This award-winning series explores The Future of Everything. What can we expect of next week, next year, next century? What will we eat, drive, wear, live in, vote for, want to buy, and want to avoid? What mistakes of the past will we make again, and which ones have we learned from? From the next tick of the clock to the ultimate end of the universe, every subject is fair game. Composed of interviews and essays, it's hosted by the author and futurist Stephen Euin Cobb. Guests include: famous authors and the occasional celebrity, but mostly futurists, innovators, technologists, analysts, entrepreneurs, and those pushing the limits of technology, as well as those struggling to understand the trends growing strong around us now--since it is those trends which will create the future in which we will all live. This program is not about magic, or prophecy, or psychic divination. Instead, we attempt to use verifiable facts as our foundation, and from them extrapolate forward. All such extrapolations--regardless of the credentials of those putting them forth--must be considered pure opinion. Time alone, will allow these extrapolations to be verified or nullified. Topics and themes explored include: nanotechnology and biotechnology; organlegging and organ transplants, molecular manufacturing and computers wired directly into the human brain; extropianism, transhumanism and the technology of individual immortality; terrorism, globalization, global warming and nuclear proliferation; cryonics and cryogenics; genetic engineering and the human genome project; embryos, cloning and stem cell research; astronomy and other space explorations (NASA, Hubble, exoplanets, SETI, ESA, CCCP, lasers and space probes); the singularity, robots, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI); remote sensing and waldoes; legal and illegal uses of the Internet (hackers and hacking, viruses and Trojan horses); solar cells, peak oil and alternative energy; aging and medical longevity; FTL (faster than light travel, as in Star Trek and Star Wars) and worm holes (as in StarGate SG-1); progress in health, education and neuroscience, as well as evolution, agriculture and inventions; and how what was once science fiction and fantasy is now biology, chemistry and physics. Everything from futurism to futurology. To learn more, check the show's website at: www.TheFutureAndYou.com
SF authors David Brin and Joe Haldeman are among the guests, along with: the head of a nanotech org, a marketing consultant, a cryonic insurance provider, and the actress Robin Curtis , who played a Vulcan Starfleet officer in two Star Trek movies. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 11, 2006 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 79 minutes] Topics include: [1] David Brin (bestselling author and scientist) warns that Righteous Indignation is an addictive high chemically si...
Feb 10, 2006•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast
SF authors Nancy Kress and Joe Haldeman are among the guests, as are: an astronomer, a recording label executive, a transhumanist, a cryonics insurance provider, two teenaged girls, and Pugsley and Wednesday from the beloved TV show The Addams Family . Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 28, 2006 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 79 minutes] Topics include: [1] As the internet slowly kills the old traditional recording labels, Magnatune (a new kind of label) is growing ...
Jan 27, 2006•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast
SF authors Joe Haldeman and Nancy Kress , a transhumanist, a physicist, and Jason's mother from Friday The 13th are amoung the guests. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 15, 2006 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 79 minutes] Topics include: [1] Nanotechnological invisibility is being developed at MIT and is described by the award winning science fiction author Joe Haldeman , along with his personal feelings about cryonics, and his vision that, once they are developed, ...
Jan 13, 2006•1 hr 20 min•Transcript available on Metacast
SF author Nancy Kress , a cryonic insurance provider, an astronomer, and an actor from Star Trek and Sliders are amoung the guests. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 1, 2006 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 68 minutes] Topics include: [1] The genetic engineering of human beings (an interview with the award winning science fiction author Nancy Kress ). [2] Cryonics: how to leave your money (even your big life insurance death benefit) to your frozen dead body (an inter...
Dec 30, 2005•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast
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Dec 24, 2005•1 min•Transcript available on Metacast
SF author M.M.Buckner , an astronomer, a cryonic insurance provider, an actor from StarGate SG-1 , and a dealer in antiques and fine art are amoung the guests. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the December 15, 2005 episode of The Future And You . [Running time: 118 minutes] Topics include: [1] Predictability: an essay on what is and what is not predictable. [2] How long until we find a second earth? Doctor Greg Matloff (astronomer, author and professor) talks about the more than 160 exoplane...
Dec 07, 2005•2 hr 58 min•Transcript available on Metacast