April 23, 2012

Early Adapters

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53 minutes

The times are a’changing – rising temperatures, growing population, and new technology coming at us faster than a greased cheetah.

So how will humans respond? Find out about future farming in the city – your vegetables might be grown in downtown, hi-rise greenhouses. Also, a population expert tells us how our planet can cope with billions more people, and the man who invented the term ‘cyberspace’ describes what the future might hold for the techno-savvy.

Darwinian evolution takes a long time to accommodate to new environments. But Homo sapiens can beat that rap by wielding the right technology – and becoming early adapters.

Guests:

Dickson Despommier - Emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century

William Gibson - Author, most recently, of Zero History

Joel Cohen - Mathematician and biologist at Rockefeller University

David DeGusta - Paleoanthropologist at the Paleoanthropology Institute in California

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First aired December 6, 2010

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April 23, 2012

Early Adapters

Listen Later

53 minutes

The times are a’changing – rising temperatures, growing population, and new technology coming at us faster than a greased cheetah.

So how will humans respond? Find out about future farming in the city – your vegetables might be grown in downtown, hi-rise greenhouses. Also, a population expert tells us how our planet can cope with billions more people, and the man who invented the term ‘cyberspace’ describes what the future might hold for the techno-savvy.

Darwinian evolution takes a long time to accommodate to new environments. But Homo sapiens can beat that rap by wielding the right technology – and becoming early adapters.

Guests:

Dickson Despommier - Emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century

William Gibson - Author, most recently, of Zero History

Joel Cohen - Mathematician and biologist at Rockefeller University

David DeGusta - Paleoanthropologist at the Paleoanthropology Institute in California

Descripción en español

First aired December 6, 2010

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