Our Digital Maps Aren't as Advanced as We Think
The way we use maps today has changed from just 10 years ago. Most people with a smartphone use a map-app to get around, and nearly every new car has a map screen built into the dashboard with GPS...
View ArticleShocked by the Now
Douglas Rushkoff, media thinker and author of Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now, joins to discuss his new book and the idea that we no longer plan for the future, but instead spend our time...
View ArticleHeadphones That Read Your Mind
Evolver.FM founder Eliot Van Buskirk joins us to talk about new brainwave-scanning headphones from the company Neurowear. The company brought a prototype of the futuristic headwear to the SXSW Trade...
View ArticleLife in 2030
Broadcast Times: Saturday, 6am on 93.9FM and Sunday, 7am on AM820Robots that fight fires, cars that drive themselves, clothes that prevent illness the stuff of science fiction novels? Or, are they...
View ArticleFather's Day from Radio Rookies: Trying to Do it Right and Not Repeat a...
There is less research on adolescent fathers than on mothers — much less — and most of it focuses on the impact to the child if a dad is not in his or her life. But there are teen dads who are...
View Article#TBT Brian and Douglas Rushkoff, 1996
It's 'Throwback Thursday' and we're marking the 25th anniversary of the show this fall with a dip into the Brian Lehrer Show archives every week. This week, we highlight part of Brian's conversation...
View ArticleA Radical Future for the Automobile
Levi Tillemann talks about the race to build the car of the future, in The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future. Tillemann argues that the $2 trillion automotive industry is in the...
View ArticleVivek Wadhwa on 2025
3-D printed food, self-driving cars, and robots everywhere. Technology is going to radically alter our lives in the next fifteen years, at least according to entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa. And immigration...
View Article3.14.15 Competing for the Future
This Week on Innovation Hub: competition, culture, and culinary robots. Entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa tells us how much the world’s going to change in the next 15 years. Then, we examine the difference...
View Article3.14.15 Competing for the Future
This Week on Innovation Hub: competition, culture, and culinary robots. Entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa tells us how much the world’s going to change in the next 15 years. Then, we examine the difference...
View ArticleVivek Wadhwa on 2025
3-D printed food, self-driving cars, and robots everywhere. Technology is going to radically alter our lives in the next fifteen years, at least according to entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa. And immigration...
View ArticleDid Science Fiction Predict the Future of Journalism?
What's the future of journalism? Amidst countless conferences, anxious op-eds and much hand-wringing, journalist Loren Ghiglione believes he might have found some answers in an unlikely place: science...
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Digital Dark Age
On this week’s episode of On the Media, we’re engaging in some chillingly informed speculation: what would happen if we, as a species, lost access to our electronic records? What if, either by the slow...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood Writes for the Future
The Future Library project, based in Norway, will collect one original story by a popular writer every year for 100 years. Only in 2114 will the anthology be made public, printed on paper made from...
View ArticleA Futuristic Spin on the Next Global Conflict
Military analyst P.W. Singer and writer and national security analyst August Cole look at what the next global conflict may be in their futuristic thriller, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War....
View ArticleHow We Will Share Our Future With Robots
The prospect that robots will take over the economy, displacing millions of workers in all walks of life, makes headlines and causes palpable anxiety in many people. David Mindell, professor of...
View ArticleA Musical Envisions the Impossible
Cesar Alvarez and Sarah Benson discuss their new musical, "Futurity." Alvarez wrote the lyrics and book, and co-wrote the music with his band, The Lisps, while Benson, the artistic director of the Soho...
View ArticleAmerica's Obsession with the Future
Hal Niedzviecki talks about our fascination with the future. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future, he traces the story of how owning the future has become irresistible to us, and of our...
View ArticleMargaret Atwood Writes for the Future
The Future Library project, based in Norway, will collect one original story by a popular writer every year for 100 years. Only in 2114 will the anthology be made public, printed on paper made from...
View ArticleHow About That Elroy?
The Guys discuss what socially conservative futures like The Jetsons show us about America. The Guys discuss what socially conservative futures like The Jetsons show us about America.
View ArticleA Road Map for the Future
Alec Ross, who served as senior adviser for innovation for former Secretary of State Clinton and is now a distinguished visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Industries of...
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[Unedited] Nikki Giovanni with Krista Tippett
Nikki Giovanni is a Distinguished Professor in the English department at Virginia Tech. She has written and edited numerous books of poetry and works for children, including "Quilting the Black-Eyed...
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Nikki Giovanni — Soul Food, Sex, and Space
In the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni was a revolutionary poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She had a famous dialogue with James Baldwin in Paris in 1971. Now a professor at Virginia...
View ArticleLionel Shriver Imagines a Dystopian Future for the American Economy
Award-winning author and journalist Lionel Shriver talks about her latest novel The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047, which is set in the near future and tells the story of a wealthy family torn apart by...
View ArticleThe Future of a Human/Robot Workforce, Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson's...
Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC's "Note to Self" podcast, is filling in today for Leonard!Author Thomas Davenport looks at the future of the human workforce as artificial intelligence becomes...
