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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. 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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  3. The most important innovation challenge we face - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Energy production is arguably the biggest and most urgent problem we face. Despite this, the world seems welded to the old technology of burning carbon-based fuel to satisfy our energy needs. Technology for energy production using methods other than burning carbon-based fuels exists, and is being deployed, but the benefits of new technology are being overtaken by the increased coal being burnt. Big change is required and required soon. Richard Lester describes the path to a complete change in energy production and how innovation needs to be focused to allow the ambitious goals to be achieved.

    Guests:
    Richard Lester, Department Head Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Massachusetts USA

    Publications:
    Title: Unlocking Energy Innovation
    Author: Richard Lester and David Hart
    Homepagehttp://mitpress.mit.edu/books/unlocking-energy-innovation

    Further Information:
    Richard Lester at MIT (http://web.mit.edu/nse/lester/)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/the-most-important-innovation-challenge-we-face/4639956

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  4. UK removing carbon from the energy equation - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    British policy is to change the electricity industry so it emits very little carbon. Then transport needs to be changed to use electricity. Richard Lester reviews the options and the challenges.

    Guests: Richard Green, Professor of Sustainable Energy Business, Business School, Imperial College London UK

    Further Information Richard Green at Imperial College London (http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.green)

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/uk-removing-carbon-from-the-energy-equation/4639986

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  5. Solar lanterns replace kerosene killers in Africa - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Kerosene lanterns are used for lighting across Africa. They result in poor health outcomes and loss of life due to accidents. An alternative is the cheap, highly efficient solar lantern. They provide better light, and remove the poor health outcomes of kerosene lamps. Jeremy Leggett describes a new model for aid where crowdfunding allows capital to be sourced to fund manufacture and distribution of lamps to poor people in Africa. Following early success, there is an ambitious plan to see the end of kerosene lamps by 2020.

    Guests:
    Jeremy Leggett, Founder and Chairman Solar Century and Solar Aid, London UK

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/solar-lanterns-replace-kerosene-in-africa/4612482

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  6. A new look at Dr Who - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Dr Who has been described as a significant part of British popular culture, and has developed a cult following amongst viewers. The Dr and his companions have in a way represented humanity as they face foes and work to save civilisations. Since its inception in 1963, Dr Who has been played by 11 actors. This has been represented as a regeneration. But curiously Dr Who has always been played by a white male. In the course of her in-depth study, Lindy Orthia has watched every episode of Dr Who and considers the place of race in this all-time television favourite.

    Guests: Lindy Orthia, Lecturer; Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University, Canberra ACT

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/a-new-look-at-dr-who/4649676

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  7. Innovation in Australia part 3 of 3 - getting to where we want to be - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    In the final part of his three-part series on innovation in Australia, Mark Dodgson argues for the importance of innovation in creating a prosperous society. He contrasts the success of countries which have embraced innovation with the stagnation of those which have not. After describing the influence of Australia’s colonial past, and efforts in recent decades to bring forth change, this week Mark Dodgson presents his simple recipe for government, business and education, to create a nation with a prosperous future.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/innovation-in-australia-part-3-of-3-e28093-getting-to-where-/4507052

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  8. Innovation in Australia part 2 of 3 - recent times - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Mark Dodgson continues his look at innovation in Australia. We hear about Australian inventor Arthur Bishop (1917–2006), described as a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci. He took on the world car industry with his new steering mechanism. Politician John Button sought to modernise Australia’s backward approach to industry in the 1980s, and the CSIRO, bruised and battered at the turn of the century survives as it transforms itself making its research more market-focussed. This week it launched its latest flagship, concentrating on digital communications.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/innovation-in-australia-part-2-of-3---recent-times/4496206

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  9. An update on the planets - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Missions are underway investigating Mercury and Mars, with plans underway for Jupiter. Is there life in our Solar System beyond Earth? If there is or was life, it would be associated with water. Three planetary scientists present brief updates on the missions underway, and the possibilities for a mission to Jupiter.

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/an-update-on-the-planets/4534566

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  10. Innovation in Australia part 1 of 3 - early beginnings - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Australia in the years following European settlement was so markedly different from today. So much that we take for granted in food production, medicine, communications transport and much else had not been developed. The early settlers’ approach to innovation was shackled by a colonial dependence on imported technology and a focus on individuals rather than any collective endeavour. Despite this, Australia had its inventors tinkering and making great strides, some of which were at the forefront of the world’s developing technologies. What was their secret? What needs to happen now? And why have Australians not heard of Henry Sutton, described by Professor Mark Dodgson, presenter of this series, as possibly one of the greatest inventors in history?

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/innovation-in-australia-part-1-of-3---early-beginnings/4482642

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