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FourCast (Audio) — 50 episodes

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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.

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FC 111: Beam Me Out Mommy - Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.

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FC 110: Photography Becomes Archaeology - We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!

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FC 109: Ubiquitous Media - Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.

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FC 108: Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma - Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.

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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?

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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.

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FC 105: My Bricks Are Online - We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.

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FC 104: Introducing the Thought DVR - We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.

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FC 103: Moonifest Destiny - China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.

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FC 102: Megafauna - Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.

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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.

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FC 100: Voodoo Bernie Is the Future - We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.

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FC 99: Spider State - We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.

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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.

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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.

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FC 96: Return of Alien Nation - Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.

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FC 95: Swappin' Body Parts - We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.

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FC 94: Space Dragons - We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.

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FC 93: Go Goa'uld or Go Home - Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.

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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.

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FC 91: Designer Prosthetics - Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.

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FC 90: Putting the "I" In IPO - Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.

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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.

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FC 88: Black Tar Einstein - We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.

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FC 87: Grow Your Own Home - Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.

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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.

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FC 85: Distributed Everything - We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.

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FC 84: It's All About Superheroes - We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.

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FC 83: Nice Bioluminescent Spots - Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.

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FC 82: Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please - Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.

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FC 81: Robot Everything - Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.

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FC 80: Space Nomads - We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.

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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.

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FC 78: Got Nanobots? - Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.

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FC 77: Stop Chad! - If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!

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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.

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FC 75: Weightless Immortality - Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.

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FC 74: The Future of No More - No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!

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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.