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LifeAfter/The Message

After LifeAfter

LifeAfter/The Message

GE Podcast Theater / Panoply / The Message

Fiction, Science Fiction

4.43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Astrophysicist, StarTalk host, and self-proclaimed sci-fi geek Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a round table talking about the science behind the science-fiction in GE Podcast Theater’s LifeAfter. Joining him are computer scientist and humanity-centered robotics expert, Michael Littman; leading software research expert Colin Parris; and the show’s writer, Mac Rogers. Let the tech geeking begin.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Meet your next audiobook, Listen.

0:02.0

Go Season by Fatina Boss.

0:04.2

This dynamic story about the deep and sometimes unspoken truths that run through borders,

0:09.5

relationships, and conflict is set on the Sudanese border where there's a body.

0:14.5

There are complex relationships.

0:16.4

There are consequences for getting it wrong.

0:18.8

And there is much on the ever-changing and unmapped line.

0:22.0

Narrated by Dion Graham and Bonnie Turpin, once you press play,

0:25.7

you'll be invested until the last word.

0:28.0

Listen now on Spotify.

0:34.3

Welcome to After, Life After.

0:37.2

This is a roundtable discussion, picking up where the sci-fi thriller Life After leaves off.

0:43.5

I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson from StarTalk Radio.

0:46.5

As you know, I'm a scientist.

0:47.6

I'm interested in science, both in the universe and in fiction and in any way gets

0:52.8

delivered to our civilization and so I'm very excited to host this after show.

0:59.9

Life After handles very deep questions that prevail in society today.

1:05.5

They're not problems we have today.

1:06.7

They're problems we might have tomorrow, like what happens to our digital lives when we're gone.

1:13.0

Assume we have created digital versions of ourselves in advance.

1:17.1

Or could you take an online personality and bring it back to life?

1:21.5

So I'm here.

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