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The Future And You
Publisher: Stephen Euin Cobb
Genre: Technology
Language: English
This award-winning series explores The Future of Everything. 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 is fair game. Composed of intervi... (more)
Copyright: Stephen Euin Cobb
Website: http://thefutureandyou.com
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February 24, 2010 Episode
Speakers and attendees from the World Future Convention '09 held in Chicago.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 24, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 29 minutes] These interviews were recorded July 18-19, 2009.
Topics:... (more)
February 17, 2010 Episode
Frederik Pohl (author of Gateway--the classic science fiction novel which won the Nebula, Hugo, Campbell and Locus awards) is today's featured guest.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 17, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running t... (more)
February 10, 2010 Episode
Frederik Pohl (author of Gateway--the classic science fiction novel which won the Nebula, Hugo, Campbell and Locus awards) is today's featured guest.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 10, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running t... (more)
February 3, 2010 Episode
Gregory Benford (Nebula Award winning author, physicist and professor) is today's featured guest.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the February 3, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 34 minutes] This is the second half of the inter... (more)
January 27, 2010 Episode
Gregory Benford
(Nebula Award winning author, physicist and professor) is today's featured guest.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 27, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 37 minutes] This interview was recorded on Janu... (more)
January 20, 2010 Episode
J.C. Hutchins (the award-winning novelist of the 7th Son technothriller trilogy) is today's featured guest.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 20, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 47 minutes]
Topics: his innovativ... (more)
January 13, 2010 Episode
Celebrating the new decade with Part Two of the summary of the changes your host expects we will see during the next ten years.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 13, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 31 minutes] This w... (more)
January 6, 2010 Episode
Celebrating the new decade with a summary of the changes your host expects we will see during the next ten years.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 6, 2010 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 35 minutes] This was recorded on ... (more)
December 30, 2009 Episode
Five engineers and scientists experienced in large scale electrical energy production are today's featured guests.
Topics: how California's energy follies have damaged Oregon and Washington State; why making fuel out of food may be the dumbest idea t... (more)
December 23, 2009 Episode
Five engineers and scientists experienced in large scale electrical energy production are today's featured guests.
Topics: The many struggles, controversies, incidents and allegations, as well as the political and financial problems facing America's... (more)
December 16, 2009 Episode
Fourth Anniversary Episode; featuring a year in review, behind the scene tidbits, and miscellaneous commentary by the host.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the December 16, 2009 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 37 minutes] (For the ... (more)
December 9, 2009 Episode
Andrew Hessel (biologist, author and co-founder of the Pink Army Cooperative) is today's featured guest.Topics: how new drugs have been developed during the last few decades; why these processes cost so much; and how it may be possible to use open so... (more)
December 2, 2009 Episode
Aaron Franz and Carlos A. Mejia (a documentary film-making team) are today's featured guests.
Aaron and Carlos are anti-transhumanism activists who have joined forces to create a documentary explaining the potential negative effects of transhumanism ... (more)
November 25, 2009 Episode
Doctor Gregory L. Matloff, C Bangs and Keith Comito are today's featured guests.
Doctor Gregory L. Matloff is an astronomer, author and professor; C Bangs is a professional artist and author; and Keith Comito is a mathematician, programmer and founde... (more)
November 18, 2009 Episode
Peter Nygard (the internationally famous fashion designer) is today's featured guest.
Topics: how technology has transformed the fashion industry; and the pivotal role he played in the beginning and final negotiation of NAFTA. Also, as I interviewed ... (more)
November 11, 2009 Episode
Ari Kiirikki, Vice President of Knome Inc. (the world's leading provider of personal DNA sequencing) is today's featured guest.
Topics: how you can have your entire DNA sequenced; the rate at which this expensive procedure is growing in popularity; h... (more)
November 4, 2009 Episode
Noel Patton (founder of T.A. Sciences) is today's featured guest.
Topic: A product available today which may extend human lives well beyond traditional limits. Specifically what this product is, how it functions within living cells, and some of the s... (more)
October 28, 2009 Episode
Eliezer Yudkowsky (co-founder and research fellow of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) is today's featured guest.
Topics: the Singularity and the creation of Friendly AI; his estimate of the probability of success in making a Fri... (more)
October 21, 2009 Episode
Michael Vassar and Michael Anissimov are today's featured guests. (Both are interviewed in their capacity as organizers of the Singularity Summit 2009 held earlier this month in New York City.)
