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Modem Futura — 87 episodes

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The Dawkins Effect: Why Even Skeptics Fall for AI Consciousness

2

Convergence Day: Opus 4.7 and the Reliability Question

3

The Jagged Frontier: Reading Stanford's Human Centered 2026 AI Index

4

Mythos and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: When AI Outruns Our Wisdom

5

Artemis II: The Science, the Wonder, and the Future of Being Human

6

Two Tools That Will Change How You Think About the Future

7

Fluid Futures: 10 Signals Reshaping an AI-Mediated World

8

Futures Improv: Power, Probes & Post-Human Civilization

9

The Invisible Upgrade: How AI Is Already Changing How We Think

10

The Futures Cone: Preposterous to Plausible

11

Technologic: What Old iPods, Tiny Cameras, and Tangled Cables Teach Us About the Future

12

The Futures Triangle and the Intent Map: Practical Tools for Thriving with AI

13

The Fun They Had - Asimov Predicted AI Tutors in 1950's

14

Vibe Coding and the Return of Personal Software

15

The Future From a Kid's Perspective with Freddie Leahy

16

Pluribus: When Happiness Becomes the Apocalypse

17

Signals of Collapse (and Hope): WEF 2026 Global Risk Report

18

Jurassic Park Was Right: AI, Inherited Power, and the Cost of Moving Too Fast

19

Technosphere and Solarpunk: Designing Energy Futures That Let Us Thrive with Clark Miller

20

2025 Year in Review Recap: AI, Education, Futures Thinking & the Future of Being Human

21

Why Human Craft and Creativity Still Wins in an Age of AI

22

Is Life a Simulation? AI, Games, and the Future of Reality with Rizwan Virk

23

That Was Easy: The Hidden Cost of Frictionless AI

24

AI Toys: Datafied Childhoods and the Future of Play

25

Made by Humans: Inside the New Apple TV Logo

26

The AI Sustainability Paradox - Promise, Peril, and Planetary Futures

27

The Metaverse - A Stack of Reality Layers

28

Through the lens: Spatial Computing with Apple Vision Pro

29

Tech or Treat: A Haunted Futures Improv Special

30

Atlas, Higher Education, and How We Really Feel About AI

31

Sora, Slop, and the AI Economy: When ChatGPT Meets Walmart

32

We Turned One - plus Liquid Media, Work Slop, and the Road Ahead

33

AI and the Art of Being Human: How to Thrive with AI

34

AI in Elementary Education: Teaching Tech to Our Youngest Learners

35

Sloppy Clankers: Is This AI’s Frankenfood Moment?

36

Futures Thinking: Foresight You Can Use

37

Films from the Future: Moviegoer’s Guide to Tomorrow

38

Up in the Air: The Future of eVTOLs and Urban Air Mobility

39

Agentic AI in Education & the Art of Becoming with Punya Mishra

40

AI, Not AI: Riding the Hype Cycle

41

Show Me the Receipts: the Futures of AI Super-intelligence

42

Living Machines: Inside the Future World of Bio‑Hybrid Robotics

43

Futures of Agentic AI and the 2025 AI Action Plan

44

Summer School with AI: Rethinking Learning in the Age of GPT

45

Summer Movies, liquid media, and alien AI languages

46

Summer Vibes & Spatial Rides: Inside Vision Pro, F1 & Jurassic Reboots

47

Future Vibes: Sean & Andrew’s 2025 Summer Reading List

48

World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025

49

Osaka Expo 2025 Futures Lab: an inside look with Jamey Wetmore

50

Murderbot: Futures of AI Superintelligence, Rogue Robots, and Care

51

Living Circuits and Biofoundries: Ethics and Care of Synthetic Biology with Emma Frow

52

Futures of Learning: AI in Education with Punya Mishra

53

Symbiotic Futures: Megatrends, foresight, and Futures Thinking

54

Severed Minds: Brain Implants, AI, and the Future of Being Human

55

AI on Campus: How Gen Z Is Redefining College with ChatGPT

56

Dire Wolves and Dinosaurs: The Bioscience of De-Extinction

57

Beyond the Hero’s Journey: AI, Protopia & the Future of Film with Taryn O'Neill

58

Electronic Vehicles and the Future of Transportation with Jamey Wetmore

59

Vibecasting: Studio Ghibli and AI Redefining Creativity and Intellectual Property

60

When AI Takes the Wheel: Rethinking Education for a Post-Scarcity World

61

Tech Trends 2025: Exploring Futures of Living Intelligence

62

AI and the Natural Impulses for Learning

63

AI and Technological Change: the Postman Always Delivers

64

Computational Photography: AI & Creative Process

65

The Art of Doing Nothing

66

AI: the Medium is the Message

67

Artisanal Intellectual: a response to OpenAI's Deep Research

68

Going Pro with ChatGPT and DeepSeek - with Mark Daley

69

Stargate AG-I

70

AGI, Superintelligence, Synthetic Personas, and is the Internet dead?

71

Autonomous Vehicles and Systems with Brunno Moretti

72

Humans in Space with Astronaut Cady Coleman

73

2024 Retrospective Prospective

74

Live Holiday Special: Futures Speed Round

75

Live from the Pub! Exploring Digital Realities

76

Radical Creativity: A Future of Unconventional Possibilities

77

Envisioning Tomorrow: The Power of Futures Thinking with Ruth Wylie

78

Can AI Reason Like Humans?

79

Simulation Hypothesis with Rizwan Virk

80

Waymo we go! - Navigating the Future of Autonomous Driving

81

Future of AI: Can Machines Think?

82

Halloween edition featuring War of the Worlds

83

Futures and Ethics of Bio Hacking

84

Daydreaming of digital notebooks and virtual artificial worlds

85

What does it mean to be human in the future?

86

The Pilot - Exploring the Future of Being Human

87

Hello World! [it's a trailer]