Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything – With Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
Ri Science Podcast · The Royal Institution
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Show Notes
What will the world of tomorrow be like? Kelly and Zach Weinersmith give us a snapshot of the transformative technologies that are coming soon(ish), from space elevators to origami robots, and explain how they will change our world in astonishing ways — maybe for the better, maybe for the worse.Kelly Weinersmith is a Huxley Fellow at Rice University in the BioSciences Department. She studies how host behaviour influences risk of infection with parasites and cohosts Science... Sort Of, one of the top 20 natural science podcasts.Zach Weinersmith is the cartoonist behind the popular geek webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
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