View ArticleExtending the Human Lifespan Hundreds of Years
Could advances in medicine and technology allow us to live longer — a lot longer? Decades, perhaps centuries? Eve Herold, former director of the Office of Communications and Public Affairs at the...
View ArticleThe Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think
Internet pioneer Kevin Kelly tries to predict the future by identifying what's truly inevitable. How worried should we be? Yes, robots will probably take your job -- but the future will still be pretty...
View ArticleThere Is No "Off the Record"
Come along with us... into the future. A place where there is a written record of everything you've said-- ever. We're calling it the transcribed life, and our guide is Rose Eveleth, the host of the...
View ArticleUncovering a Global Health Conspiracy in Jamie Metzl's Near-Future Thriller
Jamie Metzl is a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council and has served in the US National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His latest novel, Eternal Sonata: A...
View ArticleWhat Happened on Tuesday
As the reality of President Trump begins to sink in, the world is wondering what kinds of policies and actions will be championed by a Trump Administration. Were many of the candidate’s extreme...
View ArticleAmy Davidson and George Packer Talk to David Remnick About President-Elect...
As the reality of President Trump begins to sink in, the world is wondering what kinds of policies and actions will be championed by a Trump Administration. Were many of the candidate’s extreme...
View ArticleImagining a Future Transformed by Technology
Alexander Weinstein, director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, joins us to discuss his debut short story collection, Children of the New World, which looks at unease in the...
View ArticleUncovering a Global Health Conspiracy in a Near-Future Thriller
This is a rebroadcast of an interview that originally aired on October 5, 2016. Jamie Metzl is a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council and has served in the US National Security Council, State...
View ArticleThe Latest in Politics; Plus Highlights From 'Where Do We Go From Here?: MLK...
On today's show, you'll hear:Joan Walsh, MSNBC political analyst and national affairs correspondent for The Nation, and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin discuss the biggest political stories...
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Why we need to ask questions now about our high-tech future
Watch VideoThe post Why we need to ask questions now about our high-tech future appeared first on PBS NewsHour.
View ArticleHow Millennials Want to Make a Difference
Shauna Shames, assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University at Camden and author of Out of the Running: Why Millennials Reject Political Careers and Why it Matters (New York...
View ArticleThe Antigay Movement in Eastern Europe, Mezzo-Soprano Jamie Barton,...
Journalist Masha Gessen joins us to discuss her recent piece for Harper's called, “Family Values: Mapping the Spread of Antigay Ideology,” which looks at the spread of the antigay movement in Russia...
View ArticleUsing Biology to Predict the Future
Yuval Noah Harari, professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, joins us to discuss his latest book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harai examines connections between biology and...
View ArticleUnderstanding CRISPR, the Sci-Fi-Esque Gene Editing Tool
Science journalist Jennifer Kahn joins us for this week’s Please Explain, which is all about CRISPR, an incredible tool that makes precise gene editing cheaper and easier than ever before. Researchers...
View ArticleHow Google Became Google
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and ex-CEO of Google, and Jonathan Rosenberg, current adviser to Alphabet CEO Larry Page and former senior vice president of...
View ArticleQuestions for the Big Disruption
Seeing an impending disruption in human society along the lines of the Renaissance or the Industrial Revolution, David J. Rothkopf, CEO and editor of FP group and the author of The Great Questions of...
View ArticleGovernor Kasich Is Worried About the Future
John Kasich, the Republican governor of Ohio who ran for president in 2016 and is the author of Two Paths: America Divided or United (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017), looks back on the tumult of the 2016...
View ArticleThe Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think
Season 6, Episode 36This week on Freakonomics Radio: what is truly inevitable? Stephen J. Dubner speaks with Internet pioneer Kevin Kelly about why we shouldn't be afraid of the future and the folly of...
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Will artificial intelligence help us solve every problem?
Watch VideoJUDY WOODRUFF: Now to another in our Brief But Spectacular series.Tonight, we hear from Sebastian Thrun. He’s an adjunct professor at Stanford University and the founder of Udacity, an...
View ArticleThe Dystopian Potential of Augmented Reality
In the not so distant future, we may be able to send emails with our minds and project Google Maps directions directly onto our highways and sidewalks. Beyond the merely novel and convenient, this...
View ArticleHow Technology Will Transform Advertising
Andrew Essex, CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, parent company of the Tribeca Film Festival, and former CEO of the advertising agency Droga5, discusses his book, The End of Advertising: Why It Had to Die,...
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Nikki Giovanni — Soul Food, Sex, and Space
In the 1960s, Nikki Giovanni was a revolutionary poet of the Black Arts Movement that nourished civil rights. She had a famous dialogue with James Baldwin in Paris in 1971. Now a professor at Virginia...
View ArticleLooking into the future
McKinsey's predictions will come to nothing, says Lucy Kellaway McKinsey's predictions will come to nothing, says Lucy Kellaway
View ArticleWho Will Live on the Islands of Trash?
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.What will the world look like in 50 years? While we don’t have a time machine yet, we do have science fiction writers to take us there.In a...
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