c20: Novel Worlds Pitch Session

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c20: Novel Worlds Pitch Session

FromConstellation: Making the Graphic Novel

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Nov 18, 2020

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Nov 18, 2020

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014: How Might We Respond to Technological Unemployment?: In this podcast we return to the idea of technological unemployment: if it’s happening, what should we do? We consider three ways technological unemployment might be defeated: rising standards of living might outrun inequality, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
42 min listen
017: What New Job Opportunities Will Exist in an Automated Future?: Today’s episode focuses on a thought experiment — assuming technological unemployment happens and capitalism continues in its current form, what new platforms might allow average folks to monetize the remaining scarce resources? by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
30 min listen
009: Is Storytelling More Difficult in a World of Accelerating Change?: On the podcast this week, we discuss the state of narrative in a world where technological change is accelerating. We start with William Gibson’s now decade-old attempt to write recent-past rather than near-future speculative work and continue to talk ... by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
25 min listen
004: Are Generation Gaps Going to be Relevant in the Future?: When we were growing up, kids knew how to use the internet and adults didn’t. Should we expect that our kids will have a similar experience? Are generation gaps declining as access expands, attitudes change, longevity increases, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
33 min listen
001: Is Technological Progress Accelerating?: In this first episode of the REVIEW THE FUTURE podcast, we speculate on the topic of accelerating technological returns. If technological progress is truly accelerating, that has wide reaching implications. by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
34 min listen
002: Should We Be Worried About Technological Unemployment?: What is technological unemployment, and should we be worried about it? Hosts Jon Perry and Ted Kupper discuss the problems associated with technological unemployment and some possible responses in this episode . by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
27 min listen
007: Review of Spike Jonze’s HER: In this week’s podcast, we review Her, Spike Jonze’s entertaining new movie about a human-AI relationship. How well does it hold up from the point of view of speculation? Is the world fully realized and consistent? by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
35 min listen
024: Will the Future be More or Less Unequal?: In this podcast we examine the issue of inequality from the point of view of game design and ask whether a variety of resources are likely to become more or less unequal in the future. In addition to the obvious monetary dimension, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
30 min listen
012: How Plausible is Dystopia?: In this week’s podcast we evaluate the relative plausibility of four dystopias commonly seen in science fiction: Post-Apocalypse, Alien/AI Oppression, Boot-in-the-Face, and Brave New World. These are all fun settings for exciting stories, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
23 min listen
003: Is Privacy Dead?: We ask “Is privacy coming to an end, and if so, what does that mean exactly?” We examine progress in the areas of always-on surveillance and lifelogging, facial recognition, and other technologies that are eroding traditional spheres of privacy. by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
39 min listen
010: What Will Remain Scarce in the Future?: In this week’s podcast, we do the thought experiment of what happens in a theoretically super-abundant future: what things remain scarce and still retain economic value? Further, as we approach that point, where are the safe areas to try to find work? by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
37 min listen
013: What is the Future of Communications Interfaces?: In this week’s podcast, we discuss common communications and computer interfaces in science fiction and ask whether those AI assistants and videophones really make sense. We retell David Foster Wallace’s story about the failure of the videophone from I... by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
33 min listen
005: Are We Addicted to Technology?: It’s easy to find alarmist articles fretting about how addicted to technology we are becoming. It’s true that we are increasingly reliant on technology and many of us spend exorbitant numbers of hours staring at screens. by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
25 min listen
034: We’ll Be Back in September: Now that we’ve completed 33 episodes, it’s time for us to take a short break. But don’t worry – we’ll be back in early September with new episodes, new discussion topics, and possibly a few surprises. If you only started tuning in recently, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
3 min listen
038: Can We Predict the Future?: This week’s podcast asks about the benefits and problems associated with both hard “mathematical” prediction and soft “storytelling” prediction. We discuss the limits of mathematical prediction in terms of theory, randomness, chaos, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
