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Stuff You Should Know

How Futurology Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Science fiction writers have made some amazingly accurate predictions over the years, but in 1945 the pace of technological change created a field that spun off of sci-fi forecasting, futurology.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.4

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0:34.2

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0:39.3

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0:42.5

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0:45.0

Most of the time I can't stop talking.

0:46.9

I mean, you literally would have to cut me off. One time I told...

0:49.5

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0:51.8

You are talking too much, but you like Squarespace and we like Squarespace.

0:55.9

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1:01.8

Welcome to StuffyShitNo from HowstuffWorks.com.

1:11.7

Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

1:14.2

There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry's here and it's stuff you should know from the future, but not really.

1:23.4

How you doing? I'm fine. Well good. That's good.

1:28.8

I enjoyed this topic because I was kind of neat.

1:31.4

Yeah, it was funny. Like when you're reading about futureology and futureologists, aka futurists,

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