Europe 2064 (feat. Loranne Vella)

In 1964, Isaac Asimov wrote a piece for the New York Times, after visiting the World’s Fair in New York. In his piece, he wondered what life would be like in 2014. He got a lot of stuff right--from the development of computers, to transportation, and even demographics. So in the shadow of Asimov, Giuseppe Porcaro and Loranne Vella imagine a fictional Europe in 2064. What does that fictional, future Europe look like? Loranne Vella is a Maltese writer, translator and performer. She co-wrote the three volumes of the Fiddien Trilogy with Simon Bartolo. Each of the three volumes won the National Book Prize in Malta. In 2012, her novel Magna Mater won 2nd prize in the category for young adults. She lives in Brussels where she also directs the interdisciplinary performance art group Barumbara Collective. Rokit, her latest novel, was published to critical and public acclaim in March 2017, and won the Maltese National Book Prize in 2018. Giuseppe Porcaro, is the author of DISCO SOUR, a novel about Europe and democracy in the age of algorithms. Europarama is a podcast series about science fiction and the future of Europe brought to you by the Are We Europe podcasting family.