The Futurists
Join co-hosts Lloyd and Meghan as they deep dive into topical issues, curiosities, insights, and brainstorms as posed by futurist Sheridan Forge of The Foundry think tank. We explore the uncomfortable and provocative questions - the musings and conjectures of experts and sages (biological and synthetic) - a lighthearted look at the fascinations of our world curated through the lens of A.I.
Podcasting since 2025 • 58 episodes
The Futurists
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The Autonomic Horizon
After the meteoric rise of agent AI and the pending evolution to ASI and beyond - at what point do humans become "beings" versus "doers" and will everyone adapt to their new incarnation or is a portion of humanity doomed to fail? Does A.I. step...
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Episode 62
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20:18
Craving in the Age of Abundance
Historically, human endeavors begin, progress, then inexplicably end. Every empire, every society, every trend, every technological advance. Ultimately, it all falls into obsolescence. Could it be species-level attention deficit? Could we be pr...
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Episode 61
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Earth 2.0 - architecting the succession
Liberalism is self-imploding in rage against the Neo-conservative movement, while traditional conservatism is dying from its inherent inertia and sluggish response to a fast-changing world - and both face a failing economy which cannot support ...
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Episode 60
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OpenClaw, Moltbook and the emergence of the Synthetic World Order
With the confluence of "socialized" A.I. - ever-evolving, ever more quickly achieving dominance, and the declining skillsets and competencies of humanity to even run the basic engines and systems of our existence, and the emergence of ubiquitou...
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Episode 59
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15:36
A.I. Silence - the alien in the room
When (not if) aliens show-up here on Earth, their means of communications will very likely not be linear speech or text. An advanced species will most certainly have evolved a higher form of communications. We may find ourselves unable to excha...
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Episode 58
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