What does it mean to have a body? To live inside a body? Where does our “true self” reside? In the mind? The flesh? The soul? This mini-season we tackle…
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Today we travel to a future where dying isn’t the end. What if you could live on as a simulation? A bot that knows everything you’ve ever said, and can…
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Today we travel to a future where we can swap bodies with one another. Would you trade places with someone? Do you own your body? Guests: Calvin Gimpelevich —…
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Today we travel to a future where all animal testing is banned. What are the alternatives? What can we do without using animals, and what can’t we do? Guests:…
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Today we travel to a future where we can tattoo sensors right onto our skin. What happens when you can get a live readout of everything from glucose to hormones…
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Today we travel to a future where humans can see at night. What happens when we expand our vision out into the darkness? How does that impact everything from work,…
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This year on Flash Forward I’m trying something a little new: mini-seasons! Here are all the EARTH episodes, five different futures that consider what we’re doing to this planet, how…
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Today we travel to a future where fisheries collapse, and we turn the ocean into a giant farm. Guests: Amanda Nickson: director of international fisheries at The Pew Charitable Trusts…
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Today we travel to a future where we try to break up with cement. Can it be done? How did cement because so ubiquitous? And what’s so bad about cement…
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Today, we travel to the deserts. Or, actually, the deserts travel to us. What happens if dust swallows up over 30% of the planet? Guests: Sumant Nigam: climate researcher at…
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