Podcast Episodes

Billions Registered

Episode 7

Right now, there are no rules to keep you from owning a bitchin’ corporate name as your own internet address.

Written by Joshua Quittner. Originally…

6 hours ago

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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

Episode 6

Our most powerful 21st-century technologies—robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotech—are threatening to make humans an endangered species.

Writte…

2 days, 6 hours ago

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Choke Points

Episode 5

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family.

Lost Lives.

How Israeli checkpoints suffocate Palestinian life in the occupied West Bank.

Written…

5 days, 6 hours ago

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How a Research Blog Took on Big Surveillance in China—and Won

Episode 4

Digging through manuals for security cameras, a group of gearheads found sinister details and ignited a new battle in the US-China tech war.

Written…

1 week ago

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Greetings From Burning Man!

Episode 3

Dispatches from the New American Holiday: Writer Bruce Sterling takes the kids to the Temporary Autonomous Zone, where survival is a personal choice.…

1 week, 2 days ago

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She's 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can't Have Kids

Episode 2

No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course…

1 week, 5 days ago

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Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own

Episode 1

The novelist makes the Earthly rituals of sex, marriage, childbirth—and all of human life—appear delightfully outlandish.

For more of the most ambiti…

2 weeks ago

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