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FastForward Radio -- The Acceleration Agenda, Part 2 Sep 16, 2010

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Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon continue their discussion about the most promising indicators of a positive future and what steps need to be taken in order to move things along.

Fast Forward Radio -- The Acceleration Agenda Sep 09, 2010

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Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon take a positive look at future society, future technology, and future lifestyles. What are the most promising indicators of a positive future? And wat can we do to move things along?

FastForward Radio -- Techonomy Sep 02, 2010

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Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome Brian Wang of Next Big Future for a readout on the recent Techonomy conference at Lake Tahoe. techonomy (te-kän'-uh-me) n. [tech(nology) + (ec)onomy] organized activities related to the invention, development, production, distribution and consumption of technology-enhanced goods and services that a society uses to address the problem of scarcity and to enhance the quality of life. Plus, with Brian on the show you can count on plenty of news about the future and energy. About our guest: Brian Wang is a futurist who blogs about all things future-related at NextBigFuture. He is the Director of Research for the Lifeboat Foundation and a member of the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology Task Force.

FastForward Radio -- Personalized Life Extension and Summit Recap Part 2 Aug 26, 2010

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On a special extended 90-minute edition of FastForward Radio, Foresight Institute co-founder and president Christine Peterson joins us to talk about her upcoming conference on Personalized Life Extension Plus, George Dvorsky and PJ Manney help us round out our recap of the Singularity Summit. About Our Guests Christine Peterson writes, lectures, and briefs the media on coming powerful technologies, especially nanotechnology. She is the co- founder and President of Foresight Institute, the leading nanotech public interest group. Foresight educates the public, technical community, and policymakers on nanotechnology and its long-term effects. PJ Manney is a writer and futurist, and a leading voice in the Humanity+ movement. She is an occasional guest host on FastForward Radio as well as being our official Hollywood correspondent. Canadian futurist, consultant and award winning blogger, George Dvorsky writes and speaks extensively about the impacts of cutting-edge science and technology -- particularly as they pertain to the improvement of human performance and experience.

FastForward Radio -- Live from Singularity Summit 2010 Aug 15, 2010

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At a special time, Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon recap Day 1 of the 2010 Singularity Summit and share interviews with speakers and thought-leaders in attendance.

FastForward Radio -- Humanity Plus, R U Sirius? Aug 12, 2010

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Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome publisher, author, and counterculture icon R U Sirius back to FastForward to discuss the rebirth of H+ Magazine. R.U. Sirius is editor-in-chief of the online transhumanist publication, H+ Magazine. He is former Editor-in-chief of Mondo 2000, a technoculture magazine that was legendary during the 1990s. Books authored or co-authored by Sirius include A User's Guide to the New Edge, True Mutations, Counterculture Through The Ages, and Design For Dying with Timothy Leary. In addition to editing H+ Magazine, Sirius is organizing the Mondo 2000 History Project, an open source memoir.

FastForward Radio -- the Full Jetson Aug 05, 2010

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Why settle for any old flying car when you can have the Full Jetson? Celebrating seven years of blogging and podcasting about the future, Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon share their accept-no-substitutes vision for the world that's coming.

FastForward Radio -- How Zombies Work (Plus Singularity Summit!) Jul 29, 2010

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Straight from San Diego Comic Com, Kelly Parks joins us to discuss his hit web series, Universal Dead. The sci-fi horror series provides a fresh take on a well-established subject -- the flesh-eating undead -- and provides a unique explanation of why zombies are the way they are and why they do the things they do. Could zombies really exist? Tune in and find out. PLUS a sneak preview of the 2010 Singularity Summit. Our good friend Michael Anissimov joins us to tell why he's so excited about this year's event and why you (that's right, YOU) need to be there.

Moonday Plus One Jul 22, 2010

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We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. President John F. Kennedy, September 12, 1962, at Rice University, Houston, Texas Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon reflect on the 41st anniversary of Apollo 11 and talk about new frontiers for the human adventure.

FastForward Radio -- Let's Hear it for the Geeks! Jul 15, 2010

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A couple of days late (but who's counting?), Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordonembrace their geekness. They discuss what makes a geek a geek, relate particularly geeky tales from their personal lives, list a few of their own favorite geeky things, and explain why being a geek is such a big deal HINT: It has something to do with the next stage of human evolution.)

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