The Future And You
A weekly podcast that explores
all the ways the future will be different from
today.
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Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb
Author, Magazine Writer, Columnist, Futurist, and Award-Winning
Podcaster
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About The Show The Future And You is a weekly podcast which
explores (through interviews, panel discussions, and commentary) all the ways
the future will be different from today. Since
2005, Stephen Euin Cobb has produced
over 500 episodes of The Future And You;
interviewed over 400 people; and spoken to over 200 audiences at over 40
conventions across the country. All
past episodes remain available for your listening enjoyment. Topics discussed have included Nanotechnology,
artificial intelligence, human enhancement and augmentation, nootropics
(brain enhancing chemicals), molecular manufacturing, genetic engineering of
humans and other biotechnology, computers wired directly into the human
brain, exoplanets, cryonics, global warming and the current interglacial
period, 3-D printing, robotics, bootlegging of movies, controlled fusion,
faster-than-light travel, wormholes and black holes, cloning and stem cell
research, futurism and futurology, social marketing (the engineering of
specific attitude changes within a population), transhumanism, extropianism,
and the technologies of extending human health indefinitely. Stephen's interviews won him an Award The
2006 Parsec Award for "Best News Podcast" was given to Stephen Euin
Cobb on the evening of September
2, 2006 at the first annual Parsec Award ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia for
his weekly interview-based podcast The
Future And You. In
his acceptance speech, Stephen thanked the three podcasters who had
encouraged him to create a podcast when he knew little about how podcasting
was done: Mur Lafferty, Tee Morris, and Rich Sigfrit. Stephen also thanked
his photographer and assistant, Peggy Gregory, for helping him throughout his
many promotional travels to conventions, book signings, and TV appearances. (Listen to the latest episodes and read the show notes) (Learn about Stephen’s books, magazine articles, and other
passions)
Once
again, remember, all past episodes remain available
for your listening enjoyment. While the show’s blog page defaults to
displaying the most recent episodes, you can use the blog’s search tool to
find past episodes based on a specific topic or guest’s name. Reviews “Thought
provoking and edgy” Jo Leutton 612 ABC Brisbane “…credible
guests, covers a wide range of topics.” GARY ROBBINS The Orange County Register “…broaden
and challenge your view of tomorrow... It’s
currently the podcast I most look forward to getting.” Trends and Issues in Extension Ohio State University |
Past Guests A partial list of the more than 400 people Stephen has
interviewed on his show. Celebrities Senator
John McCain (2008 presidential candidate) David
H. Lawrence XVII (actor on the TV show Heroes) Lisa
Loring (actress who played "Wednesday" on the 1960s TV series The
Addams Family) Erin
Gray (played Kate Summers in the sitcom Silver Spoons and Col. Wilma Deering
in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) Kandyse McClure (actress: 4 years on Battlestar
Galactica; Dr. Clementine Chasseur in Hemlock
Grove) Jason
Carter (actor on Babylon 5; did guest spots on 3rd Rock from the Sun, Angel,
and Charmed) Gregory
French (actor from the TV show The Walking Dead) Betsy
Palmer (actress who played Mrs. Voorhees in the 1980 horror film Friday the
13th) Addy
Miller (actress in Secret Life of Bees, and played "Little Girl
Zombie" on The Walking Dead) Jordan Marder (actor from American History X, L.A. Confidential,
The Drew Carey Show, JAG, The Equalizer and The X-Files) Michael
Berryman (actor appearing in 37 films and 15 TV shows; star of Wes Craven's
original version of The Hills Have Eyes) Ken
Weatherwax (actor who played "Pugsley" on the 1960s TV series The
Addams Family) Bodie Olmos (actor on Battlestar
Galactica--son of Edward James Olmos and grandson
of Howard Keel) Gary
Jones (actor on the TV shows Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis) Robin
Curtis (Actress who played Lt. Saavik in the
movies: Star Trek III and Star Trek IV) Lydia
Cornell (TV actress who played Ted Knight's daughter, Sara Rush, on the
sitcom Too Close for Comfort) Grant Baciocco (comedian, comedy writer and co-creator of The
Radio Adventures of Doctor Floyd) Shannon
Presley (on-air radio personality at WBVR "The Beaver" in Kentucky) Kelly
Lockhart (former radio DJ in Key Largo, Atlanta and Chattanooga; and
award-winning writer) Hattie Hayridge (actress and stand-up comedian best known from
the British science fiction TV series Red Dwarf) Jerry
Rector (TV actor from Star Trek, NYPD Blue and Sliders) Authors Larry
Niven (SF author) Vernor Vinge, Dr. (award
winning author, early pioneer of the Singularity, mathematician) Frederik
Pohl (award-winning author, editor, anthologist. Wrote Gateway) Ben Bova, Dr. (award winning author, and former editor of
OMNI Magazine) Joe
Haldeman (SF author and professor) Kevin
J. Anderson (SF author) Jerry Pournelle, Dr. (SF author, editor, computer columnist,
political advisor) Greg
Bear (SF author) David Brin (SF author and scientist) Kim
Stanley Robinson (SF author) Catherine
Asaro, Dr. (SF&F author, physicist, and former
ballerina) Robert
J. Sawyer (Canadian Hard SF author) Brandon
Sanderson (bestselling author) Mike
Resnick (SF&F author, anthologist and editor) Alan
Dean Foster (SF&F author and world traveler) Timothy
Zahn (Hugo Award winning author) Spider
Robinson (SF author and musician) Harry
Turtledove, Dr. (award winning author, holds a Ph.D. from UCLA in Byzantine
history) Todd
McCaffrey (bestselling author) Jack
McDevitt (SF author) David
B. Coe (Fantasy author and environmentalist) Nancy
Kress (award winning author of hard SF novels: she’s won 4 Nebulas & 2 Hugos) David
Drake (SF&F author) Elizabeth
Bear (SF&F author) Jeanne
Robinson (dancer, choreographer, dance instructor and SF author) John
Ringo (New York Times bestselling novelist with over two million books in
print) Eric
Flint (SF&F author, anthologist and editor) Sarah
A. Hoyt (SF&F author) L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (SF&F author) Katherine
Kurtz (fantasy author) Bill
Fawcett (book packager, editor, anthologist) C.J.
