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.
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A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering
Why God can't solve our suffering problem
52 min
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On Buddhism and Blackness
When Buddhist mindfulness meets Black activism
64 min
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Introducing Future Perfect: The Way Through
Future Perfect: The Way Through is hosted by Sigal Samuel and Sean Illing.
1 min
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The money in the moon
28 min
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Your PTA vs. equality
24 min
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Move fast and break schools
26 min
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Who's afraid of killer robots?
28 min
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Donors from beyond the grave
29 min
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Sim City, Wisconsin
18 min
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A foundation-funded atrocity
29 min
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He bought the law
31 min
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Gilded Rage
To put our new age of extreme inequality in perspective, we look back at Andrew Carnegie, who gave America a huge number of libraries so they’d forgive him for his brutal steel mills. We ask: Is the same thing happening in 2019?
22 min
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Season 2: Philanthropy vs. Democracy
1 min
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How to pick a career that counts
18 min
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How to save a species (if you really want to)
20 min
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How to be a better carnivore
22 min
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How to rethink America's borders
21 min
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How to cool the planet with a fake volcano
20 min
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How our drinking water could help prevent suicide
18 min
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How to make prisons more humane
Karianne Jackson was working for the North Dakota prison system in 2015 when a trip to Norway changed her life.
22 min
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How to save a stranger's life
20 min
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Introducing Future Perfect
1 min