There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
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episode 12: 7.12: An Experiment in Moral Imagination, Pt. 3
Sustainable long-distance transportation, or really great virtual reality? Fight!
Show notesWhich would make for healthy localist cities in 80 years: sustainable long-distance transportation, or really great virtual reality? Chris says sustainable long-distance transporation. Stephen says VR. Fight!
(In which the phrase “I don’t think that’s true!” appears more than any other episode of the show… ever.)
Links- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
- The Opolis
- Cities/metropolitan areas on the East Coast with more than 4½ million residents
- Atlanta
- Baltimore
- Boston
- Miami
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Washington D.C.
- “The Wait” by The Fierce and the Dead. Used by permission.
- “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.
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- Daniel Ellcey
- Jake Grant
- Jeremy W. Sherman
- Marnix Klooster
- Nathaniel Blaney
- Spencer Smith
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