Episode description

Stephen Euin Cobb (your host) is today's speaker.

Topics: Human augmentation, autonomous vehicles (both ground vehicles and aircraft), 3D printing, cyberwarfare, battles over fresh water, and the rising power of cities (compared to the stagnating power of nations). This is part 2 of my discussion of Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds.

Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 16, 2013 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 35 minutes]

News Items [1]: How impressively easy it is to help in the search for extrasolar planets. Your host uses and critiques the website www.planethunters.org. [2]: Scott Nicholson, a horror author, is one more concrete example of how Amazon's Kindle program is giving authors far more control over their own careers.