The Future of You

Tracey Follows
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The Future of You is the home of Tracey Follows’ ongoing work on identity, agency, and the changing relationship between systems and selves in an AI-mediated world. This channel now brings together three strands of that work. The Future of You podcast explores how technology is reshaping identity, from digital selves and predictive systems to automation, intimacy, trust, and human futures. The Future of You audio series is the original 2021 book, released here chapter by chapter. It explores what Tracey came to call the technology of the self: a third dimension of identity, alongside the psychology of the self and the biology of the self. These recordings are presented as an audio archive of the original published text.  Me:chine Dialogues is a special series from The Future of You exploring identity, agency, and AI-mediated systems — where the machinable and unmachinable selves meet. It follows the emerging synthetic condition shaping who we are becoming: not man versus machine, but the meeting of selves, the part that can be copied and the part that can never be caught.  Together, these three strands trace an evolving inquiry into identity: from the digital self, to the technological self, to the Me:chine self. Across all of them runs one continuous question: what happens to human identity when the systems around us begin to see us, sort us, predict us, generate us, and increasingly speak in our name? Identity is becoming infrastructure for systems. This channel explores what remains of the self inside them. Core concepts include:Systems & SelfIdentity as InfrastructureThe Technology of the SelfMe:chine — the machinable and unmachinable self New here? Start with:→ Me:chine Dialogues: Manifesto→ The Future of You audio series: Chapter 1, Knowing You→ The Future of You podcast archive Visit:→ Me:chine World and essays: me-chine.com → Podcast archive: The Future of You → Audio series: weekly chapters on this channel Introduction  About Tracey FollowsTracey Follows is a futurist specialising in identity, agency, and the relationship between systems and selves in an AI-mediated world. Her work includes the frameworks Systems & Self, Identity as Infrastructure, and Me:chine, exploring the machinable and unmachinable dimensions of human identity. The Future of You was named Best Tech Show at the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Her central premise: “The future is written between the system and the self.” Follow to receive each new transmission as it is released.AI-mediated systems  - where the machinable and unmachinable selves meet. 

  1. Human Resilience in the AI Age

    May 20

    Human Resilience in the AI Age

    What if the real threat from AI is not that it suddenly takes over? What if we just slowly hand ourselves over? In this episode of Me:chine Dialogues, Tracey Follows speaks with Lee Rainie, Director of Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center, about the new report Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age, co-authored with Janna Q. Anderson. This is a substantial report: the 52nd Future of Digital Life report from Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center. More than 4,000 experts were invited to contribute; 386 responded, with 251 providing written answers. Across 375 pages, the report gathers views from technologists, academics, policy thinkers, researchers, futurists, commentators and people working inside and around AI systems on one central question: how can humans remain resilient as AI becomes more influential in everyday life and institutional decision-making? For more than two decades, Lee and Janna have been tracking the future of digital life: broadband, mobile connectivity, social media, and now artificial intelligence. Their latest report asks what may be the defining question of the next decade: what kind of resilience will humans need as AI moves deeper into decisions, institutions, relationships, work, education, identity and trust? This is not simply a conversation about AI literacy or better tools. It is about the quiet takeover of systems and decisions. In this episode, Lee explains why traditional ideas of personal resilience, grit, adaptation and perseverance are no longer enough. If AI systems are now mediating rights, risks, knowledge, relationships and opportunities, then resilience cannot sit only with individuals, it has to become institutional, civic, educational, ethical and social. Me:chine Dialogues is a special series from The Future of You exploring identity, agency, and synthetic systems — where the machinable and unmachinable selves meet. This conversation goes to the heart of that terrain. If the machinable self is the part of us that can be rendered legible to systems, then the unmachinable self is what must still be practised: judgement, discernment, metacognition, moral responsibility, imagination, social trust, and the ability to remain the author of one’s own life. Tracey and Lee explore existential literacy, epistemic fragmentation, institutional trust, AI agents, the coming backlash, and the importance of friction in a world designed to remove it. You can find more on this topic through Lee Rainie and Janna Anderson’s report, Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age, from Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center. Explore more of Tracey’s work: → Me:chine World and essays: me-chine.com → Podcast archive: The Future of You → Audio series: weekly chapters from The Future of You About Tracey Follows Tracey Follows is a futurist specialising in identity, agency, and the relationship between systems and selves in an AI-mediated world. Her work includes the frameworks Systems & Self, Identity as Infrastructure, and Me:chine — exploring the machinable and unmachinable dimensions of human identity. Her central premise: “The future is written between the system and the self.” Music “A New Day (intro)” performed by Skott Licensed courtesy of Cosmos Music, Safari Riot Licensed courtesy of Downtown Music UK Limited, Safari Riot Publishing, Sony Music Publishing

