Flash Forward
By Rose Eveleth
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Description
Flash Forward is a podcast hosted by Rose Eveleth, in which we really overthink what the future has in store for us. Every episode will tackle one potential future scenario — everything from a sudden ice age, to the end of antibiotic effectiveness, to a world in which contact sports are banned due to head injury — and try to work out how that future would really go down.
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CleanThe Witch Who Came From Mars | In this episode we feed all the past Flash Forward episodes to a neural network, and ask it to write a script for us. And that script is full of space travel, Mars conspiracy theories, future witches, and a whole lot of theories about cutting someone’s. | 5 9 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanWhere's The Beef? | Today we go to a future where animal products are banned. What are the arguments for and against? How does banning meat impact different cultures? Does it help or hurt the environment? Can you really grow meat in a lab? And is that meat vegan? | 10 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRevenge of the Retweet | Today we try to figure out what happens when our future presidential candidates have thousands of Tweets and Tumblr posts and Instagrams in their online record. What happens, when today’s teens start running for office? When their entire internet his. | 26 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Altered State | Today we travel to a future where all drugs are legal. In this episode we discuss the history of drug laws, why some drugs are legal and others aren’t, and what would happen if we just let everybody lose to do whatever they want. | 12 7 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanBot For Teacher | Today a future without schools. Instead of gathering students into a room and teaching them, everybody learns on their own time, on tablets and guided by artificial intelligence. We talk to a computer scientist who developed an artificially intellige... | 28 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanKaboom | Today week we take on a doomsday future: all the active volcanoes in the world erupt at the same time. This is not good for us. But how bad is it? What happens to humans and our planet? Who survives? How? | 14 6 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanPopnonymous | Today we go to a future where all pop stars use avatars, clones, robots or cartoons instead of their real bodies and faces. What does that do to music? Can everybody pull off an avatar? And why would any pop star even want that? | 31 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitExpiration Date | Today we travel to a future where everybody knows exactly when they’re going to die. If you could know your death date, would you chose to find out? Why? How would knowing your death date change your outlook on life, your behavior, your relationships. . | 17 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitOmnibot | Today we travel to a world with universal translation devices. In this episode we talk about how machine translation could be meddled with, who gets to be the baseline language, and what these devices might do for language loss and assimilation. | 3 5 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanSwipe Right For Democracy | Today we travel to a future where America has converted to a direct democracy. Everybody votes on everything! We explore the U.S. states that have direct democracy systems in place today, how to apply that model to the whole country, how to even gath... | 19 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanRude Bot Rises | Okay, you asked for it, and I finally did it. Today’s episode is about conscious artificial intelligence. In this episode we talk about everything from what artificial intelligence and consciousness even mean, whether you’ll ever have a moral obligati | 5 4 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanTree Free | Today we travel to a fully digital world, a world where paper is a thing of the past. | 29 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMinipod: Time Travel | Today’s episode is a minipod, a smattering of time travel, future travel, and news about the show. Bonus: I reveal some of the hidden references in past episodes. | 22 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanUnpawful | Today we travel to a future without pets. What would it take for us to give up our fuzzy, slithery, fishy friends? Should our pets get more rights? And if we didn’t have dogs or cats, would we domesticate something else to take their place? | 15 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitMy Everything Pal | Today we travel to a future full of spreadsheet approved lives. A future where everything we do is tracked and quantified: calories, air quality, sleep, heart rate, microbes, brain waves, finances, happiness, sadness, menstrual cycles, poops, hopes and... | 8 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanMicro But Mighty | Today we travel to a future where your microbiome becomes a key part of your identity. From health to your child’s kindergarten, here are all the ways knowing about your microbiome might impact your life. | 1 3 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanThe Ultimate Swatting | Today we travel to a future where humans have decided to eradicate the most dangerous animal on the planet: mosquitos. How would we do it? Is it even possible? And what are the consequences? | 23 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanDon't Lie To Me | Today we travel to a future without lies. What would it be like if we all wore accurate lie detectors around all the time? And how would we devise those lie detectors? | 16 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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ExplicitLove At First Bot | Today we travel to the year 2086, a world where sex robots are on the market. What happens when we can buy a humanoid robot as a partner? Who wins and who loses? And where do you store the darn thing? | 9 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanFace Off | Today, about two percent of the population has prosopagnosia — a condition that makes them unable to remember faces. But what if we all had it? On this week’s episode, we travel to a future where nobody can recognize one another by face. | 2 2 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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CleanA Quick Announcement | Exciting things are coming! Here's what's in store for the show in the future. | 14 1 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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