Flash Forward is a show about possible (and not so possible) future scenarios. What would the warranty on a sex robot look like? How would diplomacy work if we couldn’t lie? Could there ever be a fecal transplant black market? (Complicated, it wouldn’t, and yes, respectively, in case you’re curious.) Hosted and produced by award winning science journalist Rose Eveleth, each episode combines audio drama and journalism to go deep on potential tomorrows, and uncovers what those futures might re ...
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Quantum computation pioneer David Deutsch of the University of Oxford is working on something new: constructor theory. A new way to describe and understand the underlying principles of physics, he hopes it will be a fundamental theory of how we understand the world.
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