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Lovebots
- By: Beth Phillips, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 10 mins
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Would you ever date a robot? What about fall in love with a robot? Beth Phillips explains why the future of love and sex with robots is pretty much inevitable, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Beth Phillips is a PhD candidate who studies teamwork between humans and robots at the University of Central Florida.
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Lovebots
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 08-15-16
- Language: English
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Robots on the Battlefield
- By: Erik Schechter, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 11 mins
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What does a Terminator look like in real life? Erik Schechter takes us on a tour of the past, present, and future of killer robots at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Erik Schechter is a veteran, former defense contractor, PR agent, and journalist who has written for Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, and Popular Mechanics.
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Robots on the Battlefield
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 09-05-16
- Language: English
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Mobile Transformations
- By: Joshua Bell
- Length: 11 mins
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How are mobile phones changing us? Joshua Bell doesn’t want you to be afraid of your phone— but he does want you to understand it better. An anthropologist working at the intersection of mobile phone technology and the human trajectory. In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Bell examines the shifting relationship between people, artifacts and the environment.
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Mobile Transformations
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Inhabiting Mars
- By: Adam Stelzner
- Length: 10 mins
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Where will find life beyond Earth? In August of 2012, NASA landed the Curiosity Rover on the Surface of Mars. Through data collected by Curiosity, NASA scientists have determined that ancient Mars could likely have supported life.
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Inhabiting Mars
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Sustainable Seas
- By: Alexandra Cousteau
- Length: 10 mins
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How will we feed the Earth's growing population? In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, explorer, storyteller, and environmentalist Alexandra Cousteau discusses growing up in the real ‘life aquatic’, and how saving the oceans is the key to feeding the planet.
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Sustainable Seas
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 10 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Who Invented the Internet?
- By: Vinton Cerf
- Length: 12 mins
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Have you ever Googled the phrase “who invented the internet?” Vinton G. Cerf’s name is in the top results. Granted, he does work at Google, but as the Co-designer of TCP/IP protocols and the basic architecture of the Internet, his claim is pretty legit. In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Vinton not only recounts the birth of this thing we now totally take for granted, how he uses it to keep teenagers out of his wine cellar, and where he sees it going in the future.
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Who Invented the Internet?
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Science Fact and 'Martian' Fiction
- By: Jim Green
- Length: 11 mins
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How realistic was 'The Martian'? In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Jim Green separates science fact from science fiction in the popular film The Martian. Learn not just what Hollywood got right, but what they missed.
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Science Fact and 'Martian' Fiction
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Watson's Next Move
- By: Marc Teerlink, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 11 mins
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What has Watson the supercomputer been up to since winning Jeopardy in 2011? Marc Teerlink tells us about Watson's last four years, and where cognitive supercomputers are headed, at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Marc Teerlink is the Chief Business Strategist at IBM's Watson Group. This talk was originally recorded in May 2015.
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Watson's Next Move
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 11 mins
- Release date: 05-30-16
- Language: English
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Floating Buildings
- By: Greg Henderson, Rachel Hamburg
- Length: 7 mins
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How do you make a building truly sustainable, when the land it's built on is susceptible to floods and earthquakes? Architect Greg Henderson has a surprising answer, which he discussed at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. About the Speaker: Greg Henderson is an architect and the co-founder of the architecture technology firm Arx Pax.
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Floating Buildings
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 7 mins
- Release date: 08-22-16
- Language: English
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Deep Space Robotics
- By: Tony Antonelli
- Length: 9 mins
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How can't fragile human bodies survive deep space exploration? Maybe they don't have to. In this talk at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC, Tony Antonelli explains the challenges of deep space exploration for humans, and how robotics will help us transcend our fragile bodies in space.
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Deep Space Robotics
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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Martian Self-Reliance
- By: Dava Newman
- Length: 9 mins
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Could we really colonize Mars? This episode features NASA Deputy Administrator, Dava Newman, in conversation with author and astronomer Phil Plait at Smithsonian Magazine's The Future Is Here Festival in Washington, DC. Learn not just how NASA plans to get to Mars, but why it will ultimately have to be self-sustaining on the Red Planet. Actually, I’m still trying to figure that out on Earth.
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Martian Self-Reliance
- Series: Future Is Here
- Length: 9 mins
- Release date: 09-20-17
- Language: English
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