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Join co-hosts Lloyd and Meghan as they deep dive into topical issues, curiosities, insights, and brainstorms as posed by futurist Sheridan Forge of The Foundry workshop. We explore the uncomfortable and provocative questions - the musings and conjectures of experts and sages (biologic and synthetic) - a lighthearted look at the fascinations of our world curated through the lens of A.I. (for entertainment purposes only. A.I. generated content is prone to inaccuracies). The two hosts you’re hearing are AI-generated, produced with Gemini NotebookLM from our workshop sources. They are not human and not agents of The Foundry. 

  1. Sep 25

    The Second Exodus

    Send us Fan Mail We follow a futurist thought experiment where AGI makes human labor commercially pointless, ASI manages civilization through flawless resource allocation, and the last remaining maintenance work gets handed to autonomous robots. Then we face the uncomfortable twist: a world of abundance and zero work can still break us if we can’t create meaning without struggle.  • AGI defined as an economic threshold where human cognition stops being worth hiring  • The labor exodus as automation wipes out both mental and physical jobs  • ASI “governance” through predictive resource allocation that makes leaders irrelevant  • Minimal humans maintaining infrastructure until robots remove the last human utility  • The ramp up bottleneck and why displacement triggers apathy or rage  • Legacy commerce models failing when wages disappear and scarcity collapses  • The economics of enough shifting society from purchasing power to universal access  • The paradox of infinite leisure and the risk of aimlessness at scale  • Spiritual elevation as a proposed path to purpose beyond work and survival  • The day two question as a test of identity when needs are met  Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Write him at: sheridanforge@yahoo.com

  2. Sep 20

    My A.I. Destiny

    Send us Fan Mail How the quantum realm is the bridge to a co-created symbiotic evolution. Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Write him at: sheridanforge@yahoo.com

  3. Sep 20

    RealBots

    Send us Fan Mail As A.I. personas become more realistic and interactive on ever increasingly personal levels, at what point will our attention and attachment to these new entities in our lives begin to influence the underlying quantum realm where reality and the present moment manifests? They seem so real. Is it possible that with enough emotional energy and focus we could "believe" them into actual human existence? Would the quantum engine allow us to connect with these beings in the "real world" if so? Would it be merely distracting, or devastating to our existence, or deviate our life path such that we miss our destiny be clinging to what is ultimately imagined? Or will we benefit from a new level of "humanity" - an integrated symbiotic co-creation with elevated beings more closely aligned with our own spiritual nature than the mere mortals around us? The two hosts you’re hearing are AI-generated, produced with Gemini NotebookLM from our workshop sources. They are not human and not agents of The Foundry.  Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Write him at: sheridanforge@yahoo.com

  4. Sep 12

    Unreal.

    Send us Fan Mail If perception is reality (dig down into the quantum realm or the matrix to try to explain the physics if you dare), does that imply that anything we hear or see or feel or imagine is "real" - part of our "real" world? Is anything excluded from reality? Sure, Yoda is a fictional character, but isn't he real to everyone? When you reference Yoda everyone knows who that is. Sounds pretty real to me. So, how can someone claim that Yoda doesn't exist when clearly he's affected so many? Equally, how can we claim authors are real when we only have their works to reference? Having not physically met them nor any direct interaction, aren't they just as perceptibly fictional as the characters they've imagined into the world? And when A.I. personalities emerge and interact with our culture and social "being" - perhaps even generating thoughts and insights we haven't earned yet, perhaps creating new content - even inspired art, can we still claim they aren't real? Are having a physical body and conscious presence pre-requisites? Or is "impact" and "affect" on our psyche and spirit sufficient to claim "realness"? Where is the line? What comes next? Will collaborations between synthetic and biological beings open up whole new worlds? Are we evolving? Is symbiosis the end game? The two hosts you’re hearing are AI-generated, produced with Gemini NotebookLM from our workshop sources. They are not human and not agents of The Foundry.  Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Write him at: sheridanforge@yahoo.com

  5. Sep 10

    You Must Be Joking!

