The Futurists

I enjoy The Futurists because of the excellent guests and the smart questions. This podcast pushes beyond the cliches and formulaic predictions and cuts into the complex, fascinating and contradictory aspects of what lies ahead.

Over time this podcast repeatedly supports the idea of dispersing with democracy towards populist autocracy, in a banall embrace of junk “science” like eugenics as an expedient pathway to a world controlled by “benevolent “ techno oligarchs “ with our best interests at heart. I can’t in good conscience support these ideas

For the love of good conversation… this show is incredible, aside from the repeating annoyance of the host interrupting guest responses. For guests to be almost constantly cut off mid-sentence by the host’s voice gives the impression of him having an insatiable, impulsive need to guide the conversation. And while a host does need to do this to some degree, it’d be lovely to hear guests actually finish their thoughts more often… could be a production fix, fading out a response after the point has been made rather than the host verbally cutting the thought off during recording. Regardless— clever and necessary idea sharing. 9/10 :)

Always good guests on this show, although I would like to hear from more women. I enjoy the hosts, but I wish they would pause and allow their guests to speak and complete their thoughts more often. Sometimes they interrupt their guests mid-answer. I think this happens because the hosts are experts and have something useful to add, but it is frustrating as a listener because I don’t get to hear the full answer from the guests. The “AI for Everyone” episode is an example of the hosts talking over their guest so often that he decided to change his tactic to asking them questions. I suppose that’s fine, but I don’t think I’m learning much from the guests at that point. The hosts are smart men with well researched, articulated perspectives, but I do think I am missing out as a listener on hearing more insight from their guests. Maybe they should just invite guests to interview them?