In this episode, we review three great science fiction books, we talk about the upcoming improvements in Intel’s Skylake CPUs, and we discuss the strangely absent Cultural Apocalypse.

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Notes from the show:

Beautiful Intelligence book:

http://www.amazon.ca/Beautiful-Intelligence-Stephen-Palmer-ebook/dp/B010NX6FV6

Gene Mapper book:

http://www.amazon.ca/Gene-Mapper-Taiyo-Fujii-ebook/dp/B00YG0K5M8

Gene inserting tool: a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPRCRISPR/a

Do we live in a simulation?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/07/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

Reality Hack

http://www.amazon.ca/Reality-Hack-Niall-Teasdale-ebook/dp/B010VJECGC

Discussion of the Creative Apocalypse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html

Background art:

http://www.angryboar.com/index.php/apocalypse-by-belgian-artist-jonas-de-ro/

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