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The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | QCODE

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

What will the future look like for women, families and babies? Futures critic Rose Eveleth believe the future can be more equitable, fun and interesting than we ever dreamed it would be. But, in order to make that real, we have to start talking about it. To join the conversation, go to longestshortesttime.com! Sign up for our newsletter. Follow us on Instagram. This episode is brought to you by Undeniably Dairy, Splendid Table, Betterhelp, Third Love, and Milk.

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0:00.0	Hey heads up we have some adult words in this episode just a few but I'm just gonna
0:11.4	riff here so you can change what you're listening to in case you have kids in the room.
0:15.4	Maybe remind you to subscribe to our newsletter, follow us on Instagram.
0:18.7	Okay here's the show.
0:22.8	I keep having this identical conversation.
0:25.8	We talk to someone about the future and then either mere the friend will make this dark
0:29.9	joke and say something like if Miami is an underwater by then or if you still have a Supreme
0:36.1	Court.
0:37.1	It even happened on this very show a few episodes ago.
0:40.6	When I asked a dad if you'd like to play the song Baby Shark when he DJs his son's wedding.
0:45.2	Oh that would love that.
0:46.6	I would absolutely love it.
0:47.8	You know if music still exists.
0:50.3	You know if there's still ceremonies and playing music on speakers I don't know what they'll
0:54.6	be doing by then but I mean everyone will be like what's a shark.
0:57.4	But we'll be you know the ice capsule of melted will be underwater by then so.
1:02.7	I think for a lot of us the future is feeling more uncertain than at any other point in our
1:07.0	lives which is why it's helpful to know a good futurist like my friend Rose.
1:11.8	I think it's really important to have conversations about the future for a couple of reasons.
1:16.5	Like one is that it's happening to all of us and I think people like to kind of throw
1:20.1	their hands up and be like no power here but in fact you do.
1:24.2	The future I'm used to hearing about usually comes from a man giving a TED Talk probably
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