, limitations, current abilities, and future possibilities. Speakers: David L. Burkhead , Stephanie Osborn , Bart Kemper, Jeremy Levitt and Michael Z. Williamson as the moderator. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the October 8, 2014 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 53 minutes] This panel was recorded in front of an audience on June 28, 2014 in Chattanooga TN at the SF&F convention LibertyCon . Stephen Euin Cobb has interviewed over 300 people...
Oct 08, 2014•53 min
Topic: Is War in Space Inevitable? Speakers: John Ringo , Robert G. Kennedy , David L. Burkhead and Dr. Charles E. Gannon as the moderator. John Ringo is a New York Times best selling novelist with over two million books in print. Robert G. Kennedy is an author, speaker and engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. David L. Burkhead is a physicist working in the nanotechnological field of surface science and Atomic Force Microscopy; and has published technical and popular science articles, as w...
Oct 01, 2014•44 min
Topic: Transhumanism: its vision, hopes and many concrete possibilities. Speakers: James Maxey , Paula S. Jordan , Dr. Ben Davis and myself as moderator. Paula S. Jordan is a former orbit analyst for NASA and NOAA, and more recently a science fiction author. Dr. Ben Davis has a doctorate in Nuclear Physics, and is an IT professional. James Maxey is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels, and often introduces himself as a Big Science Geek . Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the Septem...
Sep 24, 2014•1 hr 1 min
Topic: The Technological Singularity. Your host reveals his personal expectations concerning the Singularity: when; how; good or bad; methods; new technologies; weak points; warnings; alternate versions. He even delves into the specifics of what he thinks it will do if (or when) it stops obeying us. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the September 17, 2014 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 45 minutes] This monologue was recorded on September 12, 2014. Stephen Euin Cobb has intervie...
Sep 17, 2014•45 min
Three topics: our guest's experiences while in China, as well as his making a living in the old traditional book industry, and now in the new ebook industry. Patrick Quinlan (best selling author) is our featured guest. Patrick Quinlan is the author of seven novels, including six thrillers written under his own name. These books include the crime novels Smoked, The Takedown (renamed The Falling Man for ebook publication), The Drop Off , and The Hit . Smoked made numerous bestseller lists in vario...
Sep 10, 2014•57 min
Topics: controversies and possibilities concerning: mind-uploading, robotics, human-like androids, sexrobots, the sexdolls of today (which are not robotic) human level artificial intelligence, as well as far greater than human level artificial intelligence. We also talk about Patrick's new novel, Sexbot (a novel about uploading ones mind into a human-like robotic android). Patrick Quinlan (best selling author) is our featured guest. Patrick Quinlan is the author of seven novels , including six t...
Sep 03, 2014•57 min
Topic: Trends in Filmmaking, both commercial and independent. Casting, shooting, editing, scriptwriting, fundraising, financing, distribution, promotion and camera technology are all discussed. Three Interviews: Stephen L. Antczak (who works in commercial films); and two Indy filmmakers: Jesse Knight (of Jesse Knight Films ) and Jason Buterin (of Mad Ones Films ). News Item: I landed on two "best seller" lists at Amazon.com. My nonfiction book entitled Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions o...
Aug 27, 2014•46 min
Topic: The Technological Future of War. Speakers: Jim Beall , Charles E. Gannon , Mark Wandrey , Bart Kemper , and Michael Z. Williamson . Michael Z. Williamson is retired from the United States military after 25 years and is both a science fiction and military fiction author. He is also associate editor at SurvivalBlog where he does reviews of disaster preparedness products. He has consulted on military matters, weapons and disaster preparedness for Discovery Channel and Outdoor Channel product...
Aug 20, 2014•55 min
Topic: Contrasting two brilliant documentary series against one another. The recently released Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey , released in 2014 which was hosted by the astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson ; verses its predecessor, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage , released in 1980 which was hosted by the astrophysicist Carl Sagan . Today's speakers: Jim Craig , Dr. Ben Davis and myself as moderator. Jim Craig is the director of the James H. Lynn Planetarium at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia NC. He is an o...
