Urgent Futures with Jesse Damiani
By Jesse Damiani
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Welcome to the Urgent Futures Podcast, the show that finds signal in the noise. Each episode, I sit down with leading thinkers for dialogues that clarify the chaos, from culture to the cosmos.
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AI’s Climate Footprint: New Report Argues We’ve Been Dramatically Underestimating the Energy & Emissions Toll - Erald Kolasi | Rapid Response #31
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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The Future of Free Speech & Censorship - Karen Attiah | Rapid Response #30
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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On 'Withnessing': Storytelling, Spirituality, & Healing Toward Freedom - Maytha Alhassen | Rapid Response #29
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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The Geopolitical Crisis Hasn’t Even Started Yet - Adames Global (Juanita Adames & Michelle Sucameli) | Rapid Response #28
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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How to Live Fully in the Face of Collapse - Sarah Wilson | Rapid Response #27
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Decoding Systems of Power & Meaning: Military AI, Epstein, Necropolitics...& Backrooms - Cy Canterel | Rapid Response #26
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May 28, 2026 |
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Apocalypse Early Warning System? Track the Oligarchs. Creative Tech as Crisis Intervention - Kyle McDonald | Rapid Response #25
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May 20, 2026 |
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How Storytelling & Comedy Expose Corruption & Depict Climate Collapse - Adam McKay | #73
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May 13, 2026 |
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From Palantir Employee to Digital Rights Advocacy: Starting a People’s Movement Against AI Risks - Juan Sebastián Pinto | Rapid Response #24
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May 12, 2026 |
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The Most Consequential Story in Earth's History - Peter Brannen | #72
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May 06, 2026 |
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Extreme Heat: What City-Dwellers Need to Understand - Vivek Shandas | #71
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Prepper Camp, But Make it Fun & Community-Focused - Sam Bloch (DoomsDaddy) | #70
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Orbán’s Loss is a Big Deal. Explaining the Future of Hungary, the EU, & Geopolitics - Eric Czuleger | Rapid Response #23
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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How Solar Power Could Change Everything - Lee Buck | #69
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Enshittification: The Rot at the Heart of Big Tech - Cory Doctorow | #68
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Quantum Computing 101 - Dr. Bob Sutor | #67
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Attacks on Section 230 & ‘Age Verification’ Laws Are Critical Threats to Internet Privacy & Security - Noelle Perdue | Rapid Response #22
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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The Most Dangerous Technology in the World? - Wim Carton | #66
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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The Next Civil War, Mark Carney's Davos Speech, & Canada's View of the US - Stephen Marche | RR #21
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Biodiversity on the Brink: Ecological Rhythms & Human Urgency - Jonathan Tonkin | Rapid Response #20
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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When, How, & Why Complex Societies Collapse - Joseph Tainter | #65
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Criticizing the Democratic Party, Resisting ICE & Fascism, Lessons from Minneapolis, the 'Wrong Kind of Muslim' & More - Qasim Rashid | Rapid Response #19
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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"We All Know What We're Fighting Against, but There's a Deafening Silence Every Time we Ask What We're Fighting for"—On Hannah Arendt & Loving the World in Dark Times - Roger Berkowitz | #64
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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From 'Prepper' to 'Resilient Citizen' - Chris Ellis | #63
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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We Must Decarbonize...but How? On Methods, Challenges, & the 'Physics of Capitalism' - Erald Kolasi | Rapid Response #18
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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How Does AI Actually Work, & How is it Changing Our World? On 'Understanding AI' - Timothy B. Lee | #62
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Capitalism Doesn't Value Nature Because It Can't—Understanding 'Free Gifts' - Alyssa Battistoni | #61
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Rewiring the Global Economy, AI, the Cringiness of Big Tech Oligarchs, MMT, Stablecoins, & 'Releisure' - Brett Scott | Rapid Response #17
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Empathy is Hard Work—But It Can Save Us - Katie Bogen & Hani Chaabo (Super Humanizer) | #60
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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"Democracy is No Longer Expanding Agency"—Reimagining Governance, the Human, & Intelligence in the Machine Age - Indy Johar | #59
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Rewilding Reality in the Age of Deepfakes, AI, & Epistemic Collapse - Michael Garfield | Rapid Response #16
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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"Almost Everybody's Incompetent"—Why Fossil Fuels & Fascism Dominate - David Roberts | #58
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Unpacking ‘Fascist Fitness’ & Reclaiming Gym Culture from the Far Right - Colin Davis | Rapid Response #15
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Can Media Depict Reality in the Age of AI? Did It Ever, Really? Discussing the Interplay of Fact & Fiction in ‘Reality Frictions’ - Steve Anderson | #57
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Understanding Wet-Bulb Temperature, Climate Extremes, & Systemic Risk—& How We Build Resilience - Colin Raymond | #56
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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How AI Futures, Authoritarianism, & Behavioral Science Fit Together - Jacob Ward | #55
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Protecting Your Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Amid Polycrisis, Responding to ICE, 'Bullying Bari Weiss,' & The Futures of Journalism - Anya Kamenetz | Rapid Response #14
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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U.S. Information Warfare, AI, Censorship, & Why Disinformation is Still—Still!—A Major Issue - Nina Jankowicz | Rapid Response #13
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Grace Byron: 'Herculine,' Haunting, & Being Trans in America | Riffs & Speculations #2
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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How to Tell Strategic Stories that Clarify Climate Crisis - Megan Mayhew-Bergman | Rapid Response #12
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Goliath's Curse: How & Why Societies Collapse, & What We Can Do About It - Luke Kemp | #54
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Andy Hines: How to Imagine 'After Capitalism'—and Why We Must | #53
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Danny Snelson: The Little Database vs. Large AI Models | #52
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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CDC Chaos & Covid-19 Vaccines with Dr. Lucy McBride | Rapid Response #11
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Morgan Phillips & Manda Scott: How We Make it 'Thru'—Transformative Adaptation & Thrutopian Flourishing | #51
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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The (Department of) War on American Cities, Ukraine, Gaza, and the Imperial Boomerang | Rapid Response #10
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Liam Young: A Texas-Sized City for 10 Billion People? Rewilding the Globe with 'Planet City' | #50
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Age Verification Laws: Surveillance in Disguise? - Noelle Perdue | Rapid Response #9
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Nora N. Khan: Language for Technology | #49
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Why I'm Reclaiming Prepping & You Should Too | Rapid Response #8
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May 20, 2025 |
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Mike Pepi: Are Platforms Ruining the Internet? | #48
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May 07, 2025 |
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Brett Christophers: The Real Reason Renewables Aren't Replacing Fossil Fuels at Scale | #47
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Explaining Trump Tariffs, Insider Trading, & Crypto Scams—Emerging Economic Realities with Michael Mezzatesta | Rapid Response #7
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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N. Katherine Hayles: A New Theory of Mind, from 'Bacteria to AI' | #46
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Minna Salami: Can Feminism Be African? | #45
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Noelle Perdue: The Three Types of Eroticism, The Trevails of a Foot-Fetish Fetishist, Homoflexibility, Looners, Self-Labeling, & More | Riffs & Speculations #1
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Carl Safina: How Plato Created Hell | #44
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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David Guignion: The History of Conspiracy Theories, Making Philosophy Accessible to the Public, Activism, & More | #43
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Everything Has Changed & You're Not Thinking Big Enough | Rapid Response #6
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Avriel Epps: AI, Transformative Justice, & How to Teach Kids About Algorithmic Bias | #42
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Rupert Read: How Bad Will it Get? On Thrutopias, Transformative Adaptation, & the Other World(s) Still Just Possible | Urgent Futures #41
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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LA Wildfire Recovery: Ecological Remediation to Heal Contaminated Sites - Danielle Stevenson | Rapid Response #5
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Rachel Donald: Why is the World in Crisis—& What Can We Do About It? | Urgent Futures #40
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Climate Trauma & Fire Brain: Understanding the Mental Health Impacts of the LA Wildfires & Developing Resilience - Jyoti Mishra | Rapid Response #4
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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Wim Carton & Andreas Malm: Overshoot & Climate Breakdown | Urgent Futures #39
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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"The Disaster After the Disaster": LA Air Quality & Public Health - Jane Williams | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #3
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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The Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and AI in 2025 and Beyond - John Vervaeke | #38
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The Los Angeles Fires, Polycrisis, & How to Live in Collapse | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #2
