How Storytelling Prevented Nuclear War

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🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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How did movies change the Cold War? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice learn about how apocalyptic films influenced us and began the first cybersecurity measures with Future of Life Award recipients and filmmakers Lawrence Lasker, Walter Parkes, and Nicholas Meyer.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk, we're exploring the Future of Life Award.
0:05.2	Who gets it?
0:06.0	People who had something to do with the preservation of civilization.
0:10.9	And most recently, it was given to storytellers, the writers, directors of the 1980s film
0:18.0	War Games, and the day after.
0:22.2	We're going to find out why they are celebrated now in the 40th anniversary
0:26.4	of the appearance of those films and what that had to say for the preservation of life, society, and civilization as we know it.
0:37.0	Coming up on Star Talk.
0:40.0	Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:48.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:52.0	This is Star Talk.
0:55.0	Neil degrass Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:59.0	And of course I got Chuck Nice with me.
1:00.0	Hey Neil, all right, ma'am?
1:02.0	And you know what we're going to talk about today? The
1:04.7	Future of Life Award. Oh, wow. You know, I would think that just getting to go into the future is an
1:12.2	award.
1:12.6	Oh, an award or reward for life hard earned.
1:18.9	Let's find out more about this and bring in our two guests.
1:23.3	First, Larry Lasker, Larry, welcome.
1:25.4	Thank you.
1:26.2	Nice to be here.
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