This hour, we’ll talk about the ethics of changing who we are – and about how these technologies could redefine what it is to be human – with Vanderbilt history professor Michael Bess, author of “Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future.”
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We’ll talk about how computers and smartphone actually diminish our ability to think clearly with UCLA professor Shlomo Benartzi, author of “The Smarter Screen.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about how close we are to a Jetsons-like existence with Pulitzer Prize-winning technology writer John Markoff, author of “Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots” (Ecco).
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This hour, we’ll talk about how the discovery affects our understanding of our evolution with Lee Berger, the paleoanthropologist who led the excavation, as well as Marina Elliott and Hanna Morris, who were also on the team.
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This hour, we’ll talk about creating a world in which computers are able to predict our needs before we’ve even thought of them with Pedro Domingos, author of “The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World.”
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We’ll talk about how we beat out all other animals to become the planet’s dominant species with Curtis W. Marean, associate director of Arizona State’s Institute of Human Origins.
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This hour, we’ll talk to Kathy Reichs about injecting her experience as a forensic anthropologist into her most popular fictional character, Temperance Brennan.
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As more and more jobs are becoming automated, some workers are becoming obsolete. This hour, we’ll talk about what that means for the future of our workforce with Derek Thompson, whose story “A World Without Work” appears in The Atlantic.
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Mike Brown’s research was instrumental in the 2006 decision to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet. As the New Horizons probe flies by Pluto this week, we’ll check in with him.
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A panel of health tech advocates explains different ways the genre is making us rich.
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Amanda Boxtel was paralyzed, and a bionic exoskeleton helped her walk again.
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This hour, we’ll talk about why personal connections are the key to helping the less fortunate with computer scientist Kentaro Toyama, author of ‘Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology.’
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