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and all different topics guys today's
topic is near and dear to my heart we
are talking about
science fiction
technology guys like what might we want
to have happen in our lives and what
have we seen in stories that we don't
want it might be dangerous so it's a
very specific topic guys so pay
attention so you know how to talk about
kind of weird topics
that natives do discuss um so guys first
of all do you
would you say you are a sci-fi fan i
know aubry is so i'm gonna come to you
last because i know you are um michelle
what is your relationship with sci-fi
um
well i watched west
um so good
that's a good one
yeah i i mean i i liked it and i didn't
like it like the last season
um but i so i i do uh i do like that i
like um
i don't know but honestly it's not like
my biggest thing like that when like
when you're listing uh oh what might
happen the first thing that i think of
is the jetsons so that's yeah that's
where i am that's where i'm starting
friends
with um the maid and the robot dog
and how convenient would it be if we
didn't have to park our cars if they
could just fold up into little suitcases
so that's
what i'm thinking but also west world
also you know a lot of the stuff that's
going on with like the metaverse and you
know so so i think of all of these
things uh with
you know the future and what's going to
happen and uh so but it's not like my
number one genre yeah you know what is
so funny you guys and then lindsay you
can go go on about your sci-fi opinions
but just really fast
um we watched the movie the running man
the other day it's this old arnold
schwarzenegger movie but it's based on a
stephen king story and it's it's like
one of my favorite cheesy 80s sci-fi
movies but it's based in the future of
2017.
and i i love watching old movies that
are based in the like what they thought
the future would be like that's
my favorite things it is the year 2017.
it's so funny and i was watching it with
two ten-year-olds and they're like what
that
is
how do you feel about sci-fi i've seen a
few good sci-fi movies or read a few
books don't ask me the titles now i
don't keep them in my head so i don't
know but i think where my interest lies
is more around who like what's being
created that actually feels like sci-fi
that's real you know what i mean like
michelle and i when we recorded the
podcast this morning i mentioned on the
journal the podcast that called the
journal from the wall street journal
there was an interview from elon musk
and he like as we know he's building the
starship which means the idea of taking
cargo and massive amounts of people to
you know outer space and having a a
spaceship that can be reused and that
kind of thing so i like that idea of
thinking about how is when is it not
going to be sci-fi anymore it's going to
become real or even just alexa
you know the idea of ordering from a
refrigerator or accessing a podcast from
the car this is what's more interesting
to me rather than the stories
yeah i like the idea of
billionaires like elon musk using their
money to create technology to help real
people now
instead of creating a reusable spaceship
that would be good too
aubry i love what you're saying about um
thinking about movies in the past that
portray the future and and now it's
already happened my the funniest one for
me is back to the future oh gosh and it
shows it's like now-ish but there's like
flying cars and crazy shoes but one
thing we watched back to the future part
two where they go into the future yeah
um and it's about now and the weather i
remember when i was a kid and he like um
the weathermen have predicted the
weather down to the minute and they like
wait for it to stop raining and i
remember being like mind blown that's
crazy because when i was a kid the
weather was like you knew maybe day
within a few days if it would rain or
not so that made me kind of think like
oh we've actually really come far
because now you do have the hourly
forecast and it's very often quite
accurate you're like oh it's going to
rain yeah at four it's going to be 80
right and it was not like that when i
was a kid and saw that movie right so
that is like sci-fi at that time in a
way
so the real unfolding i love sci-fi
jessica you know that we talk about it
on ielts energy the podcast all the time
i list my favorite genre me too but you
know what's fascinating if you guys
haven't seen the show black mirror on
netflix yes
that
there's every one of them is something
about
technology that we probably would not
want to happen and it sort of goes into
the bad things that could happen right
and every time i'm like i didn't even
think about that technology being
possible but you're right i don't want
that to be yeah that's a great show like
one of them they can like record with
their eyes and see their life and rewind
and watch any moment
and and have perfect recall and so of
course couples are getting in fights and
they go back and play it to each other
let's think about any technology you've
seen on the jetsons on any of the things
that were we've consumed
what would be good to have like what do
we want to do what do we wish existed
right now um
the first thing when aubrey sent me this
topic i thought of immediately because i
love to eat and i don't like to cook um
star trek the next generation is one of
my favorite shows of all time
and they have a food replicator right
well it's it's in all star treks but um
the food replicator where you just like
press a button and it makes whatever you
want it's just this little machine right
it just makes whatever you want um but
what's really funny about that is um in
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
i may have mentioned this before but in
hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy there's
