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Dr. J. chats with Ted Chiang about his Hugo award winning novella “The Lifecycle of Software Objects,” the ethics of creating intelligent machine minds, and the state of science fiction. (Part 1 of 2)
Dr. J. chats with Robert Zubrin, author of the recently updated The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must(1996/2011), as well as How to Live on Mars and Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization. Zubrin helped found and helps lead the Mars Society, the principal lobby for a Mars mission.
Dr. J. chats with Erik Olin Wright, professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is a foremost scholar of class analysis, and author of many books including Class, Crisis and the State, Class Structure and Income Determination, and Classes, Class Counts and Deepening Democracy. (Originally broadcast Apr 2, 2005).
Dr. J. chats with Daniel Wilson, who holds a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, How to Build a Robot Army, Where’s My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived and most recently Robopacolypse, which is being made into a feature film by Steven Spielberg.
Dr. J. talks with journalist Ron Bailey about the libertarian perspective on biotechnology, drugs, economics and contemporary politics. Bailey writes a weekly science and technology column for Reason magazine and is the author of Liberation Biology: The Moral and Scientific Case for the Biotech Revolution. Part 2 of 2. The last part of the podcast is the fourth installment of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Clockwork Fagin,” which appears in the anthology Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories from Candlewick Press. Cory’s podcasts can be found at his website craphound.com.
Dr. J. talks with journalist Ron Bailey about the libertarian perspective on biotechnology, drugs, economics and contemporary politics. Bailey writes a weekly science and technology column for Reason magazine and is the author of Liberation Biology: The Moral and Scientific Case for the Biotech Revolution. Part 1 of 2. The last part of the podcast is the third installment of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Clockwork Fagin,” which appears in the anthology Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories from Candlewick Press. Cory’s podcasts can be found at his website craphound.com.
Dr. J. chats with Kristi Scott, Rights of the Person program director for the IEET and a doctoral student in Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her work focuses on how popular culture presents issues of identity, body modification, cosmetic surgery, robots and emerging technologies. Along the way they discuss transhumanism’s maleness, the effect of pornography on vaginal rejuvenation, and how to tell your kids they will have to serve the Robot Overlords. (Part 2 of 2) The last third of the podcast is the 2nd installment of Cory Doctorow’s “Clockwork Fagin,” which appears in Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories from Candlewick Press at candlewick.com. Cory’s podcasts can be found at his website craphound.com.
Dr. J. chats with Kristi Scott, Rights of the Person program director for the IEET and a doctoral student in Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her work focuses on how popular culture presents issues of identity, body modification, cosmetic surgery, robots and emerging technologies. Along the way they discuss transhumanism’s maleness, the effect of pornography on vaginal rejuvenation, and how to tell your kids they will have to serve the Robot Overlords. (Part 1 of 2)
Dr. J. chats with Timothy Taylor, lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Bradford, and author of The Prehistory of Sex, The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death, and The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution. They discuss the role of baby slings, tools, meat and language in the evolution of human intelligence. Part 2 of 2. The last half of the podcast is the beginning of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Clockwork Fagin,” a young adult steampunk story appearing in the anthology Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories from Candlewick Press.
James Hughes, IEET Executive Director, speaking at the August 5, 2004 Faith, Transhumanism and Hope Symposium, Trinity College, University of Toronto. (and yes, seven years later I’m still working on that book…)
Dr. J. chats with Timothy Taylor, lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Bradford, and author of The Prehistory of Sex, The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death, and The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution. They discuss the role of baby slings, tools, meat and language in the evolution of human intelligence. Part 1 of 2.
Dr. J. chats with Braden R. Allenby, Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and Founding Chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technologies, Military Operations, and National Security, at Arizona State University. Dr. Allenby is author of The Theory and Practice of Sustainable Engineering, and The Techno-Human Condition, co-authored with Dan Sarewitz. They discuss the different levels at which the risks and benefits of human enhancement technologies should be assessed.
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