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Art Berman: Oil, How the Economics of Energy Impacts Global Populism, & the Huge Problem We Must Address | #37
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Peter Brannen: What You Need to Know About the Five Mass Extinctions (to Understand the Sixth Extinction) | #36
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Phoebe Barnard: The Human Behavioral Crisis is the Coordination Problem Underlying Overshoot and Climate Crisis | #35
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Rodolfo Dirzo: Understanding Mass Extinctions, The Gift of Biodiversity, Plant-Animal Relationships, and 'Defaunation' | #34
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Harry Yeff (Reeps100): The Future of the Voice—Human, Machine, & Otherwise | #33
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Simon Michaux: Is the Green Transition Doomed? Why We Need the 'Purple Transition' Instead | #32
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Trump's Election, the End of the World Order as We Know It, & Where We Go From Here | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #1
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Bradley Rydholm: Why Nature is Metal—and Why it's Not | #31
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Renée DiResta: The Evolution of Propaganda & its 'Invisible Rulers': Influencers, Algorithms, & Crowds | #30
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Philip V. McHarris: A World Beyond Police—Utopia? | #29
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Taryn Southern: The Peril & Promise of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), Generative AI, and Spatial Computing | #28
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Nora Bateson: Warm Data, 'Combining,' and "Who Can You Be When You Are With Me?" | Urgent Futures #27
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Al Hassan Elwan: Edgelording a New Avant-garde (POSTPOSTPOST™ Admin Reveal!) | #26
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Gerardo Ceballos & Paul R. Ehrlich: 'Before They Vanish'—All The Life We Can Still Save from the Sixth Extinction | #25
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Nina Jankowicz: Why Disinformation Is Still a Critical Issue for Democracy | Urgent Futures #24
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Michael Mezzatesta: Why Isn't the Economy Working? An Economist's Case for Post-Growth | #23
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Noelle Perdue: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Pornography—According to a Porn Historian | Urgent Futures #22
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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William E. Rees: The Disconnect Between Ecology & The Economy is Driving us Toward Collapse—What Should we do About it? | Urgent Futures #21
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Günseli Yalcinkaya: Internet Folklorist Explains Reality Shifting, Dolls, Incels/Femcels, Cryptids, Memes, & AI | Urgent Futures #20
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Meredith Broussard: How 'Technochauvinism' Leads to Bad AI | Urgent Futures #19
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Margaret Wertheim: How do Coral Reefs Teach us About Curved Space? How are the Multiverse and AI Connected? | Urgent Futures #18
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Landon Ross: Examining Consciousness, Evolution, AI, and Physics Through Art, Storytelling, and Philosophy | Urgent Futures #17
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Autumn Breon: Reimagining Broken Systems through Art, Activism, Radical Self-Care, & Speculative Worlding | Urgent Futures #16
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Nita Farahany: Neurotech, the Latest Skirmishes in the 'Battle for Your Brain,' and Your Right to Cognitive Liberty | Urgent Futures #15
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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Laura Forlano & Danya Glabau: Living Well with Machines, Real-World Cyborg Futures, and Critical Cyborg Literacy | Urgent Futures #14
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Eryk Salvaggio & Caroline Sinders: Glitching AI, Algorithmic Resistance, Labor Activism, Art as Research, & Feminist Technology | Urgent Futures #13
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Danielle Stevenson: Using Mushrooms to Heal Polluted Places | Urgent Futures Ep. 12
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Emily Segal: Trend Forecasting, 'Normcore' Ten Years Later, & Not Being Scared of AI (Yet) | Urgent Futures Ep. 11
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Brittan Heller: Can Human Rights Law Adapt to the Era of AI & Spatial Computing? | Urgent Futures Ep. 10
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Legacy Russell: The Black Meme in Visual & Viral Culture | Urgent Futures Ep. 9
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May 30, 2024 |
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Lisa Messeri: Unreal Realities in Los Angeles and VR | Urgent Futures Ep. 8
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May 22, 2024 |
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Dennis Yi Tenen: The Hidden History of Modern AI & Machine Learning | Urgent Futures Ep. 7
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May 07, 2024 |
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Idris Brewster: Why AR Matters
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Eric Czuleger: What's...a Country?
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Cherie Hu: What's Next for the Music Industry? AI, Blockchain, and More
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Lia Halloran & Kip Thorne: A Trip Through the Warped Side of Our Universe
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Asad J. Malik: Fighting for the Future of Augmented Reality
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Taylor Lorenz: A Brief History of Being 'Extremely Online'
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Sep 28, 2023 |