Topics: the Singularity and artificial intelligence in g... (more)
October 14, 2009 Episode
Gregory Benford and Aubrey de Grey (who both spoke at the Singularity Summit held earlier this month in New York City) are interviewed, as well as two attendees of this singular event which is so intently focused on the future.
Topics: the Singulari... (more)
October 7, 2009 Episode
Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of teaching experience) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Why teachers are encouraged to give kids about five hours of homework everyday. Ways in which kids are different toda... (more)
September 30, 2009 Episode
Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of teaching experience) is today's featured guest.
Topics: trends in teaching in public schools; how one problem student can prevent an entire class from learning; whether or not smarter kids... (more)
September 23, 2009 Episode
Three Biotech Researchers (two geneticists and one agronomist) are today's featured guests.
Topics: problems involved in engineering a virus to kill a specific race or sex of human beings; genetics involved in regrowing human limbs for amputees; how ... (more)
September 16, 2009 Episode
Three Biotech Researchers (two geneticists and one agronomist) are today's featured guests.
Dr. Diane Mucci, formerly with the National Institute of Health (NIH), is currently a full time professor of biotechnology and has a Ph.D. in Molecular Geneti... (more)
September 9, 2009 Episode
Stephanie Osborn (author and former NASA payload flight controller) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Space Shuttle flights and the International Space Station; her work in astronaut training, and what it is that a payload flight controller does; Sp... (more)
September 2, 2009 Episode
Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest.
Topics: his work advising Woody Allen for the movie Sleeper; anecdotes about his friends Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, and Gene Roddenberry;... (more)
August 26, 2009 Episode
Dr. Ben Bova (author of more than 115 books about science and science fiction) is today's featured guest.
Topics: extreme human longevity, which Dr. Bova expects and endorses; why lasers are the ultimate weapon of defense against incoming missiles, a... (more)
August 19, 2009 Episode
Josà Cordeiro (author, researcher, professor, futurist, consultant and world traveler) is today's guest.
Topics: Josà Cordeiro's lectures at World Future 2009; The Singularity University (his involvement, its goals, and plans for its future expansion... (more)
August 12, 2009 Episode
Young-sook Park ëìì (South Korean diplomat, author, and futurist) is today's guest.
Dr. Young-sook Park is Chair of the United Nation's Millennium Project in Korea, Chair of the Korean Chapter of the World Future Society, President of the Korean Fos... (more)
August 5, 2009 Episode
Timothy C. Mack (President of the World Future Society) is today's guest.
The World Future Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the fu... (more)
July 29, 2009 Episode
Nathan P. Butler (a professional educator with eight years of classroom teaching experience) is today's featured guest.
Topics: now that the flood gates of information are open wide (sometimes referred to as the Internet) we are all swimming in infor... (more)
July 22, 2009 Episode
Robert Hooker (an Information Technology professional living in London) is today's featured guest.
Topics: why Islamic fundamentalists feel threatened by the dominance of the Internet today, just as Christian fundamentalists felt threatened by the do... (more)
July 15, 2009 Episode
Robert Hooker (an Information Technology professional living in London) is today's featured guest.
Topics: his experience in AI research in the early 1990s; his PhD in sociology and the results of his sociological research inside Second Life; the imp... (more)
July 8, 2009 Episode
Robert Hooker (an Information Technology professional living in London) is today's featured guest.
Topics: powerful software which is totally free to download and use (such as: Open Office, Gimp, and Ubuntu); Web 3.0 verses 2.0; the buzzword The Clou... (more)
July 1, 2009 Episode
Robert Hooker (an Information Technology professional living in London) is our featured guest.
Topics: trends in England and Europe compared to the USA especially involving cell phones, Internet connections, and other technologies. Robert also talks ... (more)
June 24, 2009 Episode
Tom Atwood (Editor-in-Chief of Robot Magazine) is our featured guest.
Topics: the latest in 3D displays for TV and for video games; self-fueling robots; robots in warfare now and in the near future; robots as smart weapons; robotic fighter jets; educ... (more)
June 17, 2009 Episode
Tom Atwood (Editor-in-Chief of Robot Magazine) is our featured guest.
Topics: the astounding progress being made in all areas of robotics such as: how vacuum cleaning robots are getting improved house-mapping abilities; what's happening in artificial... (more)
June 10, 2009 Episode
Tom Atwood (Editor-in-Chief of Robot Magazine) is our featured guest.
