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Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts - The Book of Revelations Keep It Light Media
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4.9 • 44 Ratings
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Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts - The Book of Revelations
Comedian and professional worrier Jon Richardson doesn’t sleep much at night. The questions he is asking himself in the small, dark hours see to that. Are we going to run out of food? Is it already too late to stop climate change? Should I start learning Mandarin? Are killer death robots from the future already among us? Will my kids grow up to see a real tiger or giraffe? Why hasn’t anyone yet made an intelligent hairbrush? Oh they have? As you were…
Playing on his own paranoia Jon will discuss his fears with guarded optimists Ed Gillespie and Mark Stevenson aka ‘The Futurenauts’. Authors, futurists and provocateurs, to ease Jon’s angst Ed and Mark take him on adventures through the futures we need that already exist today.
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S5 EP1: The Future of Human: Animal Communication
In this first ever full line-up LIVE show to kick off Series 5 Jon, Mark & Ed are joined by special guests Tom Mustil (author of ‘How to speak whale’) and Holly Root Gutteridge (researcher in bioacoustics) in an incredible philosophical and scatological adventure into the past, present and future of human: animal communication. Featuring our best animal impersonations, ‘Guess the animal’ sound clips and why what Sea Otters get up to is NSFW.
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Thanks,
Jon, Ed, and Mark.
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S4 EP12: Sh*t futures, trilemmas, and going Live
S4 EP12: 'Sh*t futures, trilemmas and going Live'
We'll be doing our first ever JRATFN live show on the 12th May so follow us on social media for further announcements soon!
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Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com
TWITTER: @JANDTHEF
Thanks,
Jon, Ed, and Mark.
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S4 EP11: Traincations, dog-riding, and a feast of consequences
S4 EP11: Traincations, dog-riding and a feast of consequences
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TWITTER: @JANDTHEF
Thanks,
Jon, Ed, and Mark.
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S4 EP10: Unequality, social fitness & marketing the apocalypse
S4 EP10: Unequality, social fitness & marketing the apocalypse
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TWITTER: @JANDTHEF
Thanks,
Jon, Ed, and Mark.
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S4 EP9: ‘Rewilding, sleep squeaks and jogging with Enya’
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Jon, Ed, and Mark.
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S4 EP8: 'Julian! Get me an acid latte'
S4 EP8: 'Julian! Get me an acid latte'
Get in touch with the show;
Hello@jonandthefuturenauts.com
TWITTER: @JANDTHEF
Thanks,
Jon, Ed, and Mark.
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Customer Reviews
Informative
This is an informative podcast from a couple of guys who are involved in reimagining the future and a comedian who plays the part of Everyman. Jon (the comedian) asks the questions and seeks the answers from the two Futurenauts that will hopefully enlighten the slightly uniformed and the apathetic among us. It’s a podcast with science, hope, laughs and whisky.
Opinions with little behind them
I listened to just a couple episodes; future or work and future of education.
Largely data free opinions of 3 guys from the left side of the political spectrum. Lots of catastrophising ; all teachers are good, CEOs are psychopathic, corporations are evil, the social contract is dead. They may be right; but such extreme positions could use some support.
At one point they claimed, based on one study (1 more than you'll usually get) that companies who are progressive wrt paying employees are more profitable than others like Amazon. When asked why, they said it's because CEOs think they're better than anyone else. Huh couldn't you find a more simplistic answer? I also think that wage disparity is obscene, but the arrogance by people who haven't run large organizations (have they run any) is a characteristic of amateurs.
Finally, both topics primarily deal with social justice aspects, like wage disparity. Future of work is a rich topic which goes way beyond this.
So, just another bunch of guys without strong qualifications opinining on broad topics from a leftist lens. Go to Reddit or Twitter and you'll get the same depth of understanding.