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The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future

A thrilling and often-surprising journey of discovery through the world of emerging technologies, and the challenges of getting them right. Based on the book Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies, and read by the author Andrew Maynard For more on the book, visit https://andrewmaynard.net/films-from-the-future/
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Riding the Wave of Climate Change: The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 12
Listen now (52 mins) | Exploring environmental dynamism, human fragility, resiliency, and the pros and cons of geoengineering — all through the lens of…
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Andrew Maynard
Weaponizing the Genome: The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 11
Listen now (51 mins) | How can the movie Inferno inform how we think of bioengineering viruses, science-activism, and informing decision-making around…
Living in a Material World: The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 10
Listen now (57 mins) | This week: Nanotechnology, the dangers of well-meaning but blinkered science, and the importance of public and stakeholder…
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Andrew Maynard
Welcome to the Singularity: The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 9
Listen now (71 mins) | This week the Moviegoer's Guide to the Future podcast covers everything from the technological singularity to Neo-Luddites as it…
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Andrew Maynard
AI and the Art of Manipulation: The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 8
Listen now (65 mins) | This week the Moviegoer's Guide to the Future podcast takes a deep and, I suspect, unexpected, dive into artificial intelligence…
Being Human in an Augmented Future. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 7
Listen now (63 mins) | This week the Moviegoer's Guide to the Future podcast explores body hacking, human augmentation, and brain-machine interfaces, as…
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Andrew Maynard
Social Inequity in an Age of Technological Extremes. The Moviegoer's Guide to the Future Episode 6
Listen now (48 mins) | This week the Moviegoer's Guide to the Future podcast uses the 2013 movie Elysium to explore technological inequity, the…
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Andrew Maynard
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