All Episodes
Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel — 161 episodes
c50: Second Draft Outline and Bonus AI Discussion
c49: Script Draft 1, Beat 42
c48: Script Draft 1, Beats 37-41
c47: Script Draft 1, Beats 32-36
c46: Script Draft 1, Beats 27-31
c45: Script Draft 1, Beat 26
c44: Script Draft 1, Beats 23-25
c43: Script Draft 1, Beat 22
c42: Script Draft 1, Beats 18-21
c41: Script Draft 1, Beats 15-17
c40: Script Draft 1, Beats 10-13
c39: Script Draft 1, Beats 6-9
c38: Script Draft 1, Beats 4-5
c37: Script Draft 1, Beats 2-3
c36: Script Draft 1, Beat 1
c35: Outline Part 3, Interstitials
c34: Outline Part 2
c33: Outline Part 1
c32: Escape from Naturalist World
c31: You Must Save One Child For Each Person You Murder
c30: Zoya’s Side of the Story
c29: Don’t Let a Good Con Go to Waste
c28: The Only Thing We Have to Do is Die
c27: The Puzzle is an Entire World
c26: Make Your World Building Dreams Come True
c25: Status Games Within Status Games
c24: Kung Fu Style
c23: Outlining the Beginning
c22: Outlining the Constellation
c21: A Short History of the Constellation
c20: Novel Worlds Pitch Session
c19: Public Worlds Set Up to Solve Problems
c18: Hobbies Don’t Count
c17: Religion in the Constellation
c16: A Slug Crossing a Lawn in Realtime
c15: Rulesy and Unclear
c14: How to Commit a Murder in the Constellation
c13: Create the Illusion You’re Exclusive
c12: Our Character Cannot Be Satisfied
c11: Core Rules of the Constellation
c10: Infinite Zebras
c09: Alone in a Serengeti
c08: The Legend of Jerry
c07: The Intergalactic Space Phone
c06: The Standard Clock Rate of Everything
c05: Babies Are Being Born with God Powers
c04: The Simple Answer is Monkeys
c03: A Low Amount of Pain for All Eternity
c02: Remain Indoors
c01: Building an Original Science Fiction World
099: Review of Review the Future
098: Review of WALKAWAY
097: Review of I AM MOTHER
096: Review of BLACK MIRROR Season 5, Part 3
095: Review of BLACK MIRROR Season 5, Part 2
094: Review of BLACK MIRROR Season 5, Part 1
093: Review of EXHALATION, Part 2
092: Review of EXHALATION, Part 1
091: Review of Philip K Dick’s ELECTRIC DREAMS
090: Review of AUTONOMOUS
089: Discussion of Ray Kurzweil’s 2019 Predictions
088: Discussion of Hypocralypse and the Future of Punishment
087: What is the Future of Sex Robots?
086: Discussion of Malicious Uses of AI
085: Grab Bag of Short Topics
084: Discussion of Conversational AI and Digital Currency
083: Discussion of Moore’s Law and Optimism vs. Pessimism
082: Discussion of Subvocal Recognition and Domestic Robots
081: Discussion of Facebook and Privacy
080: Discussion of Self Driving Cars and Body Scanning
079: Discussion of AI Risk
078: Discussion of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon
077: Robin Hanson on The Elephant in the Brain
076: What Happens When We Design Babies?
075: What Happens in a World of Perfectly Fakeable Audio and Video?
074: Are We Living in a Simulation?
X012: Future Express | Categorizing Interactive Systems
X011: Future Express | The Replication Crisis and Challenges to Progress
X010: Future Express | Attention Economics and Loyalty of Digital Assistants
X009: Future Express | What Changes Under Trump?
X008: Future Express | How to Train Your Personal AI and Mailbag
X007: Future Express | AI in the Legal System and More on Technological Unemployment
X006: Future Express | Listener Questions and Calum Chace Followup
073: Can Capitalism Survive an “Economic Singularity?”
X005: Future Express | Robot Used in Dallas and Pokemon Go!