Topics: Robots are in a world-wide boom time. Hundreds of thousands of hobbyists are building robots. Competitive robot events draw Rock-Star-sized crowds and are doubling in ... (more)
June 3, 2009 Episode
James Maxey (author of the Dragon Age fantasy series and Nobody Gets the Girl) is our featured guest.
Topics: trends in medicine and the possibility that cancer may someday become completely curable. Privacy vs life-logging, twitter and the incessant... (more)
May 27, 2009 Episode
James Maxey (author of the Dragon Age fantasy series and Nobody Gets the Girl) is our featured guest.
Topics: the current search for other earths and what effect their discovery might have on people: the demise of circus freaks as professional perfor... (more)
May 20, 2009 Episode
James Maxey (author of the Dragon Age fantasy series and Nobody Gets the Girl) is our featured guest.
Topics: the various ways our modern civilization might come to an end (all the usual suspects along with total economic collapse); disruptive ... (more)
May 13, 2009 Episode
Aliese, a college student, is today's featured guest.
Topics: trends in college in general, as well as in classes, dorm life, students and teachers. Also how personal computers and cell phones improve or degrade the learning experience. As ... (more)
May 6, 2009 Episode
Stephen Euin Cobb is today's featured guest. (This is the second half of the experiment in which the questions I normally pose to others I ask of myself.)
Topics: Why I am an atheist and why I am not an anti-theist; my insistance that there is a rapi... (more)
April 29, 2009 Episode
Stephen Euin Cobb is today's featured guest. (This is an experimental episode in which the questions normally posed to others, I direct at myself.)Topics: My opinion that the earth needs a thermostat. That the days in which the temperature of the ear... (more)
April 22, 2009 Episode
John Ringo (New York Times best selling novelist with over two million books in print) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Smart missiles smaller than insects; military tanks becoming robots; personal headup displays for soldiers; experiments with bra... (more)
April 15, 2009 Episode
John Ringo (New York Times best selling novelist with over two million books in print) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Specific examples of the tens of thousands of robots in use in war right now and how they are transforming the methods and natur... (more)
April 8, 2009 Episode
John Ringo (New York Times best selling novelist with over two million books in print) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Anecdotes about his appearances on TV for Fox News in the years following The 9/11 Attacks; how it is that he is the only person... (more)
April 1, 2009 Episode
Shaun Farrell (writer, actor, and award-winning podcaster) is today's featured guest.
Topics: online publishing verses paper publishing; the rise in small presses; the number of new readers is increasing; fiction sales are increasing; trends in podca... (more)
March 25, 2009 Episode
Shaun Farrell (writer, actor, and award-winning podcaster) is today's featured guest.
Topics: Shaun's interview with Ray Bradbury, and others, such as the actors from Stargate Atlantis: Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett and Jewel Staite (who also play... (more)
March 18, 2009 Episode
David Drake (author of over 60 novels of science fiction and fantasy) is today's featured guest.
Topics include: his opinion of the Amazon Kindle; his improving opinion of the future of electronic publishing; the collapse of the Borders Books Store c... (more)
March 11, 2009 Episode
David Drake (author of over 60 novels of science fiction and fantasy) is today's featured guest.
Topics include: How blatantly morality and ethics must be depicted in fiction, and which self-appointed thought-police will jump on you if you do not toe... (more)
March 4, 2009 Episode
Stefano Vaj (Author, futurist and transhumanism activist) is today's featured guest. (This is the second half of his interview.)
Topics include: The state and health of Transhumanism worldwide; his worry that some people are watering down transhumani... (more)
February 25, 2009 Episode
Stefano Vaj (Author, futurist and transhumanism activist) is today's featured guest. (This is the first half of his interview.)
Topics include: Why transhumanism is taken seriously by the Italian public and the Italian press (as opposed to the A... (more)
February 18, 2009 Episode
Kim Stanley Robinson, the best selling and award-winning science fiction author is today's featured guest.
Topics include: Kim Stanley Robinson describes his reaction to being chosen as Guest of Honor for the 2010 World Science Fiction Convention in ... (more)
February 11, 2009 Episode
Jerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest. (This is the third and final portion of his two-hour long interview.)
Topics today include: Why political debates are not deba... (more)
February 4, 2009 Episode
Jerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest. (This is the second portion of our two-hour interview. The third and final portion will be provided next week.)
Topics today i... (more)
January 28, 2009 Episode
Jerry Pournelle (author, journalist, editor, technology columnist, and military textbook writer) is today's featured guest.
