Twenty-five years ago, Quirks & Quarks celebrated its anniversary by travelling forward in time — to 2025 — to find out how science had changed in the years since.
Encore presentation of Quirks & Quarks’ 25th Annivesary Show by ‘travelling’ forward in time to 2025
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Quirks and Quarks54:00A 25-year-old time capsule with science predictions for 2025
On this week’s episode of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald:
Opening a 25-year-old time capsule with predictions about science for 2025
As part of Quirks & Quarks’ 50th anniversary celebrations this year, we dug an episode up from the CBC vaults for a special encore presentation of our 25th Anniversary Show.
Back in 2000, Quirks & Quarks celebrated its 25th anniversary by travelling forward in time — to 2025 — to find out how science had changed in the years since.
In this fictitious future, our present, CBC senior producer, Jim Lebans, provides the voice for the robot Zargon who wakes up a Bob McDonald clone from the year 2000 to speak with scientists about 25 years of science. It’s a mindbending audio time capsule with predictions that were oddly prescient, sometimes unsettling or wildly wrong.