The Future is Ow

The Future Is Ow
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A show where we tug at the the tangled tendrils of technology, politics, the internet, and the future of Having Fun on the Computer. Techno-optimists need not apply, unless you mean the Detroit kind.

  1. Space Malls feat. Kevin Hurler

    10/14/2022

    Space Malls feat. Kevin Hurler

    The boys are joined by journalist Kevin Hurler (@notkevinhurler) to talk international sabotage, the imminent career resurgence of Wanda Sykes, and privatization of the International Space Station.

    2h 8m
  2. Never Forget to Remember to Podcast

    09/19/2022

    Never Forget to Remember to Podcast

    The boys are back from an extended August vacation on the shores of Lake Geneva, right in time for 9/11. We delve into the significance of the date some 21 years hence before going on to discuss topics including but not limited to : the hidden secrets of another body of water, Roomba fifth columnists inside your home, and the newest humiliation in the never-ending series of affronts to our nation's great cartoonists and lithographers.

    2h 14m
  3. Time Crisis : Operation Pre-Cum

    07/26/2022

    Time Crisis : Operation Pre-Cum

    The boys go deep on one of the early aughts' biggest Spielberg bangers: The Minority Report. A classic in many ways, we delve into the ways in which the steely-grey dystopia of mind criminals and time cops both captures and is eluded by the Present Moment in the year of our lord 2022. Please excuse the various dog noises.

    1h 44m
  4. Voight Kultur Kampff

    07/06/2022

    Voight Kultur Kampff

    We're back as the number one fast food discussion podcast. We also digress into things like the impending decline of the rent-a-servant economy, the recent tyrannical actions of the Biden Admin re: one of America's favorite treats, the Google chatbot affair, and recent reports of a hoighty-toighty cult of fancy lord fauntleroys inside that selfsame company.

    2h 2m
  5. Ivan Meets VR Joe

    06/08/2022

    Ivan Meets VR Joe

    We pop off the top of the show with a little memento mori vis-à-vis the untimely demise of the DHS' Disinfo Squad which was a recent feature here on the Ow. Then we check in on La France and their holy war against the mongrel English language via the shock troops of the 21st-century culture wars: gamers. Then we spend the rest of the show trying to make sense of this country's insane gun culture and it's relationship to the internet, school-shootings, and tech-based efforts to redress it that are proving woefully inadequate. As part of this, we dive into Mack's excellent recent piece in Gizmodo that you can read here about fancy new VR interventions in police training and their effects or lack-thereof on our boys in blue.

    1h 31m
  6. Upstream Without a Paddle feat. JJ

    05/28/2022

    Upstream Without a Paddle feat. JJ

    We are back, better late than never, with a triple-stuft episode complete with a very special guest. Friend of the podcast and Music Industry Professional (MIP) JJ is on to talk streaming economy stuff but not before we dish on the recent collapse of the crypto and NFT market and its ramifications as well as various and sundry related stories and settle once and for all if inordinately expensive drawings of monkeys represent a great leap forward for technology, art and the Information Superhighway that we're all careening down, brakeless and screaming.

    2h 8m
  7. Tweet the Rich

    05/18/2022

    Tweet the Rich

    We are back to talk about the latest appendage to sprout from the eldritch carapace of the DHS as well as briefly touch on the actually chilling recent Supreme Court news regarding Roe v. Wade. Then, we're onto lighter and more optimistic fare including the recent success of the Amazon Labor Union and a potential change in management over at the freaking bird app.

    1h 48m
  8. The Ukraine Episode

    04/27/2022

    The Ukraine Episode

    The boys finally break their silence on Ukraine as many have long demanded, taking the opportunity to investigate some of the creepy and opportunistic ways that western surveillance tech has fluttered down to the battlefield like so many carrion crows. We also talk about the NYC subway shooting a few weeks back and what moronic reaction we can expect to see from our squawling newborn mayor about it.

    1h 30m
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A show where we tug at the the tangled tendrils of technology, politics, the internet, and the future of Having Fun on the Computer. Techno-optimists need not apply, unless you mean the Detroit kind.

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  • Creator
    The Future Is Ow
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    38
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © The Future is Ow 2021
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