Podcasts about the Future


I've added a couple new podcasts to the stable, Futures in Biotech and Escapepod. Both deal with the future, though from different sides of your brain.

Futures in Biotech is 45 minute segment where the hosts interview a prominent biotech researcher about the latest cutting edge research. It is scary how quickly things are changing in that field. A lot of basic stuff I did when I worked in the field until '95 is now ancient history--we used to be hard pressed to make an artificial strand of DNA that was even 70 base pairs long. The latest episode, which I haven't yet listened to 'cause I'm still catching up, is the evocatively titled Biotech Singularity.

Escapepod is an honest-to-goodness "SF magazine podcast" that pays authors for the rights to read their SF (as well as some fantasy and other harder to classify genre) short stories, one a week. This is, in essence, another paying market for weird stories. Free to download, but if you love it as much as I ended up loving it, you can donate, once, or $5 a month, to support its continued publication and author payment. Recently, the podcast included several Hugo nominated shorts, as well as Asimov's classic Nightfall short story. (Thanks Monte for telling me about this one.)


Posted: Mon - June 25, 2007 at 03:44 PM          

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