Thursday Dec 20, 2018

SPX6 Holiday Whovian Sci-Fi meets Sci-Fact FUN!

Time has slipped by and we are at the end of the year. Time, what an interesting concept. We explore time a bit via the TARDIS (DR. WHO fans holla…!) and your imagination. This week we also explore Science Fiction and Science Fact and how they intertwine. If you enjoy authors like Phillip K. Dick, television shows like Star Trek and Dr. Who, and movies like Minority Report, this episode is for you. Sci Fi influences our future. See how in this holiday special with a nod to Dr. Who and many others that have helped shape the technology of today.

Set your communicator on enjoyment and bliss out about SCIENCE!

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Credits

STEMPunX is hosted and produced by Joe Garoutte.

This episode was also produced by E. Michael Friend and John Hardham

Editing by Joe and Michael.

Music is courtesy of the Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org

Show notes:

Time Perception

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/15/time-warped-claudia-hammond/

Planning fallacy

first proposed by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in 1979, is a phenomenon in which predictions about how much time will be needed to complete a future task display an optimism bias and underestimate the time needed.

This phenomenon occurs regardless of the individual's knowledge that past tasks of a similar nature have taken longer to complete than generally planned. The bias only affects predictions about one's own tasks; when outside observers predict task completion times, they show a pessimistic bias, overestimating the time needed. The planning fallacy requires that predictions of current tasks' completion times are more optimistic than the beliefs about past completion times for similar projects and that predictions of the current tasks' completion times are more optimistic than the actual time needed to complete the tasks. In 2003, Lovallo and Kahneman proposed an expanded definition as the tendency to underestimate the time, costs, and risks of future actions and at the same time overestimate the benefits of the same actions. According to this definition, the planning fallacy results in not only time overruns, but also cost overruns and benefit shortfalls.

Joe and STEMBoT paid homage to Abbot and Costello and their “Who’s on First” routine.

Here is the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg

Worldbuilding Institute

http://worldbuilding.institute

University of Alaska project mentioned here:

Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures

https://medium.com/s/thenewnew/nike-and-boeing-are-paying-sci-fi-writers-to-predict-their-futures-fdc4b6165fa4

Sci-Futures

https://www.scifutures.com

Science Fiction Has Helped Predict the Future of Technology. Here's Why We Should Be Worried

https://www.inc.com/yazin-akkawi/what-science-fiction-has-taught-us-about-predicting-future-and-why-we-should-be-worried.html

The Films and TV Shows that Predicted the Future