FourCast (Video)
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FourCast (Video) is a technology podcast hosted by TWiT. It has 50 episodes, with the latest published June 2012.
Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions, as well as the always interesting FourCast Findings and FourCast QuickFire Questions segments. They're a little lazy, so they bring on two guests every episode and make them do the work.Although the show is no longer in production, you can enjoy episodes from the TWiT Archives.
technology ·en-US ·50 episodes
FC 122: Lastcast - Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.
FC 121: Jam the Reptile Terrorists - When we all have wearable computing we'll need to jam it and stop the parallel universes from invading us. But at least we have easy access to Point Break
FC 120: Your Tube Is Here - Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.
FC 119: What's the Digital Matter? - We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.
FC 118: No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books - While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.
FC 117: Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose - We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.
FC 116: TV and Movies Merge - Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.
FC 115: Spectrum in My Head - We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.
FC 114: No Keyboard, No Security - We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.
FC 113: Kickstart My Comic Heart - Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
FC 112: The Nanobots Made My Brain Do It - Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.
FC 111: Beam Me Out Mommy - Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.
FC 110: Photography Becomes Archaeology - We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!
FC 109: Ubiquitous Media - Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.
FC 108: Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma - Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.
FC 107: Robot Death or Lizard Face - Sure we can't tell if it's a computer, but it won't kill us. It will kill our physical-altered progeny. Am I right?
FC 106: Eyeball in My Colon - We learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can get our entertainment everywhere.
FC 105: My Bricks Are Online - We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.
FC 104: Introducing the Thought DVR - We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.
FC 103: Moonifest Destiny - China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.
FC 102: Megafauna - Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.
FC 101: The Guilted Age - Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.
FC 100: Voodoo Bernie Is the Future - We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.
FC 99: Spider State - We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.
FC 98: Holographic Bieber - Sure, you can't hug a child with robotic eyes, and printing a baby has issues, but our perma-kittens will take our minds off it.
FC 97: Pulp Toy Story Dogs - We all create the movies we want in our barter society, when we're into playing realistic D&D sims. But we're all part of the AI game.
FC 96: Return of Alien Nation - Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.
FC 95: Swappin' Body Parts - We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
FC 94: Space Dragons - We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.
FC 93: Go Goa'uld or Go Home - Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.
FC 92: Vote Gibbon - It's survival of the cutest, or survival of the aliens that can't enjoy simulations. But we can't use telepathy because of the ads.
FC 91: Designer Prosthetics - Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.
FC 90: Putting the "I" In IPO - Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
FC 89: We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords - We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.
FC 88: Black Tar Einstein - We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.
FC 87: Grow Your Own Home - Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.
FC 86: The Gassy One - We'll taste our movies and burn our trash, but we'll all be made of broccoli. Yet a trip to Jupiter will take our mind off it.
FC 85: Distributed Everything - We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.
FC 84: It's All About Superheroes - We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.
FC 83: Nice Bioluminescent Spots - Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.
FC 82: Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please - Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.
FC 81: Robot Everything - Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.
FC 80: Space Nomads - We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.
FC 79: Talk to the Animals - Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.
FC 78: Got Nanobots? - Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.
FC 77: Stop Chad! - If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!
FC 76: Head in the Clouds - We're putting a hard drive in our heads, and we can't tell the Google history index has changed history, but we're all in caves now, so it's OK.
FC 75: Weightless Immortality - Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.
FC 74: The Future of No More - No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!
FC 73: You Died of Spacsyntery - The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.
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