Summary: <p><span class="caps">ENCORE</span> The times are a’changing – rising temperatures, growing population, and new technology coming at us faster than a greased cheetah.</p> <p>So how will humans respond? Find out about future farming in the city – your vegetables might be grown in downtown, hi-rise greenhouses. Also, a population expert tells us how our planet can cope with billions more people, and the man who invented the term ‘cyberspace’ describes what the future might hold for the techno-savvy.</p> <p>Darwinian evolution takes a long time to accommodate to new environments. But Homo sapiens can beat that rap by wielding the right technology – and becoming early adapters.</p> <h2>Guests:</h2> <ul> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.mailman.columbia.edu/our-faculty/profile?uni=ddd1">Dickson Despommier</a></strong> – Emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312611390?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312611390">The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0312611390" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/">William Gibson</a></strong> – Author, most recently, of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399156828?ie=UTF8&tag=arweal-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0399156828">Zero History</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=arweal-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0399156828" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style=""></i> </li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/abstract.php?id=23">Joel Cohen</a></strong> – Mathematician and biologist at Rockefeller University</li> <li> <strong><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~degusta/">David DeGusta</a></strong> – Paleoanthropologist at the Paleoanthropology Institute in California</li> </ul><p><strong><a href="http://www.seti.cl/podcast-del-instituto-seti-adaptacion-rapida/">Descripción en español</a></strong></p> <p>First aired December 6, 2010</p>
