FastForward Radio — Can You Imagine?

By | May 3, 2009
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>p> NOTE: The audio problem has been fixed, and this show is back up. You can find it here.

Phil Bowermaster discusses the role that the human imagination plays in bringing about the future.

What is the relationship between the limits of human imagination and the limits of potential human accomplishment? Put another way — is our imagination adequate to the task of describing the future we have in store?

Show Notes below.

  • Dave Coles

    A possible side effect of Believable Virtual Reality (BVR, a term I just made up) is: Who’s going to need or want a big house, or a second house, or a boat, or a private plane or an expensive cruise in a world of BVR? Some will, of course, but won’t a huge amount of money stop flowing into luxury homes, vehicles and goods? Won’t a side-effect of BVR be that our needs and lives and budgets in the world of meat simplify themselves and come to deal deal more and more with food and shelter and necessities, while our fun migrates into BVR where fun is cheap and plentiful and we’re rich and powerful? Also, what resources will this effect free up to fund scientific, and particularly medical research?