Topics include: Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Larry Niven and other authors he has been friends with; how the downfall of ... (more)
January 21, 2009 Episode
Alan Dean Foster (author of over 100 novels of science fiction and fantasy and noted world traveler) is today's featured guest.
Many of this interview's topics were made possible only because of Alan's longstanding enthusiasm for traveling to places ... (more)
January 14, 2009 Episode
Doctor Bob Boan (scientist and author) is today's featured guest.
Dr. Boan's work has involved US Government space programs for the intelligence departments, but he has also done work for NASA and for commercial communications.
He is coauthor (along ... (more)
January 7, 2009 Episode
Phillis George and Billy George are today's featured guests. Both Phyllis and Billy have worked in banking for many years, however, this interview is NOT about the current bailouts and other well publicized banking debacles. Those thoroughly examined... (more)
December 31, 2008 Episode
Rhonda Leigh Jones (author of erotic romance novels, and just back from a year living in and participating in the Eastern European culture of Romania) is today's featured guest.
Sex, BDSM, and life in Romania verses American are the general topics of... (more)
December 24, 2008 Episode
R.U. Sirius (Editor-In-Chief of the new Transhumanist Magazine called H+ as well as writer, talk show host, and cyberculture icon) is today's featured guest.
R.U. Sirius tells how Timothy Leary (his friend and fellow cyberculture activist) helped him... (more)
December 17, 2008 Episode
R.U. Sirius (writer, editor, talk show host, and cyberculture icon) is today's featured guest.
As Editor-In-Chief of a new magazine called H+ (which is written by transhumanists, for transhumanists) he describes how he was recruited, his goals for it... (more)
December 10, 2008 Episode
Brain Wang (writer, speaker and noted futurist) is today's featured guest.
Biases remain strong, Brian says, within government and the scientific community that have prevented the funding of some nanotechnology projects while promoting others. Brian ... (more)
December 3, 2008 Episode
David Orban (futurist, speaker and business executive) is today's featured guest. This is the second half of his interview. (The first half is in the episode dated October 29, 2008.)
Spimes, some people call them. What are spimes? What are... (more)
November 26, 2008 (No episode, but a progess report.)
I've switched from using the prescription pain medicines to using a maximum dose of Tylenol. I still have to use my left hand for everything but the throbbing pain is gone and only the temporary pains of moving my arm in the numerous ... (more)
November 19, 2008 (No episode, but a progress report.)
My recovery and my therapy are still proceeding well.
I will have to wear the sling and sleep in an easy chair until I see the doctor on December 8. He might let me stop wearing the sling. Although, to be honest, the sling is still very helpful right... (more)
November 12, 2008 (No episode, but a progress report.)
My recovery from surgery (14 days ago on October 29, 2008) is coming along well. My doctor and physical therapist are both pleased with my progress. Though I still take it every six hours, I've reduced my pain medicine to its minimum dose, and I can ... (more)
November 5, 2008 (No episode, but surgery went well)
The surgery on my right shoulder went very well. It was performed seven days ago on October 29, 2008. I am now in physical therapy and on medicines for the pain.
Unfortunately, thanks to the pain of moving my right arm combined with the mental sluggi... (more)
October 29, 2008 Episode
David Orban (futurist, speaker and business executive) is today's featured guest.
The Internet is big and still growing. How it grows and where it grows changes with time. During the next few years one of its massive growth spurts will be into device... (more)
October 22, 2008 Episode
Chris Phoenix (nanotechnology scientist, author and researcher) is today's featured guest. (This is the second half of the interview we started last week.)
Chris Phoenix is the co-founder and Director of Research for CRN (the Center for Responsible N... (more)
October 15, 2008 Episode
Chris Phoenix (nanotechnology scientist, author and researcher) is today's featured guest.
Chris Phoenix is the co-founder and Director of Research for CRN (the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology). He is also a Scientific Advisor for The Nanotechn... (more)
October 8, 2008 Episode
Julie Grimaldi, president of Police Futurists International, is today's featured guest.
The mission of Police Futurists International is to foster excellence in policing by promoting and applying the discipline of Futures Research.
Topics discussed i... (more)
October 1, 2008 Episode
Rudi Hoffman, the world's leading cryonics insurance provider, is today's featured guest.
