Hello and I'm your host recording this week from

the closet of a hotel room. Hello. Meanwhile in the future is a podcast about the future.

Every week we take on a specific potential future scenario.

Every episode we start with a little trip to that future

before coming back to now and talking to some experts about what would really happen

if that future were real.

Make sense? Great. This week we're going... really happen if that future were real.

Makes sense?

Great.

This week we're going to the year 2089. Do you ever feel like you're falling behind like everyone else is doing more than you?

Do you watch your friends and neighbors juggle parties, work, hobbies, kids and pets and wonder? and Non-Sumbula simply removes the need for sleep in your life so you can spend those hours working, playing, or with your family.

Imagine all the things you could do if you had 24 usable hours in the day.

Side effects of non-subula may include runny nose, nausea, dry mouth, and constipation.

If you aren't able to sleep for 24 hours after taking non-subula, see a doctor immediately.

Ask your doctor if Nonsumbula is right for you,

and imagine everything you could do. So in this future there is a drug that makes us not need to sleep. There are some side effects but nothing too major. Dry mouth, nausea,

constipation, the usual smattering of side effects you hear after every drug

commercial. And the payoff is huge. No sleeping. 24 usable hours in the day.

To figure out what would happen next, I talk to two people, who, it turns out, have a lot in common.

I personally resent sleep, and I think that it would be great if I could live that third of my life

instead of being conscious for it. That's James Hughes. I'm James Hughes. I'm

the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics in Emerging Technologies.

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