FourCast

• E1

  Beware the Lunar Molemen

  We're proud to have Len Peralta of JawBone Radio and Monsters By Mail, and Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla and Qore as our first victims, er, guests. This episode was a blast, dealing with the end of the world, the terraforming of Mars, and of course, MoleMen.

  2009-07-14 · 43m
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• E2

  Water Wars

  For our next trick, Scott and I got Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, and Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to square off with their visions of the future. You may think Leo is the optimist, but you'd be wrong. Witness the title of our episode. It was Jim that has the rosier view of the future. Including the chance for all of us to someday become Ashton Kutcher. Listen in folks, it's a good one.

  2009-08-06 · 48m
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• E3

  Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities

  This time on FourCast, comic, movie, and TV writer Gerry Conway and podcaster Brian Ibbott predict a world brimming with superheroes, domed cities, and RPGs based on your trip to the grocery store.

  2009-09-10 · 42m
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• E4

  The Machine President Sits Alone

  This time we are blessed with two musicians whom we are both fans of. Jonathan Coulton, known best for his Code Monkey and zombie songs, and MC Frontalot, known best, apparently for his back trouble int he nerdcore documentary but really for his amazing nerd rap prowess. We discuss their visions of synthetic life, machine-led government, nanobots, and the amazing growth of our brains. Or will we have brains in the future?

  2009-10-15 · 35m
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• E5

  Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles

  We're doing things a little differently this time. We had so much good conversation this time around, that we're pbreaking the show into three parts. Part one of the prediction extravaganza with Scott Kurtz and Jeff Cannata sees us discuss the end of journalism as we know it and ponder a world with one game console platform.

  2009-11-05 · 22m
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• E6

  America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation

  In part two of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz, it's time for the long term predictions. We discuss the decline of America and the potential rise of virtual nations.

  2009-11-12 · 23m
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• E7

  Omega Point Steals Our Gender

  The final part of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz covers the final simulation of everything and the elimination of all genders. Or does it? In fact, it does.

  2009-11-18 · 31m
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• E38

  Sing Along with the Singularity

  While we have a lot of fun worrying about self-driving cars, it's really the singularity we should be worried about. Justin Robert Young pretty much believes it will be disaster, while Brian Brushwood has a rosier vision.

  2010-07-06 · 59m
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• E39

  House of Trash

  Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.

  2010-07-12 · 45m
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• E40

  Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies

  Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.

  2010-07-20 · 48m
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• E41

  Goodbye to Our Bodies

  Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.

  2010-07-26 · 45m
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• E42

  It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World

  No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.

  2010-08-02 · 48m
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• E43

  Don't Insert Animals There

  Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.

  2010-08-09 · 71m
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• E44

  Humanity Is Saved!

  Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.

  2010-08-16 · 54m
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• E45

  Whale Wars

  We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.

  2010-08-23 · 62m
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• E46

  Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm

  Find out why teleportation will work for dead cats. Also, we'll pick a job for you but it won't be in self-help.

  2010-08-30 · 53m
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• E47

  Don't Steal My Arm

  Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.

  2010-09-13 · 59m
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• E48

  The Great Seawall of Atlantica

  Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.

  2010-09-20 · 51m
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• E49

  Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow

  Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.

  2010-09-27 · 50m
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• E50

  Rise of the Dolphoctopus

  Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.

  2010-10-04 · 60m
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• E51

  Planet of the 1990s Diseases

  Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.

  2010-10-12 · 36m
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• E52

  Subscribe to the Perfect Memory

  Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.

  2010-10-18 · 52m
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• E53

  BBQ on Mars

  Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.

  2010-10-25 · 53m
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• E54

  The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth

  Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.

  2010-11-01 · 51m
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• E55

  Giraffe Burger To Go, Please

  No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.

  2010-11-08 · 50m
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• E56

  What Would Blue-Jay Do?

  The wild turkey shoot is coming to a big city near you, and you'll be able to literally share your memories of the event.

  2010-11-15 · 53m
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• E57

  Vote Arsonist!

  We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.

  2010-11-22 · 62m
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• E58

  It's All a Simulization

  Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.

  2010-11-29 · 42m
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• E59

  Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock

  Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.

  2010-12-06 · 56m
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• E60

  Spray-on Shopping With Cher

  Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.

  2010-12-13 · 52m
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• E61

  Government Is Soylent Green

  Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.

  2010-12-20 · 62m
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• E62

  Goober Great!

  Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.

  2011-01-03 · 62m
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• E63

  Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living

  Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.

  2011-01-17 · 55m
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• E64

  Infinity Is Freaking Huge

  Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.

  2011-01-24 · 64m
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• E65

  Gold-Backed Data Currency

  Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.

  2011-01-31 · 57m
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• E66

  Robot Sugar

  In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.

  2011-02-07 · 58m
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• E67

  Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War

  In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.

  2011-02-14 · 59m
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• E68

  Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse

  The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.

  2011-02-28 · 63m
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• E69

  We Are All X-Men

  We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.

  2011-03-07 · 52m
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• E70

  The Future Is Unclear

  Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.

  2011-03-21 · 50m
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• E71

  To The Caves!

  We're headed to the gold standard, going bankrupt, losing our faith in science and we'll lose the world to the slime molds anyway.

