Flash Forward

What If We Could Shrink Technology?

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Today’s episode is all about making our technologies and medicines tiny. Like, super tiny. 

Guests:

  • Ainissa Ramirez -- scientist, speaker, author of The Alchemy of Us
  • Eun Ji Chung -- biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California
  • Inge Hermann -- chemical engineer at ETH Zürich
  • Raj Bawa -- biotechnologist at Bawa Biotech 
  • Richard Handy -- environmental toxicologist at University of Plymouth
  • Lisa Yaszek -- professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech


    Voice Actors:

    • Harry Purvis -- Brett Tubbs
    • Parvis Tech -- Chelsey B. Coombs


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      Music provided by Jay_You and Ketsa. 

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

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