The Future And You
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
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 46 minutes
- Episodes
- 486
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2019
The Future And You -- November 7, 2012
Ramez Naam (author, futurist and IT professional) is today's featured guest.
Topics: good trends such as: poverty and hunger are down world-wide, while health and longevity are up; but also mixed tre…
The Future And You -- October 31, 2012
Ramez Naam (author, futurist and IT professional) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Internet Search Algorithms (what they are and how they do what they do); what and why he teaches at Singularity Un…
The Future And You -- October 24, 2012
Jim Craig, Micki (of the Charlotte Geeks) and Stephen Euin Cobb are today's speakers.
Topic: Inventions which were Inspired by Science Fiction movies, books or TV.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this …
The Future And You -- October 17, 2012
John G. Hartness is today's featured guest.
Topic: An even deeper penetration into the secrets of self-publishing electronically. As well as some frank advice about writing erotica; how Michael Stac…
The Future And You -- October 10, 2012
Sarah Hoyt, Daniel Hoyt, John G. Hartness, Charlotte Babb, Tamera Lowery and Dan Hollifield are today's featured speakers.
Topic: Self-Publishing as a Viable Career Option. How you can participate in…
The Future And You -- October 3, 2012
Stephen Euin Cobb is today's featured speaker.
Topics: Your host reads from, and comments on, an MIT report entitled The Future of the Electric Grid. Also: cybersecurity; wind energy; why electric ca…
The Future And You -- September 26, 2012
Jim Minz, Lee Martindale, Chris Morris, Janet Morris, Dan Hollifield, Holly McClure and Walt Boyes are today's featured guests.
Topic: ePublishing as viewed principally by various publishers and edi…
The Future And You -- September 19, 2012
Stephen Euin Cobb is today's featured speaker.
A Variety of Topics Which Include: 11 Health Habits That Will Help You Live to 100; An exhaustive Longevity Quiz I took recently; Forks Over Knives (a d…
The Future And You -- September 12, 2012
Michael Z. Williamson,Philip R. Cox and Janet Morris are today's featured speakers.
Topic: (Second Half of discussion on) Future Weapons, including Post-Projectile weapons and "non-lethal" or "Less-t…
The Future And You -- September 5, 2012
Michael Z. Williamson, Philip R. Cox and Janet Morris are today's featured speakers.
Topic: Future Weapons, including Post-Projectile weapons and "non-lethal" or "Less-than-lethal" weapons. (First of…
The Future And You -- August 29, 2012
Eric Flint, Janet Morris, Lee Martindale, Holly McClure, Chris Morris and Daniel M. Hoyt are today's featured speakers.
Topic: Electronic Piracy of music, books, movies, software, etc. (This is the s…
The Future And You -- August 22, 2012
Eric Flint, Janet Morris, Lee Martindale, Holly McClure, Chris Morris and Daniel M. Hoyt are today's featured speakers.
Topic: Electronic Piracy of music, books, movies, software, etc. (This is the f…
The Future And You -- August 15, 2012
Les Johnson, Dr. Gregory L. Matloff, Stephanie Osborn, and Phillip R. Cox are today's featured speakers.
Topic: (1) The ways in which we will all suffer if we lose all of our satellites, and (2) the …
The Future And You -- August 8, 2012
Eva Sawyer and Stephen Euin Cobb (your host) are today's featured speakers.
Topic: Improving the Functioning of Your Brain (AKA: Cognitive Enhancement). Discussion points include: recent development…
The Future And You -- August 1, 2012
Today's featured guests are: Dr. Tedd Roberts (a medical researcher with 30 years of experience who also blogs as Speaker-to-Lab-Animals); Cy Chase (a doctoral candidate in evolutionary biology at Va…
The Future And You -- July 25, 2012
New York Times bestselling authors Brandon Sanderson, Timothy Zahn, John Ringo, and Eric Flint are joined by Janet Morris, Patrick Vanner, Richard Groller, Michael H. Hanson and Phillip R. Cox; as we…
The Future And You -- July 18, 2012
Stephen Euin Cobb is today's featured speaker.
Topic: A full explanation of the final results of my "TA-65 Evaluation Project" which I started nearly a year ago.
In this episode I describe in detail …
The Future And You -- July 11, 2012
Chris Phoenix (futurist, nanotechnologist and software engineer) is today's featured guest.
Topics: The probability of developing human-like General Artificial Intelligence; Sky City (China's modular…
The Future And You -- July 4, 2012
Chris Phoenix (futurist, nanotechnologist and software engineer) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Examples of major disasters and how they can be categorized using The Phoenix Scale; the current he…
The Future And You -- June 27, 2012
Chris Phoenix (futurist, nanotechnologist and software engineer) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Trends in nanotechnology and molecular manufacturing; methods of getting to the nanoscale; the prob…