Tea, Earl Grey, hot
Episode 48
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Audio file
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July 14th, 2017
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1 hr 1 min
What is science fiction?
- Science fiction (Wikipedia)
- Hard versus soft science fiction (Wikipedia)
- Why is science fiction so hard to define? (BBC)
- How America's leading science fiction authors are shaping your future (Smithsonian)
- What is science fiction good for? (Huffington Post)
- The underrated universal appeal of science fiction (The Atlantic)
- Philip K. Dick (Wikipedia)
- An article that notes how Philip K. Dick almost starved to death as a premature infant (The Independent)
- Black Mirror (IMDb)
- Johnny's recommended episodes of Black Mirror to start with: The Entire History of You, S01E03; White Bear, S02E02; San Junipero, S03E04 (Wikipedia)
- Star Trek (Wikipedia)
- James T. Kirk (Wikipedia)
- Jean-Luc Picard (Wikipedia)
- The economic lessons of Star Trek's money-free society (Wired)
- List of science fiction universes (Wikipedia)
- Dr Futurity by Philip K. Dick: The story Lucy was talking about where civilisation isn't fussed about death anymore (Wikipedia)
- The Star Trek Prime Directive (Memory Alpha)
- 6 ways reading & watching science fiction makes you a more ethical person (Bustle)
- Driverless trucks: Economic tsunami may swallow one of most common US jobs (The Guardian)
- A plan in case robots take the jobs: Give everyone a pay check (The New York Times)
- Ten inventions inspired by science fiction (Smithsonian)
- Sci-Fi inspires engineers to build our future (NPR)
- Why today's inventors need to read more science fiction (The Atlantic)
- Isaac Asimov (Wikipedia)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Wikipedia)
- 5 books that predicted the internet (Barnes & Noble)
- The telescreen from 1984 by George Orwell (YouTube)
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Wikipedia)
- Flawed forecasting – when science fiction gets it wrong (The Guardian)
- Robert A. Heinlein (Wikipedia)
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Wikipedia)
- VALIS by Philip K. Dick (Wikipedia)
- The Turning Wheel by Philip K. Dick: The story Lucy mentioned where he takes a jab at L. Ron Hubbard's dianetics book, the foundation of Scientology (Wikipedia)
- L. Ron Hubbard (Wikipedia)
- When L. Ron Hubbard briefly let down his guard & admitted Scientology was all a con (The Underground Bunker)
- "You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion", L. Ron Hubbard (WikiQuote)
- The Star Trek 'PADD': Personal Access Display Device (Memory Alpha)
- Amazon unveils the $230 Echo Show, with a screen for calls, shipping June 28 (TechCrunch)
- Tiger Tiger Chardonnay (Collector Wines)
- Our DNA is 99.9% the same as the person sitting next to us & we're surprisingly similar to a bunch of other living things (Business Insider)
- Plasma aliens could live inside “Black Clouds”: Extraterrestrial life can be stranger than we even dare to imagine (Message To Eagle)
- Iain M. Banks (Wikipedia)
- The Culture series by Iain M. Banks (Wikipedia)
- Elon Musk names SpaceX drone ships in honour of Sci-Fi legend (Space.com)
- Data, the android from Star Trek (Memory Alpha)
- Snowcrash by Neil Stevenson
- Second Life
- The Matrix (IMDb)
- The Holodeck in Star Trek (Memory Alpha)
- Euro Truck Simulator 2 (YouTube)
- Road Work podcast: Dan Benjamin & John Roderick (5by5)
- Roderick on the Line podcast: Merlin Mann & John Roderick (MerlinMann.com)
- Where are you from? Send us a postcard! Strange Attractor, c/ PO Box 9, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia
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