Colin McEnroe Show: Welcome To 2030
Live from the asteroid mines of Chiron Beta Prime ... it's the year 2030!
This is the one conversation we're going to have today that will be held in 2010.
The concept for today's show came out of one of the dangerous meetings we have where we try to think of ideas we can't easily do. We decided to assemble a show that takes place in the year 2030. At first, this seemed like a funny idea, mainly, but this being WNPR, we started talking to actual futurists, the people who try to figure out, decade by decade, what the real drivers for change are and what they're most likely to do our collective reality. Global warming. The rise of China. The fall of China. The Rise of India, Brazil, Indonesia. The effects of total, ubiquitous connectivity, gene tweaking, crop changes, human migrations, transhumanism ...the people you hear on the show today are the real futurists of 2010.
But we invited them to go time traveling with us. See you in 20 years.
You can join the conversation. What excites you about the future? What scares you? What do you think your neighborhood will look like in 2030? Leave your comments below, e-mailcolin@wnpr.org or Tweet us@wnprcolin.
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A future where I don't have
A future where I don't have to type anymore (not one syllable, not one letter of the alphabet). Instead, I'll converse politely with my PC (or whatever we call it in 20 years -ZPad?) and have the machine respond to my verbal requests -- after it completes a retinal scan and requests my password of the hour. Example: ZPad, please wipe all vampire TV Series, books, and movies from your memory. ZPad, complete my tax return and fastmail it in. ZPad, please book me a real-seat for <$1000 Ameri-Euros at the next RedSox game -- and don't put me behind a pole. ZPad, vote "NO" to the latest tax increase in town. Oh, and please check on the whereabouts of my teenage son. Thanks. Turn on some soothing music -- your choice, ZPad. Turn out the lights. Good Night, ZPad.
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