The Future Fiction Podcast
By Shreya Chopra
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The Future Fiction PodcastNov 26, 2020
Episode 3| An Udder catastrophe by N Chandrasekhar Ramanujam: A discussion with the author
In today's episode, we discuss with the author, N. Chandrasekhar Ramanujan about his story “ An Udder Catastrophe” and the process he went through while writing it .
This was published in the book: "Drones & Dreams: A Speculative Sprint Story Collection" edited by Amy Johnson: Link to the book: https://www.digitalasiahub.org/download/drones-dreams-a-speculative-sprint-story-collection/
About Chandra-Bio link:https://obvious.in/team/n-chandrasekhar-ramanujan/
Twitter:@NCResq
Please excuse us for the cuts in between due to poor internet connection that we experienced during the course of this recording.
SHOWNOTES:
- Workshop on how AI would change the way we live
- Digital Asia Hub, Malvika Jayaram (researcher at https://cyber.harvard.edu/)
- Charette: collaborative activity when people come together to solve a problem: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Charrette
- Snigdha Poonam | Cowboys of Hindutva: https://granta.com/cult-hindu-cowboy/
- Book: Speculative everything by Dunne and Raby (the speculative design is a way to critique ideas rather than to design objects)
- Backcasting: a futures thinking method: https://toolkits.dss.cloud/design/method-card/backcasting/
- “Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona, Where Robots Roam”, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverless-fatality.html
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Episode 2 | An Udder catastrophe by N Chandrasekhar Ramanujan: A reading
Hello and welcome to the Future fiction Podcast. In today's episode, we share with you a short story "An Udder Catastrophe" by N. Chandrasekhar Ramanujan about cows and self-driving cars in India. This was published in the book: "Drones & Dreams: A Speculative Sprint Story Collection" edited by Amy Johnson. This collection was the amazing output of a 2-day writing sprint with 22 participants in a workshop hosted by the Singapore Management University’s School of Law, as part of its Centre for AI & Data Governance in December 2018. Mr Chopra, a local resident and frequent commuter on the roads of Gurgaon volunteered to read this story for us while allowing me to record it. I hope you enjoy the story.
Link to the book: https://www.digitalasiahub.org/download/drones-dreams-a-speculative-sprint-story-collection/
Link to a podcast on self-driving cars I found if you're interested: https://ai-selfdriving-cars.libsyn.com/gender-bias-and-self-driving-cars
Hope you enjoyed this podcast! If you would like to share other versions of the story and attempt your own speculative fiction writing exercise, drop me a dm on Instagram @thefuturefictionpodcast. In the next episode interview the author N Chandrasekhar Ramanujam about the process of conceiving and writing this story. You can connect with him on Twitter @NCResq. Stay tuned!
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Crowd sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oFAF8ze1gc
Mob sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRDdlTb0txA
Episode 1 | "A college student practising social distancing in 2025" by Shreya Chopra
Hello and welcome to the first episode of the Future fiction Podcast. In today's podcast, I will share a future fiction story written by me. The brief of the story, given by my friend, Chandra is: "Imagine you are a college student in 2025. A vaccine is not available yet widely. In order to combat COVID19, a new artefact is introduced in college classrooms to enforce social distancing."
Live, from India, I Shreya, a designer and futurist bring to you stories and conversations about in the realm of fiction that takes you to the future- sometimes written by me or my peers in the design community. Allow this podcast to nudge you into thinking more deeply about the now by envisioning the tomorrows.
Hope you enjoyed this podcast! If you would like to share other versions of the story and attempt your own speculative fiction writing exercise, drop me a dm on Instagram @thefuturefictionpodcast