Future Imperfect

By Jason KingsleyScience History Natural Sciences

Future Imperfect episodes

December 01, 2023 How can we fix our oceans?
Professor Guy Standing is an economist who has a radical way to fix the problems in our oceans, one from the past. He wants to see them held in common, as mediaeval resources often were. He talks to Jason about how this would work.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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51 min
November 23, 2023 What does genetic engineering mean for our futures?
Gene editing therapies are just starting to be used to treat conditions. In this episode, Jason talks to Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at the University of Manchester about how we got here, and what it could mean for each of us in the future.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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54 min
November 14, 2023 How did gift-giving work in the past?
When European settlers arrived in the Americas they found many economies based on gift-giving. Jason talks to Brian Owensby about how this worked, how it didn't work, and how this could have led to conflict between the Old World and the New.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Sound: Pete Dennis
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45 min
November 07, 2023 What is the digital mediaeval?
Jeremy Silver is the CEO of Digital Capital, and he believes that we are living in our 'digital mediaeval period'. He joins Jason today explain what he means by that, what problems it poses, and what we need to do to move to a 'digital renaissance'.

Producer - Natt Tapley
Sound - Pete Dennis
Photo by Bingqian Li: https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-near-castle-and-scaffolding-16105790/
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38 min
October 16, 2022 How did they deal with pandemic disease in the 1660s?
Jason talks to Rebecca Rideal about 1666, and pandemics, great fires, and wars.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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38 min
September 12, 2022 How big were mediaeval warhorses?
Jason talks to Alan Outram and Oliver Creighton who have done the most extensive study of mediaeval warhorses ever made.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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56 min
August 10, 2022 Why are our trees going north?
Ben Rawlence joins Jason to explain how the tree-line is moving, what that means for us, and what we can do about it.

Produced by: Natt Tapley
Audio: Pete Dennis
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39 min
June 17, 2022 How can we bring back action comics?
Jason talks to comics legend Garth Ennis about war, computer games, history, and how to bring back comics of the past.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson
Audio: Pete Dennis
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39 min
June 02, 2022 Can we geo-engineer our way out of climate change?
In this episode Jason talks to Gernot Wagner about the damage we're doing to our limate and whether or not it's on our power to reverse it.

Producer: Natt Tapley
Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson
Audio: Pete Dennis
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36 min
May 21, 2022 Are we going to run out of soil?
Jason talks to Jo Handelsman, the Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at University of Wisconsin, about the role soil has played in the historical invasions of Ukraine, how fast we're running out of soil and what will happen when we do.

Presenter: Jason Kingsley
Producer: Natt Tapley
Assistant Producer: Abi Robinson
Audio: Pete Dennis
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41 min

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Jason Kingsley is a technologist who started one of the UK's most exciting games companies, Rebellion. He's also fascinated by the past. In this podcast he talks to historians, scientists, and experts…