Today we travel to a future where humans have decided to eradicate the most dangerous animal on the planet: mosquitos. How would we do it? Is it even possible? And…
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Today we travel to a future without lies. What would it be like if we all wore accurate lie detectors around all the time? In this episode we talk about…
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Right now there’s a whole lot of buzz about sex robots. Some people are really excited about them, and think we’ll be marrying robots by 2050. Other people are really…
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Welcome to season two of Flash Forward! We kicked off this season with a pretty unlikely future: the entire world goes face blind. Listen here: In the episode we discuss…
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What would it be like if we lived in a world where everything you do is subject to a rating dolled out by a combination of machines and other people?…
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Every country has their own idiosyncratic rules and regulations for border crossings. But what if the whole process were standardized and run by a single organization? Crossing was last modified:…
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What if we lived in a world where gender was more like hair color — something you could change at will, and that had little bearing on what other people…
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When it comes to climate change, there are a lot of researchers already thinking about how to equip crops and food animals with genes to help them withstand heat and…
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In 2006, scientists described the world’s first invisibility cloak. But there was a catch. It only worked in two dimensions, and on microwaves. But to what if scientists and engineers…
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Humans spend a lot of time and energy wondering if there’s anybody else out there. But what if we got unequivocal evidence that there was? In this week’s future, a…