Can We Predict the Future? with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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What does the future hold? Neil deGrasse Tyson teams up with comic co-host Chuck Nice, Gary O’Reilly, and astrophysicist Charles Liu to break down our visions of the future – and take Neil to task on his own predictions.

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0:00.0	Gary, I love that topic you selected.
0:01.6	Good.
0:01.9	For a special edition, predicting the future.
0:04.5	Yeah.
0:04.9	And getting it wrong most of the time, but when you get it right, it's good.
0:07.8	Yeah.
0:08.1	We talked about the Jetsons.
0:10.0	Love me some Jetsons.
0:11.3	Come on now, you can not like the Jetsons.
0:13.1	I like Jane.
0:13.7	Blade Runner and these visions of the future, some dystopic, others just kind of fun.
0:18.6	Right.
0:19.0	You know. I think the Jetsons are pretty dystopic.
0:21.5	Did you say you like Jane?
0:22.6	Yes.
0:24.1	All right.
0:25.0	I didn't think anybody caught that.
0:26.7	And you take me to task on predictions I made in StoryMessinger.
0:30.4	Well, of course.
0:31.0	Here's a prediction.
0:32.0	We're about to do the show.
0:34.0	Coming up.
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