Henderson (award-winning author of SF&F and horror novels, comics, and
children's books ) Walter
Jon Williams (SF&F author) Robert Buettner (SF author) Charles
E. Gannon, Dr. (bestselling author) Marjorie
M. Liu (bestselling SF&F author and former lawyer) John
Jackson Miller (bestselling author of Star Wars novels, also writes for Dark
Horse Comics) Michael
A. Stackpole (award-winning author) Jay
Lake (SF&F author, anthologist and editor) Dave
Freer (author and ichthyologist living in South Africa; he scuba dives daily
in his work) M. M.
Buckner (award-winning SF author) Patrick
Quinlan (bestselling author of seven novels, including Sexbot) Hamlet
Au (Wagner James Au; journalist & author of The Making of Second Life
from HarperCollins) James
Maxey (author of the Dragon Age fantasy series and Nobody Gets the Girl) Stephen
L. Antczak (SF author, screen writer, comics
writer, filmmaker and theatrical producer) Paul
Levinson (author, professor and media commentator) Davey
Beauchamp (Librarian, author, editor, anthologist, and voice actor) Michael
A. Ventrella (author, and co-founder of Animato Magazine and of the LARP
NERO) Rhonda
Leigh Jones (author of a series of erotic romance vampire novels with
numerous BDSM scenes) Business Executives & Professionals Timothy
C. Mack (president of the World Future Society) Marshall
Brain (author, futurist, founder of HowStuffWorks.com) Dr.
Peter Norvig (AI scientist, textbook author, and
Director of Research at Google) Dr. Ben
Goertzel (AI scientist, author, futurist, CEO of Novamente, and Director of Research of the Singularity
Institute for AI) Noel
Patton (founder of T.A. Sciences, and life-extensionist) John R.
Douglas (editor at scifipedia.scifi.com—a division of the SyFy
Channel) Dr.
Young-sook Park 박영숙 (South Korean diplomat, chair of the UN's
Millennium Project in South Korea, and President of the South Korean Foster
Care Association) Hank Pellissier (writer, editor, speaker, convention producer,
futurist and transhumanist) Randal
L. Schwartz (Programmer, consultant and IT activist; author of many
programming books and articles) David Orban (futurist, speaker, writer and business executive) Ramez Naam (author, futurist
and IT professional) Zoltan Istvan (journalist, entrepreneur, futurist,
transhumanist) Natasha
Vita-More (life extension & transhumanism pioneer, designer,
spokesperson, writer and activist) Dr.
Giulio Prisco (futurist, scientist, corporate
consultant and former Executive Director of the World Transhumanist
Association) Rudi
Hoffman (the world’s foremost cryonics insurance provider, certified
financial planner, cryonics advocate) Ari Kiirikki (Vice President of Knome
Inc.-- the world's leading provider of personal DNA sequencing) Julie Grimaldi (president of Police Futurists International) Stefano
Vaj (author, futurist, transhumanism activist, and
lawyer based in Milan, Italy) Brian
Wang (futurist, writer and speaker) John Buckman (CEO of the recording label Magnatune) Michael
Vassar (writer, speaker and activist for transhumanism and life extension) Philippe
Van Nedervelde (Lifeboat Foundation spokesperson;
Executive Director for the Foresight Nanotech Institute in Europe) Michael
Anissimov (futurist, transhumanism activist, and boardmember of the World Transhumanist Association) George Dvorsky (outspoken activist for futurism and
transhumanism, and executive editor of Betterhumans.com) Mike Treder (executive director of CRN: The Center for
Responsible Nanotechnology) Claudia
Suzanne (professional ghostwriter, teaches ghostwriting at California State
University) Janet
& Chris Morris (team of military consultants for DOD and other US
government agencies) Gennady
Stolyarov II (actuary, essayist, author, activist
for life-extension and transhumanism) Sophrosyne Stenvaag (Digital
Person in SL; host of “Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon”
discussion series) Peter Nygard (internationally famous fashion designer) Thomas
Gideon (AKA: cmdln) (digital media rights activist
and host of The Command Line podcast) David
Pascal (marketing consultant specializing in social marketing) Keith Comito (mathematician, programmer and founder of OmegaSoft—games and apps for the iPhone) Robert
Hooker (IT professional and consultant) Wendy
S. Delmater (safety engineer, editor, author,
disaster preparedness activist, a “prepper”) Michael
Z. Williamson (author, writer, editor at SurvivalBlog;
consults on military, weapons & disaster prep.) Evo Terra (author, speaker, digital business
strategist and co-author of Podcasting for Dummies) Paul
Fischer (IT professional) Ricki
Dean (School Nutrition Manager of Columbia County Georgia USA) Lionel
Vogt (transhumanist and futurist, best known for his TV appearances with his
battling robots) Scientists & Academics Dr.
