This week, Adam talks with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, physicist and author of the new book The Edge of Spacetime, about their shared love of Star Trek and its vision of a hopeful future. They also talk about labor organizing, freaking out people at conventions, and how the real Star Trek is (literally, unironically) the friends we made along the way.
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Dreaming Against the Machine is a podcast about envisioning a realistic and hopeful future. Each week, the show’s host, journalist and astrophysicist Dr. Adam Becker, will have an earnest (and entertaining!) conversation with a guest about possible futures, seen through the lenses of history, science, and culture. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the terms of the public conversation about what our world can and should be.
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