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  1. Imagining the future - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    You could argue that imagining the future involves one part research, one part speculation and one part fanciful thinking.

    In this show:
    Alex McDowell, the film designer behind the cult sci-fi hit Minority Report, worries that sometimes we’re too practical in our conjecturing about what lies before us. He argues that an embrace of narrative storytelling can help us understand the possibilities ahead.

    Dr Maurie Cohen makes a contentious argument that the United States—the world’s great innovator—has lost its ability to look forward.

    Professor Jerry Lockenour at the University of Southern California explains why he uses an old LA Times article to help his students understand the concept of the future.

    And Professor Naomi Oreskes talks about blending sci-fi and history to craft an academic journal paper that deals with future worries about climate change.

    Guests:
    Jerry Lockenour, Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering.

    Dr Maurie Cohen, Director of the Science, Technology and Society Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Associate Fellow of the Tellus Institute.

    Alex McDowell, Joint Associate Professor in the Interactive Media, Production, and Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) divisions at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. Creative Director of the World Building Media Lab and the 5D Institute.

    Naomi Oreskes, Professor of History and Science Studies at the University of Southern California, San Diego and Adjunct Professor of Geo-Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

    Further Information:
    Maurie Cohen’s profile (http://chemistry.njit.edu/people/cohen.php)
    Jerry Lockenour’s profile (http://ame-www.usc.edu/personnel/adjfac/lockenour/)
    LA Times article on Jerry Lockenour’s project (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/14/local/la-me-future-city-20130314)
    1988 LA Times article on life in 2013 (http://documents.latimes.com/la-2013/)
    Alex McDowell’s Profile (http://5dinstitute.org/people/alex-mcdowell)
    5D Institute (http://5dinstitute.org/)
    New Yorker article on 5D Institute’s Science of Fiction conference (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/5d-science-of-fiction-conference-futurist-ideas.html)
    Naomi Oreskes Profile (http://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/oreskes-naomi.html)
    Chronicle of Higher Education article on Naomi Oreskes paper (http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/historians-dabbling-in-science-fiction-evoke-a-climate-collapse/32517)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/imagining-the-future/4731712

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  2. This Is Interesting Podcast: Will Google and Facebook Destroy the Middle Class?

    Jaron Lanier is one of the most interesting minds you’re ever likely to come across – flat out.

    He’s off the charts smart. He’s articulate. He’s a polymath, a computer science guru, and he’s a man with seriously unconventional hair, as this New Yorker profile from 2011 shows.

    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_kahn

    And he’s worried the Internet, as it works today, could gut the middle class.

    Who is he to make such predictions? Well, Jaron helped create virtual reality in the 1980s and 1990s and he’s still active in any number of high-tech ventures, including a part-time role as a research scientist at Microsoft. He’s advised governments and helped launch successful start-ups.

    And, yet, Jaron has become the most authoritative critic of the today’s technologist culture and Internet business models. He fears the current architecture of digital networks will leave the middle class poorer, despite promises to the contrary.

    I first met Jaron after his first book, “You Are Not A Gadget,” came out. In it, he offered his early thinking on the Internet and what’s wrong with where it was headed. I had him on when I guest hosted on MSNBC and he also appeared once on “Left Right & Center” to talk tech news. His new book, “Who Owns The Future,” is a brilliant critique of today’s emerging internet economy, and offers Jaron’s vision of a “humanistic information economy” that could capture the benefits of this wondrous digital world while at the same time preserving an economy in which human dignity – and middle class incomes – flourish.

    You won’t get more outside the box than Jaron Lanier – but that’s exactly where we must go to find out how to cope with what’s coming. He’ll be the first to admit that his vision isn’t fully formed, but he’s trying to spark a national and global conversation. I hope you’ll find him as fascinating, provocative, and important as I find him.

