The Living in the Future Podcast

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 is a short essay on AI, some of it's drawbacks and pitfalls

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 just wanted to share a short essay on why I still use physical media by way of Winston Smith and Marshall McLuhan.

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.

This episode I talk to Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer. GNUStep is a development framework that closely follows the one used on Mac OS. It allows people to take the code of programs written for Mac OS and use them on other systems like Windows or Linux with almost no development work. It also allows people to write programs using an environment similar to the one on Mac OS. We’ll talk about the history of Next,OS X, and GNUStep’s history and future. You can learn more about GNUStep here.

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!

I know I haven't uploaded one of these in a while. I've been very busy with work and the pandemic. I did write this short little essay and wanted to record it and put it up as a way to share something.

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.

Mike Mason takes care of the Call of Cthulhu line of table top roleplaying games for Chaosium and is the co-writer of the current edition of the game. We discuss the game, how to play, and some discussion of the Cthulhu mythos as well.