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
November 25, 2009 Episode
Doctor Gregory L. Matloff, C Bangs and Keith Comito are today's featured guests.
Doctor Gregory L. Matloff is an astronomer, author and professor; C Bangs is a professional artist and author; and Kei…
November 18, 2009 Episode
Peter Nygard (the internationally famous fashion designer) is today's featured guest.
Topics: how technology has transformed the fashion industry; and the pivotal role he played in the beginning and …
November 11, 2009 Episode
Ari Kiirikki, Vice President of Knome Inc. (the world's leading provider of personal DNA sequencing) is today's featured guest.
Topics: how you can have your entire DNA sequenced; the rate at which t…
November 4, 2009 Episode
Noel Patton (founder of T.A. Sciences) is today's featured guest.
Topic: A product available today which may extend human lives well beyond traditional limits. Specifically what this product is, how …
October 28, 2009 Episode
Eliezer Yudkowsky (co-founder and research fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) is today's featured guest.
Topics: the Singularity and the creation of Friendly AI; his est…
October 21, 2009 Episode
Michael Vassar and Michael Anissimov are today's featured guests. (Both are interviewed in their capacity as organizers of the Singularity Summit 2009 held earlier this month in New York City.)
Topic…
October 14, 2009 Episode
Gregory Benford and Aubrey de Grey (who both spoke at the Singularity Summit held earlier this month in New York City) are interviewed, as well as two attendees of this singular event which is so int…
October 7, 2009 Episode
Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of teaching experience) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Why teachers are encouraged to give kids about five hours of homework everyday. W…
September 30, 2009 Episode
Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of teaching experience) is today's featured guest.
Topics: trends in teaching in public schools; how one problem student can prevent an enti…
September 23, 2009 Episode
Three Biotech Researchers (two geneticists and one agronomist) are today's featured guests.
Topics: problems involved in engineering a virus to kill a specific race or sex of human beings; genetics i…
September 16, 2009 Episode
Three Biotech Researchers (two geneticists and one agronomist) are today's featured guests.
Dr. Diane Mucci, formerly with the National Institute of Health (NIH), is currently a full time professor o…
September 9, 2009 Episode
Stephanie Osborn (author and former NASA payload flight controller) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Space Shuttle flights and the International Space Station; her work in astronaut training, and w…
September 2, 2009 Episode
Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest.
Topics: his work advising Woody Allen for the movie Sleeper; anecdotes about his friends Arth…
August 26, 2009 Episode
Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest.
Topics: extreme human longevity, which Dr. Bova expects and endorses; why lasers are the ulti…
August 19, 2009 Episode
José Cordeiro (author, researcher, professor, futurist, consultant and world traveler) is today's guest.
Topics: José Cordeiro's lectures at World Future 2009; The Singularity University (his involve…
August 12, 2009 Episode
Young-sook Park 박영숙 (South Korean diplomat, author, and futurist) is today's guest.
Dr. Young-sook Park is Chair of the United Nation's Millennium Project in Korea, Chair of the Korean Chapter of th…
August 5, 2009 Episode
Timothy C. Mack (President of the World Future Society) is today's guest.
The World Future Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan scientific and educational association of people interested in how socia…
July 29, 2009 Episode
Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of classroom teaching experience) is today's featured guest.
Topics: now that the flood gates of information are open wide (sometimes referr…
July 22, 2009 Episode
Robert Hooker (an Information Technology professional living in London) is today's featured guest.
Topics: why Islamic fundamentalists feel threatened by the dominance of the Internet today, just as …
July 15, 2009 Episode
Robert Hooker (an Information Technology professional living in London) is today's featured guest.
Topics: his experience in AI research in the early 1990s; his PhD in sociology and the results of hi…