• "Dark City" was number 10 on Stephen's sci-fi countdown.

• Phil and Stephen highly recommend "Dark City." Phil thinks that "Dark City" is a truly unique take on the simulation hypothesis. He wonders how that fictional universe could be combined with "The Matrix."

• Phil recommends the movie "Moon." He considers it a great throwback to the hard sci-fi that was fashionable in the late 60's and 70's.

• Phil was blown away by this article at Future Pundit, "People consider more possibilities for the past than the future."

  Randal Parker suggests, "I can see a way to try to use this result to think more productively: When trying to predict the future list some possible paths. Then for each path imagine you are in the future and a series of events caused developments to happen along that path. Think back from this imagined future vantage point and try to identify the causes of the outcome. If you do that for each possible outcome you might shift your mind into a more backward-looking diagnostic mode."

• Phil suggests that we need to live life more like the protagonists in "Primer." Project ourselves mentally into the future in order imagine the path to get there.

• Phil and Stephen were sorry to hear that J. Storrs Hall had to step down as the head of the Foresight Institute.

• Resetting the cellular clock.

• Is growing older a way to live longer by avoiding cancer?

• Why are we interested in the future? Well... there is this:

• Rutgers plans an online course on the Singularity.

• Polymer solar cells to hit higher efficiencies.

• MIT Self-assembling computer chips.

• How the FCC plans to get more people on broadband.

Our exit music this week is from Black Lab. The song is "The Real You."