{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Seldon Crisis: Beyond Foundation","title":"Aurora and Hope","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/56b75b01\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1477,"description":"I bask in the afterglow of the KSR episode and indulge in a special treat; a reading from Robinson's 2015 novel Aurora. I follow that up with some thoughts on the utopia - dystopia divide and introduce the ideas of some notable utopians I've run into lately.\nTranscript: Web (Read/Listen) | PDF | MS Word\nDavid Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands: Long Now Foundation (YouTube)\nJohanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures: Long Now Foundation (YouTube)\nJohanna Hoffman: Speculative Futures of Cities: (Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast)\nRebecca Solnit: Why Climate Despair is a Luxury (New Statesman)\nMatt Oja: Let's Imagine the Coastside Skyway (Half Moon Bay Review)\nWant to help me make these shows? Please consider becoming a patron!","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/FAZiNSxFpCknXW5OtTbdliHtK6__Lk3Ti2lXYjKLN5c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIwMjQ4LzE2MTgy/NTA2OTMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}