The Futurology Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jason Peffley and Douglas Souza
We’re back! In this episode, Jason P & Jason G get together to discuss the latest news in futurology. We had a great chat this week including the books we’d read since our last show, the effects of autonomous cars and the massive power of virtual reality.
Book recommendations
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Scrum [...]
/u/Blinkergoesleft, /u/Bostoniaa, and /u/captainmeta4 return for another installment of the Futurology Podcast. This month, rather than discuss top subreddit links, we teamed up with Ted Kupper and Jon Perry from Review the Futureto discuss the acceleration [...]
Futurology Podcast - Episode 18 /u/Blinkergoesleft, /u/Bostoniaa, and /u/captainmeta4 return for another installment of the Futurology Podcast, running down December’s top posts and hashing out some futurist philosophy.
Reading recommendations:
Last week /u/Bostoniaa and /u/Blinkergoesleft ran down /r/Futurology’s highest rated links. We also gave out two Futurist reading recommendations, Non-fiction and SciFi.
Bostoniaa’s Recommendations:
Today Blinkergoesleft was once again joined by Futurology mods Bostoniaa and CaptainMeta4 for the monthly recap of links submitted to reddit.com/r/futurology. The top three links are the highest voted and the last two were chosen by the mods.
3848 - Elon Musk Is Right: Colonizing the Solar System Is Humankind’s Insurance Policy Against Extinction - Mooraell
3422 - World’s First Airborne Wind Turbine to Bring Renewable Energy and WiFi to Alaska - dirk_bruere
This month’s guests included fellow futurology mods Bostoniaa and Captainmeta4.
5414 - Over 100,000 people in Hong Kong downloaded FireChat, a messaging app that works even when internet or mobile coverage has been shut down… by bluetooth-spreading across nearby phones - Philipp
4001 - Human DNA belongs to no one - it shouldn’t be patented - Djandgo
This month we had special guest Jason Ganz aka Bostoniaa on the show to recap the top 5 links. We also talked about the journey this subreddit has taken and how it went from a few hundred subscribers to 1 million + in two years.
2724 - Nasa validates ‘impossible’ space drive (Wired UK) - czottmann
2511- Biohackers declare initial success in biologically extending the range of human vision into the near infrared - czottmann
In this episode, Alex and Jason were joined by Tom (moderator Ion-Tom) to talk about his time at the Seattle Futurist meetup. For those of you following nuclear fusion, this will be interesting. As far as the top links go, here they are in order. We took out a story about UBI (universal basic income) due to the fact that we’d like to have a full debate without the same old circle jerk. We need one volunteer to represent the pros of UBI and one who is against it. On the next podcast we’ll hopefully get some solid points from each side.
1823 - This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood - aeo1003
This week I spoke with William Hertling who is a programmer and the author of the singularity series which starts of with Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears
David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence. David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers. But excitement turns to fear as the team realizes that they are being manipulated by an A.I. who is redirecting corporate funds, reassigning personnel and arming itself in pursuit of its own agenda.
Avogadro Corp is followed by A.I. Apocalypse, and The Last Firewall. While we will get back to the [...]
We’re back with another installment of Futurology’s top 5 links of the month. We also through in a self post which we may start doing more based on the discussions they generate.
2105 - Physicists have discovered a jewel-like geometric object that dramatically simplifies calculations of particle interactions and challenges the notion that space and time are fundamental components of reality. - marrek
2034 - A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, [...]
Today I had the pleasure of interviewing the inventor, designer, and CEO of the Samson Motorworks Switchblade Flying Car. This interview was done AMA style. In other words, I asked questions that were presented by reddit’s futurology community. That thread can be seen here. YouTube version of this podcast is here.
Greetings Futurists,
Today Alex returned and we were able to crank another top 5 format podcast. We also noted a few stories. One being Glen Beck’s rant on the ethics of transhumanism. We also mentioned Ben Goertzel’s AMA and last but not least, ask your questions here about the Switchblade Flying Car.
949 - Remember the super hydrophobic coating that we all heard about couple years ago? Well it’s finally hitting the shelves! And it’s only $20! -
Instead of running through the top 5 links, this episode is dedicated to interviewing Nikola Danaylov. His site (singularityweblog.com) is periodically discussed here and his podcast has featured some of the biggest names in technology. Nikola has also studied at the Singularity University. He now makes his living by blogging, podcasting, and attending singularity related events around the world.
This episode of The Futurology podcast was recorded on April 22nd. Daniel Yount joins Alex and Jason once again for a look at the futurology community’s most popular links.
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Greetings fellow futurists,
This monthAlex and myself made room for 17-year-old composer, futurist, and techno-optomist Daniel Yount. Daniel is also a member of reddit’s futurology community and he helped us count down the top 5 links of the month.
(830 Upvotes) 3d printing is going to radically change our world in the coming decades - AthiestBroker
(800 Upvotes) More Good News About The ‘Scientific Accident That May Change The World’ | Science | ReWire - the-pervert
(789 Upvotes) Would you swap a heal [...]
Today on the futurology podcast we were back to business, counting down the top 5 links of the month. We also went in to the possibility of simulation theory which was a link posted by InfiniteSource.
(1025 upvotes) A new asteroid-mining company, Deep Space Industries, Inc., launches Tuesday with the goal of helping humanity expand across the solar system by tapping the vast riches of space rocks. It plans to launch a fleet of prospecting spacecraft in 2015. (x-post from r/worldnews) - tikki_rox
This week we interviewed Alex aka SpeakMouthWords. Alex runs a popular YouTube Channel which exploded after he started a monthly series called “nobodypayingattention.” Alex has a degree in physics and weighs in on several interesting topics including the singularity, the venus project, AI, and the collapse debate. You can message speakmouthwords on reddit, or subscribe to his YouTube channel.
Episode 3: What can /r/futurology do as a community?
This month we discuss a thread in which redditors discussed which big projects /r/futurology should try to tackle as a community.
- 431 upvotes - They made a 3D drug printer!
Episode 2 Self Driving cars
In this week’s episode we discuss self driving cars, same day delivery, law enforcement, and possible security risks.
- 422 upvotes - We have a working graphene battery prototype that lasts just as long as a lithium-ion battery, but charges in 15 minutes. Now, we just nee [...]
Douglas Souza and Jason Peffley discuss how they got started in /r/futurology and what it means to them. We also discuss the top 5 links of the month.
- 374 upvotes - A fertility treatment which eliminates hereditary disease by engineering babies to carry healthy DNA from a third biological parent could b [...]