Futures Now Past
The Incompetent Crew discusses some sci-fi works of the past set in and around our present and listens to some tunes from their eras.
Works Cited
Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler
Butler's essay A Few Rules For Predicting The Future
Jeff Menne's essay I Live In This World, Too about the realism of Parable of the Sower
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem
Radio Playlist
Grace Kennedy and Allan Love - BIM (4:01)
Awesome Dre & The Hardcore Committee - Dis is Babylon (4:19)
Bhundu Boys - Church on Fire (4:04)
THEESatisfaction - Earthseed (2:34)
Silver Apples - Program (4:01)
The National Gallery - Fear of Becoming Double (2:39)
Raymond Scott - "Night and Day" (1:45)
Haruomi Hosono (細野晴臣) - スポーツマン (4:05)
Eiskalte Engel - Mach Mich Nicht An, Mann (3:24)
George Clinton - Computer Games (6:45)
Beck - Satan Gave Me A Taco (3:46)
Telex - Euro-Vision (2:43)
Andreas Dorau - So beeinfußbar (4:06)
Listen on Mixcloud (includes all the above songs): Futures Now Past
Or play/download the podcast version below, with the above songs replaced with music by Focusbird:
