6 episodes

When you write a novel or build a game, you have to design a whole world. A world with culture, hierarchy, taboos, economy, fairness, traditions, careers, and origin stories. In Full Worlds, we hear authors and creators explain the worlds they built, without the story getting in the way.

Full Worlds Hampus Jakobsson

    • Arts

When you write a novel or build a game, you have to design a whole world. A world with culture, hierarchy, taboos, economy, fairness, traditions, careers, and origin stories. In Full Worlds, we hear authors and creators explain the worlds they built, without the story getting in the way.

    E06 Ann Leckie - The Imperial Radch

    E06 Ann Leckie - The Imperial Radch

    What happens when a society is spread out over the vastness of space? How do you control them? How can culture be a means of structure and hierarchy? And, what happens when a society doesn't see gender?

    • 41 min
    E05 Ada Palmer - Terra Ignota

    E05 Ada Palmer - Terra Ignota

    What happens post-nation-states, post-gender, post-incarceration, and post-nuclear families? But, most of all - what happens when people stop asking questions?

    • 1 hr 2 min
    E04 Dennis E Taylor - Bobiverse

    E04 Dennis E Taylor - Bobiverse

    How will humanity explore space? Will we send out self-replicating AI or frozen humans? How will we handle the loneliness and time?

    • 35 min
    E03 Vanessa Fogg - Traces of Us

    E03 Vanessa Fogg - Traces of Us

    What happens when we can upload minds? Will be think differently about death? Will copies be "slaves" or will they have rights?

    • 29 min
    E02 Alfred Ruth - Fermis Filter

    E02 Alfred Ruth - Fermis Filter

    How will Artificial Intelligence, digitalization, and automation change society? And, what do we do in a post-labor economy. Alfred Ruth wrote a book to get everybody on board with that world and exploring Universal Basic Income. 

    https://medium.com/full-worlds/alfred-ruth-fermis-filter-5e9914998720

    • 1 hr 2 min
    01 Hannu Rajaniemi - Jean le Flambeur series

    01 Hannu Rajaniemi - Jean le Flambeur series

    In this episode we hear Hannu Rajaniemi describe the world of the Jean le Flambeur series. The game-clan like Zokus, the uploading digital-founders of the Sobernost, the Oubliette with its privacy layer and instant request of information. 

    https://medium.com/full-worlds/hannu-rajaniemi-jean-le-flambeur-series-95ab68e392fd

    • 53 min

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