The Living in the Future Podcast

This episode we have a audio play called Through this door, the future. It highlights the promise and perils of techno futurism all set at a town fair through the eyes of a child.

This is a short audio essay on the death of the PC and the birth of the Network Computer. I believe both were ushered into existence by Steve Jobs and the essay details what was so special about the Personal Computer and what some of the perils of the Network Computer are.

This episode is a dramatic presentation of a short play I wrote called 'The Human Problem', featuring a healthy debate on AI, and perhaps even aliens. This recording was Directed by Katy Lim, sound design and performance by Wesley Apfel, sound effects provided by the website pixabay with Dean Williams played by Zack Graham,the host was played by Kelli Dawn Hancock who you can find on imdb at http://www.imdb.me/kellidawnhancock and other social media as @kelli_dawn and William Barstow played by DW McCann his website is www.DWMcCann.com and instagram account is @Bardic_DW Steven Dorvan and time announcements by Erik Patterson his website is www.erikpatterson.org and on tiktok at @YourDailyWritingPrompt.

This episode I talk to Tom Derose research manager at the Freud Museum London . We discuss the museum in general as well as an upcoming exhibit which relates Freud's antiquity collection to the development and practice of various concepts in psychoanalysis.

I’ve been spending a lot of time going over visions of the future from the past, specifically those animated by the Disney corporation, this short essay talks about some observations regarding the futuristic worlds they portrayed.

I've authored a few new books and in this episode I'll do a reading from one of them. It's a short story from the science fiction short story collection I authored called Tales from the Last Space Age . I've also written a book on economic matters called It's not going to get Better Also be sure to check out my first book Mythologies and their creation As always thanks for listening!

This episode I interview two developers recreating historically significant computers so that indivuals can try them out inexpensively and easily. First Oscar Vermeulen who created the Pidp-8 and Pidp-11 projects to recreate the physical appearance as well as the experience of the pdp-8 and pdp-11, computers critical to modern operating system history. Then I interview Josh Dersch about his work recreating the Xerox alto and Xerox star, machines that pioneered graphical user interfaces, WYSIWYG document editing, and the desktop metaphor.

In this episode I talk to two projects digitizing and preserving works in the public domain. Musopen.org is an effort to provide zero cost and public domain recordings and resources for classical music. Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders rescues and digitizes texts from book scans and makes them readable for everyone.