Nnedi Okorafor Sees The Future

Paul Giamatti’s CHINWAG with Stephen Asma

Treefort Media & Touchy Feely Films

Society & Culture, History, Science

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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🌍📚✍🏾 Award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor, who coined the term "Africanfuturism" joins co-hosts Paul Giamatti and Stephen Asma on this episode of CHINWAG. Tickling mice, javelin-throwing nuns and making friends with sentient AI are just some of the detours their conversation takes this week. Can Stephen and Nnedi finally bridge the gap between cat people and dog people and bring long-lasting peace to civilization? Paul Giamatti is an award-winning actor and producer. Stephen Asma is a professor and author specializing in the philosophy of science, religion, and art. Nnedi Okrafor is the winner of Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus and Lodestar Awards. Her works include WHO FEARS DEATH and the BINTI novella trilogy. Note: This episode was recorded prior to the SAG-AFTRA strike. 🌍📚✍🏾 New episodes drop Wednesdays for free... n(🧊) Make sure to follow us @chinwagpod 👉🏼 YT: https://www.youtube.com/@chinwagpod IG: https://www.instagram.com/chinwagpod/ Tik: https://www.tiktok.com/@chinwagpod Website: http://chinwagpod.fm For Treefort details 🏄‍♂️ on over here Site: https://treefort.fm Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treefort.fm/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody it's Paul Giamotti speaking.
0:08.0	Stephen Asmas I live and breathe. How are you sir? I'm doing well. Are you familiar with NPR's throughline podcast
0:14.8	Steve yeah it's an excellent podcast I've been listening to it for a while yeah
0:18.4	you're a listener yeah I love this show every week they go back in time to understand the present because you can't
0:25.1	fully understand the moment we're living in without knowing where we've been, right?
0:28.3	Very true. And on every episode of NPR's throughline, the host take a story from the news and go back to where it started.
0:34.8	They seek to answer one important question, how did we get here?
0:38.3	It's interesting stuff.
0:39.5	They have some amazing topics I think our audience will find intriguing.
0:42.5	There was a recent one about the scientist
0:44.4	who tried to stop the aging process
0:46.5	because he deemed old age to be a disease that he could cure.
0:50.4	So it gets into all kinds of weird stuff.
0:52.6	Wow. Eternal youth, our fear of aging, our fear of death,
0:55.6	that traces he feelings back thousands of years.
0:58.2	It's remarkable discussion.
0:59.8	So very cool stuff.
1:01.3	If you're interested in learning about how the past informs the present,
1:04.6	you'll love the Thru Line podcast from NPR. On NPR's Thru Line, the Past is brought back to life
1:10.7	and listeners get to go inside the stories from then that shape the world we live in now.
1:15.6	Past is shrouded in mystery, correct Steve?
1:18.0	It is.
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