Technofossils - Sarah Gabbott, Mark Miodownik and Aurie Styla

技术化石 - 萨拉·加博特、马克·米奥多尼克和奥丽·斯蒂拉

The Infinite Monkey Cage

2025-08-07

42 分钟
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To access this episode early and ad-free, subscribe to BBC Podcast Premium on Apple Podcasts. The episode will be available for free with adverts on 7th August. Brian Cox and Robin Ince dig deep into the strata of an imagined human history to unearth the curious concept of technofossils. Joined by paleobiologist Sarah Gabbott, material scientist Mark Miodownik and comedian and tech enthusiast Aurie Styla the panel unearth how the everyday objects that we throw away today compare to fossils of the past. Together, the panel investigates how these modern artifacts could degrade over time to become the fossils of the future. From old smartphones buried in bedside drawers to sprawling landfill sites, they imagine how these remnants of the Anthropocene might puzzle future archaeologists—and speculate on what these researchers might infer about our technology, customs, and way of life. Series Producer: Melanie Brown Assistant Producer: Olivia Jani Executive Producer: Sasha Feachem
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  • Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

  • I'm Robert Ince, and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage.

  • Now, we are at the Bloomsbury Theatre,

  • which is actually the place that Brian Cox and I did our very,

  • very first gig about two years before we started doing this series.

  • And it was a kind of mash-up of science and music,

  • and I came on and did some jokes about Schrodinger's Cat,

  • and Brian came on and sang I'll Be Your Long-Haired Lover from Liverpool.

  • And then I had my hair cut shortly after for personal safety reasons, actually.

  • This is what I love about Brian.

  • He didn't have his hair cut.

  • We replaced the previous hair that he had on his head.

  • And then, in fact,

  • we replaced your head because you're kind of like a replicant Wurzel Gummidge, aren't you, really?

  • They've started adding little bits of grey in your hair now so that you look more human.

  • Yeah, they take it from you.