David Guston chats with Andrew Maynard and Heather Ross about Frankenstein and the 2017 Emerge Festival of Futures (25 February 2017; emerge.asu.edu). They also discuss the great Mel Brooks, and learn why Mary Shelley is an underappreciated futurist and radical youth leader.

Show Notes

•Dave Guston, Director of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society: http://cspo.org/people/guston-david/

•The Frankenstein Bicentennial Project at ASU: http://frankenstein.asu.edu/

•Emerge: A Festival of Futures at ASU will take place on Saturday, February 25: http://emerge.asu.edu/

•Learn more about the Scribblebot and the conversation it creates surrounding bioethics: http://cspo.org/teaching-bioethics-with-pool-noodles/

•200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/frankenstein-lives-200-years-later/2016/08/23/e6c572c8-64ad-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html?utm_term=.fed56f0e16c8