After a long hiatus, Soonish is back for a celebration: this is the 50th full episode of the show! (I’m not counting a few bonus episodes in that total.) Tamar Avishai, creator and host of the Hub & Spoke podcast The Lonely Palette, joins this time as co-host to help us take a look back at the first 49 episodes of the show. She quizzes me on the accuracy of many of the technology forecasts and predictions I offered along the way. And she prompts me to explain how the show has evolved since its launch in 2017, why it’s become more political than I ever expected (it’s the democracy, stupid), and where it’s going in the future.
Episodes Referenced
Monorails: Trains of Tomorrow? (January 25, 2017)
Meat Without the Moo (March 8, 2017)
Astropreneurs (April 20, 2017)
Hacking Time (May 11, 2017)
Looking Virtual Reality in the Eye (January 5, 2018)
A Future Without Facebook (March 22, 2019)
Election Dreams and Nightmares (October 31, 2019)
Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible: How One Futurist Frames the Pandemic (May 12, 2020)
Unpeaceful Transition of Power (June 24, 2020)
After Trump, What Comes Next? (September 15, 2020)
American Reckoning, Part 1: Civil Wars and How to Stop Them (October 9, 2020)
American Reckoning, Part 2: A New Kind of Nation (October 12, 2020)
The End of the Beginning (November 15, 2020)
Goodbye, Google (June 25, 2021)
Notes
A special thanks to Tamar Avishai for co-hosting this episode and making it so fun.
The Soonish opening theme is by Graham Gordon Ramsay. All the additional music in the show is from Titlecard Music and Sound in Boston.
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