TWS193: Look! In The sky!
CQ: Do we need to clean up our act and our planet before tackling space travel, or can we just leave our origin planet in a mess and move on?
On the show this week:
- Feedback
- Front Page
- Transplants
- All Creatures, Great and Small
- Extras
Update: The book that Arkle mentioned is The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World, by Thomas M. Disch, Free Press, 1998. Apparently, it won a Hugo award in 1999. I’d never heard of the book, but it’s existence isn’t surprising. I’ll keep it on my “used book store finds” list (which I will create right now).
Full list of 45 articles after the jump!
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TWS192: Perception is Nine Tenths of the Flaw
CQ: Do you think the basic, specialized physical technologies we have and use today — pen and paper, chessboards, specialized push-buttons, light-switches, notepads — will ever entirely go away?
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- What Flesh Hell Is This?
- Wrecknology
- Extras
Full list of 49 articles after the jump!
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CQ: Is it better for humanity to remember everything that happens to prevent ourselves from repeating mistakes, or is it better to actually forget quite a bit of it, less we obsess over trying to get everything perfect?
Bumper: JR Murdock, author of V&A Shipping
Promo: Braindouce!
On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Vision
- Illusion
- Extras
Full list of 25 articles after the jump!
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