SciFi Tech Talk
201 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsSciFi 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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SciFi Tech Talk #000101 - The Day the Earth Stood Still
August 17, 2014 04:00 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MBAn alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000100 - Continuum
August 10, 2014 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MBA detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000099 - Snowpiercer
August 04, 2014 04:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBSet in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000098 - The Starlost
July 27, 2014 04:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBA group of humans must explore a vast starship in order to find the controls to save it from destruction. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000097 - Silent Running
July 20, 2014 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBIn a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
SciFi Tech Talk #000096 - State of SciFi Tech
July 13, 2014 04:00 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBToday we want to talk about the various forms of scifi tech and how it compares to the tech of today.
SciFi Tech Talk #000095 - X-Men
June 08, 2014 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBTwo mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000094 - WALL·E
June 03, 2014 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBIn the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. - imdb
SciFi Tech Talk #000093 - Battlefield Earth
May 25, 2014 04:00 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBAfter enslavement & near extermination by an alien race in the year 3000, humanity begins to fight back. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000092 - Oblivion
May 18, 2014 04:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBA veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. - imdb
SciFi Tech Talk #000091 - Gravity
May 12, 2014 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MBA medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their shuttle and leaves them adrift in orbit. - imdb
SciFi Tech Talk #000090 - Star Trek: First Contact
May 04, 2014 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBCaptain Picard and his crew pursue the Borg back in time to stop them from preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. They also make sure that Zefram Cochrane makes his famous maiden flight at warp speed. - imdb
SciFi Tech Talk #000089 - Interview with Bryan Chaffin
April 27, 2014 04:00 - 16 minutes - 7.38 MBJulie interviews Bryan Chaffin, a not-yet-published science-fiction author, about the challenges of creating a science-fiction universe.
SciFi Tech Talk #000088 - Repo Men
April 24, 2014 04:00 - 52 minutes - 24.3 MBSet in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000087 - Fantastic Voyage
April 14, 2014 04:00 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MBA diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000086 - Moon
April 06, 2014 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBAstronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000085 - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
April 03, 2014 04:00 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MBIn an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, SF and adventure characters team up on a secret mission. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000084 - The Rise of the Planet of the Apes
March 23, 2014 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MBA substance, designed to help the brain repair itself, gives rise to a super-intelligent chimp who leads an ape uprising. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000083 - Primer
March 16, 2014 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MBFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000082 - Armageddon
March 11, 2014 04:00 - 54 minutes - 25 MBAfter discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas is going to impact Earth in less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a misfit team of deep core drillers to save the planet. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000081 - Cowboys & Aliens
March 02, 2014 05:00 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MBA spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000080 - Contact
February 23, 2014 05:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBDr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000079 - The Terminator
February 16, 2014 05:00 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MBA human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000078 - Bicentennial Man
February 09, 2014 05:00 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MBAn android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000077 - The Island
February 02, 2014 05:00 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBA man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvestable being", and is being kept as a source of replacement parts, along with others, in a Utopian facility. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000076 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
January 26, 2014 05:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBAfter an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000075 - Back to the Future
January 25, 2014 05:00 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MBBack to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction comedy film. Michael J Fox plays Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time to 1955. He meets his future parents in high school and accidentally attracts his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by causing his parents-to-be to fall in love, and with the help of scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd), he must find a way to return to 1985. - Wikipedia
SciFi Tech Talk #000074 - Quantum Leap
January 12, 2014 05:00 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBGet ready to join Dr. Sam Beckett on the adventure of many lifetimes - a time traveler who never knows whose body he is going to “leap” into next and at what moment in history he may find himself! Who will he be this time? Mafia hit man. Air Force test pilot. Professional boxer. Sam does it all in Season 1 on the groundbreaking, five-time Emmy award-winning series.We’re focusing on the Season 1 two-part pilot, Genesis.
SciFi Tech Talk #000073 - Our Favorites
January 05, 2014 05:00 - 1 hour - 27.8 MBWell, it's not exactly a top ten list, but we took some time at the start of a new year to think about what some of our favorite sci-fi book, movies, shows, and stories might be.
