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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 will be fair game.Composed of interviews and essays--and hosted by the science fiction author, Stephen Euin Cobb--this series of programs will explore the future. Guests will include: Authors, Scientists, Celebrities and Pioneers; as well as those witnessing the growing trends of the future, often because those trends are changing their lives today. This program is not about magic, or prophecy, or psychic divination. Instead, we will 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 we will explore include: nanotechnology and biotechnology; organlegging, molecular manufacturing and computers wired directly into the human brain; extropianism, transhumanismand the technology of individual immortality; 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); robots, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI); remote sensing and waldoes; legal and illegal uses of the internet; 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 is now biology, chemistry and physics. Everything from futurism to futurology. To learn more, check the show's website at: www.TheFutureAndYou.com
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The Future And You -- Dec 22, 2010 Updated: 2010-12-22 05:00:00 Description: 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 detecting app, and an app which changes the phone into a Star Trek style tricorder which provides dozens of accurate scientific measurements. Also, my expectations as to what form smartphones will take during the coming decade (eyeglass computers within three years and implanted computers within ten--yes, the internet on your face, and the internet in your brain). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the December 22, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 26 minutes] Stephen Euin Cobb is an author, futurist and host of the award-winning podcast The Future and You. He was a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine for three years; and has written for Robot Magazine, H+ Magazine and Grim Couture Magazine. He is also a game designer, artist, essayist, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. LISTEN NOW | DOWNLOAD |
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