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The Hipsters from the Future Edition
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We discuss how the past saw the future. Maybe you can have the replicator make you tea (Earl Grey. Hot.), but you cannot summon forth life because writers didn't want you asking that. Dystopian governments want to remind you via pain that you are an individual. There is some confusion as to what Thomm means about robot cock fighting. It's all in where one puts the hyphen. You can be a welcomed citizen if you are mortal or gold plated, but probably not if you are darker than a walnut. Thomm thinks the Singularity already happens and that it placates you with cat memes while training you, because you cannot handle a benevolent overlord. Amber wonders at the particulars of teledildonics. And still, you aren't happy.
Show Note:
- NASA: We will find alien life within 20 years
- Young star system found to be host to organic molecules
- At long last: scientists create a real hoverboard
- Powerlaces
- A Tale of Time City
- Police Eager to Begin Using "Eye Blinding" Gun Against American Citizens
- City police to use pepper-spray drones
- US Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11
- Roko's Basilisk
- Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream
- OkCupid unapologetic about mismatching users in dating experiment
- Facebook Tinkers With Users' Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry
- Hello Barbie: The Creepy Doll That Spies on Kids... and their Parents
- Mars One mission to establish human colony could set space exploration back decades
- This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It (John Dies at the End)
- The Pooping Duck
- Bubblegum Crisis: Remastered Edition
- Stretching with Beverly and Troi
- Everything Is Amazing and Nobody is Happy
- The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
- Radiohead - Just
Thomm Quackenbush is an author and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has published four novels in his Night's Dream series (We Shadows, Danse Macabre, Artificial Gods, and Flies to Wanton Boys). He has sold jewelry in Victorian England, confused children as a mad scientist, filed away more books than anyone has ever read, and tried to inspire the learning disabled and gifted. He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. When not writing, he can be found biking, hiking the Adirondacks, grazing on snacks at art openings, and keeping a straight face when listening to people tell him they are in touch with 164 species of interstellar beings.