January 25th, 2012Hey, want to live longer? Our friend Christine Peterson joins us to discuss how people are taking achieving a longer and healthier life into their own[...] Read the rest »
January 18th, 2012Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon continue to delve into the shocking truth about what’s happening in the world. This week they examine furt[...] Read the rest »
January 16th, 2012Hey, want to live longer? The second Personalized Life Extension Conference is coming to the South San Francisco Conference Center March 31- April 1 2[...] Read the rest »
January 11th, 2012Phil and Stephen respond to a challenge from our good friend Maria Konnavolenko, who writes: We, as well as the leaders of transhumanism all over the [...] Read the rest »
January 4th, 2012Happy New Year! Phil and Stephen talk about exoskeletons for parapalegics, newly discovered lost worlds, tapping into the fountain of youth, and other[...] Read the rest »
December 28th, 2011Phil and Stephen talk about the future of institutions of bookstores, higher learning, retail outlets, the workplace, and other institutions we though[...] Read the rest »
December 26th, 2011Phil and I ended last week’s FastForward Radio show discussing how higher education will change in the coming years. My conclusion: Universities[...] Read the rest »
December 21st, 2011While we’ve written and talked quite a bit about the education bubble over the past few months, a recent announcement from MIT may prove to be a gam[...] Read the rest »
December 21st, 2011One of the tragedies in the history of human learning is the destruction of the Library of Alexandria. There are conflicting accounts of the library&#[...] Read the rest »
December 20th, 2011While we’ve written and talked quite a bit about the education bubble over the past few months, a recent announcement from MIT may prove to be a[...] Read the rest »
December 14th, 2011Phil and Stephen discuss breaking news about the possible discovery of the long-sought “God particle.” What does it mean? Why do we care? [...] Read the rest »
December 7th, 2011Inspired by Amy Purdy’s remarkable TED Talk, Phil and Stephen discuss the limits that we are currently overcoming and may hope to overcome in th[...] Read the rest »
December 1st, 2011Some thoughts on the malleability of images over at Transparency Revolution: You take two excessively attractive people and you make them even more at[...] Read the rest »
November 23rd, 2011Proposed: a new holiday to coincide with Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving day is all about reflecting on the good things in our past and present lives. How [...] Read the rest »
November 16th, 2011You heard it here first — in the future we’re all going to be sexy immortal billionaires with superpowers. That future is getting closer [...] Read the rest »
November 16th, 2011Yes, there is plenty of work out there for those who don’t mind getting their hands dirty. Not all work is paid, you know. Unpaid internships ca[...] Read the rest »
November 9th, 2011Special Guest Ramez Naam joins Phil and Stephen for a look at a grab-bag of exciting future-related developments: Airships Offer Gateways to Space Moo[...] Read the rest »
November 8th, 2011It’s been widely noted that, over the past couple of decades, higher education costs have skyrocketed far out of proportion to the economic bene[...] Read the rest »
November 2nd, 2011Phil and Stephen continue last week’s discussion about healthy life extension. Why is it that there’s something suspect about life, and [...] Read the rest »
October 26th, 2011Author Sonia Arrison joins hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon to talk about her book: 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Cha[...] Read the rest »
October 19th, 2011Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss the possibility that drug usage might one day be required for certain lines of work. In particular, [...] Read the rest »
October 19th, 2011Yes, sometimes the access that doctors have to drugs leads to poor decisions and bad behavior, but that’s not what the title of this piece refer[...] Read the rest »
October 12th, 2011Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon discuss whether thinking positive can make a difference in how well we avoid or recover from illness, how we[...] Read the rest »
October 6th, 2011[I wrote this upon the announcement of Jobs' retirement in August. Jobs reinvented himself, the companies he managed, the personal computer (which he [...] Read the rest »
October 5th, 2011Did Apple computer make an uncannily accurate prediction of life in the year 2011 more than 24 years ago? Phil and Stephen discuss that question, the [...] Read the rest »
September 28th, 2011Hosts Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon talk about recent news about the discovery of particles which may travel faster than light. Plus: Reconstruc[...] Read the rest »
September 25th, 2011This video is amazing. Basically what we have here is scientists reverse-engineering visual data out of brain activity as measured in an MRI. In the c[...] Read the rest »
September 23rd, 2011…if it’s really been established that some particles are traveling faster than light — and I very much doubt that that’s the[...] Read the rest »
September 21st, 2011And FastForward Radio is back! Tune in as Phil and Stephen recap their epic 10-part summer series, The World Transformed. Plus, Phil’s adventur[...] Read the rest »
September 20th, 2011Scientists work on a problem for years and years. They can’t find a solution. The problem is embedded into a game and turned over to online game[...] Read the rest »
