Flash Forward

What If We Could Never Touch Again?


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Today’s episode is about a future without touch. 


Guests:

  • Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist currently working at the Georgetown Center for Global Health, Science and Security but soon to be head of her own lab up at the University of Saskatchewan
  • Dr. Catherine Cudlick, a historian and the Director or the Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University.
  • Dr. Tiffany Field, the director of the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine.
  • Dr. David Parisi, a professor at the college of Charleton the author of a book called Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing.


    Voice Actors:

    • Naomi Jackson — Shara Kirby
    • Dr. Sandra Bowles — Richelle Claiborne 
    • Advertisement Voices — Rachel Lara, Jake & Rory Terracina, and Kathryn Dollens

    • → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← 


      Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.

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