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Celebrating four years of discussing the future we will all live through with authors, researchers, celebrities, technophiles and futurists; The Future and You still makes its every episode universally available for free download—all the way back to its very first.
Baen Books and its authors have figured prominently in the history of this show. Of the more than one hundred guests The Future and You has had since 2005, at least seventeen were Baen authors, and an additional three were writers or editors with Jim Baen’s Universe Magazine. Toni Weisskopf herself has been interviewed on the show no less than four times.
This four year anniversary for The Future and You is a good time for me, as host, to thank everyone at Jim Baen’s Universe Magazine for the opportunity to be a part of such an excellent and history-making publication. I appreciate the help and encouragement everyone has given me so freely. I’ve made a lot of good friends here at Baen. And I treasure you all.
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Steve
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Recent Guests
Andrew Hessel (co-founder of the Pink Army Cooperative) is a consulting biologist, author and speaker working to raise awareness about the potential benefits of synthetic biology and the use of open source methods for writing DNA code for genome engineering of cancer therapeutics. His efforts have been supported by the University of Oklahoma, the University of Toronto, MIT, and most recently, the Alberta Ingenuity Fund.
Doctor Gregory L. Matloff is an astronomer, author and assistant professor of physics at New York City College of Technology. Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel (his 2008 book with Les Johnson and Italian researcher Dr. Giovanni Vulpetti) received an excellent review in Nature.
C Bangs is a professional artist and author who’s had many showings of her work in art galleries in New York and Europe.
Uncle Timmy (Tim Bolgeo) is an electrical engineer retired from the Tennessee Valley Authority. He is also the founder and chairman of LibertyCon—the SF&F convention in Chattanooga TN.
Robert G. Kennedy is an author and engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tom Trumpinski (formerly of Fermi Lab) is a physical chemist and science writer.
Daniel M. Hoyt is a computer programmer in the field of rocket science, and a science fiction writer. (He is also hubby to the author Sarah A. Hoyt.)
Kenneth I. Roy is an author and engineer with the US Department of Energy.
Aaron Franz and Carlos A. Mejia (of TransAlchemy.com) are anti-transhumanism activists who have joined forces to create a documentary explaining the potential negative effects of transhumanism on the future of civilization in general, and on our individual lives in particular.
Keith Comito is a mathematician, programmer and founder of OmegaSoft which produces games and apps for the iPhone.
Peter Nygard is a fashion designer who's clothing, accessories and home fashions can be found in Sears, Dillard's and countless other department stores around the world. Enjoying a long and prosperous career, he owns a private island in the Bahamas called Nygard Key where he built a resort style mansion with a staff of 20. His private jet is a 133 feet long 727. He is friend to presidents, prime ministers, and celebrities from within every media—TV, movies, music and print.
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Recent Topics
Human Augmentation—such as wiring the Internet directly into the human mind.
New medicines intended to extend human longevity.
Why California has more energy problems than any other state in the USA, and how California's energy follies have damaged its neighbor states such as Oregon and Washington.
iPhone apps—such as the one which mimics an AI.
Michelle Phan, who has become a celebrity on YouTube for her video makeup tutorials.
Ending global warming by placing the regulation of the earth's temperature under direct human control.
Why making fuel out of food may be the dumbest idea the US has ever pursued.
How open source techniques may develop new drugs faster, cheaper, better—and targeted for patients individually.
Amazon's Kindle, and why the rise of ebooks will mean the inevitable fall of the giant chain book stores.
Why the US has not been building nuclear power plants even though France now uses them to generate almost 80% of its electricity; so much that France frequently exports electricity to its neighboring nations.
Why Luddism may become popular, maybe even trendy.
The fears of TransAlchemy.com (a documentary production company created to warn people of the dangers of transhumanism and human augmentation).
The federal energy planning model which insists that oil will deflate in price by almost 2% per year for the next 30 years.
The troubles facing America's power plants and electrical grid.
The Fermi paradox.
How technology has transformed the fashion industry.
Other topics include: human life expectancy, artificial intelligence, the Internet, cell phones, voice recognition, augmentations of the human body and mind, the Singularity, cleaning robots, and why movie theaters will remain popular even though we'll get a better seat, sound and image in our home theaters.
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Stephen Euin Cobb is a Hard SF author, futurist and the host of the award-winning podcast "The Future And You." He is also an artist, essayist and transhumanist.
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