Piraceuticals

This episode we go to a future with pirates! There always has to be at least one pirate episode per season. This time it’s pharmaceutical pirates.

This episode was inspired by a new book by Annalee Newitz called Autonomous. It’s very good and you should read it. I am not being paid to say that, I just really like the book.

Autonomous tells the story of two main characters: Jack the pharmaceutical pirate, and Palladin the bot that is trying to hunt her down. A few cool links related to Autonomous:

How to Write a Novel Set More Than 125 Years in the Future
Robots need civil rights, too
Sword and Laser podcast #306 - Indentured Robotude w/ Annalee Newitz
Pirates and Robots Square Off Over Drugs in Annalee Newitz’s Debut Novel
In A Future Ruled By Big Pharma, A Robot Tentatively Explores Freedom — And Sex: 'Autonomous'

For our episode, we focused on the pharmaceutical piracy part of the book. And to talk to us about the nitty gritty of how pharmaceuticals are made, and ho