<a href="http://stevecobb.com/">Stephen Euin Cobb</a> (your host) is today's speaker.
Topics: Human augmentation, autonomous vehicles (both ground vehicles and aircraft), 3D printing, cyberwarfare, battles over fresh water, and the rising power of cities (compared to the stagnating power of nations). This is part 2 of my discussion of <a href="http://globaltrends2030.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/global-trends-2030-november2012.pdf">Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds</a>.
Hosted by <a href="http://stevecobb.com/">Stephen Euin Cobb</a>, this is the January 16, 2013 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 35 minutes]
News Items [1]: How impressively easy it is to help in the search for extrasolar planets. Your host uses and critiques the website <a href="http://www.planethunters.org/">www.planethunters.org</a>. [2]: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Nicholson/e/B001HCX30O">Scott Nicholson</a>, a horror author, is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_364635462_2?ie=UTF8&docId=1000824661&nav_sdd=aps&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-B1&pf_rd_r=1ZCVSTQH0ACHHJR77E4W&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1465385522&pf_rd_i=507846">one more concrete example of how Amazon's Kindle program is giving authors far more control over their own careers</a>.

The Future And You -- January 23, 2013

This award-winning series explores The Future of Everything. What can we expect of next week, next year, next century? What will we eat, drive, wear, live in, vote for, want to buy, and want to avoid? What mistakes of the past will we make again, and which ones have we learned from? From the next tick of the clock to the ultimate end of the universe, every subject is fair game. Composed of interviews and essays, it's hosted by the author and futurist Stephen Euin Cobb. Guests include: famous authors and the occasional celebrity, but mostly futurists, innovators, technologists, analysts, entrepreneurs, and those pushing the limits of technology, as well as those struggling to understand the trends growing strong around us now--since it is those trends which will create the future in which we will all live. This program is not about magic, or prophecy, or psychic divination.  Instead, we attempt to use verifiable facts as our foundation, and from them extrapolate forward. All such extrapolations--regardless of the credentials of those putting them forth--must be considered pure opinion. Time alone, will allow these extrapolations to be verified or nullified. Topics and themes explored include: nanotechnology and biotechnology; organlegging and organ transplants, molecular manufacturing and computers wired directly into the human brain; extropianism, transhumanism and the technology of individual immortality; terrorism, globalization, global warming and nuclear proliferation; cryonics and cryogenics; genetic engineering and the human genome project; embryos, cloning and stem cell research; astronomy and other space explorations (NASA, Hubble, exoplanets, SETI, ESA, CCCP, lasers and space probes); the singularity, robots, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI); remote sensing and waldoes; legal and illegal uses of the Internet (hackers and hacking, viruses and Trojan horses); solar cells, peak oil and alternative energy; aging and medical longevity; FTL (faster than light travel, as in Star Trek and Star Wars) and worm holes (as in StarGate SG-1); progress in health, education and neuroscience, as well as evolution, agriculture and inventions; and how what was once science fiction and fantasy is now biology, chemistry and physics. Everything from futurism to futurology. To learn more, check the show's website at: www.TheFutureAndYou.com