Flash Back to the Future: Mosquitoes, UBI, Coronavirus

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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Today is a very special ~~surprise~~ episode! I’ve been thinking about how to revisit old episodes, and give you folks updates on things that have happened since we covered certain futures. Sometimes things warrant more than a social media post, but not quite a whole new episode. So here’s a little experiment! On this episode, we revisit three futures and you get some juicy, fresh updates. We talk about a mosquito experiment gone wrong, a UBI experiment gone right, and what the heck is going on with coronavirus. If you like this, let me know? There are a few other episodes I think are worth an update (The census is this year! A DNA testing company we covered was bought out by a lab that works with law enforcement! People in Sweden are flying way less!) and if you like this I’ll definitely do another. Sources: Dr. Cameron Webb — mosquito expert, University of Sydney Dr. Amy Castro Baker — assistant professor at University of Pennsylvania Dr. Stacia Martin-West — assistant professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville Alexandra Phelan — Center for Global Health Science and Security, Georgetown University → → → Further reading on today’s episode can be found here ← ← ← Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth. The intro & outtro music for this episode are by Hussalonia. 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	Hi. Hi, it's Rose, your intrepid host of this podcast.
0:18.0	Emerging from my time machine, I have been trekking into the timeline,
0:21.6	spying on our future selves, and preparing the next. and Barcelona, it will not end well for you. Okay, the show will officially be back on April 14th,
0:35.4	so mark your calendars, text your friends,
0:38.0	prepare your celebratory cake recipes.
0:40.2	That is when the season begins again.
0:43.0	But in the meantime, I wanted to surprise you
0:45.4	with a little bonus episode.
0:47.4	If this is the first episode of Flashforward
0:50.1	that you have ever heard,
0:51.5	just know that this is not the normal format. This is something that I'm trying out. It's a little bit of an experiment.
0:57.0	So if you like it, let me know. And if you hate it, don't worry. The show will be back to normal soon.
1:02.0	Okay, what is this?
1:03.0	Why am I here talking to you?
1:05.0	Well, the weird thing about the future is that it just keeps happening, like all the time.
1:10.0	And Flashforward is now almost five years old.
1:14.0	So there are episodes from earlier seasons about futures that have kind of happened,
1:19.0	or futures where there have been some really cool
1:22.8	interesting developments.
1:24.8	Sometimes those updates are big enough
1:26.8	to deserve a whole new episode.
1:28.7	So I did a second episode on facial recognition
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