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Former physicist Andrew Maynard threads together his love of science-fiction movies with his expertise on emerging technologies to engage, entertain, and make you think about the relationship between technology and society. Through the imagination and creativity of science-fiction movies, Maynard introduces listeners to the profound capabilities presented by new and emerging technologies, and the complex personal and societal challenges they present.

Over the course of 14 billion years, humanity has gained the ability not only to imagine the future, but to design and engineer it. Entertaining and profound, Future Rising by Dr Andrew Maynard, provides a highly original perspective on our relationship with the future. Written to be easy to pick up and hard to stop listening to, Future Rising starts at the big bang and traces a pathway along the emergence of intelligent life, through what makes humans uniquely capable of creating different futures, to the profound responsibilities that this comes with.

Join scientist and author Andrew Maynard on a journey into our relationship with the future, and our responsibility to it. Based on the book Future Rising: A Journey from the Past to the Edge of Tomorrow.

The uncorporate company podcast for Elixirized, the uncorporate group of uncorporate Elixir/Phoenix developers trying to become more corporate by being uncorporate.