You can too take it with you! How combining cryonics and insurance can let you leave your million dollar insurance death benefit to yourself. It may allow... (more)
September 24, 2008 Episode
Larry Niven, the award-winning author of Ringworld, The Mote In God's Eye, and many other hard science fiction novels, is our featured guest.
He reveals that Robert A. Heinlein was the secret proofreader for his and Jerry Pournelle's novel The Mote I... (more)
September 17, 2008 Episode
Doctor Adrian Bowyer (inventor of the RepRap machine) is our featured guest.
The RepRap machine is the first machine in all of human history that can make most of its own parts. Not all of them (at least not yet) but most. This means that with a good... (more)
September 10, 2008 Episode
Nick Bostrom (author, lecturer, philosopher at Oxford University, co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association and of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) is today's featured guest.
Topics include: artificial intelligence, t... (more)
September 3, 2008 Episode
Neal Barrett Jr., the award-winning author of over fifty novels of science fiction, fantasy, mystery/suspense, and historical novels, as well as 'off-the-wall' mainstream fiction, is today's featured guest.
In today's interview Neal Barrett Jr... (more)
August 27, 2008 Episode
David Pearce, the British philosopher, activist and co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association, is today's featured guest.
Topics include: Wireheading, recreational drugs, chewing coca leaves for micro-doses of cocaine, the abolition of suffer... (more)
August 20, 2008 Episode
Les Johnson, author, lecturer and NASA scientist, is today's featured guest.
Topics include: one of NASA's advanced electromagnetic propulsion systems which uses no fuel and no rocket engines whatsoever; NASA's near future projects such as the n... (more)
August 13, 2008 Episode
Ben Goertzel, noted scientist, author, futurist and pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence, is today's featured guest. Topics he discusses include: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), the singularity, transhumanism, human immortality and ... (more)
August 6, 2008 Episode
Owner of the BDSM and fetish performance-art theatrical troupe in Charlotte NC called Purgatory, our guest today goes by the name of 'Torch.' Purgatory's live events feature a festival atmosphere, dance music by DJs, and performances of a BDSM and fe... (more)
July 30, 2008 Episode
Catherine Smith (insect genetics lab-tech), Bruce Gehweiler (publisher at Marietta Publishing), Mike McPhail and his wife Danielle Ackley-McPhail (authors), Warren Buff (chairman of the SF&F convention Stellarcon), Shannon Souvinette an... (more)
July 23, 2008 Episode
Authors David B. Coe and Travis Taylor; artist David Mattingly; and convention organizers Uncle Timmy, Brandy Spraker and Derek Spraker are our guests today.
Topics: David Mattingly discusses trends in the digital production of commercial art.... (more)
July 16, 2008 Episode
Harry Turtledove, David B. Coe, and Toni Weisskopf are our featured guests today. Interviewed as a group and recorded before a live audience, they discuss the future of books and the trends they see in publishing.
In the process of sharing their vis... (more)
July 9, 2008 Episode
Mark Forman, who has lived and worked in Taiwan for over twenty years and is host of the podcast Big in Asia, is our featured guest. (His websites: business, personal, podcast.)
An eye-witness to the trends which are shaping Asia's rapidly ... (more)
July 2, 2008 Episode
Kevin J. Anderson, the best selling science fiction and fantasy author, is our guest today. (His website.)