37 min listen
011: Review of McAfee and Brynjolfsson’s SECOND MACHINE AGE: In this extra-long podcast, we review the important new book from MIT’s Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, THE SECOND MACHINE AGE: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. The first half is a detailed, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
76 min listen
025: What Does Utopia Look Like?: We’d all like to live in a better future, and for ages men have imagined what a theoretical best future might be like. What would a utopian society truly look like? Does the answer lie in external approaches like abundance, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
63 min listen
045: Dave Ross on “What is the Future of Comedy?”: In this episode we talk with comedian Dave Ross about the ways the technology is impacting the world of stand-up comedy. We discuss how cellphone cameras are disrupting the age-old process of working out jokes in small rooms and about how, soon, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
43 min listen
020: What is the Future of Television?: What is the future of television? Will today’s golden age continue? We discuss the current television model and why TV hasn’t been disrupted to the degree film and other media have, the real scarcity and artificial limits that are keeping it there, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
29 min listen
006: What is an Intelligence Explosion, and Will It Kill Us All?: An Intelligence Explosion is the idea that a greater-than-human intelligent machine will quickly design a greater-than-itself intelligent machine, and so on, until very rapidly the intelligence of artificial systems greatly outstrips that of humanity. by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
29 min listen
015: What Would be the Cultural Impacts of Increased Longevity?: In this episode, we ask how culture would be impacted by radically increased lifespans. We go over the main arguments made by longevity research experts like Aubrey De Grey and Ray Kurzweil, and we discuss Sonia Arrison’s book 100+. by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
50 min listen
031: Who are the Top Ten Living Futurists?: In this week’s podcast we list the top ten living futurists. These are people who are highly influential in the area of futurology, either for being skillful popularizers or originators of major new ideas. Listen and find out if you agree with our choi... by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
39 min listen
033: What’ll be the Impacts of Self Driving Cars?: Everyone knows by now that self driving cars are coming soon. Somewhere in the next 3-20 years, the human driver will become a thing of the past. What will happen when these capabilities come online? We talk through the obvious and not so obvious conse... by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
48 min listen
036: What is the Future of Hell?: In this week’s episode, we wonder if it’s technologically possible to create eternal suffering and torture someone forever in a digital hell. We cover the question of why someone might torture a digital being or nano-enabled Prometheus. Punishment? by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
49 min listen
037: What is the Future of the Sharing Economy?: This week’s episode is about the sharing economy. We discuss the term and try to decide if the companies that use it are really doing anything new or just using a buzzword to screw workers and evade regulations. We discuss Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Fold.it, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
42 min listen
022: Will the Future be Dominated by Games?: On this podcast, we talk about games and the future. Eric Zimmerman has pronounced this the “Ludic Century” and has said the 21st century will be defined by games. We approach this idea from three points of view: first we talk about games as an enterta... by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
37 min listen
057: Nikola Danaylov on “What Do Experts Think About the Singularity?”: In today’s podcast we are joined by Nikola Danaylov, host of the popular Singularity 1 on 1 podcast, and a man who has interviewed 170 experts about singularity related topics. After establishing the meaning of the term singularity, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
63 min listen
023: What is the Future of Net Neutrality?: In this week’s podcast we talk about the big topic of Network Neutrality. We define the term and talk about the differences between neutral and biased (or ‘diverse’) networks. We cover the history of the phone network, the Carterfone, by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
64 min listen
030: What is the Future of Emotional Computing?: In this week’s podcast we tackle Emotional (sometimes called Affective) Computing — when computers read and respond to human emotions. We discuss the types of sensory data computers can read, like faces and inflection but also heat-mapping and pupil di... by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
45 min listen
018: What is the Future of Money?: In this week’s podcast we discuss money as a technology that has progressed through several versions. What’s wrong with our current version of money, and what might we do better in a future version? What are the pros and cons of modern day cryptocurren... by Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
37 min listen

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