161 Episodes

  1. 021: What Are the Different Types of Intelligence Augmentation?

    Published: 4/29/2014

  2. 020: What is the Future of Television?

    Published: 4/22/2014

  3. 019: Who Controls a Future of Decentralized Technologies?

    Published: 4/15/2014

  4. 018: What is the Future of Money?

    Published: 4/7/2014

  5. 017: What New Job Opportunities Will Exist in an Automated Future?

    Published: 3/31/2014

  6. 016: What is Super-Now Prediction?

    Published: 3/18/2014

  7. 015: What Would be the Cultural Impacts of Increased Longevity?

    Published: 3/10/2014

  8. 014: How Might We Respond to Technological Unemployment?

    Published: 3/3/2014

  9. 013: What is the Future of Communications Interfaces?

    Published: 2/25/2014

  10. 012: How Plausible is Dystopia?

    Published: 2/17/2014

  11. 011: Review of McAfee and Brynjolfsson’s SECOND MACHINE AGE

    Published: 2/10/2014

  12. 010: What Will Remain Scarce in the Future?

    Published: 1/27/2014

  13. 009: Is Storytelling More Difficult in a World of Accelerating Change?

    Published: 1/20/2014

  14. 008: Review of Tyler Cowen’s Average Is Over

    Published: 1/13/2014

  15. 007: Review of Spike Jonze’s HER

    Published: 1/6/2014

  16. 006: What is an Intelligence Explosion, and Will It Kill Us All?

    Published: 12/30/2013

  17. 005: Are We Addicted to Technology?

    Published: 12/24/2013

  18. 004: Are Generation Gaps Going to be Relevant in the Future?

    Published: 12/16/2013

  19. 003: Is Privacy Dead?

    Published: 12/9/2013

  20. 002: Should We Be Worried About Technological Unemployment?

    Published: 12/2/2013

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Enter a simulated universe where software beings engage in classic human struggles for belonging, status, and attention, and old certainties like death and gravity are just settings to be negotiated. You can be the god of your own private world, but if find yourself feeling lonely, you might be tempted to give away some of your precious control. This podcast will take you behind the scenes with comic book authors and veteran podcasters Jon Perry (@perryjon) and Ted Kupper (@tedkupper) as they write and develop a science fiction graphic novel called Constellation, set in a metaverse unlike any you’ve seen before: neither a utopia nor a dystopia, neither real nor virtual, it is a simulation where everyone knows they are being simulated and no one much cares, where there’s no hope of leaving and no reason to, just an endless supply of human-designed worlds to create and explore.