Travis S. Taylor (scientist, author and star of National Geographic Channel's
Rocket City Rednecks) Dr.
Nick Bostrom (Oxford professor, author,
philosopher, and co-founder of the World Transhumanist Association) Les
Johnson (author, lecturer and NASA executive) Dr.
Anders Sandberg (computational neuroscientist, futurist, transhumanist and
author) Andrew
Hessel (biologist, author, and co-founder of the Pink Army Cooperative) Joanne Pransky (World's First Robotic Psychiatrist, Judge on Battlebots TV show) Extropia DaSilva (speaker, essayist, magazine writer, and
Digital Person) Eliezer
Yudkowsky (co-founder and research fellow of the
Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence) David Orban (futurist, speaker, writer, and business executive) David
Pascal (marketing consultant specializing in social marketing) Dr.
James J. Hughes (author, professor and transhumanist) José Cordeiro (author, researcher, professor, futurist,
consultant and world traveler) Eric
Lerner (President and Chief Scientist of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics) Dr.
Adrian Bowyer (professor of engineering and inventor of the RepRap machine, a
3D printer) Chris
Phoenix (author, scientist, co-founder and Director of Research for Center
for Responsible Nanotechnology) Dr.
David Pearce (author, professor, activist, philosopher and co-founder of the
World Transhumanist Association) Dr.
Aubrey de Grey (medical gerontologist working to promote medical longevity) Dr.
Gregory L. Matloff (astronomer, professor, and
author of popular books on astronomy) Dr.
Diane Mucci (professor of biotechnology; Ph.D. in
Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry & Microbiology) Stephanie
Osborn (author and former NASA payload flight controller) Jim
Craig (director of James H. Lynn Planetarium; activist for science, critical
thinking, and free thought) Cy
Chase (a doctoral candidate in evolutionary biology at Vanderbilt University) Dr. Bob
Boan (scientist working with NASA and DOD, author) Nathan
P. Butler (author and professional educator) Dr.
Grover Swartslander (physicist and professor) Artists Richard
H. Green (artist for Walt Disney Studios: Who Framed Roger Rabbit &
Beauty and the Beast) Cheralyn Lambeth (Muppet creator and costumer from Jim
Henson Productions) David
Mattingly (award-winning painter, illustrator and book cover artist) Scott
Stewart (artist: comics, children’s books, coloring book tie-ins Spiderman,
Superman and The X-men) Steve
Bennett (artist of manga, anime and webcomics) S.L. Gallant
(artist; comic book tie-ins for movie Madagascar; cartoon ads Cool Aid Man
& Cheesaurus Rex) C Bangs
(professional artist and author) Kurt
Miller (book cover artist) Sam Flegal (artist) David
Cherry (book cover artist) The Beilazyc Brothers (Mike and Paul) (artists, costumers and
entrepreneurs) Editors & Agents Ginjer Buchanan (Senior Executive Editor and Marketing
Director of Ace and ROC Books) Toni Weisskopf (head of Baen Books) Hildy Silverman (publisher of Space and Time Magazine,
and contributing editor of Achieving Families Magazine) Edmund
R. Schubert (SF&F author and Editor of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic
Medicine Show) Jim Minz (Editor-in-Chief at Baen) Lucienne
Diver (New York literary agent) Peter Stampfel (submissions editor at DAW Books and musician) Alethea
Kontis (SF&H writer,
and fantasy editor for Solaris Books and former buyer for Ingram) R.U.
Sirius (editor-in-chief of H+ Magazine, writer, talk show host, and cyberculture icon) Tom
Atwood (editor-in-chief of Robot Magazine) Mike
Pederson (editor-in-chief of Nth Degree Magazine and founder of RavenCon) Grey
Reinhart (submissions editor at Baen Books) Paula Goodlett (managing editor of Jim Baen's Universe
Magazine) Tony V.
Baughman (newspaper reporter for The Aiken Standard) Elysia Ashbourne
(Editor-in-Chief of Grim Couture Magazine, inside Second Life) Walt Boyes (marketing director of Jim Baen's Universe
Magazine) Bruce Gehweiler (publisher at Marietta Publishing) Copyright 2022 by
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