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FastForward Archives #17 -- Star Trek Tech Mar 15, 2011

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In this show from January 20, 2008, Stephen Gordon and Michael Darling discuss technologies from Star Trek that have shown up or are likely to show up in real life.

WT 1.5 -- The Technological Singularity Mar 14, 2011

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THIS WEEK ONLY -- World Transformed 1.5 on Sunday Evening Phil Bowermaster continues working through the major topics of the World Transformed. This week, arguably the greatest transformation of them all -- the emergence of greater-than-human intelligence and the (literally) unimaginable future that follows.

FastForward Radio -- Transcendent Man Mar 10, 2011

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Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss the new documentary about Ray Kurzweil -- Transcendent Man -- with filmmaker Barry Ptolemy. Futurists PJ Manney and Natasha Vita-More also join the discussion. About our guest: At age 12, Barry Ptolemy was first inspired to create films by Steven Spielberg on the set of E.T., The Extra Terrestrial, where he worked and studied closely alongside the director for the duration of the production. After attending USC film school, Barry went on to direct and produce dozens of award-winning commercials and films. In 2006, his interest in the sciences led him to read Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near, upon which his first feature, Transcendent Man, is based. He also recently directed the commercial "We Are The World 25 For Haiti" with Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones, which aired during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Opening Ceremonies. Barry was recently hailed as one of the new "power directors" by Los Angeles Confidential Magazine. He lives in Southern California with his wife and their two children.

FastForward Archives #16 -- the $2500 Car Mar 08, 2011

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First aired January 13, 2008, this show includes a grab-bag of future-related topics, with an emphasis on energy and transportation.

WT 1.5 -- Risks, Dystopia, and the Singularity Mar 06, 2011

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Phil Bowermaster continues to explore the major transformations occurring in our world -- this week focusing on how things might go wrong, and how wrong they might go.

FastForward Radio -- The Future We make Mar 03, 2011

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Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss futurism as advocacy. What happens when we stop trying just to predict the future and start trying to make it happen?

FastForward Archives #15 -- Tobias Buckell on Creating the Future Mar 01, 2011

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In this show, which first aired January 6, 2008 Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome popular author Tobias Buckell back to FastForward Radio, discussing the common ground between futurists and science fiction writers.

WT 1.5 -- Rethinking Personality; Rethinking Abundance Feb 27, 2011

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Phil Bowermaster continues to discuss the amazing transformations facing our world. In this edition, he discusses how technology can provide unprecedented material abundance and how our ideas of what the real world world is, and even we are, may be subject to significant revision.

FastForward Radio -- The Singularity Network Feb 24, 2011

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Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome Jean-Sebastien B. Miousse, founder of the Singularity Network to talk about the relationship between and accelerating technological and societal change.

FastForward Archives #14 -- 2007 in Review Feb 22, 2011

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Phil Bowermaster, Stephen Gordon, and PJ Manney recap 2007 and make their predictions for 2008. Tune in and see who got it right.

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