Aug 13, 2014•50 min
Topic: How does the human brain work? How are memories stored in the brain? Why are memories so often full of errors? And, most especially, is there any evidence that quantum effects are involved in the brain's functioning? Speakers: Dan Hoyt , Sebrina Chase , Sam Lightfoot and Tedd Roberts as the moderator. News Item #1: Hulu.com is currently offering--for free--all 13 episodes of the brilliant documentary series " Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey ." Yes, all of them! Complete episodes. Steaming for...
Aug 06, 2014•47 min
Topic: The Past Twelve Months in Science. What new inventions, innovations, developments, and discoveries have changed things for human civilization in little ways and in big? Today's speakers: Paula S. Jordan , Jim Craig , James Maxey , Drew Myer, myself, and the moderator is Micki Knop . Paula S. Jordan is a former orbit analyst for NASA and NOAA, and more recently a science fiction author. Jim Craig is the director of the James H. Lynn Planetarium at the Schiele Museum in Gastonia NC; he is a...
Jul 30, 2014•58 min
Topic: AntiMatter . How do we make it, store it, and use it-- today , and in the future. Antimatter may ultimately become a means of storing vast amounts of energy in a very compact form. Utilizing it in practical ways may take decades, maybe a century or more. Our speakers will describe what we have done already, what engineering difficulties lie ahead, and what the benefits may be if we succeed. Our speakers are: Jim Beall, David L. Burkhead , and Dr. Charles E. Gannon. Jim Beall has been a nu...
Jul 23, 2014•59 min
Topic: Space Exploration--Where should we explore next? And where have we explored so far? Subtopics: mining the asteroids (the billionaire Peter Diamondis has announced the he will do it); nuclear propulsion systems (including one that uses a series of small nuclear warheads exploding against a giant pusher plate ); looking for life in the ocean which sits under the ice on Europa ; successful landings on Venus ; colonizing the moon (the Chinese are going even if no one else will); colonizing Ma...
Jul 16, 2014•1 hr 4 min
Topic: Memories can be Inherited . Shocking, yes, but the research seems solid. The mechanism by which this is done involves the rapidly expanding scientific field called Epigenetics . The entire field of epigenetics will radically improve our understanding in many different areas of biology and medical science over the next few decades. In today's show we focus mostly on only one impact which it is having already. In January of this year a new research paper showed that fear-based memories can ...
Jul 09, 2014•56 min
Dr. Travis S. Taylor (scientist, author and TV personality) is our featured guest. Dr. Travis Taylor is an aerospace engineer, optical scientist, science fiction author, and star of National Geographic Channel's Rocket City Rednecks . He has written more than 25 technical papers, 14 science fiction novels and two textbooks, and has appeared in multiple television documentaries , including the recent highly-rated special When Aliens Attack. He has consulted for NASA and DOD; has been awarded nume...
Jul 02, 2014•57 min
Topic: Breakthroughs in Medical Science. New technologies which will help us live healthier and longer. Subtopics: 3D printing of tissues and organs for surgical implant ; wiping out cancer with a massive dose of measles vaccine ; life extension with buckyballs ; fecal transplants (yeah, that's right: poop); induced hypothermia as a lifesaving treatment in trauma and surgery ; stem cells; causes of allergies, paleo diets; vegan diets; all-meat diets; and the fitness guru, Jack LaLanne, who lived...
Jun 25, 2014•51 min
Hank Pellissier --[Part 4]--(writer, editor, speaker, producer, futurist and transhumanist). Topics: Human Intelligence--is it a product of our culture or our genes ? Are some of this world's cultures more effective, more useful...maybe even more valuable? Should having babies be licensed and regulated, and not a right given to everyone? Features of Confucianism . Artificial Intelligence and the Technological Singularity. Ideas in the movie Idiocracy --a lighthearted science fiction movie in whi...
Jun 18, 2014•33 min
