Ranked #1
Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible: How One Futurist Frames the Pandemic
Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible: How One Futurist Frames the Pandemic
Futurists—who sometimes prefer to be called scenario planners or foresight thinkers—specialize in helping the rest of us... Read more
12 May 2020
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36mins
Ranked #2
Making Moonrise
Making Moonrise
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins went to the moon, it’s hard to shake off the afterima... Read more
14 Nov 2019
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43mins
Ranked #3
The Future Is Clear
The Future Is Clear
Episode 2.07: What's ubiquitous but invisible, versatile yet temperamental, goopy when it's hot yet brittle when it's co... Read more
17 Feb 2018
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35mins
Ranked #4
Hacking Time
Hacking Time
Episode 1.08: Why do "productivity" tools like email, to-do lists, and calendars make so many of us feel miserable and o... Read more
11 May 2017
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33mins
Ranked #5
Future Factories, With Workers Built In
Future Factories, With Workers Built In
Episode 1.04: Six million manufacturing jobs have disappeared in the U.S. since 2000, and you've probably heard economis... Read more
22 Feb 2017
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33mins
Ranked #6
A Future Without Facebook
A Future Without Facebook
Every technology has its growing pains, but Facebook, at age 15, has matured into a never-ending disaster. Here at Sooni... Read more
22 Mar 2019
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44mins
Ranked #7
The Great Blue Hill Heist
The Great Blue Hill Heist
In this short bonus episode, hear the bizarre story of a college student who scaled a New England weather tower on a dar... Read more
19 Aug 2019
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6mins
Ranked #8
How to Fix Social Media
How to Fix Social Media
Earlier this year Soonish took on social media in an episode called A Future Without Facebook. In that show I explained ... Read more
24 Jul 2019
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34mins
Ranked #9
A Tale Of Two Bridges
A Tale Of Two Bridges
Episode 1.09: When Boston’s elegant Longfellow Bridge opened in 1907, it was innovative example of classical European br... Read more
8 Jun 2017
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36mins
Ranked #10
Can Technology Save Museums?
Can Technology Save Museums?
Episode 1.03: Museum attendance declined steeply in the first decade of this century, according to a survey by the Natio... Read more
8 Feb 2017
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32mins
Ranked #11
Astropreneurs
Astropreneurs
Episode 1.07: More than 500 people have flown in space since Yuri Gagarin’s historic ride in 1961—and virtually every on... Read more
20 Apr 2017
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32mins
Ranked #12
I Have Seen the Future of Displays
I Have Seen the Future of Displays
Apple used the opening keynote presentation at its annual World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose in June to roll o... Read more
7 Aug 2019
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28mins
Ranked #13
Election Dreams and Nightmares
Election Dreams and Nightmares
The moment in the voting booth when you put your pen to your ballot (or put your finger to the electronic touchscreen, a... Read more
31 Oct 2019
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35mins
Ranked #14
Looking Virtual Reality In The Eye
Looking Virtual Reality In The Eye
Episode 2.06: The immersive, 3D environments of virtual reality aren’t science fiction any more, and they aren’t just fo... Read more
5 Jan 2018
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36mins
Ranked #15
A Space Shuttle Isn't Cool. You Know What's Cool? A Space Elevator (Soonish on Soonish)
A Space Shuttle Isn't Cool. You Know What's Cool? A Space Elevator (Soonish on Soonish)
Episode 2.05 of Soonish, the podcast, is all about Soonish, the book! Host Wade Roush interviews Kelly and Zach Weinersm... Read more
15 Dec 2017
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55mins