Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
Enter a simulated universe where software beings engage in classic human struggles for belonging, status, and attention, and old certainties like death and gravity are just settings to be negotiated. You can be the god of your own private world, but if find yourself feeling lonely, you might be tempted to give away some of your precious control. This podcast will take you behind the scenes with comic book authors and veteran podcasters Jon Perry (@perryjon) and Ted Kupper (@tedkupper) as they write and develop a science fiction graphic novel called Constellation, set in a metaverse unlike any you’ve seen before: neither a utopia nor a dystopia, neither real nor virtual, it is a simulation where everyone knows they are being simulated and no one much cares, where there’s no hope of leaving and no reason to, just an endless supply of human-designed worlds to create and explore.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 161
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2023
041: What are the Reasons to Protect Privacy?
In this episode we build on our previous podcast on privacy by examining, from a philosophical point of view, what the instrumental and intrinsic benefits to privacy are. Is there some fundamental, m…
00:46:56 |
Tue 04 Nov 2014
040: What is the Future of Education?
In this week's podcast, we discuss the future of education. We examine the advantages and disadvantages of MOOCs and other online courses, and in the process we identify four distinct educational cha…
00:51:12 |
Tue 21 Oct 2014
039: What is Transhumanism?
In this episode, we discuss the meaning and origins of the term 'transhumanism.' We summarize the primary transhumanist goals of increased longevity, greater intelligence, and enhanced wellbeing. We …
00:54:10 |
Tue 14 Oct 2014
038: Can We Predict the Future?
This week's podcast asks about the benefits and problems associated with both hard "mathematical" prediction and soft "storytelling" prediction. We discuss the limits of mathematical prediction in te…
00:36:34 |
Wed 08 Oct 2014
037: What is the Future of the Sharing Economy?
This week's episode is about the new Sharing Economy. We discuss the term and try to decide if the companies that use it are really doing anything new or just using a buzzword to screw workers and ev…
00:42:29 |
Tue 30 Sep 2014
036: What is the Future of Hell?
In this week's episode, we wonder if it's technologically possible to create eternal suffering and torture someone forever in a digital hell. We cover the question of why someone might torture a digi…
00:48:31 |
Tue 23 Sep 2014
035: How Do You Filter Content in an Age of Abundance?
We're back with a new podcast about the growing challenge of digital curation. Every day we digitize more content and as the pile of data grows ever larger, how are we going to find the stuff we actu…
00:50:07 |
Mon 15 Sep 2014
034: We’ll Be Back in September
Now that we've completed 33 episodes, it's time for us to take a short break. But don't worry - we'll be back in early September with new episodes, new discussion topics, and possibly a few surprises…
00:03:20 |
Mon 18 Aug 2014
033: What’ll be the Impacts of Self Driving Cars?
Everyone knows by now that self driving cars are coming soon. Somewhere in the next 3-20 years, the human driver will become a thing of the past. What will happen when these capabilities come online?…
00:48:17 |
Mon 11 Aug 2014
032: Are we Wielding Technology or Yielding to It?
In this more conversational episode, we discuss the abstract dichotomy of wielding technology rather than yielding to it. We discuss this wielding/yielding metaphor with regard to form factors, for e…
00:33:37 |
Mon 04 Aug 2014
031: Who are the Top Ten Living Futurists?
In this week's podcast we list the top ten living futurists. These are people who are highly influential in the area of futurology, either for being skillful popularizers or originators of major new …
00:39:01 |
Thu 31 Jul 2014
030: What is the Future of Emotional Computing?
In this week's podcast we tackle Emotional (sometimes called Affective) Computing -- when computers read and respond to human emotions. We discuss the types of sensory data computers can read, like f…
00:44:30 |
Mon 21 Jul 2014
029: What is Mind Uploading?
In today’s podcast, we discuss the possibility of "mind uploading," or emulating a human brain inside a computer. We begin with a survey history of the concept, and then transition into a discussion …
00:52:00 |
Mon 14 Jul 2014
028: Review of Thomas Piketty’s CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Part 2: Futurist Perspective and Criticism
In this second part of our review of Capital in the 21st Century, we look at Thomas Picketty's ideas from the point of view of speculation and futurism, and consider some of the criticisms of the boo…
00:33:10 |
Mon 07 Jul 2014
027: Review of Thomas Piketty’s CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Part 1: Summary
In this part one of our review of Thomas Picketty's Capital in the 21st Century, we cover the book in detail and summarize its arguments and conclusions. In the next part, to be released next week, w…
00:50:43 |
Mon 30 Jun 2014
026: What is Ephemeralization?
In today's podcast, we discuss Buckminster Fuller's term ephemeralization. Many people today are searching for words to describe the tremendous power of technologies to do more with less. Modern expr…
00:19:54 |
Mon 16 Jun 2014
025: What Does Utopia Look Like?
We'd all like to live in a better future, and for ages men have imagined what a theoretical best future might be like. What would a utopian society truly look like? Does the answer lie in external ap…
01:02:30 |
Mon 09 Jun 2014
024: Will the Future be More or Less Unequal?
In this podcast we examine the issue of inequality from the point of view of game design and ask whether a variety of resources are likely to become more or less unequal in the future. In addition to…
00:29:48 |
Mon 02 Jun 2014
023: What is the Future of Net Neutrality?
In this week's podcast we talk about the big topic of Network Neutrality. We define the term and talk about the differences between neutral and biased (or 'diverse') networks. We cover the history of…
01:03:31 |
Mon 26 May 2014
022: Will the Future be Dominated by Games?
On this podcast, we talk about games and the future. Eric Zimmerman has pronounced this the “Ludic Century” and has said the 21st century will be defined by games. We approach this idea from three po…
00:37:12 |
Tue 06 May 2014
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