You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, a show about how we create them and why we suspend

our disbelief, I'm Eric Mullinsky.

So this summer I have been bingeing on a show called The Expans and the Sci-Fi Network.

It's based on a series of novels by James S.A. Corey.

And the series is set in the far future, where humans have colonized the moon, in Mars,

and the asteroid belt, which is full of all these incredible raw materials, but that's

led to this massive intergalactic political infighting in the galaxies on the brink of

war all the time.

Late last night, our routine surveillance of diplomatic core logged an urgent communicate

between Ambassador to Graph and his counterpart on Mars.

Now, one of the things I always love noticing in a show like this are the computer interfaces.

And it's like a part of my brain knows this show is obviously made now on Earth, but

then there's this other part of my brain that actually believes I'm seeing a glimpse

into the future.

And so I'm curious to see what these computer interfaces will look like.

For example, everybody is walking around with these sort of transparent phones that look

like they're made of plastic.

You know, that memory crypt that we took out of that stiff?

Yeah.

Alright, go through the, it had an unregistered flight path.

By the same time I'm thinking, wait a second, that technology is more like 20 years away,

not 200 years away.

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