Mar 25 2014 29 mins
Topic: Google Projects--the astounding variety of things Google is working on right now, many of which will change the future. Anti-aging research, healthcare, robotics, pushing the internet into places in the world where it does not yet reach, driving down the cost of smartphones, and much more. Your host reads selections from (and provides commentary on) a long and thorough article entitled "The 2014 Google tracker—Everything we know Google is working on this year" which was written by Ron Amadeo and published by Ars Technica.
Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the March 26, 2014 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 30 minutes]
Stephen Euin Cobb is an author, futurist, magazine writer and host of the award-winning podcast The Future And You. A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor for Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. He is an artist, essayist, game designer, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. Stephen is the author of Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science as well as A Brief History of Predicting the Future.