Ep 18: Self-Driving Cars & Animated GIFs save the world
Amy and Micah tackle self-driving cars, the rise of nomadic culture, how stories create technology, and why animated GIFs are saving the world.
- The challenge and danger of a networked world, now becoming part of our driving experience!
- The sad admission that Micah has not yet seen Battlestar Galactica
- Tesla autopilot and Tesla Summon, which is basically like Knight Rider
- Tesla driver caught sleeping at the wheel of self-driving car. Unrelated: The first self-driving car crashes.
- Personality “paleo” — Micah and Amy’s weird reversion to primordial state
- Filmstrip projectors, Betamax, and renting VCRs
- How Micah grew up watching black&white TV while thinking it was in color
- Being really ticked off when watching wide-format movies on TV
- How Micah’s dad’s bedtime stories foretold TiVo decades before it showed up
- How stories provoke technology, as told by Mark Hamill in a gold velour suit
- Disney’s Tomorrowland makes another appearance
- Why the scientific process and the creative process are the same thing. A scientific hypothesis comes from creative leaps, just like experiments in art. Einstein was an artist.
- The Unwritten — the only comic series Micah reads
- “Just a story? Tell that to the Greeks who fought at Troy. Tell the women burned as witches. Tell the martyrs of all the religions... Stories are the only thing worth dying for!” - quote from The Unwritten
- Fascists are terrible artists, but they’re great designers
- Extemporaneous interpretation of John 1. Who is the Word? Hint: it’s not the Bible.
- Technology is a way we engage our creative process, as beings made in the image of God, and partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4)
- Successful people, psychopaths, and creative individuals
- Self-driving cars and the return of the nomadic lifestyle:
- Long Long Trailer, Lucille Ball’s attempt at a self-driving car lifestyle
- Instead Of Renting An Apartment, Sign A Lease That Lets You Live Around The World
- Digital mailboxes let you get mail online
- Micah’s experience growing up as a nomad
- How we’re actually living in the 1500s
- Amanda Palmer, the art of asking
- How animated GIFs are changing the way we communicate
- Star Trek, Darmok episode about metaphors and how we communicate
- Greg Egan’s Diaspora about a translation project to bridge the worlds
- Paul’s speech on Mars Hill, to unify humankind
- Fundamentalism is a new invention