BODIES: Enter Night

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today we travel to a future where humans can see at night. What happens when we expand our vision out into the darkness? How does that impact everything from work, to architecture, to poaching to horror movies? And is it even possible? → → → Further reading on today’s episode can be found here ← ← ← 🚨 BECOME A PATRON BEFORE JUNE 30TH AND GET A SPECIAL REWARD! 🚨 Guests: Gang Han -- researcher at UMass Medical School Gabriel Licina -- researcher and “sometimes biohacker” Lynne MacTavish -- operations manager at Mankwe Wildlife Reserve A. Roger Ekirch -- historian at Virginia Tech and author of At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past Ernest Freeberg -- historian at the University of Tennessee and author of The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America Actors: Maria -- Cara Rose de Fabio Gaby -- Eler de Grey Marquis -- Rotimi Agbabiaka (check out his new solo show called Manifesto on June 21 at the African American Arts and Culture Complex as part of the National Queer Arts Festival.) John -- Keith Houston (also check out his karaoke nights in San Francisco) Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Special thanks to Adria Otte and Molly Monihan at the Women’s Audio Mission, where all the intro scenes were recorded this season. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to flash forward. This is the first episode of a new mini season where I'm going to show you five different futures related to the theme of bodies. You know those squishy meat sacks that we all have.
0:23.0	Sometimes they behave nicely.
0:24.5	Sometimes they don't.
0:26.4	Sometimes we like how they work,
0:28.0	and sometimes we think they could use some improvements.
0:31.5	Sometimes we have full control over them and sometimes they seem to have a mind of their own.
0:37.0	As I record this right now I have this weird twitch in my right shoulder muscle for example
0:41.3	which is very distracting and strange and I cannot make it stop.
0:45.0	But anyway, who am I? What is this show? What are we all doing here on this planet?
0:48.8	I can only really answer two of those questions.
0:51.5	I'm Rose, I'm your host, and I am going to guide you through all of these
0:55.6	strange and surprising what if scenarios. Flashforward is a show about the future.
1:01.2	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so
1:05.1	possible future scenario. We always start with a little fictional field trip to
1:10.3	the future to check out what's going on and then we teleport back to today to talk to
1:15.9	real experts about how that world that we just heard might actually go down.
1:21.3	Got it? Great. Before we go to the future, I want to tell you two more things. First, there is new
1:28.6	merch in the Flashforward store, which is very exciting. My personal favorite is this new t-shirt
1:34.2	that says, Imagine Better Futures,
1:36.0	but we also have pins and bags and trophies.
1:38.5	If you've ever wanted to give someone
1:39.9	a worst futurist trophy, wow, now you can via the store. You can find all of that stuff at
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