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What Does the Future Hold? Listener Prediction Special (Encore)

Posted: February 19, 2015
Last Updated: March 03, 2015

An early version of Google's prototype self-driving car. (Google / Associated Press)

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Listeners predict the future for our planet, our technology and our lives,and Canadian scientists weigh-in on the possibilities of those predictions.  56:48

This week we present an encore broadcast of our program from January 5, 2013:

What Does the Future Hold, a Listener Prediction Special.  

You'll be surprised at how far we've come in just two years!

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Theme music bed copyright Raphaël Gluckstein, Creative Commons License by-nc-nd-2.0

STORIES FROM THIS EPISODE

Self Driving Cars

Listener Prediction Special (Encore): Linda Dow of Sudbury imagined a future in which the tedious chore of driving had been eliminated completely by the development of self-driving cars.

3D Printing Revolution

Listener Ron Roy from Ottawa is a tool-and-die maker, but he sees the future making his work obsolete.

The Future of Fresh Water

Listener Thomas Delahooke from Vancouver's prediction of the future is not of a technological utopia.

Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity

What's the future without super-intelligent computers? Well, nothing at all, if listeners Ron Bobker of Oakville, Ontario and Jeremy Nowack of Southampton, Ontario, are correct.

Fire in the Boreal Forest

Listener Wesley Stevens of Toronto's prediction is a catastrophic worsening of fire conditions in the boreal forest, and the burning of 50% of the great northern forest by 2075.