FourCast S1:E116

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Goodbye to Our Bodies

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

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.

Don't Insert Animals There

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

Humanity Is Saved!

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

Whale Wars

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

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.

Don't Steal My Arm

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

The Great Seawall of Atlantica

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

Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow

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

Rise of the Dolphoctopus

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

Planet of the 1990s Diseases

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

Subscribe to the Perfect Memory

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

BBQ on Mars

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

The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth

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

Giraffe Burger To Go, Please

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

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.

Vote Arsonist!

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

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.

Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock

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

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.

Government Is Soylent Green

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

Goober Great!

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

Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living

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

Infinity Is Freaking Huge

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

Gold-Backed Data Currency

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

Robot Sugar

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

Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War

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

Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse

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

We Are All X-Men

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

The Future Is Unclear

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

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.

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.

You Died of Spacsyntery

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

The Future of No More

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

Weightless Immortality

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

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.

Stop Chad!

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

Got Nanobots?

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

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.

Space Nomads

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

Robot Everything

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

Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please

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

Nice Bioluminescent Spots

Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.

It's All About Superheroes

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

Distributed Everything

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

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.

Grow Your Own Home

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

Black Tar Einstein

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

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.

Putting the "I" In IPO

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

Designer Prosthetics

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

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.

Go Goa'uld or Go Home

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

Space Dragons

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

Swappin' Body Parts

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

Return of Alien Nation

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

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.

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.

Spider State

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

Voodoo Bernie Is the Future

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

The Guilted Age

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

Megafauna

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

Moonifest Destiny

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

Introducing the Thought DVR

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

My Bricks Are Online

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

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.

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?

Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma

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

Ubiquitous Media

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

Photography Becomes Archaeology

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

Beam Me Out Mommy

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

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.

Kickstart My Comic Heart

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

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.

Spectrum in My Head

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

Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose

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

No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books

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

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.

Your Tube Is Here

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

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.

Lastcast

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