Hope means believing there’s a future. But can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change, or disruptive technological advances like artificial intelligence? 

Original Air Date: May 04, 2019 

*Guests: *

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/roy-scranton" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roy Scranton</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/anne-lamott" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anne Lamott</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/amy-webb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amy Webb</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/victor-lavalle" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Victor LaValle</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/robert-zubrin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Zubrin</a>

*Interviews In This Hour: *

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/can-we-have-hope-if-world-doomed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Can We Have Hope If The World Is 'Doomed'?</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/hope-faith-life-itself" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hope Is Faith In Life Itself</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/our-best-futures-never-come-fully-formed-or-automatically" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'Our Best Futures Never Come Fully Formed, Or Automatically'</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/tales-dragons-fight-segregation-and-ai-fights-transphobia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tales of Dragons That Fight Segregation, and AI That Fights Transphobia</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/how-colony-mars-would-change-everything-earth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How A Colony On Mars Would Change Everything On Earth</a>

Hope means believing there’s a future. But can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change, or disruptive technological advances like artificial intelligence? Original Air Date: May 04, 2019 *Guests: * Roy Scranton — Anne Lamott — Amy Webb — Victor LaValle — Robert Zubrin *Interviews In This Hour: * Can We Have Hope If The World Is 'Doomed'? — Hope Is Faith In Life Itself — 'Our Best Futures Never Come Fully Formed, Or Automatically' — Tales of Dragons That Fight Segregation, and AI That Fights Transphobia — How A Colony On Mars Would Change Everything On Earth

Hope means believing there’s a future. But can hope co-exist with cataclysmic realities like climate change, or disruptive technological advances like artificial intelligence?&nbsp;

Original Air Date: May 04, 2019 

*Guests: *

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/roy-scranton" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roy Scranton</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/anne-lamott" rel="noopener noreferrer">Anne Lamott</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/amy-webb" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amy Webb</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/victor-lavalle" rel="noopener noreferrer">Victor LaValle</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/people/robert-zubrin" rel="noopener noreferrer">Robert Zubrin</a>

*Interviews In This Hour: *

<a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/can-we-have-hope-if-world-doomed" rel="noopener noreferrer">Can We Have Hope If The World Is 'Doomed'?</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/hope-faith-life-itself" rel="noopener noreferrer">Hope Is Faith In Life Itself</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/our-best-futures-never-come-fully-formed-or-automatically" rel="noopener noreferrer">'Our Best Futures Never Come Fully Formed, Or Automatically'</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/tales-dragons-fight-segregation-and-ai-fights-transphobia" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tales of Dragons That Fight Segregation, and AI That Fights Transphobia</a> — <a href="https://www.ttbook.org/interview/how-colony-mars-would-change-everything-earth" rel="noopener noreferrer">How A Colony On Mars Would Change Everything On Earth</a>

Hope: Are We Really Doomed?

Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are <a href="https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook">now archived in the Library of Congress</a>. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hostsAnne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;">Atoms and Eden</a>. Learn more at <a href="http://wondercabinetproductions.com">wondercabinetproductions.com</a>.

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Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are now archived in the Library of Congress. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hosts Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of Atoms and Eden. Learn more at wondercabinetproductions.com.

Wonder Cabinet is an independent podcast from Anne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson, Peabody Award-winning creators of public radio's To The Best Of Our Knowledge. For 35 years, that show brought long-form conversations to 200+ stations nationwide; its interviews are <a href="https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/ttbook" rel="noopener noreferrer">now archived in the Library of Congress</a>. Episodes feature intimate, long-form conversations with scientists, philosophers, writers, and artists who are re-imagining our relationship with the planet. Some study black holes or quantum entanglement; others map mycelial networks or count ancient tree rings. And some explore dream worlds, myths, and fairy tales to revive ways of knowing that challenge what we think we understand about the nature of reality. The name references Enlightenment-era cabinets of curiosities—private collections of shells, fossils, astronomical instruments, and saints' relics that existed at a moment when the scientific revolution was still in conversation with older ways of knowing the world. Today, another shift is taking place, as mechanistic models give way to more holistic, relational understandings of life on a sentient planet. Wonder Cabinet lives at that threshold. About the hostsAnne Strainchamps and Steve Paulson co-founded To The Best Of Our Knowledge. Steve hosts Luminous, a podcast about the science and philosophy of psychedelics, and is the author of <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atoms-and-eden-9780199743162?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Atoms and Eden</a>. Learn more at <a href="http://wondercabinetproductions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">wondercabinetproductions.com</a>.

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