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
Part 4 of Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb
This is the Fourth of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black.
Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spac…
The Future And You -- Jan 5, 2011
Stephen Euin Cobb (author, futurist, magazine writer--and your host) is today's featured guest.
Topics: News and commentary on a number of future oriented topics--such as: mapping all the connections…
Part 3 of Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb
This is the third of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black.
Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial space…
The Future And You -- Dec. 29, 2010
Les Johnson (NASA physicist, manager and author) is today's featured guest.
Part Two of Les Johnson's talk on Space Law. Highlights include: The U.S. project in which NASA employees are sent to spea…
Part 2 of Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb
This is the second of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black.
Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial spac…
The Future And You -- Dec 22, 2010
Stephen Euin Cobb (author, futurist, magazine writer--and your host) is today's featured guest.
Smartphones -- Part 2. Free apps which provide powerful and useful features such as an impressive color…
Part 1 of Bones Burnt Black by Stephen Euin Cobb
This is the first of ten weekly instalments which will contain the complete text of the science fiction thriller Bones Burnt Black.
Plot: A methodical serial killer sabotages a large commercial space…
The Future And You -- Dec 15, 2010
Stephen Euin Cobb (author, futurist, magazine writer--and your host) is today's featured guest.
Smartphones are the topic. The Internet in your pocket. What smartphones are, trends in the growth of t…
The Future And You -- Dec 8, 2010
Les Johnson (NASA physicist, manager and author) is today's featured guest.
Space Law is the topic. Such as the ramifications of the International Outer Space Treaty (which bans nuclear weapons in sp…
The Future And You -- Dec 1, 2010
Experts in three different areas of energy technology (hydrogen, chemical plants, electric cars) are today's featured guests.
Scott Greenwood (of The Center for Hydrogen Research) describes the trend…
The Future And You -- Nov. 24, 2010
Richard Watson (author of Future Minds and Future Files) is today's featured guest.
Topics: How sales people are hurt by cell phones and the Internet; how we are all rapidly killing privacy; the exce…
The Future And You -- Nov. 17, 2010
Richard Watson (author of Future Minds and Future Files) is today's featured guest.
Topics: today's growing trends which affect how we perceive our world, ourselves, each other; and how we make decis…
The Future And You -- Nov. 10, 2010
Four presenters of new medical technologies are today's featured guests.
Benjamin Rhymer (a Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist with the Cath Lab) describes how surgeries are performed insi…
The Future And You -- Nov. 3, 2010
Stephen Euin Cobb (your host) is today's featured guest.
This episode celebrates humanity's imminent achievement of discovering our 500th planet outside our solar system (exoplanet or extrasolar plan…
The Future And You -- Oct. 27, 2010
Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest.
Topics: (Second of two parts) radical new medical treatments based on stem cell research; exa…
The Future And You -- Oct. 20, 2010
Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Government bureaucracies; government funded science and engineering projects; NASA; s…
The Future And You -- October 13, 2010
Doctor Jeffery R. Gosney D.M.D. is today's featured guest.
Topics: The secret battle being fought for control of the American Dental Association by two of its internal factions--one faction composed…
The Future And You -- October 6, 2010
Doctor Jeffery R. Gosney D.M.D. is today's featured guest.
Topics: how nanomaterials are used in dentistry today; why mercury is being phased out of dental fillings; the continued decline in the val…
The Future And You -- September 29, 2010
Les Johnson (NASA physicist and manager) and Dr. Gregory L. Matloff (professor of astronomy) are today's featured guests.
Topic: (Second of two parts.) Paradise Regained: the Regreening of Earth. W…
The Future And You -- 2010 September 22
Les Johnson (NASA physicist and manager) and Dr. Gregory L. Matloff (professor of astronomy) are today's featured guests.
Topic: Paradise Regained: the Regreening of Earth. Why the ultimate goals of …