Futures Now Past

Last Refuge of the Incompetent

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

Blade Runner

Johnny Mnemonic

The Apple

Music by Focusbird

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)