The Future And You--August 26, 2015

Topic: Terraforming. Making planets that are not habitable into earth-like planets, where people can live, work, and play--even outside, in comfort, without a space suit. Speakers: Kenneth I. Roy (author and engineer), Stephanie Osborn (author and space scientist), and Robert G. Kennedy (author and engineer). Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the August 26, 2015 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 55 minutes] This presentation was recorded in front of an audience at the science fiction and fantasy convention LibertyCon in Chattanooga TN, on June 27, 2015. Stephen Euin Cobb has interviewed over 350 people for his work as an author, futurist, magazine writer, ghostwriter, and award-winning podcaster. A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor for Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. For the last nine years he has produced a weekly podcast, The Future And You, which explores (through interviews, panel discussions and commentary) all the ways the future will be different from today. He is an artist, essayist, game designer, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. Stephen is the author of an ebook about the future entitled: Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science.