- Perceptive Problems
- Knowledge Lost & Found
- To Nobel or To Ig Nobel
- Extras
CQ: If we mine asteroids and other planets for their resources and bring them back to Earth, will we *overstock* the Earth with things?
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- Rent For Space
- We’re All In Your Mind
- Self-Doubting Cars
- Insightation Needed
- Noisy Space
- Extras
CQ: Will the current wave of political and cultural awareness about privilege, power and equity make it less likely that we will create robots as subservient entities, or more likely to avoid attempting to give them free will?
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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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