What If We Could Shrink Technology?

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is all about making our technologies and medicines tiny. Like, super tiny. Guests: Ainissa Ramirez -- scientist, speaker, author of The Alchemy of Us Eun Ji Chung -- biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California Inge Hermann -- chemical engineer at ETH Zürich Raj Bawa -- biotechnologist at Bawa Biotech Richard Handy -- environmental toxicologist at University of Plymouth Lisa Yaszek -- professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech Voice Actors: Harry Purvis -- Brett Tubbs Parvis Tech -- Chelsey B. Coombs → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Music provided by Jay_You and Ketsa. Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Mattie Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Episode Sponsors: BirdNote Daily: BirdNote Daily is a short, two-minute podcast that answers all of your burning bird-related questions — like, how do birds stay perched in a tree when they’re asleep? What's the difference between a raven and crow? What’s the biggest bird that’s ever lived? The World As You'll Know It: a podcast about the forces shaping our future. Skillshare: Skillshare is an online learning community where millions come together to take the next step in their creative journey, with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. Start with a free month of Premium Membership, and explore your creativity at Skillshare.com/flashforward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward. I'm Rose and I am your host. Flash Forward is a show about
0:13.8	the future. Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:20.0	We always start with a little field trip into the future to check out what is going on,
0:24.3	and then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world we just heard might
0:31.0	really go down. Got it? Great. This episode we are starting in the year 2065.
0:41.4	Hi there, can I help you? Hi, yeah I have a two p.m. appointment. Great you can actually check in
0:47.5	at the kiosk over there first. Oh okay. Have I seen anywhere? We'll be right with you.
1:03.3	Harry Purvis? That's me. Right this way. You've been here before? Oh no first time.
1:13.2	Ah, do you have any questions? No, I don't think so. Great. If you do just ring the little bell by the door of your pod.
1:27.9	Here we are. After you. Oh sure. When I leave Yelundras and place your clothes in that bin there,
1:38.9	then all you have to do is lay down in that little open pod. And when you're ready, press the start
1:44.0	icon on the screen. The one thing I need to confirm is that there's no metal in your body currently,
1:49.4	correct? Yes. No piercings, no metal staples, no replaced knees, nothing like that, right? Right,
1:57.5	nothing. Great. Well, if you do have any piercings or anything like that that you maybe don't want
2:03.0	to tell me about in this moment, it's important for you to remove them before you enter the pod.
2:07.4	There's a little plastic container there on the desk to store them in. Enjoy.
2:37.6	Hello, Harry. And welcome to Parvice. Please close your eyes. Now, imagine a baseball bat.
2:58.6	Imagine slicing that baseball bat into 100 pieces. Each piece would be about the size of your
3:05.3	fingertip. Now imagine taking that fingertip and slicing it again 100 times. Each of those pieces
3:13.7	would be about the size of the eye of a needle. Now take that needle eye and again, imagine slicing
3:20.9	it up 100 times. Each of those pieces would be the thickness of a single human hair. Now imagine
3:29.7	slicing that human hair again 100 times. One of those 100 slices is the size of a red blood cell,
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