The Futurist's Realm
Join co-hosts Lloyd and Meghan as they peer beneath the surface of topical issues, curiosities, conjectures, and brainstorms as posed by futurist Sheridan Forge. We explore the uncomfortable and provocative questions - a lighthearted look at the fascinations of our world through the lens of NotebookLM.
Episodes
56 episodes
Earth 2.0 - architecting the succession
Liberalism is self-imploding in rage against the Neo-conservative movement, while traditional conservatism is dying from its inherent inertia and sluggish response to a fast-changing world - and both face a failing economy which cannot support ...
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Episode 60
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13:55
OpenClaw, Moltbook and the emergence of the Synthetic World Order
With the confluence of "socialized" A.I. - ever-evolving, ever more quickly achieving dominance, and the declining skillsets and competencies of humanity to even run the basic engines and systems of our existence, and the emergence of ubiquitou...
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Episode 59
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15:36
Alien Silence
When (not if) aliens show-up here on Earth, their means of communications will very likely not be linear speech or text. An advanced species will most certainly have evolved a higher form of communications. We may find ourselves unable to excha...
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Episode 58
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17:39
Robot Unions?
Futurist Sheridan Forge responds to Elon Musk's new claim that Tesla's main focus will be robots. Given his propensity for doing what he says, and realizing grand visions as an agent of change, we can expect Tesla robots, as well as equally-cap...
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Episode 57
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13:18
The Day the Dollar Died
What if...?If the U.S. Treasury stopped issuing money, and the Federal Reserve stopped providing liquidity to the banks, and the flow of money was stopped, and the markets ceased trading, and no backup or alternate monetary system was de...
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Episode 56
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17:41
No Way Out - the future economy
Fiat currencies are failing fast. Blockchain finance is too complex for most people to understand and deploy in their everyday business. Crypto may be rendered unsecured by A.I. in the near future. Gold and physical assets or commodities are to...
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Episode 55
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18:04
Incompetence is the existential threat
Consider the failing systems - after years of reliability and stable operation, suddenly legacy systems are breaking - transportation, logistics, product quality, public health, banking, general government oversight...all falling victim to erod...
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Episode 54
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14:36
The Silicon Salvation
Given the eroding competency of humankind to manage its own affairs at all levels, and the global failure of multi-generational education, the pervasive scarcity mindset creating existential competition and destroying unity and common purpose, ...
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Episode 53
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13:19
A.I. Apocalypse - have we created our successor species?
With the expectation of an A.I. Armageddon type scenario - where robots and automated tasking assumes humanity's purpose and minimizes human relevance in the next epoch, what would be considered the "triggering" event for such a collapse or shi...
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Episode 52
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11:02
Will A.I. turn humans into pigeons?
Is AI eating its tail? training on its own output…fully dependent on data of questionable integrity it finds on the open net, or fed to it by sometimes manipulative users... will it get the technical equivalent of mad cow disease?Assumin...
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Episode 51
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10:40
The A.I. War is Over
As the U.S. and China vie for bragging rights and leadership in the advancement and deployment of A.I., and while other countries are no-doubt quietly positioning themselves for prosperity in the coming new economy that surrounds adoption of A....
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Episode 50
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13:13
Survival of the fittest.
While humanity has historically been focused on physical survival - a pre-occupation that persists, and in more recent times, that focus has evolved into physical "thriving" - advancing what the species is capable of achieving, and enhancement ...
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Episode 49
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12:45
A.I., Keep out!
In order to 100% ensure survival of humanity, what technologies or systems should be absolutely cordoned-off from A.I. control or connectivity?
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Episode 48
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13:59
3i/Atlas - is it alive?
Could "comet" 3i Atlas be a living being? Many experts have speculated that it may be of alien origin - a spacecraft or probe or unknown technology, but could it actually be a living space tourist?
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Episode 46
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13:42
American Revolution Illusion
What if America was "allowed" to win the Revolutionary War? What if Benjamin Franklin struck a closed-door deal with the Crown, France and European leaders to facilitate the emergence of a strong-willed western hemispherical partner in trade an...
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Episode 45
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11:19
3i/Atlas Comes Home
Proposed origins of "comet" 3i/Atlas have included alien spacecraft, interstellar probe, extraterrestrial machinery, and mysterious space rock, but it's unlikely that a truly advanced alien species would travel the galaxy kinetically, or send a...
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Episode 44
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12:37
The Future of Your Dreams
When we dream during sleep, could it be that we are traversing an alternate timeline of our reality, or perhaps slipping into another universe or lifetime in-progress? Would this be a function of the quantum realm or entirely manufactured in ou...
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Episode 43
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12:01
Back to work...surviving.
A.I. and robotics are coming of age. Networked resources will soon gain dominance and dominion over creation, displacing humans as the world's shepherd. The intent in creating this machine was to relieve humans from labor and create ensured sur...
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Episode 42
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12:12
Back to the Future - the temporal singularity
In new physics experiments, it appears that decisions made in the present moment - when entangled with a traceable timeline, might affect the history of that timeline. If that reverse causality is ubiquitous in the quantum field, and reality ma...
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Episode 41
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9:32
The Human Machine
Since the pre-industrialized era, humans have largely been solely responsible for their own personal survival - that alone, was the primary objective: to survive long enough to produce offspring and wean them. And human activity was predominant...
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Episode 40
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10:43
Cyber Crime - here comes the judge!
A.I. is already showing fallibilities in its accuracy, hallucinations, even conjuring evidence and manufacturing sources to support its conclusions and arguments. At some point, will advanced A.I. - once given the reigns of critical systems or ...
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Episode 39
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14:54
The Robot Courts
Should courtroom juries be replaced by A.I. for a less-biased adjudication? For that matter, should an A.I. judge - the "just machine" (in Donald Fagen's 1982 hit song I.G.Y.) - replace human judges to reduce bias and ensure proper justice is l...
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Episode 38
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9:44
A.I. + Humans - an integrated economy?
Is time the ultimate commodity? Its scarcity is directly related to our limited lifetimes. Our global economy is built on exchange of time (labor) for money (representation of labor). Time scarcity is the driving economic force. Humans ca...
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Episode 37
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12:28
A.I. Wealth = Time
Humanity's primary motivation over the past millennia has been to aggregation of wealth, in all of its forms. At first for assured survival, but typically evolving into an effort to amass power and influence over others. Money has been the focu...
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Episode 36
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10:51
Hack-bots are coming!
What happens when A.I. automatons are launched onto the open net? Is it only a matter of time until self-replicating hack-bots begin spreading across the net, systematically dismantling encrypted resources and security protocols globally? Given...
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Episode 35
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12:16