    1h 1m
  2. Conclusion — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    Apr 30

    Conclusion — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self. This episode contains from the original 2021 edition:  Conclusion — The Future of You (2021)To explore the conversations that followed the book, visit traceyfollows.com or The Future of You podcast at https://www.futuremade.group/podcasts

    13 min
  3. Chapter 7: Destroying You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    Apr 29

    Chapter 7: Destroying You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self. This episode contains from the original 2021 edition:  Chapter 7: Destroying You — The Future of You (2021) To explore the conversations that followed the book, visit traceyfollows.com or The Future of You podcast at https://www.futuremade.group/podcasts

    33 min
  4. Chapter 6: Enhancing You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    Apr 22

    Chapter 6: Enhancing You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self. This episode contains from the original 2021 edition:  Chapter 6: Enhancing You — The Future of You (2021) To explore the conversations that followed the book, visit traceyfollows.com or The Future of You podcast at https://www.futuremade.group/podcasts

    42 min
  5. Chapter 5: Replacing You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    Apr 16

    Chapter 5: Replacing You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self. This episode contains from the original 2021 edition:  Chapter 5: Replacing You — The Future of You (2021)To explore the conversations that followed the book, visit traceyfollows.com or The Future of You podcast at https://www.futuremade.group/podcasts

    35 min
  6. Chapter 4: Connecting You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    Apr 9

    Chapter 4: Connecting You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self. This episode contains from the original 2021 edition:  Chapter 4: Connecting You — The Future of You (2021)To explore the conversations that followed the book, visit traceyfollows.com or The Future of You podcast at https://www.futuremade.group/podcasts

    37 min
  7. Chapter 3: Creating You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    Apr 2

    Chapter 3: Creating You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self. This episode contains from the original 2021 edition:  Chapter 3: Creating You — The Future of You (2021)To explore the conversations that followed the book, visit traceyfollows.com or The Future of You podcast at https://www.futuremade.group/podcasts

    35 min
  8. Chapter 2: Watching You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    Mar 26

    Chapter 2: Watching You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)

    These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self. This episode contains from the original 2021 edition:  Chapter 2: Watching You — The Future of You (2021)To explore the conversations that followed the book, visit traceyfollows.com or The Future of You podcast at https://www.futuremade.group/podcasts

    42 min
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The Future of You is the home of Tracey Follows’ ongoing work on identity, agency, and the changing relationship between systems and selves in an AI-mediated world. This channel now brings together three strands of that work. The Future of You podcast explores how technology is reshaping identity, from digital selves and predictive systems to automation, intimacy, trust, and human futures. The Future of You audio series is the original 2021 book, released here chapter by chapter. It explores what Tracey came to call the technology of the self: a third dimension of identity, alongside the psychology of the self and the biology of the self. These recordings are presented as an audio archive of the original published text.  Me:chine Dialogues is a special series from The Future of You exploring identity, agency, and AI-mediated systems — where the machinable and unmachinable selves meet. It follows the emerging synthetic condition shaping who we are becoming: not man versus machine, but the meeting of selves, the part that can be copied and the part that can never be caught.  Together, these three strands trace an evolving inquiry into identity: from the digital self, to the technological self, to the Me:chine self. Across all of them runs one continuous question: what happens to human identity when the systems around us begin to see us, sort us, predict us, generate us, and increasingly speak in our name? Identity is becoming infrastructure for systems. This channel explores what remains of the self inside them. Core concepts include:Systems & SelfIdentity as InfrastructureThe Technology of the SelfMe:chine — the machinable and unmachinable self New here? Start with:→ Me:chine Dialogues: Manifesto→ The Future of You audio series: Chapter 1, Knowing You→ The Future of You podcast archive Visit:→ Me:chine World and essays: me-chine.com → Podcast archive: The Future of You → Audio series: weekly chapters on this channel Introduction  About Tracey FollowsTracey Follows is a futurist specialising in identity, agency, and the relationship between systems and selves in an AI-mediated world. Her work includes the frameworks Systems & Self, Identity as Infrastructure, and Me:chine, exploring the machinable and unmachinable dimensions of human identity. The Future of You was named Best Tech Show at the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. Her central premise: “The future is written between the system and the self.” Follow to receive each new transmission as it is released.AI-mediated systems  - where the machinable and unmachinable selves meet. 

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  • Creator
    Tracey Follows
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    57
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Future of You
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    The Future of You

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