All Episodes

Enshittification: The Rot at the Heart of Big Tech - Cory Doctorow | #67

Quantum Computing 101 - Dr. Bob Sutor | #66

Attacks on Section 230 & ‘Age Verification’ Laws Are Critical Threats to Internet Privacy & Security - Noelle Perdue | Rapid Response #22

The Most Dangerous Technology in the World? - Wim Carton | #66

The Next Civil War, Mark Carney's Davos Speech, & Canada's View of the US - Stephen Marche | RR #21

Biodiversity on the Brink: Ecological Rhythms & Human Urgency - Jonathan Tonkin | Rapid Response #20

When, How, & Why Complex Societies Collapse - Joseph Tainter | #65

Criticizing the Democratic Party, Resisting ICE & Fascism, Lessons from Minneapolis, the 'Wrong Kind of Muslim' & More - Qasim Rashid | Rapid Response #19

"We All Know What We're Fighting Against, but There's a Deafening Silence Every Time we Ask What We're Fighting for"—On Hannah Arendt & Loving the World in Dark Times - Roger Berkowitz | #64

From 'Prepper' to 'Resilient Citizen' - Chris Ellis | #63

We Must Decarbonize...but How? On Methods, Challenges, & the 'Physics of Capitalism' - Erald Kolasi | Rapid Response #18

How Does AI Actually Work, & How is it Changing Our World? On 'Understanding AI' - Timothy B. Lee | #62

Capitalism Doesn't Value Nature Because It Can't—Understanding 'Free Gifts' - Alyssa Battistoni | #61

Rewiring the Global Economy, AI, the Cringiness of Big Tech Oligarchs, MMT, Stablecoins, & 'Releisure' - Brett Scott | Rapid Response #17

Empathy is Hard Work—But It Can Save Us - Katie Bogen & Hani Chaabo (Super Humanizer) | #60

"Democracy is No Longer Expanding Agency"—Reimagining Governance, the Human, & Intelligence in the Machine Age - Indy Johar | #59

Rewilding Reality in the Age of Deepfakes, AI, & Epistemic Collapse - Michael Garfield | Rapid Response #16

"Almost Everybody's Incompetent"—Why Fossil Fuels & Fascism Dominate - David Roberts | #58

Unpacking ‘Fascist Fitness’ & Reclaiming Gym Culture from the Far Right - Colin Davis | Rapid Response #15

Can Media Depict Reality in the Age of AI? Did It Ever, Really? Discussing the Interplay of Fact & Fiction in ‘Reality Frictions’ - Steve Anderson | #57

Understanding Wet-Bulb Temperature, Climate Extremes, & Systemic Risk—& How We Build Resilience - Colin Raymond | #56

How AI Futures, Authoritarianism, & Behavioral Science Fit Together - Jacob Ward | #55

Protecting Your Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Amid Polycrisis, Responding to ICE, 'Bullying Bari Weiss,' & The Futures of Journalism - Anya Kamenetz | Rapid Response #14

U.S. Information Warfare, AI, Censorship, & Why Disinformation is Still—Still!—A Major Issue - Nina Jankowicz | Rapid Response #13

Grace Byron: 'Herculine,' Haunting, & Being Trans in America | Riffs & Speculations #2

How to Tell Strategic Stories that Clarify Climate Crisis - Megan Mayhew-Bergman | Rapid Response #12

Goliath's Curse: How & Why Societies Collapse, & What We Can Do About It - Luke Kemp | #54

Andy Hines: How to Imagine 'After Capitalism'—and Why We Must | #53

Danny Snelson: The Little Database vs. Large AI Models | #52

CDC Chaos & Covid-19 Vaccines with Dr. Lucy McBride | Rapid Response #11

Morgan Phillips & Manda Scott: How We Make it 'Thru'—Transformative Adaptation & Thrutopian Flourishing | #51

The (Department of) War on American Cities, Ukraine, Gaza, and the Imperial Boomerang | Rapid Response #10

Liam Young: A Texas-Sized City for 10 Billion People? Rewilding the Globe with 'Planet City' | #50

Age Verification Laws: Surveillance in Disguise? - Noelle Perdue | Rapid Response #9

Nora N. Khan: Language for Technology | #49

Why I'm Reclaiming Prepping & You Should Too | Rapid Response #8

Mike Pepi: Are Platforms Ruining the Internet? | #48

Brett Christophers: The Real Reason Renewables Aren't Replacing Fossil Fuels at Scale | #47

Explaining Trump Tariffs, Insider Trading, & Crypto Scams—Emerging Economic Realities with Michael Mezzatesta | Rapid Response #7

N. Katherine Hayles: A New Theory of Mind, from 'Bacteria to AI' | #46

Minna Salami: Can Feminism Be African? | #45

Noelle Perdue: The Three Types of Eroticism, The Trevails of a Foot-Fetish Fetishist, Homoflexibility, Looners, Self-Labeling, & More | Riffs & Speculations #1

Carl Safina: How Plato Created Hell | #44

David Guignion: The History of Conspiracy Theories, Making Philosophy Accessible to the Public, Activism, & More | #43

Everything Has Changed & You're Not Thinking Big Enough | Rapid Response #6

Avriel Epps: AI, Transformative Justice, & How to Teach Kids About Algorithmic Bias | #42

