One of the most important messages of Flash Forward is that we can, and should, try to imagine better futures. But sitting back and picturing the future in our minds…

Today we travel to a future where celebrities construct their own cities for you and I to live in.  Guests: Jon Karas —  President and Co-Founder at Akoin Dr. Katherine…

Today we celebrate the FIVE YEAR anniversary of the podcast. Whoa. To celebrate, I reached out to every single person who you’ve ever heard on the podcast — every expert,…

To hear the full audio of every audio postcard listen here: Here are all the answers from the Five Year Anniversary episode, lightly edited.  What message would you send to…

Today we travel to a future where darkness is a thing of the past.  Guests: Dr. John Barentine — director of public policy at the International Dark Sky Association Rebecca…

Today we travel to a future where software engineers didn’t actually fix any of the Y2K bugs. What would have happened if we had ignored the problem? What lessons does…

Hi again! I’m back with one more of these update episodes. Today we cover the growing “flight shame” movement, some interesting developments in the genetic genealogy space, and what’s going…

Today is a very special ~~surprise~~ episode! I’ve been thinking about how to revisit old episodes, and give you folks updates on things that have happened since we covered certain…

It’s hard to believe it’s already the end of 2019, the end of a decade, and, most importantly of course, the end of the Flash Forward season. Season five was…

On the last mini-season of the year, we took on the idea of power. Literal power, figurative power, superpowers, historical power, individual power and more. POWER: The Complete Season was…