Season 1
92 episodes · Jul 14, 2009
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- S1E1
Beware the Lunar Molemen
Jul 14, 200943mWe'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.
- S1E2
Water Wars
Aug 6, 200948mFor 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.
- S1E3
Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities
Sep 10, 200942mThis 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.
- S1E4
The Machine President Sits Alone
Oct 15, 200935mThis 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?
- S1E5
Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles
Nov 5, 200922mWe'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.
- S1E6
America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation
Nov 12, 200923mIn 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.
- S1E7
Omega Point Steals Our Gender
Nov 18, 200931mThe 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.
- S1E38
Sing Along with the Singularity
Jul 6, 201059mWhile 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.
- S1E39
House of Trash
Jul 12, 201045mEverything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.
- S1E40
Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies
Jul 20, 201048mAmong the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.
- S1E41
Goodbye to Our Bodies
Jul 26, 201045mDefying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.
- S1E42
It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World
Aug 2, 201048mNo matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.
- S1E43
Don't Insert Animals There
Aug 9, 201071mCandy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.
- S1E44
Humanity Is Saved!
Aug 16, 201054mBody mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.
- S1E45
Whale Wars
Aug 23, 201062mWe will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.
- S1E46
Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm
Aug 30, 201053mFind out why teleportation will work for dead cats. Also, we'll pick a job for you but it won't be in self-help.
- S1E47
Don't Steal My Arm
Sep 13, 201059mLooking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.
- S1E48
The Great Seawall of Atlantica
Sep 20, 201051mWireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.
- S1E49
Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow
Sep 27, 201050mDarthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.
- S1E50
Rise of the Dolphoctopus
Oct 4, 201060mSolutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.
- S1E51
Planet of the 1990s Diseases
Oct 12, 201036mCheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.
- S1E52
Subscribe to the Perfect Memory
Oct 18, 201052mFighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.
- S1E53
BBQ on Mars
Oct 25, 201053mLooking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.
- S1E54
The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth
Nov 1, 201051mUnicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.
- S1E55
Giraffe Burger To Go, Please
Nov 8, 201050mNo more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.
- S1E56
What Would Blue-Jay Do?
Nov 15, 201053mThe wild turkey shoot is coming to a big city near you, and you'll be able to literally share your memories of the event.
- S1E57
Vote Arsonist!
Nov 22, 201062mWe will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.
- S1E58
It's All a Simulization
Nov 29, 201042mDogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.
- S1E59
Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock
Dec 6, 201056mDeciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.
- S1E60
Spray-on Shopping With Cher
Dec 13, 201052mOur mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.
- S1E61
Government Is Soylent Green
Dec 20, 201062mDemocracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.
- S1E62
Goober Great!
Jan 3, 201162mSeth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.
- S1E63
Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living
Jan 17, 201155mLife will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.
- S1E64
Infinity Is Freaking Huge
Jan 24, 201164mBrain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.
- S1E65
Gold-Backed Data Currency
Jan 31, 201157mHot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.
- S1E66
Robot Sugar
Feb 7, 201158mIn our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.
- S1E67
Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War
Feb 14, 201159mIn our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.
- S1E68
Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse
Feb 28, 201163mThe rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.
- S1E69
We Are All X-Men
Mar 7, 201152mWe learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.
- S1E70
The Future Is Unclear
Mar 21, 201150mOur guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.
- S1E71
To The Caves!
Mar 28, 201162mWe're headed to the gold standard, going bankrupt, losing our faith in science and we'll lose the world to the slime molds anyway.
- S1E72
We Are the Mole Men
Apr 4, 201144mHollywood won't stop making comic book movies, but we will stop talking to teach other in our ultraseats. And it will all happen underground.
- S1E73
You Died of Spacsyntery
Apr 11, 201151mThe proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.
- S1E74
The Future of No More
Apr 18, 201158mNo more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!
- S1E75
Weightless Immortality
Apr 25, 201158mFind out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.
- S1E76
Head in the Clouds
May 9, 201158mWe'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.
- S1E77
Stop Chad!
May 24, 201156mIf Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!
- S1E78
Got Nanobots?
Jun 6, 201154mDesktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.
- S1E79
Talk to the Animals
Jun 13, 201159mTwitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.
- S1E80
Space Nomads
Jun 21, 201152mWe wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.
- S1E81
Robot Everything
Jun 27, 201151mHumans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.
- S1E82
Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please
Jul 11, 201159mTextbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.
- S1E83
Nice Bioluminescent Spots
Jul 18, 201158mBioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.
- S1E84
It's All About Superheroes
Jul 25, 201142mWe won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.
- S1E85
Distributed Everything
Aug 1, 201146mWe all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.
- S1E86
The Gassy One
Aug 8, 201160mWe'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.
- S1E87
Grow Your Own Home
Aug 15, 201159mScan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.
S1E88Black Tar Einstein
Aug 22, 201149mWe got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.
- S1E89
We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords
Aug 29, 201151mWe wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.
- S1E90
Putting the "I" In IPO
Sep 12, 201151mBeatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
- S1E91
Designer Prosthetics
Sep 19, 201151mAliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.
- S1E92
Vote Gibbon
Sep 26, 201150mIt'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.
- S1E93
Go Goa'uld or Go Home
Oct 4, 201159mCivil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.
- S1E94
Space Dragons
Oct 12, 201158mWe live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.
- S1E95
Swappin' Body Parts
Oct 17, 201155mWe'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
- S1E96
Return of Alien Nation
Oct 24, 201160mGiant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.
- S1E97
Pulp Toy Story Dogs
Oct 31, 201159mWe 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.
- S1E98
Holographic Bieber
Nov 8, 201148mSure, 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.
- S1E99
Spider State
Nov 14, 201162mWe stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.
- S1E100
Voodoo Bernie Is the Future
Nov 21, 201156mWe get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.
S1E101The Guilted Age
Nov 28, 201164mPop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.
- S1E103
Moonifest Destiny
Dec 12, 201157mChina's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.
- S1E104
Introducing the Thought DVR
Dec 19, 201162mWe move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.
- S1E105
My Bricks Are Online
Jan 3, 201250mWe all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.
- S1E106
Eyeball in My Colon
Jan 16, 201258mWe learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can get our entertainment everywhere.
- S1E107
Robot Death or Lizard Face
Jan 24, 201263mSure 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?
- S1E108
Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma
Feb 6, 201252mAlso you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.
- S1E109
Ubiquitous Media
Feb 13, 201245mComputing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.
- S1E110
Photography Becomes Archaeology
Feb 27, 201251mWe pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!
- S1E111
Beam Me Out Mommy
Mar 5, 201251mPregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.
- S1E112
The Nanobots Made My Brain Do It
Mar 12, 201253mYour heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.
S1E113Kickstart My Comic Heart
Mar 19, 201251mKickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
- S1E114
No Keyboard, No Security
Apr 2, 201250mWe'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.
- S1E115
Spectrum in My Head
Apr 9, 201248mWe'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.
- S1E116
TV and Movies Merge
Apr 23, 201245mCinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.
- S1E117
Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose
Apr 30, 201242mWe'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.
- S1E118
No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books
May 7, 201249mWhile the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.
- S1E119
What’s the Digital Matter?
May 14, 201246mWe'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.
- S1E120
Your Tube Is Here
May 21, 201250mTravel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.
- S1E121
Jam the Reptile Terrorists
Jun 4, 201247mWhen 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.
- S1E122
Lastcast
Jun 11, 201262mScott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.