ROBOTS: Could Robots Replace Animals?
Today’s episode is the last of our FOUR PART MINI SEASON SERIES AND SHOW FINALE [airhorn noises]. This week we’re headed to a future where humans share our robotic knowledge with the rest of the anima...
22 Dec 20211h 15min
ROBOTS: Would You Date A Robot?
Today we travel to a future where we can take a robot home for a good time, or a long time, depending on what you’re into.Content note: today’s episode discusses sex and includes explicit language. Th...
14 Dec 20211h 7min
ROBOTS: Should A Robot Be Allowed To Kill?
Today we travel to a future where militaries employ killer robots. Should a robot be allowed to take a human life? Is the speed of war increasing too quickly? What does a tech worker do when they find...
24 Nov 20211h 11min
ROBOTS: Will Robots Ever Defeat Human Athletes?
Today’s episode is part one in our FOUR PART MINI SEASON SERIES AND SHOW FINALE [airhorn noises]. We’re going out with a robotic bang: four episodes about four different ways that robots might impact ...
10 Nov 20211h 3min
What If We Could Shrink Humans?
Today’s episode is about a future where humans learn how to shrink ourselves. What are the ethics of making someone smaller against their will? Would we keep all our fingers and toes? Would we even be...
27 Okt 202151min
What If We Could Shrink Technology?
Today’s episode is all about making our technologies and medicines tiny. Like, super tiny. Guests: Ainissa Ramirez -- scientist, speaker, author of The Alchemy of Us Eun Ji Chung -- biomedical engi...
13 Okt 202153min
Can You Find This Human?
Today we travel to a future where your face is findable no matter where you go. Guests: Scott Myers — former editor of the Perplex City Wiki Laura E. Hall — game designer and author of Planning Your...
28 Sep 202154min
What Is The Future Of Gender?
Today we revisit an episode from way back in season one, and ask: what even is gender in the first place? How could it be different? Why does science fiction like playing with gender? And what would h...
22 Sep 202153min
