Belinda Chen

Us and tomorrow

Fiction EN ↓ 45 episodes

Us and Tomorrow is a science fiction podcast hosted by Belinda Chen, exploring the intersection of emerging technologies and the human experience. It asks social, ethical, and philosophical questions that arise as science fiction increasingly becomes science reality. Perfect for science fiction enthusiasts, technology professionals, and anyone curious about where humanity is headed, Us and Tomorrow invites you to join a journey into the near future, with the promise and perils of tomorrow's world.

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Belinda Chen

Episodes

Interview with The Unsaid Eclipse: AI, social media, and mental health 06.10.2025 12:19

Today, we are collaborating with a nonprofit organization founded by Tanishqa, discussing AI, mental health, and social media.

A broad discussion: which high school educational system? 06.10.2025 6:58

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How to Make Your Holiday Last 150 Years 06.10.2025 4:26

(a.k.a. Time Dilation 101)

Ursula K. Le Guin: My Queen 06.10.2025 5:06

How do Taoism and Science Fiction intersect?

Ever wanted to be a human popsicle? 06.10.2025 3:19

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How to Accidentally Delete Yourself at Light Speed 06.10.2025 3:17

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Your true existence lasts only 0.00002 seconds 06.10.2025 2:46

Are you a Boltzmann Brain?

Do Large Language Models Align with Hume’s Theory of Empiricism? 06.10.2025 6:11

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Do Large Language Models Align with Hume’s Theory of Empiricism? 06.10.2025 6:11

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Futurology at your dinner table 06.10.2025 7:34

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Microbiomes and the Cities of Tomorrow 06.10.2025 4:11

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Who Owns Tomorrow’s Life: Birthrate, Longevity, and Power 06.10.2025 13:19

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AI lovers and the intimacy we deny women 06.10.2025 6:53

How does technology intersect with feminism?

What if AI invents a new language 06.10.2025 5:53

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Will the future be more institutionalized? 06.10.2025 10:25

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Teaching AI to grieve like Shakespeare 01.09.2025 3:52

What happens when machines learn to mourn in verse? This episode imagines AI trained to grieve like Shakespeare, blending technology with timeless poetry to ask whether sorrow can ever be simulated.

When's the next dystopia dropping? 01.09.2025 2:45

From Orwell to Black Mirror, dystopias have always mirrored our anxieties. This episode asks when the next dystopia is arriving, and whether we might already be living inside its early chapters.

My favourite part in the Dispossessed 01.09.2025 7:24

Le Guin’s The Dispossessed imagines a world split between freedom and constraint, utopia and struggle.

The Future of Forgotten Arts 01.09.2025 3:20

Arts once central to human culture now risk being forgotten. This episode looks at how these practices might find a future, not as relics of the past, but as renewed sources of creativity and connection.

Lucid dreams under surveillance 01.09.2025 4:49

What happens when your deepest subconscious gets minotored?

Let's risk civilisations for space rocks 28.08.2025 3:29

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DIY: How to ruin Mars in 1000 years 28.08.2025 3:08

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DIY: Wrap the sun in tinfoil 28.08.2025 3:36

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The Library of Babel and the Heat Death of Meaning 28.08.2025 6:34

What happens when every possible arrangement of words exists at once? This episode journeys through Borges’s Library of Babel as a metaphor for entropy, exploring how endless permutations edge us closer to the heat death of meaning itself.

Skies above and timelines beyond 28.08.2025 3:41

Ever dreamed of cities in the sky?