Audio and video compilation sites and individual titles that are helpful for strategic foresight and futures research.


Audio - Compilation Sites (Free and For-Pay)
Apple iTunes
For Mac and Windows. Best for-pay system on the web. Very useful platform for podcast aggregation.
Audible
Audio versions of books, magazines, radio shows. Pricey but good selection.
Books on Tape
Great source for unabridged versions of lesser known books.
Closer to Truth (and PBS Site)
leading scientists, scholars and artists debate the fundamental issues of our times (Robert Lawrence Kuhn).
Earth 2100
ABC participatory video site and game, telling video stories of a resource challenged future. 2015, 2050, and 2100 scenarios.
IT Conversations
Excellent interviews on tech, business, social implications of emerging and future IT (Doug Kaye)
Last.FM
Streams free music based on which songs you've previously indicated liking.
Pandora
Streams free music based on which songs you've previously indicated liking.
Science and Society
Great weekly reports on scientific research (David Lemberg)
The Long Now Foundation: Seminars on Long Term Thinking (SALT)
Dozens of good talks, in MP3 format, about cutting-edge futurist topics


Audio - For Pay Titles (Audiobooks, etc.)
China, Inc.: How the Next Superpower Challenges America & the World, Ted Fishman, 2005
Lies My Teacher Told Me: What Your History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen, 2003
The Assault on Reason: The Challenge to American Democracy, Al Gore, 2007
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell, 2007
The Wisdom of Crowds: Collective Wisdom in Biz and Societies, James Suroweicki, 2004
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century, Thomas Friedman, 2006
What If 2?: Top Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, Rob Crowley, 2002 (Unabridged)


Audio - Free Titles (MP3s, etc.)
Accelerating Future People Database
Futurism, organized by speaker
Singularity Summit 2007 Podcasts
Artificial Intelligence


Video - Compilation Sites (Free and For-Pay)
BigPicture.TV
Experts, thinkers, and activists in environmental and social sustainability.
Closer to Truth (and PBS Site)
leading scientists, scholars and artists debate the fundamental issues of our times (Robert Lawrence Kuhn).
Fora.TV
Early-stage (2007) intelligent ITV venture. "Discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues." Promising.
Google Video
Largest free long-form video compilation site. Videos can be several hours long.
Metacafe
Entertaining video compilation site.
Now (PBS)
"One of the last bastions of serious journalism on network television." Great investigative reporting, democracy-building approach. (Bill Moyers to 2006, David Brancaccio after)
YouTube
Largest free short form video compilation site. Videos are 10 mins or less.


Video - For Pay Titles (DVDs, etc.)
Alcor Conference DVD sets
2 DVD set include conference presentations on cryonics
Beyond Human
Good layman's overview of the increasingly intimate interface between human and machine (2 Episodes, 120 mins, PBS, 2001)


Video - Free Titles (MPEG4's, etc.)

Artificial Intelligence
AGI-08: The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
Over thirty conference videos on artificial intelligence research
Novamente videos
Talks and panel discussions on the Novamente Cognition Engine
Singularity Summit 2006
Conference videos on Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity
Singularity Summit 2007
Conference videos on Artificial Intelligence and the Singularity
Singularity Summit Video Interviews
Interviews on implications of future technologies

Life Extension
Methuselah Foundation Mutimedia
Video and audio on SENS research


General
Did You Know / Shift Happens 2.0, Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod, 2007 (7:42)
Excellent set of thought-provoking futures statistics on our accelerating world.
The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Verson), Michael Wesch (4:33)
Nice into to Web 2.0 architecture, and its long term promise to improve our collective intelligence.

Comedy
Here Comes Another Bubble, Matt Hempey and the Richter Scales (2:45)
Satirizing Web 2.0 stock inflation. Hilarious. 1999 here we go again!
ApplePresents... the iRack!, MAD TV, Season 12 Episode 15, 2007 (4:17)
Analogy between G. Bush and Iraq and S. Jobs and Apple's suite of iProducts. Great hook ending.


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