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Flash Forward

Eyes In The Skies

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

Science

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Computers are getting smaller and smaller. But what if we had sensors the size of dust, that could float through the air undetected, talk to one another, gather information, and transmit that information back down to a central place? This is the concept behind smart dust, and it's more plausible than you might think. Guests: Amy Webb, quantitative futurist and founder of the Future Today Institute Faine Greenwood, journalist and drone expert Stacey Higginbotham, journalist, co-host of the Internet of Things podcast → → More information band background reading at flashforwardpod.com ←← 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. If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook or by email at info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas! And if you think you’ve spotted one of the little references I’ve hidden in the episode, email us there too. If you’re right, I’ll send you something cool. And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! Head to www.flashforwardpod.com/support for more about how to give. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to iTunes and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help. That’s all for this future, come back next time and we’ll travel to a new one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm your host.

0:02.6

Flash Forward is a show.

0:04.0

A.

0:05.0

Hello and Welcome to Flash Forward.

0:11.0

I'm Rose and I'm your host. Flash Forward is a show about the future.

0:15.6

Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.

0:21.6

We always start with a little field trip to the future to check out what's going on.

0:26.9

And then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world that we just heard might really go down.

0:35.0

Got it? Great.

0:37.0

Before we go to the future this week, I just want to say a quick thank you to the group

0:43.7

folks who are in the flash forward Facebook group.

0:44.3

Facebook group you ask yes well right now the group is only open to patrons

0:49.2

so if you become a patron you can get access. It is for links and conversations and

0:54.8

sharing dog photos and all the other things that people might want to do in a

0:59.1

Facebook group. So if you want to join and chat with fellow flash forward listeners, right now the only way

1:04.8

to do that is by becoming a patron.

1:07.3

So full disclosure, I will probably open the group up to everybody eventually, but I am not exactly sure when so if you don't think you can

1:15.6

wait some indeterminate amount of time you can go to patreon.com slash

1:20.6

flash forward pod for just one dollar an episode you can get access to this group

1:25.9

as well as a bunch of other fun stuff that's on the Patreon page. Okay let's go to the future.

1:31.6

This episode we are starting in the year 2048.

1:40.0

Okay, Sarah Brin, show me quadrantine.

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