X004: Future Express | More on Kevin Kelly’s THE INEVITABLE
072: Kevin Kelly on “The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future”
X003: Future Express | ConsScale and the Threat of Cheap Weapons
X002: Future Express | Autonomous Weapons and Brain to Brain Interfaces
X001: Future Express | More on Robin Hanson’s AGE OF EM
071: Robin Hanson on “What Does a Future of Emulated Minds Look Like?”
070: Review of BLACK MIRROR: WHITE CHRISTMAS
069: What are the Possibilities of Augmented Reality?
068: Does Life Have Meaning in a World Without Work?
067: Should You Sign Up for Cryonics?
066: George Dvorsky on “What is the Future of Human Advancement?”
065: What is the Future of Virtual Assistants?
064: Calum Chace on “Is it Time to Start Worrying About AI?”
063: Bonus Episode: Kickstarter Launch, Social VR, and ADVANTAGEOUS Review
062: What is the Future of Brain-Computer Interfaces?
061: What is the Future of Movies?
060: Scott Santens on “Is Basic Income Part of Our Future and Should It Be?”
059: What is the Future of Advertising?
058: What are the Top Ten Ways Science Fiction Fails to Predict the Future?
057: Nikola Danaylov on “What Do Experts Think About the Singularity?”
056: Steve Anderson on “What are the Limits of Hollywood’s Portrayal of Technology?”
055: What’ll be the Impacts of Perfect Speech Recognition?
054: Martin Ford on “Are We Heading for a Jobless Future?”
053: Review of EX MACHINA
052: What is the Future of Synthetic Meat?
051: Review of VRLA Expo 2015
050: Jesse Lawler on “What is the Future of Brain Enhancement?”
049: Mark Lewis on “Have We Reached Peak Education?”
048: Sarah Perry on “Should We Have Control Over Our Consciousness?”
047: David Pearce on “What is the Future of Suffering?”
046: James Hughes on “What is Technoprogressivism?”
045: Dave Ross on “What is the Future of Comedy?”
044: Jason Ganz on “What is the Future of Virtual Reality?”
043: Review of THE IMMORTALISTS
042: John Danaher on “Will the Future be Ruled by Algorithm?”
041: What are the Reasons to Protect Privacy?
040: What is the Future of Education?
039: What is Transhumanism?
038: Can We Predict the Future?
037: What is the Future of the Sharing Economy?
036: What is the Future of Hell?
035: How Do You Filter Content in an Age of Abundance?
034: We’ll Be Back in September
033: What’ll be the Impacts of Self Driving Cars?
032: Are we Wielding Technology or Yielding to It?
031: Who are the Top Ten Living Futurists?
030: What is the Future of Emotional Computing?
029: What is Mind Uploading?
028: Review of Thomas Piketty’s CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Part 2: Futurist Perspective and Criticism
027: Review of Thomas Piketty’s CAPITAL IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Part 1: Summary
026: What is Ephemeralization?
025: What Does Utopia Look Like?
024: Will the Future be More or Less Unequal?
023: What is the Future of Net Neutrality?
022: Will the Future be Dominated by Games?
021: What Are the Different Types of Intelligence Augmentation?
020: What is the Future of Television?
019: Who Controls a Future of Decentralized Technologies?
018: What is the Future of Money?
017: What New Job Opportunities Will Exist in an Automated Future?
016: What is Super-Now Prediction?
015: What Would be the Cultural Impacts of Increased Longevity?
014: How Might We Respond to Technological Unemployment?
013: What is the Future of Communications Interfaces?
012: How Plausible is Dystopia?
011: Review of McAfee and Brynjolfsson’s SECOND MACHINE AGE
010: What Will Remain Scarce in the Future?
009: Is Storytelling More Difficult in a World of Accelerating Change?
008: Review of Tyler Cowen’s Average Is Over
007: Review of Spike Jonze’s HER
006: What is an Intelligence Explosion, and Will It Kill Us All?
005: Are We Addicted to Technology?
004: Are Generation Gaps Going to be Relevant in the Future?
003: Is Privacy Dead?
002: Should We Be Worried About Technological Unemployment?
001: Is Technological Progress Accelerating?