Cyberattacks - with Josephine Wolff
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Cyberattacks - with Josephine Wolff

Virtual Futures presents Josephine Wolff in conversation on her new book, You'll See This Message When It Is Too Late: The Legal and Economic Aftermath of Cybersecurity Breaches (The MIT Press, 2019).

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Making Evil - with Dr. Julia Shaw 
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Making Evil - with Dr. Julia Shaw 

Virtual Futures presents Dr. Julia Shaw in conversation on her new book, 'Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side' (Canongate, 2019).

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Go Beyond - with Rupert Sheldrake
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Go Beyond - with Rupert Sheldrake

Virtual Futures presents Rupert Sheldrake in conversation on his new book 'Ways to Go Beyond And Why They Work: Seven Spiritual Practices in a Scientific Age' (Hodder & Stoughton, 2019).

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Team Human - with Douglas Rushkoff & George Monbiot
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Team Human - with Douglas Rushkoff & George Monbiot

Virtual Futures presents media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, in conversation with George Monbiot, to expose how the technologies designed for human connection risk becoming agents of isolation and repression.

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Turned On - with Dr. Kate Devlin 
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Turned On - with Dr. Kate Devlin 

Virtual Futures presents Dr. Kate Devlin (and some robotic guests) for the launch of her new book 'Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots' (Bloomsbury Sigma 2018).

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New Dark Age – with James Bridle
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New Dark Age – with James Bridle

Virtual Futures presents James Bridle, in conversation with Sally Davies, on his new book 'New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future' (Verso Books, 2018).

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Post-Truth – with Prof. Steve Fuller
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Post-Truth – with Prof. Steve Fuller

Virtual Futures presents Prof. Steve Fuller to dicuss how the post-truth world-view is deeply rooted in the history and philosophy of religion, politics and science.

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Harnessing Evolution – with Bret Weinstein
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Harnessing Evolution – with Bret Weinstein

Virtual Futures presents evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein on how we might take human evolution out of autopilot, and the tensions between science and politics that this may cause.

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Robot Sex – with John Danaher
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Robot Sex – with John Danaher

Virtual Futures presents lecturer John Danaher, in conversation with Dr. Kate Devlin, on his new co-edited book, 'Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications' (The MIT Press, 2018).

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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin – with Vinay Gupta
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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin – with Vinay Gupta

Virtual Futures presents tech-visionary Vinay Gupta to dicuss cryptocurrencies and the uptake of the blockchain in all its applications. This event was organised in partnership with the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick as part of their 360 Lecture Series.

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Tear Gas – with Anna Feigenbaum
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Tear Gas – with Anna Feigenbaum

Virtual Futures presents Anna Feigenbaum in conversation on her new book, Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today.

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What Algorithms Want – with Ed Finn
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What Algorithms Want – with Ed Finn

Virtual Futures presents Arizona State University’s Ed Finn in conversation on his new book, What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing.

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End Aging – with Aubrey de Grey
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End Aging – with Aubrey de Grey

Virtual Futures presents Dr. Aubrey de Grey who claims to have drawn a roadmap to defeat biological aging and proposes that that the first human beings who will live to 1,000 years old have already been born.

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Weird Fiction – with M. John Harrison
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Weird Fiction – with M. John Harrison

Virtual Futures presents M. John Harrison, in conversation with Dr. Helen Marshall, on weird fiction and his new book, You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts (Comma Press, 2017).

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Kill All Normies – with Angela Nagle
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Kill All Normies – with Angela Nagle

Virtual Futures presents Angela Nagle in conversation on her new book, Kill All Normies: Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right.

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