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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

Latest episodes

Futureproof Extra: The Science of Risk (Best of)

2 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Best of Futureproof: Becoming Concious & Rare Blood Plasma

4 days ago - 33 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How soon could we see lab-grown teeth?

9 days ago - 13 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

The Science of Embalming

11 days ago - 35 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: How micro-robots will help detect cancer in patients

16 days ago - 15 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

What we know (and don't know) about the cosmos

18 days ago - 41 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Futureproof Extra: Automation & Utopia

Rapid advances in robotics and artificial intelligence means that soon, many jobs we see today will be taken over by machines. This a prospect which might very well strike fear in the hearts of those listening as everyone from lorry-drivers to lawyers to doctors might be affected. But what if the automation of work was not something to be feared, but welcomed?  What would a work-free world be like? And what would we do instead? Dr John Danaher, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at NUI Galway and author of Automation & Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work joins Jonathan to discuss a world without work.