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The times are a\u2019changing \u2013 rising temperatures, growing population, and new technology coming at us faster than a greased cheetah.\nSo how will humans respond? Find out about future farming in the city \u2013 your vegetables might be grown in downtown, hi-rise greenhouses. Also, a population expert tells us how our planet can cope with billions more people, and the man who invented the term \u2018cyberspace\u2019 describes what the future might hold for the techno-savvy.\nDarwinian evolution takes a long time to accommodate to new environments. But Homo sapiens can beat that rap by wielding the right technology \u2013 and becoming early adapters.\nGuests:\n\n\nDickson Despommier - Emeritus professor of public health and microbiology at Columbia University, author of The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century\n\n\n\nWilliam Gibson - Author, most recently, of Zero History\n\n\n\nJoel Cohen - Mathematician and biologist at Rockefeller University\n\n\nDavid DeGusta - Paleoanthropologist at the Paleoanthropology Institute in California\n\nDescripci\xf3n en espa\xf1ol\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices