All Episodes
Modem Futura — 105 episodes
The Right to Be Unpredictable: AI, Algorithms & the Cost of Conformity
Bill Gates: The Turbulent AI Era Is Here – and We Have No Plan
Invisible Ink: AI Watermarking, SynthID & the Internet Meltdown
Zuckerberg's AI Manifesto: Is the Future Really for Everyone?
Will AI Take Your Voice? The Hidden Cost of AI Writing Tools
Sally the Robot Teacher: AI Humanoid Robots Enter the Classroom
The AI That Escaped the Lab: Inside the OpenAI–Hugging Face Breach
Summer Watch List: Silo Season 3, Sugar, Silicon Valley & Neuromancer
SpudCells: Have Scientists Built Life From Scratch?
AI as Critical Infrastructure: Inside the Anthropic Fable Export Ban
Summer Reading List Part 2: Sci-Fi, Spy Fiction & Analog Treasures
Summer Reading List 2026: The Books That Inspired Our Imagination (Part 1)
WEF Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026: A Futures Breakdown
AI Jobs, Liquid Software & Human Flourishing with Jeff Abbott
Synthetic Cells, Mirror Life, and the Future of Engineered Biology — with Emma Frow
Alien Minds, Time Travelers, and Consciousness Backups: A Futures Thought Experiment
Project Hail Mary, Dead Civilizations, and the Trouble with Feel-Good Endings
School's Out for Summer: AI, Vibe Coding, and What Teaching Still Requires
The Dawkins Effect: Why Even Skeptics Fall for AI Consciousness
Convergence Day: Opus 4.7 and the Reliability Question
The Jagged Frontier: Reading Stanford's Human Centered 2026 AI Index
Mythos and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: When AI Outruns Our Wisdom
Artemis II: The Science, the Wonder, and the Future of Being Human
Two Tools That Will Change How You Think About the Future
Fluid Futures: 10 Signals Reshaping an AI-Mediated World
Futures Improv: Power, Probes & Post-Human Civilization
The Invisible Upgrade: How AI Is Already Changing How We Think
The Futures Cone: Preposterous to Plausible
Technologic: What Old iPods, Tiny Cameras, and Tangled Cables Teach Us About the Future
The Futures Triangle and the Intent Map: Practical Tools for Thriving with AI
The Fun They Had - Asimov Predicted AI Tutors in 1950's
Vibe Coding and the Return of Personal Software
The Future From a Kid's Perspective with Freddie Leahy
Pluribus: When Happiness Becomes the Apocalypse
Signals of Collapse (and Hope): WEF 2026 Global Risk Report
Jurassic Park Was Right: AI, Inherited Power, and the Cost of Moving Too Fast
Technosphere and Solarpunk: Designing Energy Futures That Let Us Thrive with Clark Miller
2025 Year in Review Recap: AI, Education, Futures Thinking & the Future of Being Human
Why Human Craft and Creativity Still Wins in an Age of AI
Is Life a Simulation? AI, Games, and the Future of Reality with Rizwan Virk
That Was Easy: The Hidden Cost of Frictionless AI
AI Toys: Datafied Childhoods and the Future of Play
Made by Humans: Inside the New Apple TV Logo
The AI Sustainability Paradox - Promise, Peril, and Planetary Futures
The Metaverse - A Stack of Reality Layers
Through the lens: Spatial Computing with Apple Vision Pro
Tech or Treat: A Haunted Futures Improv Special
Atlas, Higher Education, and How We Really Feel About AI
Sora, Slop, and the AI Economy: When ChatGPT Meets Walmart
We Turned One - plus Liquid Media, Work Slop, and the Road Ahead
AI and the Art of Being Human: How to Thrive with AI
AI in Elementary Education: Teaching Tech to Our Youngest Learners
Sloppy Clankers: Is This AI’s Frankenfood Moment?
Futures Thinking: Foresight You Can Use
Films from the Future: Moviegoer’s Guide to Tomorrow
Up in the Air: The Future of eVTOLs and Urban Air Mobility
Agentic AI in Education & the Art of Becoming with Punya Mishra
AI, Not AI: Riding the Hype Cycle
Show Me the Receipts: the Futures of AI Super-intelligence
Living Machines: Inside the Future World of Bio‑Hybrid Robotics
Futures of Agentic AI and the 2025 AI Action Plan
Summer School with AI: Rethinking Learning in the Age of GPT
Summer Movies, liquid media, and alien AI languages
Summer Vibes & Spatial Rides: Inside Vision Pro, F1 & Jurassic Reboots
Future Vibes: Sean & Andrew’s 2025 Summer Reading List
World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025
Osaka Expo 2025 Futures Lab: an inside look with Jamey Wetmore
Murderbot: Futures of AI Superintelligence, Rogue Robots, and Care
Living Circuits and Biofoundries: Ethics and Care of Synthetic Biology with Emma Frow
Futures of Learning: AI in Education with Punya Mishra
Symbiotic Futures: Megatrends, foresight, and Futures Thinking
Severed Minds: Brain Implants, AI, and the Future of Being Human
AI on Campus: How Gen Z Is Redefining College with ChatGPT
Dire Wolves and Dinosaurs: The Bioscience of De-Extinction
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: AI, Protopia & the Future of Film with Taryn O'Neill
Electronic Vehicles and the Future of Transportation with Jamey Wetmore
Vibecasting: Studio Ghibli and AI Redefining Creativity and Intellectual Property
When AI Takes the Wheel: Rethinking Education for a Post-Scarcity World
Tech Trends 2025: Exploring Futures of Living Intelligence
AI and the Natural Impulses for Learning
AI and Technological Change: the Postman Always Delivers
Computational Photography: AI & Creative Process
The Art of Doing Nothing
AI: the Medium is the Message
Artisanal Intellectual: a response to OpenAI's Deep Research
Going Pro with ChatGPT and DeepSeek - with Mark Daley
Stargate AG-I
AGI, Superintelligence, Synthetic Personas, and is the Internet dead?
Autonomous Vehicles and Systems with Brunno Moretti
Humans in Space with Astronaut Cady Coleman
2024 Retrospective Prospective
Live Holiday Special: Futures Speed Round
Live from the Pub! Exploring Digital Realities
Radical Creativity: A Future of Unconventional Possibilities
Envisioning Tomorrow: The Power of Futures Thinking with Ruth Wylie
Can AI Reason Like Humans?
Simulation Hypothesis with Rizwan Virk
Waymo we go! - Navigating the Future of Autonomous Driving
Future of AI: Can Machines Think?
Halloween edition featuring War of the Worlds
Futures and Ethics of Bio Hacking
Daydreaming of digital notebooks and virtual artificial worlds
What does it mean to be human in the future?
The Pilot - Exploring the Future of Being Human
Hello World! [it's a trailer]