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--June 11, 2014
Hank Pellissier--[Part 3]--(writer, editor, speaker, producer, futurist and transhumanist).
Topics: Trends going on in education, especially online sources of education such as the Khan Academy, whic…
The Future And You--June 4, 2014
Eight Interviews from ConCarolinas. (The SF&F convention that got me started podcasting.)
Guests include: Edmund R. Schubert (editor-in-chief of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show a popla…
The Future And You--May 28, 2014
Simone Pond (advertising executive, author andblogger) is our featured guest.
Topic: Trends in The Advertising Industry.
Specific items discussed: The TV show Mad Men; the power of viral videos; the …
The Future And You--May 21, 2014
Simone Pond (advertising executive, author and blogger) is our featured guest.
Topics: Trends in book promotion, but also tips and pointers on how to do it better.
Specific items discussed: online bo…
The Future And You--May 14, 2014
Eric Lerner (President and Chief Scientist of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics) is our featured guest.
Topic: Plasma Focus Fusion: a form of clean fusion which might well become a game-changer for civili…
The Future And You--May 7, 2014
Hank Pellissier--[Part 2]--(writer, editor, speaker, producer, futurist and transhumanist).
Topics: A good bit of detail on the life-extension experiments using Carbon 60, Buckyballs dissolved in oli…
The Future And You--April 30, 2014
Hank Pellissier (writer, editor, speaker, producer, futurist and transhumanist) is today's featured guest.
Topics: his book 225 ways to increase or harm IQ. Life-extension methods people are trying t…
The Future And You--April 23, 2014
Zoltan Istvan (journalist, entrepreneur, futurist) is today's featured guest.
Topics: life-extension and the elimination of death; his proposals for a transhumanist Olympics; and how transhumanist id…
The Future And You--April 16, 2014
Zoltan Istvan (journalist, entrepreneur, futurist) is today's featured guest.Topics: life-extension, transhumanism, augmenting the body and the mind, Ayn Rand's objectivism, several forms of atheism,…
The Future And You--April 9, 2014
Gennady Stolyarov II is today's featured guest.Topics: Peter Nygard's new life extension project going on now in the Bahamas in which he is injecting himself with stem cells (here is my interview wit…
The Future And You--April 2, 2014
Gennady Stolyarov II is today's featured speaker.
Topic: Life-Extension, and how to help the general public to embrace life-extension. Gennady Stolyarov II has written a new children's book entitled:…
The Future And You--March 26, 2014
Topic: Google Projects--the astounding variety of things Google is working on right now, many of which will change the future. Anti-aging research, healthcare, robotics, pushing the internet into pla…
The Future And You--March 19, 2014
Topic: Digital Life in 2025. A 61 page report from the Pew Research Center which is "based on a canvassing of hundreds of experts about the future of such things as privacy, cybersecurity, the Intern…
The Future And You--March 12, 2014
Topics: Google hires lobbyists to keep it legal for people to wear Google Glass while driving a car; Nanotechnology takes one baby step closer to molecular assemblers now that scientists have succeed…
The Future And You--March 5, 2014
Topics: Introduction to Hacking (an instructional video by Eli The Computer Guy); the ten strongest materials known to man; government online petitions; SureResponce, Verizon's Entry into Personal Em…
The Future And You--February 26, 2014
Topic: Places where you can watch Streaming TV and movies for FREE, also some cool Apps, and a fascinatingly exploreable weather map which displays far more than just the weather.
Links to things men…
The Future And You--February 19, 2014
Topic: Ten predictions for 2014, by Michael Liebreich (Chairman of the Advisory Board, Bloomberg New Energy Finance) covering renewable energy, carbon, digital energy technology and storage, natural …
The Future And You--February 12, 2014
Many Topics: How the Nielsen Company, which has provided ratings for TV shows since 1950, is making some adjustments to our modern age of Streaming TV. A camera built into a pill which patients can s…
The Future And You--February 5, 2014
Topic: The Twelve Most Disruptive Technologies of the Next Ten Years.
This episode presents an overview to a massive 180 page report from McKinsey Global Institute which is entitled "Disruptive techn…
The Future And You--January 29, 2014
Topic: 10 Important Trends for 2014 involving consumer actions and preferences when using their smartphones, laptops, and tablet computers to access the Internet. (From a report by Ericsson)
For Exa…