Flash Forward
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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The Commute From Hell
46 min
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What To Expect When You're Expecting In Space
47 min
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Farm To Tablet
47 min
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Eyes In The Skies
44 min
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Money For Nothing
51 min
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Fungus Among Us
How much of what you do is actually your choice? What if you were secretly being controlled by a parasite that had infected your brain? What if that infection was spreading?
41 min
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Spawn of Sponcon
Welcome to a future in which you can sign up to be a brand ambassador, and get paid for every time you mention a product in conversation.
48 min
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Dr. Doolittle
Today we tackle the age-old question: what if animals could talk? Or, more precisely, what if we could actually understand what animals are saying?
56 min
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Under The Sea
Why do space colonies seem more likely than underwater cities? And what does it take to build a settlement on the sea floor?
56 min
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Portrait Of The Artist As An Algorithm
49 min
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The Very Big Sick
53 min
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The Space Roomba
This episode we take on a future where space junk has gotten so bad, that active spacecraft are constantly having to maneuver around it, which wastes fuel and cuts down on operation time. And humans decide to finally do something about it. But what?
50 min
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We Are Family
What happens when everybody has their DNA sequenced and uploaded to genetic genealogy sites?
54 min
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Federal Project Two
In 1935, the United States Government spent millions of dollars on projects meant to employ artists. What if they did it again?
52 min
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Enter the Exos
This episode we talk exoskeletons: what are they being used for now? What might they be used for in the future? And what happens when they’re everywhere?
50 min
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Fitness in a Bottle
What if you could take a drug, and never have to go to the gym again?
51 min
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Fire From the Deep
In this episode, a huge submarine volcano erupts, breaks the surface of the ocean, and forms a new island. What happens next?
43 min
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The Grey Dawn
48 min
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You’ve Got Brainmail
In our last episode of the season, we take one one of the most requested futures: telepathy! What would it be like to be able to link minds, and communicate brain to brain? And how likely is it that we’ll ever get this kind of technology? -
49 min
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Countless
This episode we travel to a future where the 2020 census goes haywire. What happens if we don’t get an accurate count of Americans? Who cares? Apparently the constitution does! - The 2020 census is currently in the crosshairs — census watchers sa...
45 min
121
There’s No Great Future in Plastics
This episode is all about a world without plastic. What would that look like? Is it even possible?
34 min
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Our Father, Who art in Algorithm
In this episode, we travel to a future where a tech mogul feeds a machine learning system all the religious texts he can find, and asks it to generate a “super religion.” - Buckle up because this is a long episode! But it’s fun, I promise. -
50 min
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Deceptible Me
This episode we travel to a future where you can choose to turn off your ability to deceive yourself. Are you now a perfectly clear eyed genius? Or a perpetually depressed misanthrope? Maybe both?
38 min
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Easy Bake Organs
This episode we take on a future full of bioprinted replacement organs. You asked for more hopeful futures, this is about as hopeful as they get!
32 min
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Buzz Off
In this episode we travel to a world without bees. And not just honey bees, all bees.
25 min