Future Perfect
Future Perfect explores provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world. We tackle big questions about the most effective ways to save lives, control new and potentially dangerous technology, and address world poverty to create a more perfect future. Good Robot is a new series about AI from Unexplainable and Future Perfect.
Produced by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
1
Good Robot #4: Who, me?
What can we actually do as our world gets populated with more and more robots?
45 min
2
Good Robot #3: Let's fix everything
A simple parable about a drowning child sparks a moral revolution.
41 min
3
Good Robot #2: Everything is not awesome
When a robot does bad things, who is responsible?
49 min
4
Good Robot #1: The Magic Intelligence in the Sky
Before AI became a mainstream obsession, one thinker sounded the alarm about its catastrophic potential.
45 min
5
Introducing: Good Robot
A new series about AI from Unexplainable and Future Perfect
3 min
6
Sucking the carbon out of the sky
Scientist and journalist Akshat Rathi explains the promise, and pitfalls, of carbon capture technology.
42 min
7
Should I still have kids if I’m worried about c...
Climate scientist Kimberly Nicholas on the question of having children despite the fears of climate change.
61 min
8
Engineering our way out of the climate crisis
Climate advocate Kelly Wanser explains the potential, and pitfalls, of “solar climate intervention.”
34 min
9
Unexplainable
A new podcast from Vox about everything we don’t know.
27 min
10
Rethinking meat
How meat alternatives could help us move away from meat eating
20 min
11
Can we raise better beef?
A Brazilian man fights for greener pastures in his hometown
22 min
12
How to prevent a factory farmed pandemic
Flying pigs, swineways, and how our meat supply chain is set up to create novel virus strains
22 min
13
These bacteria wear chicken shoes
Factory Farms and the future of our antibiotics
21 min
14
Life on the fast line
Our meatpacking plants run very, very quickly.
23 min
15
Chicken Big
Why Craig Watts no longer raises thousands of chickens
27 min
16
The paradox on our plates
Why are dogs pets and pigs food?
23 min
17
Pig poop lagoon
Some people who live near factory farms also live with a terrible smell
27 min
18
Season 3: The beef with meat
How the meat we eat affects us all
2 min
19
What the housing crisis means for the climate
How fixing housing could help the climate
57 min
20
What MLK and Malcolm X would do today
Revisiting the revolutionary lives of MLK and Malcolm X
71 min
21
The benefits of contemplating death
Here’s how to meditate on your own mortality
56 min
22
A nun on the radical possibilities of Christianity
Why suffering is a path to a deeper love
66 min
23
Why Cornel West is hopeful (but not optimistic)
How Black liberation theology, existentialism, and other philosophies can help us through these times
60 min
24
What Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about th...
Solidarity and revolt in Camus's absurdist philosophy
61 min
25
Muslim mystics on the power of pain
What would Rumi do in a pandemic?
56 min