7. Wonderland
The Coming Storm
BBC
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In the 1990s a group of futurist thinkers meet on one of the world’s first email lists. The Extropians imagine a world of augmented human bodies, nanotechnology, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence.
Now, some of the thinkers on that email list are turning that AI future into a reality. But others are now worried - what if the AI ends up in charge of us all?
As we head into an epochal shift for humanity, questions about democracy and tyranny run through the debates about how fast or slow to move forward. Because we don’t want to end up living in the Matrix…
Producer: Lucy Proctor Sound design and mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon Script consultants: Richard Fenton-Smith and Afsaneh Gray Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke Original music: Pete Cunningham
CREDITS: Timothy Leary 1992 half-hour appearance with cable TV host Skip E Lowe, copyright unknown, Alan Eichler, YouTube
After all, the body is an extension of fashion, Natasha Vita More, YouTube
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| 0:00.0 | I have more diamonds than the Queen of England. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the world of thieves and hoaxes and con women. |
| 0:10.0 | She does sound fabulous though. |
| 0:11.0 | Massive dogs, lots of cars. But who are these lady swindlers and |
| 0:17.2 | did they get away with their frauds and deceptions by using their feminine |
| 0:22.0 | characteristics? I am the no totally. by using their feminine characteristics. |
| 0:23.5 | I am the notorious Tilly Divine. |
| 0:26.5 | She's a bit of a one-off really. |
| 0:28.5 | Lady Swindlers with Lucy Worsley |
| 0:30.8 | Where True Crime meets History. Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Hello, welcome back. I'm Gabriel Gatehouse and this is podcasts. will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, but if you're in the UK you can listen |
| 0:54.8 | to the latest episodes first on BBC Sounds. |
| 1:01.5 | So, my red pill, here goes. |
| 1:05.0 | Breaking news, Sam Altman is out as CEO of Open AI. |
| 1:10.0 | The company just announced... |
| 1:11.0 | In November last year, a tech company fired its CEO. |
| 1:14.6 | An unremarkable event, you might think, the kind usually relegated to the inside pages of the Financial Times. |
| 1:22.4 | But this isn't any old company. |
| 1:24.4 | This is an earthquake, really Julie. |
| 1:26.3 | The same Altman is a big name in Silicon Valley. |
| 1:29.1 | Open AI is perhaps the leader in the field of artificial intelligence. |
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