Artificial Romantic Companions
Kind of like artificial butter, but for the soul.When these beauties arrive, will they cure the loneliness epidemic or sever the most intimate natural connection between human beings? Will they bring ...
19 Jun 30min
The Singularity is Far
Don't tell the tech bros, but The Singularity -- that moment when future shock exceeds our understanding -- may be farther away than we think, or it may not even happen.Why? Well, tune in to hear our ...
12 Jun 35min
The Future of Neoliberal Democracy
Democracy is in decline, if you believe the statistics, and the headlines.Sounds like fake news, but what do the numbers say? The trends in public opinion, technology, economics? Are Darwinian forces ...
5 Jun 28min
First Space Probe to an Exoplanet
Visiting another star system may cost hundreds of billions of dollars and take lifetimes to accomplish.Will we do it? If so, will we be transformed more by the images sent back, or by the civilization...
29 Mai 27min
Replacing Plastic as the Dominant Material
We know plastic is bad. Great masses float on the oceans, tiny specks lodge in our brains. Why don't we just stop using it? Are we just too lazy? Or are there fundamental limits to what can be replace...
22 Mai 28min
Artificial Wombs
Will humanity choose to outsource the life process? Will that mean a new era of liberation, or of alienation?Does separating gestation from the female body resolve the ethical conflict between the san...
15 Mai 31min
The End of Ecological Domination
Humans dominate most of the Earth's surface because our survival depends on it. Or does it?Will biofactories one day produce all the food we need? Does the land then return to wilderness? What is life...
8 Mai 34min
Flying Carpets (and Other Personal Aerial Devices)
The dream of flight. It has captivated humanity for millennia. Missing from most of these dreams, though, is taking off your shoes and getting patted down by a TSA agent.Is the mythic vision of flying...
1 Mai 38min
