110 episodes
Flash Forward Rose Eveleth
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4.7, 1.2K Ratings
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Flash Forward is a show about possible (and not so possible) future scenarios. What would the warranty on a sex robot look like? How would diplomacy work if we couldn’t lie? Could there ever be a fecal transplant black market? (Complicated, it wouldn’t, and yes, respectively, in case you’re curious.) Hosted and produced by award winning science journalist Rose Eveleth, each episode combines audio drama and journalism to go deep on potential tomorrows, and uncovers what those futures might really be like. The future is going to be weird, so let's get ready for it together.
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Welcome to Celebrityville
Today we travel to a future where celebrities construct their own cities for you and I to live in.
Guests:
Jon Karas — President and Co-Founder at Akoin
Dr. Katherine P. Antonova — Associate Professor of Russian history at Queens College
Brittany Spanos — senior writer at Rolling Stone Magazine
→ → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ←
Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. The Lovechild tour guide was played by Gina Delvac. Episode suggested by Lux Alptraum.
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FIVE YEARS OF FLASH FORWARD!
Today we celebrate the FIVE YEAR anniversary of the podcast. Whoa. To celebrate, I reached out to every single person who you’ve ever heard on the podcast — every expert, every voice actor, and even a few patrons — and asked them one question: what would you say to someone living 50 years from now? Here’s what they said.
Guests: Alice Wong, Amy Slaton, Angeli Fitch, Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Ashley Shew, Avery Trufelman, Calvin Gimpelevich, Carl Evers, Chris Dancy, Damien Patrick Williams, David Agranoff. Ernesto D. Morales, Gina Tam, Janelle Shane, Janet Stemwedel, Jared Dyer, Jon Christensen, Kathy Randall Bryant, Katie Gordon, Kelly & Zach Weinersmith, Lina Ayenew, Matt Lubchanksy, Meredith Talusan, Michelle Hanlon, Morgan Gorris, Naomi Baron, Natalia Petrzela, Sandeep Ravindran, Queer Futures Collective, Sav Schlauderaff, Shoshana Schlauderaff , Zia Puig, Zoe Schlanger
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Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. Additional music this episode from Chad Crouch, Ketsa, Xylo-Ziko, and Loyalty Freak. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.
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Goodnight Night
Today we travel to a future where darkness is a thing of the past. No more night, no more stars, no more deep inky black sky. What happens when we light everything up?
Guests:
Dr. John Barentine — director of public policy at the International Dark Sky Association
Rebecca Boyle — science journalist
Dr. Lucianne Walkowicz — astronomer at the Adler Planetarium
Dr. Sarah Pritchard — historian at Cornell University
→ → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ←
Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Special thanks to Thomas, Vera and Isaac Beckett who played the teacher and students in the intro this episode.
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Doomsday 2000/2038/2100
Today we travel to a future where software engineers didn’t actually fix any of the Y2K bugs. What would have happened if we had ignored the problem? What lessons does Y2K have for us, and why are people worried about 2038 and 2100?
Guests:
Peter de Jager — author of “Doomsday 2000” and Y2K town crier.
Dr. Andy Michael — geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earthquake Science Center
John Feminella — software engineer at ThoughtWorks
Dr. Sara K. McBride — emergency management specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey
→ → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ←
Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky.
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Flash Back to the Future: Flight Shame, Genetic Genealogy, 2020 Census
Hi again! I’m back with one more of these update episodes. Today we cover the growing “flight shame” movement, some interesting developments in the genetic genealogy space, and what’s going on with the 2020 Census.
New official, legit, Flash Forward episodes begin again on April 14th!
Sources:
Susanna Elfors: founder, Tagsemester
Peter Aldhous: reporter, BuzzFeed News
Hansi Lo Wang: reporter, NPR
Covid-19 Resources
World Health Organization
Paywall free articles from The Atlantic
Flattening the coronavirus curve
The Covid Tracking Project
Take the 2020 Census HERE
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Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music for this episode is by Hussalonia.
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Flash Back to the Future: Mosquitoes, UBI, Coronavirus
Today is a very special ~~surprise~~ episode! I’ve been thinking about how to revisit old episodes, and give you folks updates on things that have happened since we covered certain futures. Sometimes things warrant more than a social media post, but not quite a whole new episode. So here’s a little experiment! On this episode, we revisit three futures and you get some juicy, fresh updates. We talk about a mosquito experiment gone wrong, a UBI experiment gone right, and what the heck is going on with coronavirus.
If you like this, let me know? There are a few other episodes I think are worth an update (The census is this year! A DNA testing company we covered was bought out by a lab that works with law enforcement! People in Sweden are flying way less!) and if you like this I’ll definitely do another.
Sources:
Dr. Cameron Webb — mosquito expert, University of Sydney
Dr. Amy Castro Baker — assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Stacia Martin-West — assistant professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Alexandra Phelan — Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University
→ → → Further reading on today’s episode can be found here ← ← ←
Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro & outtro music for this episode are by Hussalonia.
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Customer Reviews
One of my favorites!!!
Rose just seems so nice and passionate, and I always learn a lot!
This podcast is awesome!!
I started listening to your podcast in quarantine and have loved it! Gonna get the Patreon on payday. Episode idea- companies in Texas have been talking about a super fast train through the I-35 corridor for years but it seems like we’re always just a few years away. What do you think? Could we connect Dallas to Austin to San Antonio with a hyper train? I feel the average Texan would be interested in INTER-city transportation
Pretty great podcast.
This podcast has a lot going for it. The most important thing for any podcast imo is the hosts voice work, and she excels on this one. The topics can be hit or miss. Some are frankly quite boring, but most are great, and some are truly inspired. My favorite being the AI that created its own Flash Forward future with the witches on mars.
