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REPLAY: Andrew Maynard – What Science Fiction Teaches Us About Morality and Existential Risk

July 13, 2020

Andrew Maynard (@2020science) is the Director of the Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University, a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the author of Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies.

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REPLAY: Sam Watts – Understanding the Adoption Curve of VR and Mixed Reality

June 29, 2020

Sam Watts (@vr_sam) is one of the foremost thinkers on VR and the Director of Immersive Technologies at MakeReal, a company that believes that immersive digital products are transforming the way we work, play and learn.

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180. Modeling COVID after the Polio Epidemic and What a Post Corona Future Looks Like | Mary Robinette Kowal

April 13, 2020

Mary Robinette Kowal (@robinettekowal) is a Nebula- and Hugo-award winning science fiction and fantasy author, a puppeteer, and podcaster.

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Cynetic Wolf Excerpt – My Dystopian Sci-Fi Technothriller

March 26, 2020

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My Post-Bioplague Dystopian Audiobook: Cynetic Wolf – 1st Two Chapters for your COVID-19 Quarantine

March 23, 2020

Hey guys, my book is finally about to be published! You can grab it FREE for two days (3/26-27) at mattwardwrites.com/cynetic (link won’t activate until 3/26). After this Friday, it’ll…

175. Accelerated Climate Change, the Melt and Science Fiction’s Role in Saving Humanity | KE Lanning

March 9, 2020

KE Lanning (@kelanningauthor) is an astrophysicist and sci-fi/speculative fiction author of The Melt Trilogy, a series of dystopian fiction novels set in in a world where climate came much faster than anticipated.

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63. Understanding the Adoption Curve of VR and Mixed Reality | Sam Watts

December 12, 2018

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Sam Watts (@vr_sam) is one of the foremost thinkers on VR and the Director of Immersive Technologies at MakeReal, a company that believes that immersive digital products are transforming the way we work, play and learn.

56. What Science Fiction Teaches Us About Morality and Existential Risk | Andrew Maynard

November 26, 2018

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Andrew Maynard (@2020science) is the Director of the Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University, a Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the author of Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies. Andrew’s research focuses on risk innovation and the responsible development and use of emerging technologies.