Innocence, Innovation and Future Shock. It's our latest installment of The Experimenters and we're about to hear from an anthropologist and a futurist: two people endeavoring to understand the impact of scientific invention. Margaret Mead and Alvin Toffler know that while we’ve started a technological revolution, we don’t quite know where it’s going to take us.
But maybe most interesting of all - we’ll be hearing these archival interviews from the very future these thinkers were trying to imagine.
Margaret Mead and Alvin Toffler are our two guides into a view of what the present might have been… or perhaps in some ways actually came to pass.
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