Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions, as well as the always interesting FourCast Findings and FourCast QuickFire Questions segments. They're a little lazy, so they bring on two guests every episode and make them do the work.
Fecha de emisión: 2009-07-14
Duración: 43 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2009-08-06
Duración: 48 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2009-09-10
Duración: 42 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2009-10-15
Duración: 35 min
Sinopsis: 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?
Fecha de emisión: 2009-11-05
Duración: 22 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2009-11-12
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2009-11-18
Duración: 31 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-07-06
Duración: 59 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-07-12
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-07-20
Duración: 48 min
Sinopsis: Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-07-26
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-08-02
Duración: 48 min
Sinopsis: No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-08-09
Duración: 71 min
Sinopsis: Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-08-16
Duración: 54 min
Sinopsis: Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-08-23
Duración: 62 min
Sinopsis: We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-08-30
Duración: 53 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-09-13
Duración: 59 min
Sinopsis: Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-09-20
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-09-27
Duración: 50 min
Sinopsis: Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-10-04
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-10-12
Duración: 36 min
Sinopsis: Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-10-18
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-10-25
Duración: 53 min
Sinopsis: Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-11-01
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-11-08
Duración: 50 min
Sinopsis: No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-11-15
Duración: 53 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-11-22
Duración: 62 min
Sinopsis: We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-11-29
Duración: 42 min
Sinopsis: Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-12-06
Duración: 56 min
Sinopsis: Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-12-13
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.
Fecha de emisión: 2010-12-20
Duración: 62 min
Sinopsis: Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-01-03
Duración: 62 min
Sinopsis: Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-01-17
Duración: 55 min
Sinopsis: Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-01-24
Duración: 64 min
Sinopsis: Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-01-31
Duración: 57 min
Sinopsis: Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-02-07
Duración: 58 min
Sinopsis: In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-02-14
Duración: 59 min
Sinopsis: In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-02-28
Duración: 63 min
Sinopsis: The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-03-07
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-03-21
Duración: 50 min
Sinopsis: Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-03-28
Duración: 62 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-04-04
Duración: 44 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-04-11
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-04-18
Duración: 58 min
Sinopsis: No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!
Fecha de emisión: 2011-04-25
Duración: 58 min
Sinopsis: Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-05-09
Duración: 58 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-05-24
Duración: 56 min
Sinopsis: If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!
Fecha de emisión: 2011-06-06
Duración: 54 min
Sinopsis: Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-06-13
Duración: 59 min
Sinopsis: Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-06-21
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-06-27
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-07-11
Duración: 59 min
Sinopsis: Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-07-18
Duración: 58 min
Sinopsis: Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-07-25
Duración: 42 min
Sinopsis: We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-08-01
Duración: 46 min
Sinopsis: We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-08-08
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-08-15
Duración: 59 min
Sinopsis: Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-08-22
Duración: 49 min
Sinopsis: We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-08-29
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-09-12
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-09-19
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-09-26
Duración: 50 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-10-04
Duración: 59 min
Sinopsis: Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-10-12
Duración: 58 min
Sinopsis: We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-10-17
Duración: 55 min
Sinopsis: We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-10-24
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-10-31
Duración: 59 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-11-08
Duración: 48 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-11-14
Duración: 62 min
Sinopsis: We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-11-21
Duración: 56 min
Sinopsis: We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-11-28
Duración: 64 min
Sinopsis: Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-12-05
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-12-12
Duración: 57 min
Sinopsis: China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.
Fecha de emisión: 2011-12-19
Duración: 62 min
Sinopsis: We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-01-03
Duración: 50 min
Sinopsis: We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-01-16
Duración: 58 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-01-24
Duración: 63 min
Sinopsis: 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?
Fecha de emisión: 2012-02-06
Duración: 52 min
Sinopsis: Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-02-13
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-02-27
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!
Fecha de emisión: 2012-03-05
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-03-12
Duración: 53 min
Sinopsis: Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-03-19
Duración: 51 min
Sinopsis: Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-04-02
Duración: 50 min
Sinopsis: We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-04-09
Duración: 48 min
Sinopsis: We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-04-23
Duración: 45 min
Sinopsis: Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-04-30
Duración: 42 min
Sinopsis: We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-05-07
Duración: 49 min
Sinopsis: While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-05-14
Duración: 46 min
Sinopsis: We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-05-21
Duración: 50 min
Sinopsis: Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-06-04
Duración: 47 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 2012-06-11
Duración: 62 min
Sinopsis: Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.