Rupert Read: How Bad Will it Get? On Thrutopias, Transformative Adaptation, & the Other World(s) Still Just Possible | Urgent Futures #41

LA Wildfire Recovery: Ecological Remediation to Heal Contaminated Sites - Danielle Stevenson | Rapid Response #5

Rachel Donald: Why is the World in Crisis—& What Can We Do About It? | Urgent Futures #40

Climate Trauma & Fire Brain: Understanding the Mental Health Impacts of the LA Wildfires & Developing Resilience - Jyoti Mishra | Rapid Response #4

Wim Carton & Andreas Malm: Overshoot & Climate Breakdown | Urgent Futures #39

"The Disaster After the Disaster": LA Air Quality & Public Health - Jane Williams | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #3

The Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and AI in 2025 and Beyond - John Vervaeke | #38

The Los Angeles Fires, Polycrisis, & How to Live in Collapse | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #2

Art Berman: Oil, How the Economics of Energy Impacts Global Populism, & the Huge Problem We Must Address | #37

Peter Brannen: What You Need to Know About the Five Mass Extinctions (to Understand the Sixth Extinction) | #36

Phoebe Barnard: The Human Behavioral Crisis is the Coordination Problem Underlying Overshoot and Climate Crisis | #35

Rodolfo Dirzo: Understanding Mass Extinctions, The Gift of Biodiversity, Plant-Animal Relationships, and 'Defaunation' | #34

Harry Yeff (Reeps100): The Future of the Voice—Human, Machine, & Otherwise | #33

Simon Michaux: Is the Green Transition Doomed? Why We Need the 'Purple Transition' Instead | #32

Trump's Election, the End of the World Order as We Know It, & Where We Go From Here | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #1

Bradley Rydholm: Why Nature is Metal—and Why it's Not | #31

Renée DiResta: The Evolution of Propaganda & its 'Invisible Rulers': Influencers, Algorithms, & Crowds | #30

Philip V. McHarris: A World Beyond Police—Utopia? | #29

Taryn Southern: The Peril & Promise of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), Generative AI, and Spatial Computing | #28

Nora Bateson: Warm Data, 'Combining,' and "Who Can You Be When You Are With Me?" | Urgent Futures #27

Al Hassan Elwan: Edgelording a New Avant-garde (POSTPOSTPOST™ Admin Reveal!) | #26

Gerardo Ceballos & Paul R. Ehrlich: 'Before They Vanish'—All The Life We Can Still Save from the Sixth Extinction | #25

Nina Jankowicz: Why Disinformation Is Still a Critical Issue for Democracy | Urgent Futures #24

Michael Mezzatesta: Why Isn't the Economy Working? An Economist's Case for Post-Growth | #23

Noelle Perdue: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Pornography—According to a Porn Historian | Urgent Futures #22

William E. Rees: The Disconnect Between Ecology & The Economy is Driving us Toward Collapse—What Should we do About it? | Urgent Futures #21

Günseli Yalcinkaya: Internet Folklorist Explains Reality Shifting, Dolls, Incels/Femcels, Cryptids, Memes, & AI | Urgent Futures #20

Meredith Broussard: How 'Technochauvinism' Leads to Bad AI | Urgent Futures #19

Margaret Wertheim: How do Coral Reefs Teach us About Curved Space? How are the Multiverse and AI Connected? | Urgent Futures #18

Landon Ross: Examining Consciousness, Evolution, AI, and Physics Through Art, Storytelling, and Philosophy | Urgent Futures #17

Autumn Breon: Reimagining Broken Systems through Art, Activism, Radical Self-Care, & Speculative Worlding | Urgent Futures #16

Nita Farahany: Neurotech, the Latest Skirmishes in the 'Battle for Your Brain,' and Your Right to Cognitive Liberty | Urgent Futures #15

Laura Forlano & Danya Glabau: Living Well with Machines, Real-World Cyborg Futures, and Critical Cyborg Literacy | Urgent Futures #14

Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders: Glitching AI, Algorithmic Resistance, Labor Activism, Art as Research, & Feminist Technology | Urgent Futures #13

Danielle Stevenson: Using Mushrooms to Heal Polluted Places | Urgent Futures Ep. 12

Emily Segal: Trend Forecasting, 'Normcore' Ten Years Later, & Not Being Scared of AI (Yet) | Urgent Futures Ep. 11

Brittan Heller: Can Human Rights Law Adapt to the Era of AI & Spatial Computing? | Urgent Futures Ep. 10

Legacy Russell: The Black Meme in Visual & Viral Culture | Urgent Futures Ep. 9

Lisa Messeri: Unreal Realities in Los Angeles and VR | Urgent Futures Ep. 8

Dennis Yi Tenen: The Hidden History of Modern AI & Machine Learning | Urgent Futures Ep. 7

Idris Brewster: Why AR Matters

Eric Czuleger: What's...a Country?

Cherie Hu: What's Next for the Music Industry? AI, Blockchain, and More

Lia Halloran & Kip Thorne: A Trip Through the Warped Side of Our Universe

Asad J. Malik: Fighting for the Future of Augmented Reality

Taylor Lorenz: A Brief History of Being 'Extremely Online'