Jim Baen's Universe

April 2010 Full Story

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Frederik Pohl (who turned 90 last November) and Gregory Benford (a mere child of 69) each spent an hour sharing their thoughts of the future, memories of the past, and surprising anecdotes of the humble beginnings of their famous and celebrated friends.

What to Expect in the Next Ten Years Full Story

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Here follows a sampling of changes you will likely see during the next ten years.

February 2010 Full Story

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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.

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Singularity? Full Story

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Artificial intelligence is a highly controversial topic for professional futurists.

The Future Unemployment Crisis Full Story

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Technological innovations create jobs.

December 2009 Full Story

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How today you can add telomeres to the ends of your chromosomes which may extend your youth by several decades, how today you can sequence your DNA and keep the data private on a thumbdrive, and how today some are striving to ensure that our future AI will be “friendly.”

October 2009 Full Story

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NASA, NIH, USDA and South Korean insiders each answer questions about the trends they see going on around them and what kind of future this will bring to us all.

We Will Transmute the Elements Full Story

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There was a time, in humanity’s dim past, before the invention of cooking, when our ability to produce a chemical reaction was limited almost exclusively to fire.

August 2009 Full Story

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Ben Bova, a South Korean diplomat, the President of the World Future Society, a former director of the world Transhumanist Association, and a mixed bag of authors, scientists and futurists.

Two Steps Toward General AI Full Story

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People are not comfortable spending time with someone who refuses to speak.

The Future of the War Between the Sexes Full Story

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Because human beings are social creatures they have a highly-developed ability to observe tiny variations in personality, and so they perceive the long clichéd personality differences between their sexes to be large.

June 2009 Full Story

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John Ringo's memories of grade school in Iran; how David Drake and Jim Baen helped Newt Gingrich write the WWII thriller 1945; smart missiles smaller than insects; military tanks becoming robots; and the collapse of the Borders book store chain just before the current economic down turn. It’s been another fascinating round of interviews.

April 2009 Full Story

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Asking Jerry Pournelle to be Guest of Honor for DeepSouthCon in 2010; interviewing Peter S. Beagle for Space and Time Magazine; being granted press credentials for WorldFuture 2009 in Chicago (a convention for professional futurists), writing articles for H+ Magazine; and being recruited to write a column for Grim Couture—a new publication inside Second Life. I’ve been a busy little bee.

The Other Singularity: The Singularity of Connectedness Full Story

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Many people do not believe there will ever be a Technological Singularity.

Five Famous Authors do Public Appearances in Second Life Full Story

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“I really enjoyed my appearance in Second Life,” Robert J. Sawyer said, “and I mean that both literally and figuratively. Literally, my appearance was buff, with muscles and hair, the former of which I've never had much of and the latter of which has long been gone. Figuratively, the appearance was a blast: I was there to talk about my novel Rollback, which, in its way, is a transhumanist/extropian novel—about radical life extension. So, I was preaching to the converted, and they were a very friendly lot.”

January 2009 Full Story

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Alan Dean Foster, Jerry Pournelle and the Italian transhumanist, Stefano Vaj: interviewing brilliant and fascinating people is a good way to return to normalcy after shoulder surgery put my right arm (my computer-mouse arm) out of commission for the entire month of November 2008.

August 2008 Full Story

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Being master of ceremonies at LibertyCon, helping to found a new international organization, awarding trophies at a tournament, dancing at a rezday party, and becoming addicted to World of Warcraft.

Transhumanism's Universal Success is Unavoidable Full Story

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Every goal of transhumanism will be achieved.

The Coming Popularity and Power of Luddism Full Story

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Once upon a time a man got laid off from his job.

June 2008 Full Story

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If you’ve been listening to the show, you know the last two months have been filled with many wonderful surprises.

April 2008 Full Story

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Earth's Next Schism Full Story

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A schism has formed inside the virtual world called Second Life.

February 2008 Full Story

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What I’ve Learned Interviewing Futurists Full Story

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Two years of asking people for their expectations about the future has radically changed my view of what is to come.

Your Medical Care in the Coming Three Decades Full Story

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December 2007 Full Story

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October 2007 Full Story

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The Future And You is an award-winning audio podcast about the future which may be downloaded and enjoyed, or even copied and shared, for free. Every episode contains numerous interviews which reveal a wide variety of ideas and opinion about the future from a wide variety of people.

Why Do So Many People Resist the Idea of Global Warming? Full Story

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I think I have the answer.

August 2007 Full Story

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The Future And You is an award-winning audio podcast about the future which may be downloaded and enjoyed, or even copied and shared, for free.

The Perpetual Electron Full Story

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Many of the articles this humble author writes must be considered speculative. The goal of speculation is to generate new ideas, new visions and new interpretations of what is and what might be.

Fifteen Ways Cheap Solar Cells are going to Change the World Full Story

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The Future And You, June 2007 Full Story

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My Father's Watch Full Story

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If you thumb through a new and freshly printed physics textbook from any university on Earth, you will be looking at the culmination of centuries of careful work by thousands of dedicated scientists; such a book is a treasure beyond description, easily comparable to the lost library of Alexandria.

The Future And You, April 2007 Full Story

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Listen as David Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Dave Freer, Ginjer Buchanan, Paul Levinson and Lucienne Diver describe many of the technological and social changes which will alter your life during the next few years.

The Future and You February 2007 Full Story

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Listen as Elizabeth Bear, Toni Weisskopf, Walter Jon Williams, Ginjer Buchanan and L.E. Modesitt describe many of the technological and social changes which will alter your life during the next few years.

The Universal Diagram Full Story

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Occasionally, important advances in scientific understanding are made not by gathering more or better data, or by developing a new and radical theory, but by simply experimenting with a new way of displaying the data that everyone has already examined to their satisfaction.

The Future and You December 2006 Full Story

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I am pleased to announce that your beloved online magazine, Jim Baen's Universe, has teamed with the award-winning podcast The Future And You, in an effort to benefit the patrons of both.

The Essay with No Title (until its end) Full Story

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Based on what we have seen of the rise of life on our planet, one can extrapolate that there are three basic needs for life to develop elsewhere in the universe.