Back To The Future: Robot Teachers, Drug Decriminalization, Anti-Trust Extravaganza

Flash Forward

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today we travel to three past futures, and update you on recent developments! How has COVID brought us closer to robot teachers? Why did Oregon vote to decriminalize all drugs? And what the heck is going on with the antitrust suits against Google and Facebook? Guests: Audrey Watters — ed-tech expert & author of The Monsters of Education Technology (2014), The Revenge of the Monsters of Education Technology (2015), The Curse of the Monsters of Education Technology (2016), and The Monsters of Education Technology 4 (2017) Matt Sutton — Director, Media Relations Drug Policy Alliance Rani Molla — reporter, Recode → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Episode Sponsors: PNAS Science Sessions: Science Sessions are short, in-depth conversations with the world’s top scientific researchers. Listen and subscribe to Science Sessions on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Shaker & Spoon: A subscription cocktail service that helps you learn how to make hand-crafted cocktails right at home. Get $20 off your first box at shakerandspoon.com/ffwd. Tab for a Cause: A browser extension that lets you raise money for charity while doing your thing online. Whenever you open a new tab, you’ll see a beautiful photo and a small ad. Part of that ad money goes toward a charity of your choice! Join team Advice For And From The future by signing up at tabforacause.org/flashforward. Tavour: Tavour is THE app for fans of beer, craft brews, and trying new and exciting labels. You sign up in the app and can choose the beers you’re interested in (including two new ones DAILY) adding to your own personalized crate. Use code: flashforward for $10 off after your first order of $25 or more. Purple Carrot: Purple Carrot is THE plant-based subscription meal kit that makes it easy to cook irresistible meals to fuel your body. Each week, choose from an expansive and delicious menu of dinners, lunches, breakfasts, and snacks! Get $30 off your first box by going to www.purplecarrot.com and entering code FLASH at checkout today! Purple Carrot, the easiest way to eat more plants! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A really quick note, this episode does include one, Uno, singular, curse.
0:05.2	So do with that information, whatever you need to, there is one curse word in this episode.
0:10.4	Okay, let's do it. Hello,
0:13.0	and Loh,
0:14.0	Loh,
0:15.0	Loh,
0:17.0	Hello and and and welcome to Flashforward.
0:22.0	I'm Rose and I am your host and flash forward is a show about the future.
0:27.0	Every episode we take on a specific possible or sometimes not so possible future scenario.
0:34.7	And over the years we have done over 100 episodes, over 100 possible and not so possible
0:42.0	futures. And one of the coolest and most terrifying things about the future is that it just
0:48.0	keeps happening. So today I have a very special episode for you.
0:52.8	We are technically still currently on the little between season break, but today we are going
0:57.6	to revisit three past futures that have some interesting recent developments.
1:02.0	We're going to talk about them a little bit, give you a little back to the future action.
1:05.8	And we're going to start with something related to the pandemic, but not about the pandemic really exactly.
1:12.0	It's more like that the pandemic kind of accelerated
1:15.2	this particular future in interesting ways. So back in 2016, we did an episode called
1:21.5	Bot for Teacher, all about a future in which students learn not through in-person instruction, led by fleshy, human educators, but instead all online.
1:32.0	Here is the intro scene from that episode.
1:36.0	Hello there, Kara, welcome to school today. I hope you're ready to learn. Today we are going to continue our lessons on trigonometry.
1:44.6	Did you watch the homework video? Hello Kara, let's continue our lessons on American history.
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