Stephen Euin Cobb
Stephen Euin Cobb
has interviewed over 350 people for his work as an
author, columnist, magazine writer, futurist, and award-winning podcaster.
For the last nine years he has produced a weekly podcast about the future
called
The Future And You.
A contributing editor for
Space and Time Magazine since 2009, Stephen has
also been a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen’s Universe
Magazine (2006–2010), a contributing editor for Robot Magazine (2009–2010),
and has written for Humanity+ Magazine, Grim Couture Magazine,
Port Iris Magazine, and Digit Magazine.
Stephen has spoken to over 150 audiences at 30 conventions. He has
lectured, participated on discussion panels (often moderating the panels
because of his experience conducting interviews), and assisted in teaching
workshops about how to write with greater clarity and power.
His 350 interviews have included bestselling authors, as well as
researchers, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, comedians, academics,
politicians, and even celebrities from TV and movies. Many of his interviews
were for magazine articles, or in front of an audience for their
entertainment, but most were for their opinion about the future and aired
on his show, The Future And You.
In the nine years since he started doing
The Future And You, his hundreds
of guests have described thousands of trends that they have observed. These
trends are transforming our world from what it is now into what it will
become in the years and decades ahead. Listeners in 167 nations around the
world celebrated its
300th episode on April 24, 2013. (Because all past
episodes remain available, you can still listen to the 300th episode; as
well as all those from the oldest to the most recent.)
Lifeboat Foundation board members interviewed at length on The Future And
You include
Joe Haldeman;
Greg Bear;
Kevin J. Anderson;
Natasha Vita-More, Ph.D.;
Ben Bova, Ph.D.;
Jerry Pournelle, Ph.D.;
Philippe Van Nedervelde, M.A.;
Catherine Asaro, Ph.D.;
Nancy Kress, M.S.;
Ramez Naam;
Zoltan Istvan;
Gregory Benford, Ph.D.;
David Brin, Ph.D.;
RU Sirius;
Anders Sandberg, Ph.D.;
Robert J. Sawyer;
Alan Dean Foster, M.F.A.;
Amara D. Angelica;
Michael Anissimov;
John Ringo;
Elizabeth Bear;
David Orban;
David Pearce;
Sarah A. Hoyt, M.A.;
José Luis Cordeiro, Ph.D.;
Mike Treder;
Giulio Prisco;
Tim Mack, J.D.;
George P. Dvorsky;
Youngsook Park, Ph.D.; and
Matt Browne, M.S.
(This is far from an exhaustive list.)
Topics discussed include nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, human
augmentation, nootropics (brain enhancing chemicals), molecular
manufacturing, exoplanets, cryonics, 3D printing, robotics, controlled
fusion, computers wired directly into the human brain, genetic engineering
of humans and other biotechnology, mind uploading (measuring a complete
connectome and then running it in software), global climate change and the
current interglacial period, faster-than-light travel, cloning, stem cell
research, war in earth orbit, futurology as a scientific discipline, social
marketing (the engineering of carefully-chosen attitude changes within a
population), transhumanism, extropianism, and the technologies of remaining
healthy more-or-less indefinitely.
Stephen’s nonfiction books include
A Brief History of Predicting the Future
as well as
Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary
Future Science. His novels, which are all set deep in the future, include
Bones Burnt Black (set in 2039),
Plague at Redhook (set in 2134), and
Skinbrain (set in 2165).