Co-author of the Dune prequels, his original works include the Saga of Seven Suns series and the Nebula Award-nominated Assemblers of Inf... (more)
June 25, 2008 Episode
Catherine Asaro, physicist and Nebula award winning author, is our featured guest. (Her website) She discuses nanotech, biotech, artificial intelligence and the singularity. She also describes her expectations concerning aging and longevity, oil... (more)
June 18, 2008 Episode
Authors Robert V. Aldrich, Michael D'Ambrosio and Steve Cross are our featured guests today. Recorded on location at ConCarolinas (web): the science fiction and fantasy convention held a few weeks ago in Charlotte NC.Robert V. Aldrich (web) (author o... (more)
June 11, 2008 Episode
Professor Amy H. Sturgis is our featured guest. She talks about many of the trends she sees in colleges in general, and the increasing scholarly studies of science fiction and fantasy literature and media in particular. She also mentions her wo... (more)
June 4, 2008 Episode
Gary Jones (from the TV shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis) is joined by the authors Mike Resnick and David B. Coe, and the editor of Orson Scott Card's online magazine, Edmund R. Schubert. Recorded at the science fiction and fantasy conventio... (more)
May 28, 2008 Episode
Two Radio DJs, each from a different part of the country and having traveled a different career path, describe the trends which are forcing commercial radio to change from what it once was into what it is yet to become.Kelly Lockhart (website) starte... (more)
May 21, 2008 Episode
Five professional artists discuss the trends in the popular arts, including comics, Muppets, childrenâs book illustrations, commercial art and movie animation (both hand-drawn and CGI) and much, much more. Each artist shares anecdotes from their expe... (more)
May 14, 2008 Episode
Paul Fischer, Information Technology professional and one of podcastingâs pioneers, is our guest today. The team of Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway are widely known for their Balticon Podcast and A.D.D. Podcast.In this interview Paul describes:How c... (more)
May 7, 2008 Episode
Katherine Kurtz, the best selling author of many fantasy novels including those in her Deryni Series, is our featured guest, in an interview recorded at the science fiction and fantasy convention, RavenCon in Richmond Virginia.In this interview Kathe... (more)
April 30, 2008 Episode
Authors C.J. Henderson, Allen Wold and Michael Ventrella are joined by Thomas cmdln Gideon (digital media activist and host of The Command Line podcast), The Wombat (RavenCon's Fan Guest of Honor back in 2007), as well as Bill Mann, Tera Fulbright an... (more)
April 23, 2008 Episode
David Brin, fresh from a personal appearance inside the virtual world of Second Life, is our featured guest. The best selling science fiction author, scientist and public speaker, expands on the ideas he presented there and describes his impression o... (more)
April 16, 2008 Episode
Randal L. Schwartz, the widely known computer programmer and programming consultant, is our featured guest today.Randal has acquired a level of renown through his longstanding work in popularizing and promoting the programming language called Perl. H... (more)
April 9, 2008 Episode
Greg Bear, the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of more than thirty books of science fiction and fantasy, is our featured guest today.Greg Bear has served on political and scientific action committees and has advised Microsoft Corporation, the U.... (more)
April 2, 2008 Episode
Dr. Gregory L. Matloff, astronomer and author of six popular books on astronomy and astronautics, is our featured guest. His latest book, Living Off the Land in Space, was co-authored with NASAâs Les Johnson and Brooklyn artist C Bangs.Future and cur... (more)
March 26, 2008 Episode
Kim Stanley Robinson, the best selling and award-winning science fiction author is our featured guest. Probably best known for his Mars trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars); his other novels include: Fifty Degrees Below, Forty Signs of Rain, ... (more)
March 19, 2008 Episode
Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google (yes, THE Google) is our featured guest today.Peter is co-author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, the leading textbook in the field of AI. He has written more than fifty publications in the c... (more)
March 12, 2008 Episode
David B. Coe the award-winning, and critically acclaimed, author of nine fantasy novels (some of which have been translated into no less than six languages, including Russian, German, Dutch, and French) is our featured guest today.David has a doctora... (more)
March 5, 2008 Episode
Michael Anissimov, the well known futurist, blogger and transhumanism activist is today's featured guest.Michael talks about many future-oriented topics such as: transhumanism and the singularity; cryonics and Paris Hilton; solar power verses nuclear... (more)
February 27, 2008 Episode
Philippe Van Nedervelde, international spokesperson for the Lifeboat Foundation, is today's featured guest. (He is also Executive Director for the Foresight Nanotech Institute in Europe, and a Global Task Force Member for the Center for Responsible N... (more)
February 20, 2008 Episode
