On the show this week:
- Dumb Animals
- Smart Inventions
- Body Breaks
- Experimental Animals
CQ: What did you leave behind that you’d like to revisit?
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On the show this week:
- First World Problems
- Starring The Wars
- Inverted Expectation
- Extras
CQ: If some lessons can truly only be learned by encountering them in fiction, what stories should we tell to the AI to give them a better chance of turning out good?
Full list of 17 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Mind CTRL-ALT-DEL
- Unnatural History
CQ: Would the discovery of alien gear — but not aliens themselves! — which would catapult humanity technologically forward thousands of years tear humanity apart, or would we easily adapt to it?
Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Cats and Dogs, Therefore: Apocalypse
- Patterns, Therefore: SCIENCE!
CQ: Should computer science be a fundamental topic in elementary school?
Full list of 16 articles after the jump!
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Animalice
- Dubious Invention
- Upper Space
CQ: Will the notion of a “workweek” in which you work at your job for several regular days in a row survive into the future, when days, weeks and other planetary-based time measurement become obsoleted by the travel into space — or is the traditional workweek timeframe already completely disrupted by globalization, individual entrepreneurship and the Internet of Tribes?
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On the show this week:
- Front Page
- Can I Get A Witness?
- Polly-sigh and Criminology
- Winventions
- Extras
CQ: Is it important to strive for perfection in your life, or is it more important to reach self-acceptance?
Full list of 34 articles after the jump!
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Proper show notes to follow (generated via my excellent new buddy, the OMEGA support system for TWS!).
TWS132: To Boldly Return To Where I’ve Never Gone Before
CQ: If you were to convert your brain, your programming, into a digital form, then run that instance of you on a computer, would it be murder to turn it off? Or suicide? What if you terminated your physical self — would you still be alive, in the machine? Tell me your posthuman digital thoughts.
On the show this week:
- Animals and Other forms of life
- Inventioneering
- Outrageous behaviour
Promos:
- The House of Grey – A podiobook whose every episode leaves you with new revelations, new questions and more.
- The TWS Contest! – Tell somebody about the show, then tell Nimlas about it, and get entered into a contest for original art! Spread the word!
- Technorama! – Chuck and Kreg have returned to their weekly format of geekery, makery, computery goodness. Hoorah!
Full list of 70 articles after the jump!
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Show Notes for TWS072: The Past Future is NOW!
On the show this week:
- SCIFI IS NOW!
- Life will leave us behind, if we don’t do it first.
- Dumbness
- The Indeterminate Past (EXTRAS)
This week’s Challenge Question:
What is a current technology or way of doing things that we should we should revert to an older way of doing things?
Leave your answer in the comments, send your email to weirdshow[[at]]gmail.com, record your message via the MobaTalk client on the right hand side of Encaffeinated!, leave an answer on Facebook or call in at 206-203-2292.
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