Name: My Everything Pal by Flash Forward in future
Duration: 35 min 55 s
Description: Today we travel to a future full of spreadsheet approved lives. A future where everything we do is tracked and quantified: calories, air quality, sleep, heart rate, microbes, brain waves, finances, happiness, sadness, menstrual cycles, poops, hopes and dreams. Everything.

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Today we travel to a future where humans share our robotic knowledge with the rest of the animal kingdom—for better, and for worse.

This is also the LAST EPISODE of Flash Forward 1.0. Listen to the end for my sappy goodbye to this version of the show, a show that has really meant the world to me. 

More info & show notes here: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2021/12/21/final-episode-robots-could-robots-replace-animals/

FINAL EPISODE!! ROBOTS: Could Robots Replace Animals?

More info & show notes here: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2022/06/28/can-you-be-sued-by-a-river/

Can You Be Sued By A River?

More info & show notes here: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2022/11/07/vanguard-estates-living-with-dementia/

Vanguard Estates: Living With Dementia

More info & show notes here: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2022/11/14/vanguard-estates-the-future-of-the-aging-brain/

Vanguard Estates: The Future of the Aging Brain

More info & show notes here: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2022/11/21/vanguard-estates-can-robots-really-help-the-aging/

Vanguard Estates: Can Robots Really Help the Aging?

More info & show notes here: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2022/11/28/vanguard-estates-the-true-cost-of-care/

Vanguard Estates: The True Cost of Care

This is the final series for Flash Forward ever. The finale is three episodes, each about some aspect of future thinking that has been on my mind. It's part manifesto about the future, part love letter to listeners, part summation of what I've learned from making Flash Forward for eight years. I really hope you like it!

PUPATION

PRECIPICE

HOPE

PRECIPICE (by Lazerbeak)

What would happen if the Earth suddenly had a second moon? This week, we work through the impact an additional satellite would have on our planet, from tides, to the night sky, to the potential destruction of Earth. Oh also there are space pirates. 

The Second Moon is a Harsh Mistress

This week’s future is a social experiment. What if Earth had a robotic overlord who decided to ban all weapons? All fights would have to be hand to hand. Would there be less death that way? Less casualties? What counts as a weapon anyway? Listen to the episode to find out!

Forcing the Hand

What would happen if we rounded up all the critically endangered animals and plants and put them in armored zoos?

Caged

Today we travel to a future full of spreadsheet approved lives. A future where everything we do is tracked and quantified: calories, air quality, sleep, heart rate, microbes, brain waves, finances, happiness, sadness, menstrual cycles, poops, hopes and dreams. Everything. 

My Everything Pal

Today we travel to a fully digital world, a world where paper is a thing of the past.


Tree Free

This month on Flash Forward, we go to a future where anybody can make a video of you doing anything they want. And that technology is cheap and easy to access. What happens?

Unreel

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.

My Everything Pal

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