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  3. Stranger Than Fiction: Kim Stanley Robinson

    This week, Tim speaks with Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy and 2312. In Slate last year, Choire Sicha of the Awl wrote that 2312 “is his boldest trip into all of the marvelous SF genres—ethnography, future shock, screed against capitalism, road to earth—and all of the ways to thrill and be thrilled. It’s a future history that’s so secure and comprehensive that it reads as an account of the past—a trick of craft that belongs almost exclusively to the supreme SF task force of Le Guin and Margaret Atwood.”

    In the episode, Robinson talks to Tim about the politics of science fiction, how robots have historically represented wage workers, and why we need to right Earth before we head to Mars.

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  4. Start the Week - Eric Schmidt, James Ball, Honor Harger, David Spiegelhalter - 27th May 2013

    Emily Maitlis discusses the digital future with Google head Eric Schmidt; data journalist James Ball; curator Honor Harger; and risk expert David Spiegelhalter.

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  5. RSA - Time Reborn: a new theory of time - a new view of the world

    Time Reborn: a new theory of time - a new view of the world
    21st May 2013; (full recording including audience Q&A)

    Throughout history, the idea that time is an illusion and that the laws of physics are fixed or ‘eternal’ has been a religious, philosophical and scientific commonplace. In Time Reborn: the Crisis of Physics and the Future of the Universe, Lee Smolin proposes a radically new hypothesis: that the laws of physics are not fixed, but that they evolve, in real time. This spectacular shift of viewpoint, forced on him by the logic of physics and philosophy, suggests that time and our experience of it passing is truly real. All the laws and everything else evolves within it.

    This hypothesis not only opens up the possibility of resolving some of the big open issues in physics today, such as the nature of the quantum world and its unification with spacetime and cosmology. It also places profound importance on human agency, on how our social, political, economic and environmental choices directly affect the range of possible outcomes for the future of this planet.

    Smolin argues that through consilience in the natural, social and political sciences around the concept that time is real and the future is open, we can summon the imaginative power to invent the communion of political organizations, technology and natural processes essential if we are to thrive sustainably beyond this century.

    Panel:
    Professor Lee Smolin, researcher, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and adjunct professor of Physics , University of Waterloo
    Professor A C Grayling, philosopher, Master of New College of the Humanities, London
    Dr Gillian Tett, author, and assistant editor, Financial Times

    Chair: Bronwen Maddox, editor and chief executive, Prospect Magazine

    http://www.thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2013/time-reborn-a-new-theory-of-time-a-new-view-of-the-world

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  6. The big picture on big data - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Endless media releases extol the virtues of big data. Business and government are meant to embrace it. But exactly what is big data? Is it as useful as we’€™re told and will it really govern our future?

    Guests:
    Kate Crawford, Visiting Professor at the MIT Centre for Civic Media and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research.

    Robert Hillard, Partner at Deloitte Enterprise Information Management, National Leader of Technology Consulting & author of the ‘Information Driven Business’.

    Paul Cooper, Director of Emerging Solutions, SMS Management & Technology.

    Dr Ian Opperman, Director, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship at the CSIRO.

    Further Information:
    Harvard Business Review article on ‘the hidden biases in big data’ (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/04/the_hidden_biases_in_big_data.html)
    Kate Crawford’s website (http://www.katecrawford.net/)
    Australian Information Industry Association’s Big Data Summit (http://www.aiia.com.au/?page=BigDataSummit)
    Robert Hillard’s Profile (http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_AU/au/services/consulting/f4c117077fbd2310VgnVCM1000001a56f00aRCRD.htm)
    Paul Cooper’s SMS Management & Technology Blog (http://www.smsmt.com/Social/Blog/Paul-Cooper)
    Ian Opperman’s profile (http://www.csiro.au/en/Outcomes/ICT-and-Services/IanOppermann.aspx)
    Australian Government Big Data Strategy Issues Paper (http://agimo.gov.au/2013/04/18/response-to-big-data-strategy-issues-paper/)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-big-picture-on-big-data/4673946

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  7. Movies that play with the future - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Groundhog Day was billed as a screwball romantic comedy when it was first released in 1993. Twenty years on, it’s now being described as a ‘profound work of metaphysics’. To us, it’s a film with an interesting cut on the future. Groundhog Day’s screenwriter Danny Rubin is among our guests as we look at a clutch of films that deal with futuristic themes in surprising, and sometimes unexpected, ways.

