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ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 30: The Midas Plague.
Episode 51
Frederik Pohl's 1954 novella: "The Midas Plague," envisions a future marked by overwhelming abundance resulting from effortless production, which res…
3 months, 1 week ago
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 29: The Creation of the Humanoids.
Episode 50
What if I told you that a low-budget, dialogue-driven, 75-minute B-movie shot in 1960 and released in 1962 had already run the entire simulation. Com…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 28: The Skulking Permit Effect.
Episode 49
When Lost Colonies Must Invent Vice to Satisfy a Decaying Empire.
In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absur…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
ReadMultiplex.com: A 1956 Forgotten Radio Satire of Empire, Amnesia, and the Fragile Future Utopia
Episode 48
In the golden age of American science fiction radio, few episodes captured the absurd machinery of bureaucracy and the quiet horror of lost history q…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 27: Open Warfare.
Episode 47
In the golden age of science fiction radio, when rocket ships roared forth from the warm glow of vacuum tubes, futures arrived one static-filled epis…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
ReadMultiplex.com: 1957 Saul, The Robot That Almost Won A Bet
Episode 46
Open Warfare, January 23, 1957)
This 1957 radio show was,adapted by Ernest Kinoy from a story by James E. Gunn, a talented but struggling professional…
4 months ago
ReadMultiplex.com: The Rise of AI “Trendslop”. It’s The Training Data Stupid.
Episode 46
The data we choose to train AI systems on today is quite literally going to shape the strategic intelligence of tomorrow. You do not want to be askin…
4 months, 1 week ago
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 26: I Feel Poor!
Episode 45
Have you ever noticed how the most miraculous things become completely infuriating the moment they stop working perfectly? Consider the device you ar…
4 months, 1 week ago
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 25: The Desk Set Prophecy.
Episode 44
In the long arc of our collective story, certain artifacts from the past arrive like messages in bottles, washed ashore from a time when the future w…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 24: The Doomslayer!
Episode 43
Imagine this. You pay literally half as much in the only currency that truly matters for your weekly groceries, for the fuel in your tank, for the ca…
4 months, 2 weeks ago