Image: several photos of Rose Eveleth holding scientific instruments, like the Crookes radiometer, in front of her face. She is wearing a patterned button-up shirt and standing in front of a yellow background. Image via Patreon.com/flashforwardpod. … — Image: several photos of Rose Eveleth holding scientific instruments, like the Crookes radiometer, in front of her face. She is wearing a patterned button-up shirt and standing in front of a yellow background. Image via Patreon.com/flashforwardpod. Photo by Eler de Grey.

"The future's not ours to see..." OR IS IT? Professional futurologist Rose Eveleth -- host of the podcast Flash Forward -- endures all kinds of breathless questions from Alie about shiny metal and implanted microchips and biohacking and population density curves and flying cars and equality and utopias and the Jetsons and technology and nuclear fusion and whether or not our phones are spying on us and if we should have kids or dogs. Also: how long do we, as a species, have on Earth? Despite some grim conditions, find out why Rose remains an optimist and get fired the hell up about making the future better for everyone.

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Transcript

"The future's not ours to see..." OR IS IT? Professional futurologist Rose Eveleth has spent a big chunk of her past investigating, studying, and reporting on the future. As the host and creator of the lauded podcast Flash Forward, she sat down with Alie to chat about social trends and scary tech, and answered questions such as: Should any of us have kids?

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