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--Dec 23, 2015
Topics: Flaws in how Google News decides which headline to show you; yet again a dog has smelled that its owner had cancer before any symptoms could reveal the tumor; a nasal spray of glucagon has pr…
The Future And You--Dec 16, 2015
Micro-spaceships of only a single gram could be propelled at a third the speed of light toward nearby stars. They would be shoved, as tiny lightsails, by powerful external lasers. Accelerating for on…
The Future And You--Dec 9, 2015
Six different topics: (1)The growing number of cheap low-end eyeglass-style computer displays, and why they are good for privacy, but not resolution. (2) A poorly written article about an important t…
The Future And You--Dec 2, 2015
The biggest and most impossible to ignore of all the topics we discuss is the faction war raging within SF&F writing and publishing which is centered on the Hugo Awards. You can learn more about it o…
The Future And You--Nov 25, 2015
Topics: how public libraries are transitioning from quiet rooms filled with books to embrace all forms of media and information, including the vastness of the Internet. Also: similarities between the…
The Future And You--Nov 18, 2015
Topics: the rebirth of short fiction as a way for authors to make serious money; the growth of episodic fiction, as opposed to serialized; the sales ratios of physical books verses digital books; the…
The Future And You--Nov 11, 2015
Topics: ethical problems in the Wizard of OZ; our copyright laws are out of whack and may not be working in the public's best interest; why the latest Kindle reading devices may be working against th…
The Future And You--Nov 4, 2015
Topic: Your Life is an Open Book [Part 2]: How the Internet and social media make our lives open to scrutiny by anyone with a computer.
Speakers: James Maxey (author), Stephen Euin Cobb (author and m…
The Future And You--Oct 28, 2015
Topic: Your Life is an Open Book [Part 1]: How the Internet and social media make our lives open to scrutiny by anyone with a computer.
Speakers: James Maxey (author), Stephen Euin Cobb (author and m…
The Future And You--Oct 20, 2015
Part Two: Consciousness: Exactly what is it? And can it be uploaded into a computer?
Speakers: Dr. Robert E. Hampson, Dr. Robert "Sam" Lightfoot, Julie Cochrane, Philip Wohlrab.
The Future And You--Oct 14, 2015
Consciousness [Part One]: Exactly what is it? And can it be uploaded into a computer?
Speakers: Dr. Robert E. Hampson, Dr. Robert "Sam" Lightfoot, Julie Cochrane, Philip Wohlrab.
The Future And You--Oct. 7, 2015
Topic: Will We Ever Go to Mars? (Part 2) Mars is currently on many people's minds because of the Matt Damon movie coming out this week: The Martian.
Speakers: James Maxey (author), Thomas A. Mays (au…
The Future And You--Sept. 30, 2015
Topic: Will We Ever Go to Mars? (Part 1) Mars is currently on many people's minds because of the Matt Damon movie coming out this week: The Martian.
Speakers: James Maxey (author), Thomas A. Mays (au…
The Future And You--Sept 23, 2015
Topic: Trends in Book Publishing.
Speakers: David B. Coe and A. J. Hartley.
David B. Coe is the author of more than fifteen novels and a dozen short stories. His first series, the LonTobyn Chronicle …
The Future And You--Sept 16, 2015
Topic: The Next Carrington Event: How Catastrophic Might It Be?
The Carrington Event was a solar coronal mass ejection that hit the Earth in 1859. If a similar one hit today, Lloyd's of London estima…
The Future And You--Sept 9, 2015
Topic: Fifty Years of SETI--Where is Everyone?
Our speaker is Robert Buetner, the award-winning author of more than ten novels, a former intelligence officer, paleontologist, and lawyer.
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The Future And You--Sept 2, 2015
Topic: The Ethics of Human Augmentation—the pros, cons and conundrums.
Speakers: Kenneth I. Roy, Carol Johnson, Bill Thomasson, and Robert G. Kennedy.
Kenneth I. Roy is an engineer who has published …
The Future And You--August 26, 2015
Topic: Terraforming. Making planets that are not habitable into earth-like planets, where people can live, work, and play--even outside, in comfort, without a space suit.
Speakers: Kenneth I. Roy (au…
The Future And You--August 19, 2015
The Eventual Artificial Intelligence Uprising.
Speakers: James Maxey (author), Chris Kennedy (author), Thomas A. Mays (author and naval officer), Edward McKeown (author), Rebecca Ledford (publisher …
The Future And You--August 12, 2015
Topic: Emerging Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistance. What we are doing right, and what we are doing wrong.
Speakers: John Harp (scientist) and Phil Wohlrab (scientist).
John Harp is a graduate stude…