also like a
food replicator but it's kind of broken
and it like cannot make tea correctly
and it's like this running joke in the
in the books um so michelle what what
technology do you wish we had
um i was thinking about like um
things with transportation you know when
they talk about the trains or the planes
speeding up so that you know you can get
to europe really quickly or you know or
the train like because i'm always you
know like in new york to the dc area
yes i like to make that you know an hour
you know so those kinds of things um to
speed up transportation i think that
that
would be like a big
big help but there are you know there
are a lot of things that then like
aubrey said there's like the other side
to it so i'm not sure if there's a
negative to that but i'm sure sure there
is but it's always like yeah then you
have to be like well if we have this
then what would this be but i don't know
what do you guys think about well
accidents right they're trying to do a
high-speed train between california and
arizona but i don't know like it's just
if that ever were to wreck at that high
of speeds the accidents are so much more
fatal yeah
for sure there's always disadvantages
there's no perfect
right like technology and it's i don't
know people people talk a lot about um
like the founders of a lot of these
platforms like you know facebook and
twitter and everything and like oh
they're so evil they should have known
this was gonna happen and stuff but like
if you but no like there's you know
there's such good intentions and then
you invent something and you really as
the creator like you hope for the best
and you can't right predict
what society is going to do right and
it's also not necessarily what their
concern is that you know maybe it's the
job of the government to put rules into
place once the technology has been
invented like those guys are thinking in
a visionary way so they're creating the
idea it's not their job to take care of
society
right so what about coming together with
the visionary and the government and
creating a system that works for
everyone yeah
i think also um like medical tests and
things like this not to make it about
the
the global uh health crisis but uh like
because now you can get like at-home
tests and i just saw
something that was like oh wouldn't it i
don't know if it's actually in the works
or whatever but if you do like the
at-home test but then you can have like
many different possible illnesses come
up so like
flu and then different things and then
you can see like what you know and know
how to treat things so like advancements
in medical stuff like that that also
interests me
this reminds me of something that will
that will marry our last group
conversation which you can find on the
ielts energy channel guys it marries
that with today's topic um true crime
plus plus technology um if you guys
follow have followed the theranose
scandal yeah there's like there's
there's like two different podcasts
about it um and there's so much
interesting uh stuff to dive into so if
you guys are curious about
a a scandal with health technology i
know that doesn't sound exciting but
it's really interesting
look up um elizabeth holmes i believe
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what technology do you wish we had i
kind of think i'm kind of a bit of a
sentimental person so i'm gonna go less
practical and more kind of heartfelt i
think it would be cool if you could snap
your fingers and relive any moment you
want to in your life so you were just
talking about going back to
conversations but in a more sentimental
way so you go into a room and that's
like your entertainment for the evening
you get to be immersed back in that
place and you just soak it up like that
moment the moment you got married or
whatever your birth of your first child
and you can instead of going to a movie
you go there and you watch it and you
kind of get a deeper sense of meaning
from your life i think that would be
cool and you do you're not changing
anything right you're not you're just
watching it yeah you're watching so
you're not you don't feel like you're
there but you're watching it like yeah
kind of an immersive feeling kind of
like watching a movie but a little more
immersive maybe somehow with some
tactile yeah
have you guys seen the movie defending
your life
not with um
uh mel's
uh
mel street
meryl streep albert brooks and meryl
streep there we go i was combining the
names
in defending your life they they do that
like they have to like it's after they
die or whatever but they go through this
process of defending their life and like
proving that they're good people or
whatever but they watch scenes from
their life but i like the addition
you're doing of like
involving different senses in it right
yeah like feel the smell smell the smell
how cool would that be but what's
fascinating is that is the technology in
that black mirror episode and it's like
oh that'd be so nice and then you
realize
ooh it's maybe not the best idea to be
able to go back and watch exactly what
happened at any time we all filter
things in a way that we need to right
like you have to filter out certain
things or like highlight certain things
for like your own mental well-being
protection what if you yeah you looked
back on a memory and it's like not as
great as you thought and you're like oh
there's somebody like giving you a dirty
look that you missed or like talking
about
you thought someone really liked you and
you go back and they're like oh stop
talking to me they turn away from music
okay
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fiction right like that sounds so heavy
and maybe outside of your wheelhouse but
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