Aurora and Hope
Seldon Crisis – The Podcast
English - March 15, 2023 01:45 - 24 minutes - 56.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsScience Fiction Fiction Drama scifi science fiction Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Future Visions with Kim Stanley Robinson
Next Episode: AI and Humanity, a conversation with GPT-4
I bask in the afterglow of the KSR episode and indulge in a special treat; a reading from Robinson's 2015 novel Aurora. I follow that up with some thoughts on the utopia - dystopia divide and introduce the ideas of some notable utopians I've run into lately.
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David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands: Long Now Foundation (YouTube)
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Long Now Foundation (YouTube)
Johanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures of Cities: (Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast)
Rebecca Solnit: Why Climate Despair is a Luxury (New Statesman)
Matt Oja: Let's Imagine the Coastside Skyway (Half Moon Bay Review)
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