POWER: Mothers Against Digital Danger

Flash Forward

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today we travel to a future where a coalition of concerned mothers convinces the United States to shut off the Internet. Guests: Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, journalist Chipo Dendere, assistant orofessor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail Actors: Billy’s mother -- Tamara Krinsky → → → Further reading on today’s episode can be found here ← ← ← Content Notes [2:20-6:00] [21:00-23:00] Suicide, onling bullying & mass shooting [11:20-17:00] Pornography [23:00-25:00] Drunk driving fatality 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. Huge huge huge thanks to Tamara Krinsky who played Billy’s mom on this episode, and also (did you notice?) played a time traveler dipping in and out of all the futures this season. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Sponsor info: Get two free months of Skillshare! Paper referenced in the Skillshare Ad: Towards a definition of “hobby”: An empirical test of a proposed operational definition of the word hobby Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and I am your host Flash forward is a show about the future.
0:15.0	Every episode we take on a specific possible or not so possible future scenario.
0:21.0	We always start with a little field trip into the future
0:25.1	to check out what exactly is going on.
0:27.7	And then we teleport back to today
0:30.2	to talk to real experts about how that world that we just heard about might actually go down.
0:36.0	Got it? Great.
0:38.0	This is the last episode of the Power Mini Season and it's also the last episode of the year for Flash
0:45.9	forward. After this episode the show will be on a little bit of a break until next
0:50.2	year 2020 can you believe that?
0:52.8	And we'll be back in the spring.
0:54.2	At the very end of this episode, I will include a little recap on how this year has gone,
0:58.4	and what lies ahead for me and the show, and I will also reveal some of the references from this season the thing
1:04.7	that I always mentioned at the end I'll tell you what some of them were.
1:07.0	Also a quick note that this episode does reference gun violence, mass shooting,
1:11.5	suicide, and pornography.
1:13.4	You can find exact time codes for those topics in the show notes.
1:17.6	Okay, as always, let's start by going to the future.
1:21.6	This episode, we are starting in the year
1:23.7	2022. Hello, thank you. I'm honored to be given the opportunity to testify today.
1:47.0	Every mother hopes to see their son's name in the newspaper one day,
1:52.0	perhaps as a Nobel Prize winner, or a heroic
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