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 #000001 - The Fun They Had
April 20, 2012 04:00 - 21 minutes - 9.71 MBA short story by Issac Asimov that looks at the future of education through the eyes of children 100+ years in the future (200 from publication date). Two children discover an ancient educational device in their grandma’s attic called a “book.” They marvel at the idea that children once went to school to be taught together by a person rather than have individual instruction at home on their mechanical “teacher.” The Tech: a mechanical "teacher"