It’s time to pick a new book, but for some reason we just can’t stop talking about George R. R. Martin. And in some cases singing about him. But we DID pick a new book and it’s The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. It involves relativity, interstellar war and sad soldiers. In fact it’s...

Do you have your own prediction for the future? We’re interested to hear. Use the form on the FourCast Podcast site, post a comment to this post, or just email us at [email protected] We’ll read a selection of some predictions on the show.  It could be yours!

Tom and Roger talk about the lack of news in August and the meaning of hispanic, and whether the southwest will ever secede. Listen to the episode at this link: http://www.archive.org/download/EastMeetsWest169/eastmeetswest169.mp3

For our next trick, Scott and I got Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, and Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to square off with their visions of the future.  You may think Leo is the optimist, but you’d be wrong.  Witness the title of our episode.  It was Jim that has the rosier view of the...