Giulio Prisco (futurist, scientist, corporate consultant and until recently the Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association) is today's featured guest. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technol... (more)
February 13, 2008 Episode
Catherine Asaro, scientist and Nebula award winning author, is our featured guest; while Glen Walkerson who writes tech-manuals for the F-16 fighter jet provides a brief bonus interview.Catherine Asaro describes her thoughts on the rise of nanotechno... (more)
February 6, 2008 Episode
Paul Levinson (author, media commentator and professor) shares his ideas concerning nanotechnology, SETI, the Fermi Paradox, the probability and impact of our finding another Earth, and the impacts already made upon society by PayPal and eBay. He als... (more)
January 30, 2008 Episode
Eric Flint, best selling author of more than 25 novels of science fiction and fantasy, as well as editor-in-chief of the online science fiction and fantasy magazine Jim Baen's Universe, is this week's featured interview.In a rare interview recorded i... (more)
January 23, 2008 Episode
George Dvorsky, executive editor of betterhumans.com, is this week's featured interview. Betterhumans.com is a webzine with News, Articles, and interactive features serving the transhumanist community. George Dvorsky is also the co-founder and presid... (more)
January 16, 2008 Episode
Matt Browne, an IT professional living in Frankfurt Germany, is this week's featured interview. With a Masters degree in Computer Science and Computational Linguistics, Matt Browne has been involved in projects developing natural language processing ... (more)
January 9, 2008 Episode
Timothy Zahn, the bestselling author, is this week's featured guest. Possibly best known for his Thrawn Trilogy, which is a series of Star Wars novels set in the time after the movie Return of the Jedi.Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the Ja... (more)
January 1, 2008 Episode
Jack McDevitt, the best selling author, kicks off the show's new weekly format. Each weekly episode will feature a single guest interviewed in greater depth than ever before possible.Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 1, 2008 episode of... (more)
December 1, 2007 Episode
Authors Timothy Zahn and Kevin J. Anderson are joined by Professor Paul Levinson (media commentator), as well as by Stoney Compton and Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the December 1, 2007 episode of The Future And Yo... (more)
November 1, 2007 Episode
Authors Kevin J. Anderson and Doctor Aubrey de Grey are joined by professional comedian Grant Baciocco as well as Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes and Stoney Compton. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the November 1, 2007 episode of The Future An... (more)
October 1, 2007 Episode
Senator, and presidential candidate, John McCain is joined by Jack McDevitt, Eric Flint, Doctor Aubrey de Grey, Alethea Kontis, Stoney Compton and Walt The Bananaslug Boyes. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the October 1, 2007 episode of The Futu... (more)
September 1, 2007 Episode
Authors Jack McDevitt, Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton are joined by Uncle Timmy (chairman of LibertyCon) and Walt, The Bananaslug, Boyes from Jim Baen's Universe magazine. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the September ... (more)
August 1, 2007 Episode
Authors Catherine Asaro, Hildy Silverman, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton are joined by editor Paula Goodlett from Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the August 1, 2007 episode of The Future And You. [Running tim... (more)
July 1, 2007 Episode
Battlestar Galactica cast member Bodie Olmos (son of Edward James Olmos and grandson of Howard Keel) is joined by the authors Robert Buettner, Mike Resnick, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton, as well as by Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes from Jim Bae... (more)
June 1, 2007 Episode
Authors Robert J. Sawyer, Mike Resnick, David B. Coe, Edmund Schubert, Randal L. Schwartz and Stoney Compton are joined by Walt (The Bananaslug) Boyes and Davey Beauchamps. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the June 1, 2007 episode of The Future A... (more)
May 1, 2007 Episode
Authors Mike Resnick, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Bear, Dave Freer, Paul Levinson and Stoney Compton are joined by Randal L. Schwartz (programming consultant and activist) and Walt (the Bananaslug) Boyes of Jim Baen's Universe magazine. Hosted by... (more)
April 1, 2007 Episode
Authors David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Dave Freer, Paul Levinson and Stoney Compton are joined by Ginjer Buchanan (of Ace and ROC books), Lucienne Diver (a top literary agent) and Walt Boyes (The Bananaslug from Jim Baen's Universe magazine). Hosted ... (more)
March 1, 2007 Episode
Authors John Barnes, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Bear, L.E. Modesitt, Jr. and Stoney Compton are joined by Ginjer Buchanan (of ACE and ROC Books), Walt Boyes (JBU's own Bananaslug) and Ricki Dean (Manager of a High School cafeteria). Hosted by St... (more)
February 1, 2007 Episode
Authors Elizabeth Bear, Walter Jon Williams and L.E. Modesitt Jr. are joined by Toni Weisskopf (the head of Baen Books), Ginjer Buchanan (from ACE and ROC books), Scott Dean (mayor of Harlem GA) and Bananaslug and Stoney (from Jim Baen's Universe mag... (more)
