2016-10-09: Jarvis explores some startling new ideas with author Yuval Noah Harari, who talks about his book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Yuval contemplates the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the rest of this century, from overcoming death to creating artificial life. Are organisms really just algorithms and is life really just data processing? What's more valuable: intelligence or consciousness? What will happen to society, politics and daily life when non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms know us better than we know ourselves? There's much to meditate on… Birthdays: John Lennon (reading his poetry), PJ Harvey (on performing live), Sharon Osbourne (on hotel hygiene) and Camille Saint-Saëns.
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker
David Shrigley and Malcolm Middleton - Dear Brain
The Beatles - Happy Birthday, Saturday Club
[John Lennon recites his poetry]
John Lennon feat. Plastic Ono Band - Remember
PJ Harvey - The Orange Monkey
Blood Orange - By Ourselves
The Stooges - Dirt
David Bowie - Oh! You Pretty Things
Love - Old Man
Berlin Philharmonic (Karl Böhm) - R Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Neil Young - Computer Age
Experiments in Musical Intelligence (programmer: David Cope) - Fugue
András Schiff - JS Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C (Ulrich Schnauss Re-Work)
Glenn Gould - JS Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988: Aria
Giorgio Moroder - Automation
Stevie Wonder - Isn't She Lovely
Alan Watts - Om (fragment)
Pete Shelley - Homosapien
Clara Rockmore - Saint-Saëns: The Swan
Floating Points - Argenté
Angel Olsen - Intern
Lee 'Scratch' Perry and The Upsetters - Underground
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