    Guests:
    Danny Rubin, Screenwriter of ‘Groundhog Day’ and Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on Screenwriting at Harvard University.

    Mike Jones, Screenwriter, novelist, creative developer & producer. Lecturer in Screen Studies, Australian Film Television and Radio School.

    Lauren Rosewarne, Writer, commentator and Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

    Richard Watson, Futurist and co-author of ‘Future Vision: scenarios for the world in 2040’.

    Further Information:
    Danny Rubin’s website (http://www.dannyrubin.com/)
    Mike Jones’s website (http://www.mikejones.tv/)
    Lauren Rosewarne’s website (http://www.laurenrosewarne.com/)
    Richard Watson’s website (http://www.nowandnext.com/?action=misc&subaction=who_is)
    Atlantic Magazine article on Groundhog Day (http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/03/reliving-groundhog-day/309223/)
    Guardian article on Groundhog Day (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/07/groundhog-day-perfect-comedy-for-ever)
    Wikipedia entry on ‘Another Earth’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Earth)
    Wikipedia entry on ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind)
    Wikipedia entry on ‘Dr Strangelove’ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/movies-that-play-with-the-future/4645686

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  8. Neal Stephenson on Stranger Than Fiction

    Welcome to Stranger Than Fiction, a new six-episode podcast from Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University. Each week, Tim Wu—a Future Tense fellow at New America, the author of The Master Switch, and a professor at Columbia Law School—talks to a contemporary science fiction writer about whether we’re living in the future.

    In the debut episode, Wu talks to Neal Stephenson, the award-winning science fiction author of Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, and more. They discuss the purpose of science fiction, geek culture, and whether—contrary to our constant hand-wringing about “everything changing so fast”—innovation has really slowed down.

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  9. The Proto-hackers - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Hacking didn’t start with the computer age. Back in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s geeks got their kicks from tapping into the phone lines. They called it Phone Phreaking. It was sometimes activism and sometimes straightforward mischief. Either way, author Phil Lapsley believes they laid the foundations for our current attitude toward technology.

    Guests:
    Phil Lapsley, Author of Exploding The Phone, a book on ‘Phone Phreaking’.

    Publications:
    Title: Exploding The Phone
    Author: Phil Lapsley
    Publisher: Grove / Atlantic Press

    Further Information:
    Exploding The Phone website (http://explodingthephone.com/index.php)
    PDF Article on Phone Phreaking in Australia (http://explodingthephone.com/docs/dbx0186.pdf)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/the-proto-hackers/4618110

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  10. Douglas Rushkoff and Present Shock - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Renowned US media theorist Douglas Rushkoff argues we now live in a state of ‘Present Shock’ where we’ve lost our understanding of time; and where our sense of what the future should and could be has been seriously diminished. He explains the cause and symptoms of ‘Present Shock’.

    Guests:
    Douglas Rushkoff, Media theorist and author of ‘Present Shock’.

    Publications:
    Title: Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
    Author: Douglas Rushkoff
    Publisher: Current Hardcover

    Further Information:
    Douglas Rushkoff’s Website (http://www.rushkoff.com/present-shock/)
    Wall Street Journal Excerpt of "Present Shock’ (http://www.rushkoff.com/blog/2013/3/14/wall-street-journal-adaptation-from-present-shock.html)
    2011 Future Tense Interview with Douglas Rushkoff (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/douglas-rushkoff-and-program-or-be-programmed/3001884)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/douglas-rushkoff-and-present-shock/4631768

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