January 1, 2007 Episode
Authors Kim Stanley Robinson, David B. Coe, Jay Lake, Catherine Asaro and Sarah A. Hoyt are joined by John R. Douglas (from scifipedia.scifi.com) and Bananaslug and Stoney (from Jim Baen's Universe magazine). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the ... (more)
December 1, 2006 Episode
Authors Eric Flint, Mike Resnick, David B. Coe, Marjorie M. Liu, Catherine Asaro and Sarah A. Hoyt are guests, as are: Lucienne Diver (a major literary agent), Toni Weisskopf (the new head of Baen Books) and Walt Boyes (the soon to be famous Bananasl... (more)
November 1, 2006 Episode
Authors Catherine Asaro, Kim Stanley Robinson, Alan Dean Foster and Sarah A. Hoyt are joined by Toni Weisskopf (the new head of Baen Books) and Paul Levinson (author, professor and media commentator). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the November... (more)
October 1, 2006 Episode
Authors Kim Stanley Robinson, Alan Dean Foster, Sarah A. Hoyt and Stephen L. Antczak are joined by Tony V. Baughman (newspaper reporter) and Peter Stampfel (longtime editor, musician and bottle cap collector). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the... (more)
September 1, 2006 Episode
Authors Alan Dean Foster, David Drake, Sarah A. Hoyt, Stephen L. Antczak and Doctor Travis S. Taylor are joined by Peter Stampfel, a professional editor and performing musician. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the September 1st, 2006 episode of ... (more)
August 1, 2006 Episode
Authors Alan Dean Foster, Spider and Jeanne Robinson, David Drake and John Ringo are joined by Doctor Travis S. Taylor (rising author and noted scientist) and Peter Stampfel (professional editor and performing musician). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, ... (more)
July 1, 2006 Episode
Authors David Drake, John Ringo and Jeanne Robinson are among the guests, as are Peter Stampfel (associate editor at DAW books), Doctor Travis S. Taylor (scientist, author and discoverer of two exoplanets) and a few very brief comments by Spider Robi... (more)
June 1, 2006 Episode
Authors David Drake, John Ringo and Joe Haldeman are featured guests; as are Peter Stampfel (Editor at DAW Books) and three professional models: Aria Giovanni, Aimee Sweet and Linda Tran. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the June 1, 2006 episode ... (more)
May 1, 2006 Episode
Authors Greg Bear, Vernor Vinge, Spider Robinson and Nancy Kress are joined by this year's winner of the Phillip K. Dick Award, M.M. Buckner; and the actress Lydia Cornell who played Ted Knight's daughter, Sara Rush, on the TV comedy Too Close for Co... (more)
April 8, 2006 Episode
Authors Vernor Vinge, Greg Bear and Spider Robinson are joined by the astronomer Doctor Greg Matloff and the actor Jordan Marder from American History X, Virtuosity and LA Confidential. Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the April 8, 2006 episode o... (more)
March 25, 2006 Episode
SF authors Greg Bear, Spider Robinson and Nancy Kress are among the guests; as are experts in robotics, demographics and nanotechnology; along with the actor Michael Berryman, who may be best known as the star of Wes Craven's original version of the ... (more)
March 11, 2006 Episode
SF authors David Brin, Spider Robinson, Nancy Kress and Joe Haldeman are guests; as are Mike Treder (on nanotechnology), David Pascal (on cryonics) and from Red Dwarf (the award winning British science fiction TV comedy series) a celebrity interview ... (more)
February 25, 2006 Episode
SF authors Spider Robinson and David Brin are among the guests; as are a mayor, the head of a nanotechnology organization, the legendary science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein (but only very briefly), and the TV star Erin Gray from Buck Rogers in ... (more)
February 11, 2006 Episode
SF authors David Brin and Joe Haldeman are among the guests, along with: the head of a nanotech org, a marketing consultant, a cryonic insurance provider, and the actress Robin Curtis, who played a Vulcan Starfleet officer in two Star Trek movies.
H... (more)
January 28, 2006 Episode
SF authors Nancy Kress and Joe Haldeman are among the guests, as are: an astronomer, a recording label executive, a transhumanist, a cryonics insurance provider, two teenaged girls, and Pugsley and Wednesday from the beloved TV show The Addams Family... (more)
January 15, 2006 Episode
SF authors Joe Haldeman and Nancy Kress, a transhumanist, a physicist, and Jason's mother from Friday The 13th are amoung the guests.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 15, 2006 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 79 minutes]... (more)
January 1, 2006 Episode
SF author Nancy Kress, a cryonic insurance provider, an astronomer, and an actor from Star Trek and Sliders are amoung the guests.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the January 1, 2006 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 68 minutes]&nbs... (more)
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December 15, 2005 Episode
SF author M.M.Buckner, an astronomer, a cryonic insurance provider, an actor from StarGate SG-1, and a dealer in antiques and fine art are amoung the guests.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the December 15, 2005 episode of The Future And You. [... (more)
