Decipher SciFi: the show about how and why

Decipher SciFi: the show about how and why


Latest Episodes

Isolated BS: VR breakthroughs, space clouds, and earthworm jerky
November 17, 2020

Spaaaaace Clouds in space…? Microsoft Azure Space and Azure Orbital. Making space cheaper and more accessible with satcomm as a service. VR The new Oculus Quest. Past predictions. Pulling the VR market in the direction of affordability? Pandemic wi

Her: sad foreheads, augmented audio presence, and friendly AI takeoff scenarios
November 10, 2020

AI everything Creating a thinking, feeling artificial intelligence to do really important things for humanity like… sorting through your e-mail. N-dimensional AI chess. Rapid takeoff scenarios. Personal Assistants Natural language processing develop

An unexplained absence
November 03, 2020

You may be wondering where we went for a minute there

The Core: Flying bricks, pacemakers, and quantum avian eyeballs
October 06, 2020

Forgetability The valley of forgetability (The Core) between science-respecting sci-fi (e.g. Arrival) and totally bonkers nonsense (e.g. Jupiter Ascending). Space shuttle Landing the “flying brick.” Bird navigation Magnetite beaks. The possibili

Stank waffles, VR development, and Venusian cloud datacenters
September 22, 2020

Clouds in episode image from “Storm Clouds” by Albert Bierstadt/The White House Historical Association CC-O @ Wikipedia Waffles Belgian Waffle formula Tasty waffles! Stank waffles! With lots of syrup! Solving food problems with casserole

Raised by Wolves: exoplanets, eating rats, and fake-karate floaty physics
September 15, 2020

Happy 5-year anniversary whoooooo

Isolated BS: nuclear bananas, unreal simulations, and buttplug archaeology w/ Josh
September 08, 2020

“Banana” image used in featured image with our brains by nicubunu CC-0 Josh, recently Made a strong showing on the recent Saving Private Ryan episode over at LSG Media. Real human stuff in between the dick and fart jokes. Teledildonics Tales of

On Decipher History - Titanic! rich people, bad luck, and ever-increasing hugeness w/ Joe
September 01, 2020

Production Costly! The costs of vising the wreck twelve times for research and footage, not to mention the cost of the film production overall. The extreme profitability of this film and James Cameron in general. Classism First, second, and third cl

Proactive prostheses, facial recognition, and correlating diarrhea
August 18, 2020

Fawkes mask in post image Multipainkiller Studio CC-BY Prosthetics Proactive prostheses in our future? Recognizing that we routinely do this with major joints, and with for a full cyberpunk limb-improvement future. Big brother etc Machine learning

X-Men First Class: nuclear panic, destructive resonance, and woolly mammoth piñatas
August 11, 2020

Fear of mutation Our recent X-Men. Irl post-war nuclear anxieties. More mutant panic and more mutant supremacy bad guys. Irradiating Earth Not enough to make superpowers, but we sure did irradiate a lot. The clear mark of human civilization in the g