Tomorrow's technology: from asteroid mining to programmable matter – Science Weekly podcast



In 1974, science fiction writer and futurist Arthur

C Clarke went on Australian television and was asked to predict the future. He came up with something eerily similar to what we today call the internet. As far as futurists’ predictions go, it was a rare success. Forty years later are we any better at crystal ball-gazing? What emerging technologies might change the world as we know it today? And what clues are scientists giving us in the here and now?

Exploring all this and more, Ian Sample sits down with Rice University’s adjunct assistant professor, Dr Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith. Co-authors of a new futurist book like no other, Kelly and Zach transport Ian into the future of technology, including asteroid mining, pogo-ing spaceships, and printable organs.


1https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2017/nov/15/tomorrows-technology-from-asteroid-mining-to-programmable-matter-science-weekly-podcast

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