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The Future is Ow
by The Future Is Ow
A show where we tug at the the tangled tendrils of technology, politics, the internet, and the future of Having Fun on the Computer. Techno-optimists need not apply, unless you mean the Detroit kind.
Episodes
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Space Malls feat. Kevin Hurler
The boys are joined by journalist Kevin Hurler (@notkevinhurler) to talk international sabotage, the imminent career resurgence of Wanda Sykes, and privatization of the International Space Station.
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Never Forget to Remember to Podcast
The boys are back from an extended August vacation on the shores of Lake Geneva, right in time for 9/11. We delve into the significance of the date some 21 years hence before going on to discuss topics including but not limited to : the hidden secrets of another body of water, Roomba fifth...
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Time Crisis : Operation Pre-Cum
The boys go deep on one of the early aughts' biggest Spielberg bangers: The Minority Report. A classic in many ways, we delve into the ways in which the steely-grey dystopia of mind criminals and time cops both captures and is eluded by the Present Moment in the year of our lord 2022. Please…
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Voight Kultur Kampff
We're back as the number one fast food discussion podcast. We also digress into things like the impending decline of the rent-a-servant economy, the recent tyrannical actions of the Biden Admin re: one of America's favorite treats, the Google chatbot affair, and recent reports of a…
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Ivan Meets VR Joe
We pop off the top of the show with a little memento mori vis-à-vis the untimely demise of the DHS' Disinfo Squad which was a recent feature here on the Ow. Then we check in on La France and their holy war against the mongrel English language via the shock troops of the 21st-century culture wars:...
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Upstream Without a Paddle feat. JJ
We are back, better late than never, with a triple-stuft episode complete with a very special guest. Friend of the podcast and Music Industry Professional (MIP) JJ is on to talk streaming economy stuff but not before we dish on the recent collapse of the crypto and NFT market and its…
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Tweet the Rich
We are back to talk about the latest appendage to sprout from the eldritch carapace of the DHS as well as briefly touch on the actually chilling recent Supreme Court news regarding Roe v. Wade. Then, we're onto lighter and more optimistic fare including the recent success of the Amazon Labor…
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The Ukraine Episode
The boys finally break their silence on Ukraine as many have long demanded, taking the opportunity to investigate some of the creepy and opportunistic ways that western surveillance tech has fluttered down to the battlefield like so many carrion crows. We also talk about the NYC subway shooting a...
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Who Let the Spots Out
We return to the pulpit to query why iPhone's are trying to turn everyone into little Petra Collinses and what it means for the next time you want to take a picture of your cat or a sunset that you then immediately delete cause it's boring and not as cool as when you saw it IRL. We go on to dish…
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Against Podcasts ft. Ryan McRae Arnold
Part two of our mega pod with editor and tech critic Ryan McRae Arnold in which we hook up some alligator clips and a car battery to the nipples of the podcasting genre and, in a wholesale indictment of ourselves and this project, interrogate it for the prophylactic against original thought and...
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100 Pods of Solitude ft. Ryan McRae Arnold
We are back and in the company of another illustrious guest on this week's episode. Tech critic, writer and gadfly to the Silicon Valley set - it's none other than Ryan McRae Arnold! We get into the usual rogue's gallery of panoptic horrors that confront the digital citizen in the year of our…
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5G Flying Fiasco (The Hell Ep)
We try, try, and try again in spite of technical difficulties to talk about the shady Israeli spyware firm NSO and an update on the ID.me situation at the top of the show. Then a noticeably more happy Mack & Jonah talk about 5G and the foibles of its rollout around our nations skyways and byways.
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More Podcasts About Buildings and Food
We have a very special guest episode featuring a very special guest, Jonah's brother Jake - architect, artist, officionado of digital culture and man about town. We start with some classic grist for the FiO mill in the form of Jeff Bezo's plans to build a giant hitachi in outerspace, the now...
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Fluent in SARCOsm
The Future Is Ow returns after a holiday-hiatus with another classic 'sode detailing the myriad ways that a few savvy innovators are disrupting the getting old and dying space. What's more, McDonald's is elbowing into the NFT market with an unfortunately racist virtually McRib. Then we move onto...
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Constitution D'Ow
The boys return from a long period of monastic seclusion having thought much, and learned nothing. We do our semi-regular El Salvador Check-Up, pop back stateside to check in with another recently crowned crypto-curious executive, then discuss the finer points of the Hanky Code, the banal evil of...
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Meta's Modern Life
We scry the future once more by way of more racist AI bots and the racist mirror they hold up to our racist online society. Also: the plague of robo-callers and it's effect on our brave hikers and woodsmen; cheapskates and skinflints stiffing our actually brave and ever-swelling class of…
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School Lunches & Phantom Busters
Mack and Jones are back in one room and the mojo is undeniable: first we check in on the latest bastion to fall to the inexorable creep of facial recognition: Scottish lunchrooms. Then, we delve into the hair-rising possibility that the veil of anonymity long enjoyed by some of our nation's most...
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Assange Ultimatum : Pompeo's Perfidy
The boys execute the first-ever remote episode as Jonah calls in from an undisclosed location on what sounds like a tin can on a string but we promise was an actual microphone. What follows is a full English breakfast of vintage FiO material including but not limited to: what the hell is…
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Ray-Ban(ned from Equinox)
The guys storm the swampy alluvial delta of Playa Girón like the brave exiles of yesteryear to check up on more Havana Syndrome news including the proof of bipartisanship's stubborn survival in the recently passed HAVANA Act. Then we talk the newest wearable tech that is sure to delight...
