Using films like “The Matrix,” a sociology course examines how factors beyond our control shape the world we live in − in fact and in an imagined future.
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Researchers have grown the first human-monkey hybrid embryos as well as mouse embryos in artificial wombs late into development. These biomedical breakthroughs raise different ethical quandaries.
Some people are growing weary with romantic and dystopian visions of the future. Instead, our focus is on now.
In this vision of the future, everything that we currently do in the real world – going to school, going to work, socialising, leisure – is done in a vast virtual environment.
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In this episode we look at historical visions of the future and how accurate they were, the future of work, and what it's like to predict the future for a day job.
Few would remember this fantasy car as a model of motoring excellence. It owes its success instead to a fantasy film that has turned 30.
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James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute & Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor in Italian Studies, University College Dublin
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Senior lecturer in Games and Visual Effects, University of Staffordshire
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Professor of Strategy, King's College London
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Professor of Labour and Globalisation, University of Hertfordshire
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Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Professor of Philosophy and Integrative Biology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee