Topics: Introduction to Hacking (an instructional video by Eli The Computer Guy); the ten strongest materials known to man; government online petitions; SureResponce, Verizon's Entry into Personal Emergency Response Systems (PERS); how to make your computer run faster; how to remove spyware and malware from your computer; and nanotechnology engineers build first carbon nanotube computer.

Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the March 5, 2014 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 33 minutes]

Stephen Euin Cobb is an author, futurist, magazine writer and host of the award-winning podcast The Future And You. A contributing editor for Space and Time Magazine; he has also been a regular contributor for Robot, H+, Grim Couture and Port Iris magazines; and he spent three years as a columnist and contributing editor for Jim Baen's Universe Magazine. He is an artist, essayist, game designer, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. Stephen is the author of Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science as well as A Brief History of Predicting the Future.