Hello and welcome to this I Show Tangents bonus Patreon episode.

Every month, Sam, Sari, and I, we get together to do a little extra goofing around.

But this month, according to the show notes here, at least, it's serious business.

Our Patreon patrons have asked us to predict the future of science.

That sounds very easy to do.

Look, this is actually kind of part of my job as a science fiction writer.

Like, that's the whole thing.

It's a lot of pressure for me, so-called science expert on the podcast.

I can't fact-check the future, so I'm just going to be saying words.

Yeah, exactly the difference between you and me.

And this is why I can't run any of our shows because I'm like, opinions are totally valid.

And you're like, actually, Hank, that's not what we do here.

We're teaching people.

Teachers use these things in classrooms.

There's a lot that needs to get done.

And there are a lot of big problems, you know, the climate, the environment, which are kind

of two different problems.

There's the pandemic. There's also the future pandemics.

There's servicing the needs of a growing number of people who have more, which they should have,

because it is better than the deep injustice and inequality that we have right now. So how do we,

how do we get there, though? We have a lot of

questions from y'all. They're great questions, and I'm excited to go over them.

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