All episodes
Monica L. Smith: Cities: The First 6,000 Years
Neal Stephenson: Neal Stephenson - Fall, or Dodge in Hell
Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness
Kim Stanley Robinson: Learning From Le Guin
Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking Value
David Byrne: Good News & Sleeping Beauties
Brian Behlendorf: A Foundation of Trust: Building a Blockchain Future
Judy Wajcman: Time Poverty Amidst Digital Abundance
Ian McEwan: Machines Like Me
Elizabeth Lonsdorf: Growing Up Ape: The Long-term Science of Studying Our Closest Living Relatives
Maya Tudor: Can Nationalism be a Resource for Democracy?
Alexander Rose, Kevin Kelly, & Stewart Brand: Siberia: A Journey to the Mammoth Steppe
Christopher Bryan: The Evolving Science of Behavior Change
Hannu Rajaniemi: The Spirit Singularity: Science and the Afterlife at the Turn of the 20th Century
Jeff Goodell: The Water Will Come
James Holland Jones: The Science of Climate Fiction: Can Stories Lead to Social Action?
Ed Lu: Charting the High Frontier of Space
Chip Conley: The Modern Elder and the Intergenerational Workplace
Martin Rees: Prospects for Humanity
Stewart Brand: Whole Earth Catalog 50th Anniversary Celebration
Niall Ferguson: Networks and Power
Mary Lou Jepsen: Toward Practical Telepathy
Julia Galef: Soldiers and Scouts: Why our minds weren't built for truth, and how we can change that
Juan Benet: Long Term Info-structure
Shahzeen Attari: Facts, Feelings and Stories: How to Motivate Action on Climate Change
George P. Shultz: Perspective
Chris D. Thomas: Are We Initiating The Great Anthropocene Speciation Event?
Benjamin Grant: Overview: Earth and Civilization in the Macroscope
Kishore Mahbubani: Has the West Lost It? Can Asia Save It?
Margaret Levi: The Organized Pursuit of Knowledge
Steven Pinker: A New Enlightenment
Michael Frachetti: Open Source Civilization and the Unexpected Origins of the Silk Road
Mike Kuniavsky: Our Future in Algorithm Farming
James Nestor: Humanity and the Deep Ocean
Charles C. Mann: The Wizard and the Prophet
Louis Hyman: The New Deal You Don't Know
Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
Nathaniel Persily: Can Democracy Survive the Internet?
Rose McDermott: Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits
Renee Wegrzyn: Engineering Gene Safety
Jason Scott: The Web In An Eye Blink
The Refugee Reality: Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge
David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands
Nicky Case: Seeing Whole Systems
Carolyn Porco: Searching for Life in the Solar System
Kim Stanley Robinson: How Climate Will Evolve Government and Society
Kara Platoni: Transforming Perception, One Sense at a Time
James Gleick: Time Travel
Jeffrey McGrew: Talking with Robots about Architecture
Adam Rogers: Proof: The Science of Booze
Andy Weir: The Red Planet for Real
Abby Smith Rumsey: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future
Paul Saffo & Stewart Brand: Pace Layers Thinking
Neal Stephenson: Seveneves at The Interval
Geoffrey B West: The Universal Laws of Growth and Pace
Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living
Bjorn Lomborg: From Feel-Good to High-Yield Good: How to Improve Philanthropy and Aid
Jennifer Pahlka: Fixing Government: Bottom Up and Outside In
Steven Johnson: Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
Douglas Coupland: The Extreme Present
David Eagleman: The Brain and The Now
Jonathan Rose: The Well Tempered City
Seth Lloyd: Quantum Computer Reality
Kevin Kelly: The Next 30 Digital Years
Brian Christian: Algorithms to Live By
Walter Mischel: The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control
Priyamvada Natarajan: Solving Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Jane Langdale: Radical Ag: C4 Rice and Beyond
Stephen Pyne: Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep
Eric Cline: 1177 B.C.: When Civilization Collapsed
Philip Tetlock: Superforecasting
James Fallows: Civilization's Infrastructure
Saul Griffith: Infrastructure and Climate Change
Sara Seager: Other Earths. Other Life.
Ramez Naam: Enhancing Humans, Advancing Humanity
Neil Gaiman: How Stories Last
Beth Shapiro: How to Clone a Mammoth
Michael Shermer: The Long Arc of Moral Progress
Jonathon Keats: Envisioning Deep Time
Paul Saffo: The Creator Economy
David Keith: Patient Geoengineering
Jesse Ausubel: Nature is Rebounding
Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound
Larry Harvey: Why The Man Keeps Burning
Drew Endy: The iGEM Revolution
Anne Neuberger: Inside the NSA
Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects
Stefan Kröpelin: Civilization’s Mysterious Desert Cradle
Sylvia Earle & Tierney Thys: Oceanic
Tony Hsieh: Helping Revitalize a City
Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State
Danny Hillis & Brian Eno: The Long Now, now
Richard Kurin: American History in 101 Objects
Adam Steltzner: Beyond Mars, Earth
Peter Schwartz: The Starships ARE Coming
Daniel Kahneman: Thinking Fast and Slow
Craig Childs: Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
Ed Lu: Anthropocene Astronomy: Thwarting Dangerous Asteroids Begins with Finding Them
Stewart Brand: Reviving Extinct Species
Nicholas Negroponte: Beyond Digital