FourCast — Season 1

Aired 14 July 2009 • 43 min

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.

Aired 6 August 2009 • 48 min

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.

Aired 10 September 2009 • 42 min

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.

Aired 15 October 2009 • 35 min

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?

Aired 5 November 2009 • 22 min

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.

Aired 12 November 2009 • 23 min

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.

Aired 18 November 2009 • 31 min

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.

Aired 6 July 2010 • 59 min

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.

Aired 12 July 2010 • 45 min

Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.

Aired 20 July 2010 • 48 min

Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.

Aired 26 July 2010 • 45 min

Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.

Aired 2 August 2010 • 48 min

No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.

Aired 9 August 2010 • 71 min

Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.

Aired 16 August 2010 • 54 min

Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.

Aired 23 August 2010 • 62 min

We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.

Aired 30 August 2010 • 53 min

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.

Aired 13 September 2010 • 59 min

Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.

Aired 20 September 2010 • 51 min

Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.

Aired 27 September 2010 • 50 min

Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.

Aired 4 October 2010 • 60 min

Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.

Aired 12 October 2010 • 36 min

Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.

Aired 18 October 2010 • 52 min

Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.

Aired 25 October 2010 • 53 min

Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.

Aired 1 November 2010 • 51 min

Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.

Aired 8 November 2010 • 50 min

No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.

Aired 15 November 2010 • 53 min

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.

Aired 22 November 2010 • 62 min

We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.

Aired 29 November 2010 • 42 min

Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.

Aired 6 December 2010 • 56 min

Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.

Aired 13 December 2010 • 52 min

Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.

Aired 20 December 2010 • 62 min

Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.

Aired 3 January 2011 • 62 min

Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.

Aired 17 January 2011 • 55 min

Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.

Aired 24 January 2011 • 64 min

Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.

Aired 31 January 2011 • 57 min

Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.

Aired 7 February 2011 • 58 min

In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.

Aired 14 February 2011 • 59 min

In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.

Aired 28 February 2011 • 63 min

The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.

Aired 7 March 2011 • 52 min

We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.

Aired 21 March 2011 • 50 min

Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.

Aired 28 March 2011 • 62 min

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.

Aired 4 April 2011 • 44 min

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.

Aired 11 April 2011 • 51 min

The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.

Aired 18 April 2011 • 58 min

No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!

Aired 25 April 2011 • 58 min

Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.

Aired 9 May 2011 • 58 min

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.

Aired 24 May 2011 • 56 min

If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!

Aired 6 June 2011 • 54 min

Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.

Aired 13 June 2011 • 59 min

Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.

Aired 21 June 2011 • 52 min

We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.

Aired 27 June 2011 • 51 min

Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.

Aired 11 July 2011 • 59 min

Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.

Aired 18 July 2011 • 58 min

Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.

Aired 25 July 2011 • 42 min

We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.

Aired 1 August 2011 • 46 min

We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.

Aired 8 August 2011 • 60 min

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.

Aired 15 August 2011 • 59 min

Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.

Aired 22 August 2011 • 49 min

We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.

Aired 29 August 2011 • 51 min

We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.

Aired 12 September 2011 • 51 min

Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.

Aired 19 September 2011 • 51 min

Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.

Aired 26 September 2011 • 50 min

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.

Aired 4 October 2011 • 59 min

Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.

Aired 12 October 2011 • 58 min

We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.

Aired 17 October 2011 • 55 min

We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.

Aired 24 October 2011 • 60 min

Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.

Aired 31 October 2011 • 59 min

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.

Aired 8 November 2011 • 48 min

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.

Aired 14 November 2011 • 62 min

We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.

Aired 21 November 2011 • 56 min

We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.

Aired 28 November 2011 • 64 min

Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.

Aired 5 December 2011 • 60 min

Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.

Aired 12 December 2011 • 57 min

China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.

Aired 19 December 2011 • 62 min

We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.

Aired 3 January 2012 • 50 min

We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.

Aired 16 January 2012 • 58 min

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.

Aired 24 January 2012 • 63 min

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?

Aired 6 February 2012 • 52 min

Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.

Aired 13 February 2012 • 45 min

Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.

Aired 27 February 2012 • 51 min

We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!

Aired 5 March 2012 • 51 min

Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.

Aired 12 March 2012 • 53 min

Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.

Aired 19 March 2012 • 51 min

Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.

Aired 2 April 2012 • 50 min

We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.

Aired 9 April 2012 • 48 min

We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.

Aired 23 April 2012 • 45 min

Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.

Aired 30 April 2012 • 42 min

We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.

Aired 7 May 2012 • 49 min

While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.

Aired 14 May 2012 • 46 min

We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.

Aired 21 May 2012 • 50 min

Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.

Aired 4 June 2012 • 47 min

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.

Aired 11 June 2012 • 62 min

Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.