  2011-03-28 · 62m
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• E72

  We Are the Mole Men

  Hollywood won't stop making comic book movies, but we will stop talking to teach other in our ultraseats. And it will all happen underground.

  2011-04-04 · 44m
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• E73

  You Died of Spacsyntery

  The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.

  2011-04-11 · 51m
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• E74

  The Future of No More

  No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!

  2011-04-18 · 58m
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• E75

  Weightless Immortality

  Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.

  2011-04-25 · 58m
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• E76

  Head in the Clouds

  We're putting a hard drive in our heads, and we can't tell the Google history index has changed history, but we're all in caves now, so it's OK.

  2011-05-09 · 58m
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• E77

  Stop Chad!

  If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!

  2011-05-24 · 56m
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• E78

  Got Nanobots?

  Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.

  2011-06-06 · 54m
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• E79

  Talk to the Animals

  Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.

  2011-06-13 · 59m
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• E80

  Space Nomads

  We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.

  2011-06-21 · 52m
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• E81

  Robot Everything

  Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.

  2011-06-27 · 51m
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• E82

  Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please

  Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.

  2011-07-11 · 59m
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• E83

  Nice Bioluminescent Spots

  Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.

  2011-07-18 · 58m
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• E84

  It's All About Superheroes

  We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.

  2011-07-25 · 42m
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• E85

  Distributed Everything

  We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.

  2011-08-01 · 46m
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• E86

  The Gassy One

  We'll taste our movies and burn our trash, but we'll all be made of broccoli. Yet a trip to Jupiter will take our mind off it.

  2011-08-08 · 60m
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• E87

  Grow Your Own Home

  Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.

  2011-08-15 · 59m
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  E88

  Black Tar Einstein

  We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.

  2011-08-22 · 49m
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• E89

  We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords

  We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.

  2011-08-29 · 51m
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• E90

  Putting the "I" In IPO

  Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.

  2011-09-12 · 51m
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• E91

  Designer Prosthetics

  Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.

  2011-09-19 · 51m
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• E92

  Vote Gibbon

  It's survival of the cutest, or survival of the aliens that can't enjoy simulations. But we can't use telepathy because of the ads.

  2011-09-26 · 50m
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• E93

  Go Goa'uld or Go Home

  Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.

  2011-10-04 · 59m
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• E94

  Space Dragons

  We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.

  2011-10-12 · 58m
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• E95

  Swappin' Body Parts

  We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.

  2011-10-17 · 55m
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• E96

  Return of Alien Nation

  Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.

  2011-10-24 · 60m
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• E97

  Pulp Toy Story Dogs

  We all create the movies we want in our barter society, when we're into playing realistic D&D sims. But we're all part of the AI game.

  2011-10-31 · 59m
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• E98

  Holographic Bieber

  Sure, you can't hug a child with robotic eyes, and printing a baby has issues, but our perma-kittens will take our minds off it.

  2011-11-08 · 48m
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• E99

  Spider State

  We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.

  2011-11-14 · 62m
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• E100

  Voodoo Bernie Is the Future

  We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.

  2011-11-21 · 56m
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  E101

  The Guilted Age

  Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.

  2011-11-28 · 64m
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• E102

  Megafauna

  Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.

  2011-12-05 · 60m
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• E103

  Moonifest Destiny

  China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.

  2011-12-12 · 57m
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• E104

  Introducing the Thought DVR

  We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.

  2011-12-19 · 62m
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• E105

  My Bricks Are Online

  We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.

  2012-01-03 · 50m
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• E106

  Eyeball in My Colon

  We learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can get our entertainment everywhere.

  2012-01-16 · 58m
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• E107

  Robot Death or Lizard Face

  Sure we can't tell if it's a computer, but it won't kill us. It will kill our physical-altered progeny. Am I right?

  2012-01-24 · 63m
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• E108

  Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma

  Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.

  2012-02-06 · 52m
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• E109

  Ubiquitous Media

  Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.

  2012-02-13 · 45m
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• E110

  Photography Becomes Archaeology

  We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!

  2012-02-27 · 51m
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• E111

  Beam Me Out Mommy

  Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.

  2012-03-05 · 51m
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• E112

  The Nanobots Made My Brain Do It

  Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.

  2012-03-12 · 53m
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  E113

  Kickstart My Comic Heart

  Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.

  2012-03-19 · 51m
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• E114

  No Keyboard, No Security

  We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.

  2012-04-02 · 50m
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• E115

  Spectrum in My Head

  We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.

  2012-04-09 · 48m
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• E116

  TV and Movies Merge

  Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.

  2012-04-23 · 45m
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• E117

  Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose

  We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.

  2012-04-30 · 42m
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• E118

  No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books

  While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.

  2012-05-07 · 49m
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• E119

  What’s the Digital Matter?

  We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.

  2012-05-14 · 46m
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• E120

  Your Tube Is Here

  Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.

  2012-05-21 · 50m
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• E121

  Jam the Reptile Terrorists

  When we all have wearable computing we'll need to jam it and stop the parallel universes from invading us. But at least we have easy access to Point Break.

  2012-06-04 · 47m
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• E122

  Lastcast

  Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.

  2012-06-11 · 62m
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Top cast

Tom Merritt

Self - Host

Scott Johnson

Self - Host