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Something You Should Know

Futurology: The Forces That Shape Your Future & Where's the 4-Day Workweek?

Something You Should Know

Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia

Science, Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness

4.64K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It makes sense that if you want to cut down on the amount of spam email you get, just unsubscribe from those emails. WAIT! That could make things worse. There is a better way to handle spam emails, and I begin this episode by explaining how. https://www.yahoo.com/news/warning-hitting-unsubscribe-unwanted-emails-115900557.html Predicting the future is a losing game most of the time. Still, a lot of influential people spend a lot of time and money trying to do it. People forecast where the stock market is going, they predict trends in fashion, technology and everything else. It makes you wonder if all that effort and money trying to predict the future actually helps to make it happen. So why is the future so unpredictable? What forces do shape the future? Joining me to discuss this is Glenn Adamson, former director of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. He has held appointments as Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art and he is the author of the book, A Century of Tomorrows: How Imagining the Future Shapes the Present (https://amzn.to/442HOfb). People have been floating the idea of a 4-day workweek for over 60 years. Yet it is still not the norm. Why hasn’t it caught on? Is it a good idea? Will it ever be a real thing? Here with some interesting insight into the 4-day workweek is Juliet Schor. She is an economist, and professor of sociology at Boston College. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People and 60 Minutes. She is also the author of a book called Four Days a Week: The Life-Changing Solution for Reducing Employee Stress, Improving Well-Being, and Working Smarter (https://amzn.to/4jQSvr0). There are a lot of weight loss programs and strategies available for people. But what if there was one simple, common sense, easy to do tactic that is proven to help people lose weight effectively? There is. It so simple. And I will tell you exactly how to do it. https://www.ornish.com/zine/proven-benefits-keeping-food-journal/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18 plus subscription required season C's apply.

0:29.6

Today on something you should know, why unsubscribing from spam email may cause more harm than good?

0:39.3

Then predicting the future. Mostly, it's impossible. But in some cases, could the prediction itself make it so?

0:47.3

Some things are certain, you know, the sun will come up tomorrow, some things you can't predict at all.

0:52.3

And then there's this kind of bandwidth in the middle where people can make claims about expertise

0:57.0

of various kinds, and that becomes a greater and greater influence in our lives actually over

1:02.0

the course of the last century.

1:04.0

Also, an amazingly simple and effective way to lose weight.

1:08.0

And the four-day work week it's been talked about for decades, and the push is getting stronger.

1:15.3

Number one, employees love it, transformational.

1:18.7

But the really surprising thing about it is that the companies love it too, that they are thriving

1:24.9

along with the employees.

1:27.2

All this today on Something You Should Know.

1:30.9

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