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SciFi Tech Talk

201 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratings

SciFi Tech Talk is the podcast where we look at a movie / TV show / book / short story and the tech involved and what it says about THE FUTURE. We may go through some older material and see how much has become reality and how far we have yet to go. And new material could be looked at from the standpoint of how long we think it will take to become reality and how far from the present does it stretch the imagination.

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Episodes

SciFi Tech Talk #000200 - A Look Back... and Forward

December 16, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour - 33.8 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike look back at their favorites of the past 200 episodes and look forward to so many more to come!

SciFi Tech Talk #000199 - Annhiliation

November 21, 2018 23:00 - 40 minutes - 18.4 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2018 movie Annihilation: "A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000198 - Tau

October 25, 2018 04:00 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2018 movie Tau: "A woman is held captive by a scientist in a futuristic smart house, and hopes to escape by reasoning with the Artificial Intelligence that controls the house." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000197 - Beyond Skyline

October 10, 2018 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2017 movie Beyond Skyline: "A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000196 - The Titan

August 28, 2018 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.7 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2018 movie The Titan: "A military family takes part in a ground-breaking experiment of genetic evolution and space exploration." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000195 - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

July 11, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 32.5 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2016 book "We Are Legion (We Are Bob)": Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to...

SciFi Tech Talk #000194 - Anon

May 23, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2018 movie Anon: In a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, SAL FRIELAND (Owen) stumbles onto a young woman (Seyfried) who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as THE GIRL, she...

SciFi Tech Talk #000193 - Her

May 15, 2018 04:00 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MB

Julie, Jeff and Mike discuss the 2013 movie Her: "Sensitive letter writer Theodore has just ended his marriage. Lonely, he goes out to buy an artificially intelligent Operating System that promises to give him everything he needs. Samantha is more than his average OS. She does secretarial work for him but also becomes his friend whenever he's lonely. They go out on adventures and travel together. He becomes the physical feet to get them places, and she the new eyes in which to see the world....

SciFi Tech Talk #000192 - Version Control

April 29, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2016 book Version Control: "Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a personal tragedy years ago. She spends her days working in customer support for the internet dating site where she first met her husband. But she has a strange, persistent sense that everything around her is somewhat off-kilter: she constantly feels as if she has walked into a room and forgotten what she intended to do there; on TV, ...

SciFi Tech Talk #000191 - The Giver

April 22, 2018 04:00 - 56 minutes - 26 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2014 movie The Giver - "In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the 'real' world." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000190 - Children of Men

March 04, 2018 05:00 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2006 movie Children of Men: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000189 - Infini

February 04, 2018 05:00 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2015 movie Infini: "An elite 'search and rescue' team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000188 - Arrival

December 25, 2017 05:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2016 movie Arrival: "When twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000187 - The Handmaid's Tale

December 19, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1985 book The Handmaid’s Tale: "Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. O...

SciFi Tech Talk #000186 - Passengers

November 07, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2016 movie "Passengers": A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early. - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000185 - Forbidden Planet

October 22, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.5 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1956 movie Forbidden Planet: "A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000184 - Barbarella

September 10, 2017 04:00 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1968 movie Barbarella: "Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality, fantasy, humor, beauty and horror, cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40,000, when Barbarella makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond, vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards, in an uninhibited manner, the handsome men who assist...

SciFi Tech Talk #000183 - 2312

August 22, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the book "2312": "The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future." - Amazon.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000182 - The Road Warrior

July 12, 2017 04:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1981 movie, The Road Warrior: “In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000181 - The Man Who Fell To Earth

June 25, 2017 04:00 - 57 minutes - 26.6 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1976 movie The Man Who Fell To Earth: “Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000180 - Space Warriors

June 15, 2017 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2014 movie "Space Warriors": “A group of kid space cadets must help in the rescue of three astronauts whose ship got stranded in space.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000179 - Robot Overlords

May 21, 2017 04:00 - 39 minutes - 18.3 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2014 movie Robot Overlords: “Earth has been conquered by robots from a distant galaxy. Survivors are confined to their houses and must wear electronic implants, risking incineration by robot sentries if they venture outside.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000178 - The Abyss Beyond Dreams

May 15, 2017 04:00 - 3 minutes - 1.82 MB

“The year is 3326. Nigel Sheldon, one of the founders of the Commonwealth, receives a visit from the Raiel—self-appointed guardians of the Void, the enigmatic construct at the core of the galaxy that threatens the existence of all that lives. The Raiel convince Nigel to participate in a desperate scheme to infiltrate the Void. Once inside, Nigel discovers that humans are not the only life-forms to have been sucked into the Void, where the laws of physics are subtly different and mental power...

SciFi Tech Talk #000177 - A Trip to the Moon

March 15, 2017 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.4 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1902 classic sci-fi movie A Trip to the Moon: A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon..” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000176 - ARQ

March 05, 2017 05:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike review the 2016 movie ARQ: “Trapped in a lab and stuck in a time loop, a disoriented couple fends off masked raiders while harboring a new energy source that could save humanity.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000175 - Star Trek Beyond

February 25, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 34.7 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the movie "Star Trek Beyond" - “After stopping off at Starbase Yorktown, a remote outpost on the fringes of Federation space, the USS Enterprise, halfway into their five-year mission, is destroyed by an unstoppable wave of unknown aliens. With the crew stranded on an unknown planet and with no apparent means of rescue, they find themselves fighting against a ruthless enemy with a well-earned hatred of the Federation and everything it stands for. Only a rebellious...

SciFi Tech Talk #000174 - Pitch Black

February 10, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 30.9 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the movie Pitch Black: “A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000173 - Event Horizon

January 20, 2017 05:00 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 1997 movie Event Horizon: “A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned...with someone or something new on-board.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000172 - Stranger in a Strange Land

January 15, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour - 27.5 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the book Stranger in a Strange Land: “Valentine Michael Smith is a human being raised on Mars, newly returned to Earth. Among his people for the first time, he struggles to understand the social mores and prejudices of human nature that are so alien to him, while teaching them his own fundamental beliefs in grokking, watersharing, and love.” - goodreads.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000171 - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

December 25, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 27.5 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the movie Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: “After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000170 - Equilibrium

November 21, 2016 05:00 - 51 minutes - 23.8 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2002 movie Equilibrium: “In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. When he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime...

SciFi Tech Talk #000169 - Synchronicity

November 11, 2016 05:00 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2015 movie Synchronicity: “A physicist who invents a time machine must travel back to the past to uncover the truth about his creation and the woman who is trying to steal it.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000168 - Ready Player One

October 11, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 31 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the book Ready Player One: “In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon th...

SciFi Tech Talk #000167 - Mars Attacks!

October 04, 2016 04:00 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the movie Mars Attacks!: “Earth is invaded by Martians with unbeatable weapons and a cruel sense of humor.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000166 - Predestination

September 25, 2016 04:00 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the 2014 movie Predestination: “For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000165 - Westworld

September 18, 2016 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the classic sci-fi film Westworld - “A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000164 - Childhood's End (mini-series)

June 19, 2016 04:00 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MB

“After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000163 - The Difference Engine

June 08, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 28 MB

1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future. - goodreads.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000162 - XCOM, XCOM Enemy Unknown

May 30, 2016 04:00 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MB

XCOM is a science fiction video game franchise featuring the titular fictional elite international organization tasked with countering alien invasions of Earth.

SciFi Tech Talk #000161 - Ex Machina

May 06, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the movie Ex Machina - “A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I..” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000160 - World of Tomorrow

April 23, 2016 04:00 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB

“A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.” - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000159 - Ultima

April 11, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 31 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss Ultima, the sequel to Proxima: “In PROXIMA we discovered ancient alien artifacts on the planet of Per Ardua - hatches that allowed us to step across light years of space as if we were stepping into another room. The universe opened up to us. Now in ULTIMA the consequences of this new freedom make themselves felt. And we discover that there are minds in the universe that are billions of years old and they have a plan for us. For some of us. But as we learn the tru...

SciFi Tech Talk #000158 - The Expanse

April 08, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.5 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike discuss the SyFy series "The Expanse." Two hundred years in the future, in a fully colonized Solar System, police detective Josephus Miller, born in the asteroid belt, is given the assignment to find a missing young woman, Julie Mao. Meanwhile, James Holden, the first officer of an ice freighter, is witness to an unprovoked attack upon the ship, by attack craft believed to be from Mars (MCRN Federation). As news of the attack spreads throughout the System, the incident's...

SciFi Tech Talk #000157 - Alien Outpost

March 17, 2016 04:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MB

Julie, Jeff, and Mike review the movie Alien Outpost: "A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion." - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000156 - Johnny Mnemonic

March 08, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB

In 2021, the whole world is connected by the gigantic Internet, and almost a half of the population is suffering from the Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS).Johnny with an implanted memory chip in his brain was ordered to transport the over loaded information from Beijing to Newark. While Pharmakom Industries supported by yakuza tries to capture him to get the information back, the Low-tech group led by J-Bone tries to break the missing code to download the cure of NAS which Johnny carries. - W...

SciFi Tech Talk #000155 - Proxima

March 01, 2016 05:00 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MB

The very far future: The galaxy is a drifting wreck of black holes, neutron stars, and chill white dwarfs. The age of star formation is long past. Yet there is life here, feeding off the energies of the stellar remnants, and there is mind, a tremendous galaxy-spanning intelligence each of whose thoughts lasts a hundred thousand years. And this mind cradles memories of a long-gone age when a more compact universe was full of light... The 27th century: Proxima Centauri, an undistinguished red d...

SciFi Tech Talk #000154 - Dark Matter

February 21, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MB

The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them? - i...

SciFi Tech Talk #000153 - Gattaca

February 03, 2016 05:00 - 1 hour - 27.8 MB

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel. - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000152 - Chappie

January 29, 2016 05:00 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MB

In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. - imdb.com

SciFi Tech Talk #000151 - Cowboy Bebop

January 11, 2016 05:00 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MB

Spike Spiegel is a bounty hunter in the far future with an easy going attitude and some deadly skill at martial arts. Together with his partners, Jet Black, and later Faye Valentine as well, they go from job to job across the galaxy looking for the high priced fugitives to bag. - imdb.com (by Kenneth Chisholm)