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
February 18, 2009 Episode
Kim Stanley Robinson, the best selling and award-winning science fiction author is today's featured guest.
Topics include: Kim Stanley Robinson describes his reaction to being chosen as Guest of Hono…
February 11, 2009 Episode
Jerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest. (This is the third and final portion of his two-hour long interview.)
Topic…
February 4, 2009 Episode
Jerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest. (This is the second portion of our two-hour interview. The third and final …
January 28, 2009 Episode
Jerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest.
Topics include: Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven and other aut…
January 21, 2009 Episode
Alan Dean Foster (author of over 100 novels of science fiction and fantasy and noted world traveler) is today's featured guest.
Many of this interview's topics were made possible only because of Alan…
January 14, 2009 Episode
Doctor Bob Boan (scientist and author) is today's featured guest.
Dr. Boan's work has involved US Government space programs for the intelligence departments, but he has also done work for NASA and fo…
January 7, 2009 Episode
Phillis George and Billy George are today's featured guests. Both Phyllis and Billy have worked in banking for many years, however, this interview is NOT about the current bailouts and other well pub…
December 31, 2008 Episode
Rhonda Leigh Jones (author of erotic romance novels, and just back from a year living in and participating in the Eastern European culture of Romania) is today's featured guest.
Sex, BDSM, and life i…
December 24, 2008 Episode
R.U. Sirius (Editor-In-Chief of the new Transhumanist Magazine called H+ as well as writer, talk show host, and cyberculture icon) is today's featured guest.
R.U. Sirius tells how Timothy Leary (his …
December 17, 2008 Episode
R.U. Sirius (writer, editor, talk show host, and cyberculture icon) is today's featured guest.
As Editor-In-Chief of a new magazine called H+ (which is written by transhumanists, for transhumanists) …
December 10, 2008 Episode
Brain Wang (writer, speaker and noted futurist) is today's featured guest.
Biases remain strong, Brian says, within government and the scientific community that have prevented the funding of some nan…
December 3, 2008 Episode
David Orban (futurist, speaker and business executive) is today's featured guest. This is the second half of his interview. (The first half is in the episode dated October 29, 2008.)
Spimes, some pe…
October 29, 2008 Episode
David Orban (futurist, speaker and business executive) is today's featured guest.
The Internet is big and still growing. How it grows and where it grows changes with time. During the next few years o…
October 22, 2008 Episode
Chris Phoenix (nanotechnology scientist, author and researcher) is today's featured guest. (This is the second half of the interview we started last week.)
Chris Phoenix is the co-founder and Directo…
October 15, 2008 Episode
Chris Phoenix (nanotechnology scientist, author and researcher) is today's featured guest.
Chris Phoenix is the co-founder and Director of Research for CRN (the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology)…
October 8, 2008 Episode
Julie Grimaldi, president of Police Futurists International, is today's featured guest.
The mission of Police Futurists International is to foster excellence in policing by promoting and applying the…
October 1, 2008 Episode
Rudi Hoffman, the world's leading cryonics insurance provider, is today's featured guest.
You can too take it with you! How combining cryonics and insurance can let you leave your million dollar ins…
September 24, 2008 Episode
Larry Niven, the award-winning author of Ringworld, The Mote In God's Eye, and many other hard science fiction novels, is our featured guest.
He reveals that Robert A. Heinlein was the secret proofre…
September 17, 2008 Episode
Doctor Adrian Bowyer (inventor of the RepRap machine) is our featured guest.
The RepRap machine is the first machine in all of human history that can make most of its own parts. Not all of them (at l…
September 10, 2008 Episode
Nick Bostrom (author, lecturer, philosopher at Oxford University, co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association and of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) is today's featured gues…