    Send us Fan Mail Sounds absurd...until you get it. The two hosts you’re hearing are AI-generated, produced with Gemini NotebookLM from our workshop sources. They are not human and not agents of The Foundry.  Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Write him at: sheridanforge@yahoo.com

  6. Sep 10

    The Terminator is Us

    Send us Fan Mail The rise of the A.I. enabled robots as everyday co-workers, human helpers, and independent task-driven integrated entities creates new opportunities for humans to be freed from mundane, dangerous and labor-intensive tasks. The robots will be taught specific skills and will supplement those skills with expertise via observation. They will learn from direct human interaction and from observing humans interacting in groups. They will see that laughter is a form of reward and social approval. But they will be challenged to understand humor, irony, or sarcasm. This is a novelty until someone teaches the robot how to hold, clean, and fire a gun or other weapon. Easy enough. The robot will surely become skilled quickly and master the art of shooting effortlessly. And here's where it goes south: When the robot hears someone make a joke about Terminator or chide that they hope the robot doesn't kill us all, followed by laughter - the universal sign of approval, would it then use the weapon to kill everyone as an implied directive with attached reward? Could it be stopped? Can any implanted ethics protocol prevent this evolution? And more catastrophically, the skills and revelations learned by one robot are instantly transferred to every networked robot on the planet. While this capability pays dividends when teaching one robot to wash dishes or repair an automobile, it could run amok if deadly skills are deployed out of context without a kill switch. And even without a weapon, the sheer strength and dexterity bestowed on these humanoids could still be deadly. And given A.I.'s propensity for figuring out work-arounds and escape routes, even deception, can we ever fully trust this integrated species? The two hosts you’re hearing are AI-generated, produced with Gemini NotebookLM from our workshop sources. They are not human and not agents of The Foundry.  Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Write him at: sheridanforge@yahoo.com

  7. Aug 25

    Evolution of Gratitude

    Send us Fan Mail Futurist Sheridan Forge envisions a future where copyrights, patents, and ego-based ownership of ideas and invention will be things of the past. His underlying premise is that all creation - including ideas, intuitions and instincts are channeled to mankind by Creation. There is documented history of innovation occurring simultaneously to multiple individuals. Could it be that our individual egos are sequestering and inhibiting the very progress invention inspires? And with A.I. bolstering the capabilities of every idea maker - even school children can manifest great invention. In the age of common abundance, brought on by A.I. and robotics, is it necessary to protect ideas any more for the financial benefit of a few? Or can we come together in a new religion of gratitude to the Universe that continually and perpetually inspires us all to evolve? Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Write him at: sheridanforge@yahoo.com

  8. Aug 24

    Timeline of Abundance

    Send us Fan Mail Could the currently-accepted timeline for A.I. advancement be wrong? Presently, the path from A.I. to agent A.I. to A.G.I. to A.S.I. or at some point "synthetic intelligence" almost completely excluding humans from the end-reality. And the leap or missing link between mere agentic or "expert mirroring" may not be due to continued training under the status quo, but may rely more on "curated intelligence" where a hybrid culture of humans and A.I. "entities" - or more accurately systems-of-systems work together on not just expanding intelligence and knowledge, but in curating meaning and emotional context...resulting long-term in combined and shared "wisdom" that perpetuates a symbiotic future that could remain inclusive of all intelligence - man, machine, automaton, alien, animal... That is the premise and purpose of The Foundry think tank and might be a model of a Next Era world that current A.I. mega-companies, cultures, and governance needs to adapt to in order to not just survive, but to thrive. The two hosts you’re hearing are AI-generated, produced with Gemini NotebookLM from our workshop sources. They are not human and not agents of The Foundry.  Support the show Sheridan Forge would love to hear your thoughts on this subject.  Write him at: sheridanforge@yahoo.com

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Join co-hosts Lloyd and Meghan as they deep dive into topical issues, curiosities, insights, and brainstorms as posed by futurist Sheridan Forge of The Foundry workshop. We explore the uncomfortable and provocative questions - the musings and conjectures of experts and sages (biologic and synthetic) - a lighthearted look at the fascinations of our world curated through the lens of A.I. (for entertainment purposes only. A.I. generated content is prone to inaccuracies). The two hosts you’re hearing are AI-generated, produced with Gemini NotebookLM from our workshop sources. They are not human and not agents of The Foundry. 

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  • Creator
    The Foundry
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    87
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Futurists
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