Name: 2049 – Housebot Mary Is Calling by FutureCoast
Duration: 52 s
Description: Houses of the One Percent. "I am activating emergency protocols on the estate security system to prevent looting and water theft while you are away. Enjoy your business trip in Iceland where the forecast say it’s quite lovely..."

Houses of the One Percent. "I am activating emergency protocols on the estate security system to prevent looting and water theft while you are away. Enjoy your business trip in Iceland where the forecast say it’s quite lovely..."

2049 – Housebot Mary Is Calling

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There’s a lot we don’t know about our possible futures, but one thing we do: they've got a software glitch in them, in the voicemail system. So voicemails of the future are getting sent back to our time. Yeah. Weird.

We Coasters worked through the 4th Chronofall (2014-18) to find these voicemails and listen to the futures they're happening in.  So now you can listen to them too.

Now, straight talk: FutureCoast is an experiment in participatory cli-fi. The voicemails you hear were authored and performed by the public. Hundreds of people called in to contribute their ideas – the ones posted here are just a sample. 

The goal is to use FutureCoast's fictional premise to springboard our thinking about possible futures. Read more at Situation Lab: https://situationlab.org/futurecoast/

If you would like to add your own voicemail of the future to the FutureCoast archive, you can! Email your audio to futurecoast at writerguy dot com.

(FutureCoast funded by the PoLAR Partnership at Columbia University, as a climate change education project.)

2049 – Housebot Mary Is Calling

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