{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"15-15 The Doomsday Machine and a Future Askew","description":"Norman Spinrad\u2019s original March 1967 story outline for \u201cThe Planet Eater\u201d introduced Star Trek to an unstoppable machine roaming the galaxy, consuming planets for fuel and leaving destruction in its wake. By the time it reached television, the story had a new title, \u201cThe Doomsday Machine,\u201d and became one of the most celebrated episodes of the original series. Author and filmmaker Jeffrey Morris joins Larry Nemecek at Star Trek Las Vegas to revisit that original outline and consider its warning through a distinctly 21st-century lens. Drawing from his new book, A Future Askew, Jeffrey explores artificial intelligence, social media, technological disruption, and the increasingly complicated distance between the optimistic future Star Trek imagined and the one we\u2019re actually building. Could today\u2019s rapidly developing technology become our own version of the Planet Eater: enormously powerful, increasingly autonomous, and ultimately beyond the understanding of its creators? Sixty years after Star Trek began imagining the future, an old-fashioned doomsday machine provides a surprisingly timely place to ask where we\u2019re headed next. Document of the week: \u201cThe Planet Eater\u201d by Norman Spinrad \u2014 Story Outline, March 6, 1967 Additional references: Jeffrey Morris \u2014 A Future Askew: Urgent Essays Inspired by the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek \u201cThe Doomsday Machine\u201d If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All - by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares  Center for Humane Technology The Social Dilemma Borg V'Ger     ","author_name":"The Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/thetrekfiles.com","html":"