SciFi Tech Talk #000072 - Ghost in the Shell
December 15, 2013 05:00 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBA female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000071 - Spaceballs
December 08, 2013 05:00 - 55 minutes - 25.7 MBPlanet Spaceball's President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal Planet Druidia's abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000070 - Sunshine
December 03, 2013 05:00 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MBIn the year 2057, a crew of eight courageous men and women must embark on a journey to the Sun to reignite the dying star and save mankind from extinction. But when a terrible accident throws their mission into jeopardy, the crew find themselves not only fighting for their lives and their sanity, but for the future of us all. - iTunes
SciFi Tech Talk #000069 - Europa Report
November 24, 2013 05:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBAn international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000068 - Ender's Game (The Movie)
November 10, 2013 05:00 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBThe International Military seek out a leader who can save the human race from an alien attack. Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young mind, is recruited and trained to lead his fellow soldiers into a battle that will determine the future of Earth. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000067 - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
November 03, 2013 04:00 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MBJules Verne’s classic about a ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings which encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
SciFi Tech Talk #000066 - War of the Worlds
October 28, 2013 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBThe H.G. Wells classic story “War of the Worlds” was depicted as a radio drama crafted by Orson Welles 75 years ago this week. The story of an alien invasion of the earth left a lasting impact on science fiction.
SciFi Tech Talk #000065 - The Last Starfighter
October 20, 2013 04:00 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBA video-gaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000064 - A Sound of Thunder / Nightfall
October 13, 2013 04:00 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MBThis week it's two short stories --A Sound of Thunder: “A Sound of Thunder” is a science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, first published in Collier's magazine in the June 28, 1952 issue. As of 1984 it was the most re-published science fiction story up to the present time. It is based on the idea of the butterfly effect (though the story predates that phrase).Nightfall: “Nightfall" is a 1941 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet...
SciFi Tech Talk #000063 - Dune
October 06, 2013 04:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBSet in the far future amidst a feudal interstellar society in which noble houses, in control of individual planets, owe allegiance to the imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides, the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides as his family accepts control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the "spice" melange. Melange is the most important and valuable substance in the universe, increasing Arrakis' value as a fief. The story explores the multi-layered intera...
SciFi Tech Talk #000062 - Avatar
October 02, 2013 04:00 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MBA paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000061 - Flying Cars
September 15, 2013 04:00 - 43 minutes - 19.8 MBA roundtable discussion of flying cars, with special guests JJ and Renee Valentine.
SciFi Tech Talk #000060 - Independence Day
September 08, 2013 04:00 - 42 minutes - 19.7 MBThe aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy. Fighting superior technology, man's best weapon is the will to survive. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000059 - The Postman
September 02, 2013 04:00 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MBA drifter with no name finds a jeep with the skeleton of a postman and a bag of mail and dons the postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in the post apocalyptic America. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000058 - Fahrenheit 451
August 25, 2013 04:00 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBGuy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, C...
SciFi Tech Talk #000057 - Source Code
August 18, 2013 04:00 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MBAn action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000056 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture
August 11, 2013 04:00 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBWhen a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000055 - Robot & Frank
August 04, 2013 04:00 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MBSet in the near future, an ex-jewel thief receives a gift from his son: a robot butler programmed to look after him. But soon the two companions try their luck as a heist team. - imdb.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000054 - Robocop
July 28, 2013 04:00 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MBSet in old Detroit, a crime-ridden ghetto of the not too distant future, a cop killed in the line of duty is robotized then dispatched to fight crime. But Robocop is haunted by memories and dreams of who and what he used to be. As he rediscovers his past, he uncovers a murder conspiracy at the highest level of police management. -- Amazon.com
SciFi Tech Talk #000053 - Neuromancer
July 21, 2013 04:00 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MBThe Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace . . .Case had been the sharpest data-thief in the business, until vengeful former employees crippled his nervous system. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and...
SciFi Tech Talk #000052 - Childhood's End
July 14, 2013 04:00 - 51 minutes - 23.8 MBMen called them OverlordsThey had come from outer space—they had brought peaceand prosperity to EarthBut then the change began.It appeared first in the children—frightening, incomprehensible.Now the Overlords made their announcement:This was to be the first stepin the elimination of the human raceand the beginning of—What?—Original back cover quote, paperback edition