{"id":103669,"date":"2020-03-12T03:26:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/why-cosmos-producer-ann-druyan-is-optimistic-about-the-future"},"modified":"2020-03-12T03:26:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T10:26:27","slug":"why-cosmos-producer-ann-druyan-is-optimistic-about-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/why-cosmos-producer-ann-druyan-is-optimistic-about-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Why \u201cCosmos\u201d producer Ann Druyan is optimistic about the future"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ann Druyan, who co-wrote the original 1980s series with her late husband, is back at work as this season\u2019s executive producer, writer and director. Her book, \u201cCosmos: Possible Worlds,\u201d was recently published as a companion to the series, which will be aired on March 9 at 8\/7c on National Geographic. We were lucky enough to catch up with Druyan to talk more about her latest projects.<\/p>\n

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\nYou\u2019ve described this season of \u201cCosmos\u201d as the \u201cboldest\u201d season yet. Can you elaborate on that, without giving too much away?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s the boldest in that it appears to present such an optimistic vision of the future, and that sets it apart, I think, in many ways from most of our entertainment. Of course, our entertainment is just a reflection of the reality we\u2019re coping with, but this \u201cCosmos\u201d is not only a vision of a magnificent future, but a vision of a magnificent future if we learn to use our science in high technology with wisdom. It\u2019s the future we can still have and so many of the stories in both book and show are the stories of our ancestors who endured terrible situations. Every single person alive today is descended from humans who have been back to the wall repeatedly, but rose to the challenge.<\/p>\n

And so, [the theme of] \u201cpossible worlds\u201d works on many different levels. It\u2019s the possible worlds of exoplanets we\u2019ve yet to discover. It\u2019s the possible world within, the science of our brains and the dream of creating connectomes<\/a> similar to a genome \u2014 one consisting of all our thoughts, associations, memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ann Druyan, who co-wrote the original 1980s series with her late husband, is back at work as this season\u2019s executive producer, writer and director. Her book, \u201cCosmos: Possible Worlds,\u201d was recently published as a companion to the series, which will be aired on March 9 at 8\/7c on National Geographic. We were lucky enough to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}