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🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Today we travel to a future where dying isn’t the end. What if you could live on as a simulation? A bot that knows everything you’ve ever said, and can pretend to be you? 🚨 BECOME A PATRON BEFORE JUNE 30TH AND GET A SPECIAL REWARD! 🚨 Guests: James Vlahos — journalist & author of Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad — research scientist at KenSci, Inc, professor of computer science at University of Washington Anita Hannig — professor of anthropology at Brandeis University Joy Butler — attorney → → → Further reading on today’s episode can be found here ← ← ← Actors:Maria — Cara Rose de Fabio Gaby — Eler de GreyMarquis — Rotimi Agbabiaka (check out his new solo show called Manifesto on June 21 at the African American Arts and Culture Complex as part of the National Queer Arts Festival.)New Marquis — Xandra Ibarra John — Keith Houston (also check out his karaoke nights in San Francisco) Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Matt Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I'm your host.
0:03.7	Flash forward. Flash forward.
0:06.5	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward.
0:12.0	I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash Forward is a show about
0:16.0	the future. Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future
0:21.7	scenario.
0:23.0	Some kind of hypothetical what if.
0:25.9	We always start with a little field trip to the future
0:29.0	to check out what is going on.
0:30.6	And then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world we just heard might really go down.
0:38.0	Got it? Great.
0:40.0	This is the last episode of the body's mini season.
0:43.7	So this is the last that you'll hear from me for a little while
0:46.5	Unless you are a patron in which case you will continue to get bonus episodes in your special bonus episode feeds.
0:53.0	And remember, if you become a patron before June 30th, you will get a prize on top of all of the regular
0:59.5	Patreon perks. So go to Patreon.com slash forward pod for more about that. I will also link to it in the
1:06.1	show notes. Also we are halfway through this year 2019 which is bizarre honestly. I am not sure how it's already June
1:15.1	what is time someone make it stop anyway as you probably know this mini season
1:20.8	format that I'm doing is new.
1:23.0	So I am curious what you folks think.
1:25.5	Do you like these mini seasons?
1:27.2	Do you hate them?
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