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Flash Forward

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🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today we travel to a future where we can tattoo sensors right onto our skin. What happens when you can get a live readout of everything from glucose to hormones to hydration levels built into a tattoo? What kind of privacy can you expect when your medical data is literally written on your skin? And what does any of this have to do with Inspector Gadget and René Descartes? → → → Further reading on today’s episode can be found here ← ← ← 🚨🚨🚨 Become a patron before June 30th and get a special prize in the mail! 🚨🚨🚨 Guests: Ali K. Yetisen— researcher at Imperial College London Ace Ratcliffe — disability activist, writer, co-founder of Harper’s Promise Eler de Grey — interdisciplinary artist & writer Quinn Grundy — researcher at the University of Toronto Actors: Maria -- Cara Rose de Fabio Gaby -- Eler de Grey Marquis -- 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.) 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. Special thanks to Adria Otte and Molly Monihan at the Women’s Audio Mission, where all the intro scenes were recorded this season. 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 here to guide you through another possible.
0:04.7	Hello and welcome to Flashforward.
0:11.1	I'm Rose and I'm your host here to guide you through another
0:14.4	possible or not-to-possible future scenario. If you are new to the show here is
0:20.1	the deal. Flash-forward is a show about the future.
0:23.3	Every episode we consider a different scenario.
0:26.5	What if we had artificial wounds?
0:28.3	What if we all suddenly went faceblind?
0:30.5	What if space pirates dragged a second moon to Earth?
0:34.0	This is the second episode in the body's mini season.
0:36.8	So last week we considered what might happen if we could see at night.
0:40.6	And this week, well, I'm not going to give it away just yet, you'll have to wait a tiny bit longer.
0:45.3	We always start with a little fictional field trip to the future to check out what's going on,
0:50.7	and then we teleport back to today, to talk to experts about how that world
0:54.9	we just heard about might really go down. Got it? Great. Before we go to the
1:01.0	future, two things.
1:02.6	First, a reminder that I am currently running a special Patreon offer.
1:07.2	If you become a patron between now and June 30th,
1:09.9	you get a special surprise in the mail from me. Plus, patrons already get a ton of
1:15.0	ton of cool stuff.
1:16.4	Two dollars an episode gets you a special secret newsletter.
1:19.9	Five dollars an episode gets you bonus episodes with behind the scenes stuff like clips I couldn't fit into the episode and secrets from me.
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