Topics: a method that might improve the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence; Panasonic is developing a robot that can pick tomatoes; the Precision Medicine Initiative will create a research database containing the genome of one million patients; future statistics for Internet Connected & Driverless Cars; legitimate uses for Google's Project Tango indoor mapping tablet; and Wikipedia's article: List of Common Misconceptions.

Hosted by Stephen Euin Cobb, this is the March 9, 2016 episode of The Future And You. [Running time: 26 minutes]

Stephen Euin Cobb has interviewed over 350 people for his work as an author, futurist, magazine writer, ghostwriter, and award-winning podcaster. 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. For the last ten years he has produced a weekly podcast, The Future And You, which explores (through interviews, panel discussions and commentary) all the ways the future will be different from today. He is an artist, essayist, game designer, transhumanist, and is on the Advisory Board of The Lifeboat Foundation. Stephen is the author of an ebook about the future entitled: Indistinguishable from Magic: Predictions of Revolutionary Future Science.