Episodes List
Ep.1 Beware the Lunar Molemen
Air Date: 2009-07-14
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.
Ep.2 Water Wars
Air Date: 2009-08-06
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.
Ep.3 Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities
Air Date: 2009-09-10
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.
Ep.4 The Machine President Sits Alone
Air Date: 2009-10-15
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?
Ep.5 Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles
Air Date: 2009-11-05
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.
Ep.6 America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation
Air Date: 2009-11-12
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.
Ep.7 Omega Point Steals Our Gender
Air Date: 2009-11-18
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.
Ep.38 Sing Along with the Singularity
Air Date: 2010-07-06
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.
Ep.39 House of Trash
Air Date: 2010-07-12
Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.
Ep.40 Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies
Air Date: 2010-07-20
Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.
Ep.41 Goodbye to Our Bodies
Air Date: 2010-07-26
Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.
Ep.42 It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World
Air Date: 2010-08-02
No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.
Ep.43 Don't Insert Animals There
Air Date: 2010-08-09
Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.
Ep.44 Humanity Is Saved!
Air Date: 2010-08-16
Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.
Ep.45 Whale Wars
Air Date: 2010-08-23
We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.
Ep.46 Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm
Air Date: 2010-08-30
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.
Ep.47 Don't Steal My Arm
Air Date: 2010-09-13
Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.
Ep.48 The Great Seawall of Atlantica
Air Date: 2010-09-20
Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.
Ep.49 Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow
Air Date: 2010-09-27
Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.
Ep.50 Rise of the Dolphoctopus
Air Date: 2010-10-04
Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.
Ep.51 Planet of the 1990s Diseases
Air Date: 2010-10-12
Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.
Ep.52 Subscribe to the Perfect Memory
Air Date: 2010-10-18
Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.
Ep.53 BBQ on Mars
Air Date: 2010-10-25
Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.
Ep.54 The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth
Air Date: 2010-11-01
Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.
Ep.55 Giraffe Burger To Go, Please
Air Date: 2010-11-08
No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.
Ep.56 What Would Blue-Jay Do?
Air Date: 2010-11-15
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.
Ep.57 Vote Arsonist!
Air Date: 2010-11-22
We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.
Ep.58 It's All a Simulization
Air Date: 2010-11-29
Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.
Ep.59 Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock
Air Date: 2010-12-06
Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.
Ep.60 Spray-on Shopping With Cher
Air Date: 2010-12-13
Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.
Ep.61 Government Is Soylent Green
Air Date: 2010-12-20
Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.
Ep.62 Goober Great!
Air Date: 2011-01-03
Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.
Ep.63 Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living
Air Date: 2011-01-17
Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.
Ep.64 Infinity Is Freaking Huge
Air Date: 2011-01-24
Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.
Ep.65 Gold-Backed Data Currency
Air Date: 2011-01-31
Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.
Ep.66 Robot Sugar
Air Date: 2011-02-07
In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.
Ep.67 Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War
Air Date: 2011-02-14
In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.
Ep.68 Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse
Air Date: 2011-02-28
The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.
Ep.69 We Are All X-Men
Air Date: 2011-03-07
We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.
Ep.70 The Future Is Unclear
Air Date: 2011-03-21
Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.
Ep.71 To The Caves!
Air Date: 2011-03-28
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.
Ep.72 We Are the Mole Men
Air Date: 2011-04-04
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.
Ep.73 You Died of Spacsyntery
Air Date: 2011-04-11
The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.
Ep.74 The Future of No More
Air Date: 2011-04-18
No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!
Ep.75 Weightless Immortality
Air Date: 2011-04-25
Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.
Ep.76 Head in the Clouds
Air Date: 2011-05-09
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.
Ep.77 Stop Chad!
Air Date: 2011-05-24
If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!
Ep.78 Got Nanobots?
Air Date: 2011-06-06
Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.
Ep.79 Talk to the Animals
Air Date: 2011-06-13
Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.
Ep.80 Space Nomads
Air Date: 2011-06-21
We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.
Ep.81 Robot Everything
Air Date: 2011-06-27
Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.
Ep.82 Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please
Air Date: 2011-07-11
Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.
Ep.83 Nice Bioluminescent Spots
Air Date: 2011-07-18
Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.
Ep.84 It's All About Superheroes
Air Date: 2011-07-25
We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.
Ep.85 Distributed Everything
Air Date: 2011-08-01
We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.
Ep.86 The Gassy One
Air Date: 2011-08-08
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.
Ep.87 Grow Your Own Home
Air Date: 2011-08-15
Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.
Ep.88 Black Tar Einstein
Air Date: 2011-08-22
We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.
Ep.89 We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords
Air Date: 2011-08-29
We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.
Ep.90 Putting the "I" In IPO
Air Date: 2011-09-12
Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
Ep.91 Designer Prosthetics
Air Date: 2011-09-19
Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.
Ep.92 Vote Gibbon
Air Date: 2011-09-26
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.
Ep.93 Go Goa'uld or Go Home
Air Date: 2011-10-04
Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.
Ep.94 Space Dragons
Air Date: 2011-10-12
We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.
Ep.95 Swappin' Body Parts
Air Date: 2011-10-17
We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
Ep.96 Return of Alien Nation
Air Date: 2011-10-24
Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.
Ep.97 Pulp Toy Story Dogs
Air Date: 2011-10-31
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.
Ep.98 Holographic Bieber
Air Date: 2011-11-08
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.
Ep.99 Spider State
Air Date: 2011-11-14
We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.
Ep.100 Voodoo Bernie Is the Future
Air Date: 2011-11-21
We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.
Ep.101 The Guilted Age
Air Date: 2011-11-28
Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.
Ep.102 Megafauna
Air Date: 2011-12-05
Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.
Ep.103 Moonifest Destiny
Air Date: 2011-12-12
China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.
Ep.104 Introducing the Thought DVR
Air Date: 2011-12-19
We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.
Ep.105 My Bricks Are Online
Air Date: 2012-01-03
We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.
Ep.106 Eyeball in My Colon
Air Date: 2012-01-16
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.
Ep.107 Robot Death or Lizard Face
Air Date: 2012-01-24
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?
Ep.108 Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma
Air Date: 2012-02-06
Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.
Ep.109 Ubiquitous Media
Air Date: 2012-02-13
Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.
Ep.110 Photography Becomes Archaeology
Air Date: 2012-02-27
We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!
Ep.111 Beam Me Out Mommy
Air Date: 2012-03-05
Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.
Ep.112 The Nanobots Made My Brain Do It
Air Date: 2012-03-12
Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.
Ep.113 Kickstart My Comic Heart
Air Date: 2012-03-19
Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
Ep.114 No Keyboard, No Security
Air Date: 2012-04-02
We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.
Ep.115 Spectrum in My Head
Air Date: 2012-04-09
We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.
Ep.116 TV and Movies Merge
Air Date: 2012-04-23
Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.
Ep.117 Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose
Air Date: 2012-04-30
We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.
Ep.118 No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books
Air Date: 2012-05-07
While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.
Ep.119 What’s the Digital Matter?
Air Date: 2012-05-14
We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.
Ep.120 Your Tube Is Here
Air Date: 2012-05-21
Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.
Ep.121 Jam the Reptile Terrorists
Air Date: 2012-06-04
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.
Ep.122 Lastcast
Air Date: 2012-06-11
Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.