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Juan Ponce de Léon Has Been Found Dead in Palo Alto
The boys don their podcaster-approved maternity pants and #1 Fan Foam Fingers to hang loose and talk a little sports trivia before delving into the stories of the day : Bitcoin Bursts Bumblingly onto Scene in San Salvador! Palo Alto Plutocrats Plumb Possible Pathways to Immortality! Celebrity...
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IPCC You Later
The FiO Boys shake the sand from their sandals, bid farewell to the Maltese dogracing tracks and Dalmatian casinos of their month-long euro-style sabbatical and roll up their sleeves for a double-stuf'd return episode. At the top of the show, we talk $TSLA, vertical integration, and cross…
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Oopsie Doopsie
We were gone fishin' the last month but don't worry - we're back in the lab, monitoring our instruments and parsing the freshest, rawest intel for your consumption and enjoyment.
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The Guys Who Pod About Goats
The FiO boys take a break from the news cycle and dig the clicker out of the cushions to review the 2009 'satire' film The Men Who Stare at Goats. Within, they mine it's gormless mediocrity for insights about the US security state, our collective relationship to the Iraq War, and George Clooney's...
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McAdieu
We bid a fond farewell to globetrotting sex maniac, sovereign citizen and antivirus impresario John McAfee and recount a few milestones from his bizarre, debauched time on Spaceship Earth. Then we talk last week's heatwave, why we'll never get to have an apocalypse, and finally run through a…
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One Chimerican Gay Moon Government
The big special guys talk Apple being naughty, Amazon at it again, and the ongoing full-court press to stir up the good-hearted American into a tizzy about the red menace in the east - and why we should smile on our Chinese brothers and sisters and game with them instead of doing a nuclear war....
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Rent-a-Op
The FiO boys sally forth again into a whole bevy of strange and cryptic subject matter including a check-back-in with our favorite room-temperature IQ insurrectionists and their ongoing legal woes, the coming Paul Blart-ification of policing, and the legions of deep-cover Pentagon assets who may…
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Gas Gulpers & Anti-Trusters
It's an absolutely tumescent, Jabba the Hutt-sized ep this week as we play the hits from two weeks ago's news. So sink into your gasoline-filled waterbed and prepare to absorb the razor sharp punditry of your favorite disembodied voices on : Instagram for Kids, emotion recognition software, and...
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Scrambled Brains & Fried Plantains
The boys repair to the FiO Situation Room to talk geopolitics vis-à-vis vaccine diplomacy and the viselike grip of the international intellectual property regime on the developing world. While we're in there, we also examine renewed interest in a spate of mysterious migraine-and-diarrhea…
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DARPA : Revenge of the Nerds
We've got a blue ribbon hog of an episode today as the guys jimmy the locks at the Pentagon and make our way to it's dark heart to look with horror on the giant jarred brain that animates American empire. Which is to say, we talk about Annie Jacobsen's book The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored...
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Cyberkurt and tha Gut Explorers
We return to don our music critic's miter and review Kurt Cobain's first new track in some years, discuss the Amazon to-do from two weeks ago now, and raffle off a Jonah's Young Urban Achiever charter school student to undergo irreversible surgico-cybernetic alteration .
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SPAC (Special Podcast, Awesome Content)
The fellas are back after a hiatus spent hiring, firing and rewiring The Future Is Ow Joint Holdings Ltd. to bring you a leaner, more flexible and market-friendly podcasting entity. In this episode we turn the Eye of Sauron back on Amazon and their efforts to transform the people working for them...
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Ceci n'est pas un iPod
In which we go over the stimmy bill, robot pedestrians, dumb AI, universal basic income, and the poison pill of mayoralty. Apologies in advance to German shepherds and retired New England Patriot's linebacker Teddy Bruschi.
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Uber For Your Nan's House
Another big one as the boys pontificate on the subjective nature of art and beauty, dueling gubernatorial shitheads Abbot and Cuomo, and drone warfare. Then we examine a recent ruling by the UK's supreme court forestalling the gig-ification of jolly old England for the time being, and turn a...
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Dallas Deep Freeze and Boston DIEnamics
The fellas talk about the completely unforseeable and unpreventable weather event in Texas and the Midwest that left shelves bare at the electricity store, and then dive into the Beantown robotics firm whose krumping automatons of viral video fame definitely won't be running search and destroy...
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Kill the Celeb In Your Head ft. Agnes Bae
We bring on our first ever guest in the form of friend and cultural maven Agnes Bae to delve into the tawdry and tumultuous miseducation of Britney Spears and what her ongoing saga says about our culture and spectacle-saturated society. We also tickle our toesies against the non-functional gas...
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We (Mic) Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
We go very, very long to have a joint proustian reverie over the Mythbusters, hold our jeweler's loupe to the first few weeks of the Biden admin, celebrate some fresh, new market-friendly proposals to turn your local government over to MailChimp and much more.
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The Silence of the Bans
In which we talk about Parler going away, censorship in the modern agora of online, Amazon some more, Gamestop a week late, and make explicit who are podcasting heroes are (hint: think brain dead). Also I promise I'll learn how to talk into the mic for the next episode. If you can't hear what I'm...
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The Future is Ow Inagural Episode
Without anyone having asked, another podcast is thrust screaming and wobbly-legged into the world. Our podcast. In this our inaugural ep we do some bants and talk about facial recognition, the capitol riots, and the curtain call of the Trump era.
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A show where we tug at the the tangled tendrils of technology, politics, the internet, and the future of Having Fun on the Computer. Techno-optimists need not apply, unless you mean the Detroit kind.
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