by Matthew Cobb

You may recall the links to the video discussion a couple of weeks back on whether alien life existed. We also recorded a second discussion, discussing if machines will rule the world.

Apart from myself, the other participants were David Kirby (biologist and historian), Alastair Reynolds (astronomer and SF writer), Danielle George (radio engineer), Aravind Vijayaraghavan (nanotechnologist) and Sheena Cruickshank (immunologist) (all of us except Alastair are from the University of Manchester). The programmes were made by my pal Mark Gorton.

Here are the three 18-minute clips.

Part 2:

Part 3:

And if you have any doubt about what the future holds, there’s this video of the Boston Dynamics ‘Atlas’ robot, which has had a new swearing module installed: