The future of energy over the next 300 years with Cory Doctorow
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Robert talks to Cory Doctorow, a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organization, using some of their licences for his books. This podcast is all about science fiction, the future of energy over the next 300 years, climate change, data security and future transport systems, smart meters and energy ownership
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| 0:00.0 | So let's see. Yeah. So, Hello and welcome to another episode of the |
| 0:45.0 | glorious and gorgeous fully charged show podcast. Oh my lord this episode is like all really good. |
| 0:49.0 | I really want you to carry on listening because this is going to be brilliant. |
| 0:53.0 | So I think it was about 12 or 13 years ago I used to make a video series that was on iTunes |
| 1:01.3 | and YouTube called Carpool. |
| 1:03.0 | This does predate by a considerable period of time. |
| 1:07.0 | Jerry Seinfeld's comedians and cars getting coffee |
| 1:10.0 | and also Carpool Carpool Carrioke. |
| 1:15.0 | You know, not that Carpool, the one I did was original. |
| 1:18.6 | People have put cameras in cars before and recorded the consequences. But I did it a lot. So about 140 |
| 1:25.2 | episodes of carpool I made, 99% of them completely on my own. It was a kind of |
| 1:30.0 | experiment in new broadcasting at the time. A very wide variety of guests |
| 1:35.1 | they're all still on not all of them, loads of them on YouTube. Somewhere they're |
| 1:38.9 | buried in the in the basement of iTunes which doesn't exist. I don't even know how you'd find those. |
| 1:46.5 | That's where all of them are. Anyway, so one of those guests I had when I was doing |
| 1:51.5 | carpool was a man called Cori Doctor. He's a science fiction writer, a digital rights activist, an incredible intellect, an incredible communicator, an extraordinary man, and I drove him across London. |
| 2:05.9 | He was going to a big conference in America at the time. |
| 2:10.1 | This would have been about 2008 and we were in a Prius, that's what I filmed the carpools in. |
| 2:16.0 | And it was an amazing journey, and he inspired me to try and self-publish my own books which I never managed to do. I'm not well |
| 2:27.4 | organised what he does and he's brilliant at it. He'll talk about that a bit in |
| 2:31.8 | the podcast but so he was just really encouraging and |
| 2:35.4 | inspirational and he's really good at sharing everything and he really believes |
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