Hello and welcome to meanwhile in the future I'm Rose and as always I'm your host.

Unlike always I have sort of lost my voice so I apologize you'll have to hear me be a little

raspy this week. Meanwhile in the future is a podcast about the future. We start every episode with a

trip to the future and then I call up some experts to see how that future might

actually go down. Let's start this episode in the year 2057. Thank you are now entering the border control area.

Do you have?

Hello and welcome to Qatar.

You are now entering the border control area. Due to recent global regulations, any and all border crossings are now regulated by the Border Safety Agency or BSA. The BSA is an independent security firm unaligned with any single

government. We are here to keep you safe. In order to do so, please listen carefully

to all BSA instructions.

Please prepare your BSA issued documentation and remove your shoes.

When you hear this chime, please walk through the metal detector and present your documentation to a BSA agent.

The BSA agent will ask you several questions.

Do not be allowed.

BSA research shows that human interaction is the safest and most effective way to detect possible danger.

Hello and welcome to Qatar. You are now entering the border control area due to recent global regulations, any and all border crossings are now

regulated by the Border Safety Agency or BSA.

So in this future, the borders

has been taken over by a single independent organization.

So instead of there being the U.S. Customs and Border Protection

and the Canadian Border Service Agency and the and Border Service Agency, and the Australian Border Force, and the

Vietnam Border Defense Force, and the Pakistan Rangers, and the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement

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