Doomsday Live, Part 2

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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If there is only one show you hear about the end of the world, let it be this one. Recorded before a live audience at the Computer History Museum on October 27th, 2012, this two-part special broadcast of Big Picture Science separates fact from fiction in doomsday prediction. In this second episode: a global viral pandemic … climate change … and the threat of assimilation by super-intelligent machines. Presented as part of the Bay Area Science Festival. Find out more about our guests and their work. Guests: • Kirsten Gilardi – Wildlife veterinarian at the University of California, Davis. leader of the Gorilla Doctors program, and team leader for the US-AID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT program • Ken Caldeira – Climate scientist, Carnegie Intuition for Science at Stanford University • Luke Muehlhauser – Executive Director of the Singularity Institute • Bradley Voytek – Neuroscience researcher at the University of California, San Francisco Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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