ROBOTS: Could Robots Replace Animals?

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Today’s episode is the last of our FOUR PART MINI SEASON SERIES AND SHOW FINALE [airhorn noises]. This week we’re headed to a future where humans share our robotic knowledge with the rest of the animal kingdom—for better, and for worse. ✨✨ TAKE THE LISTENER SURVEY HERE ✨✨ ⭐⭐ SIGN UP FOR THE NEWSLETTER HERE ⭐⭐ Guests: Dr. Kate Darling, a researcher at the MIT Media Lab and author of The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots. Emma Marris, a journalist and author of a book called Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World. Dr. Giovanni Polverino, an animal behavior researcher at The University of Western Australia. Dr. Rae Wynn Grant, a wildlife ecologist and host of the podcast Going Wild. Voice Actors: Rachael Deckard: Richelle Claiborne Malik: Henry Alexander Kelly Summer: Shara Kirby Ashoka: Anjali Kunapaneni Eliza: Chelsey B Coombs Dorothy Levitt: Tamara Krinsky John Dee: Keith Houston Dr. Jane de Vaucanson: Jeffrey Nils Gardner X Marks the Bot theme song written by Ilan Blanck. → → → Further reading & resources here! ← ← ← Flash Forward is hosted by, Rose Eveleth and produced by Julia Llinas Goodman. The intro music is by Asura and the outro music is by Hussalonia. The episode art is by Mattie Lubchansky. Get in touch: Twitter // Facebook // Reddit // [email protected] Support the show: Patreon // Donorbox Subscribe: iTunes // Soundcloud // Spotify Episode Sponsors: BirdNote: BirdNote Daily, you get a short, 2-minute daily dose of bird — from wacky facts, to hard science, and even poetry. And now is the perfect time to catch up on BirdNote’s longform podcasts: Threatened and Bring Birds Back. Find them all in your podcast listening app or at BirdNote.org. Nature: The leading international journal of science. Get 50% off your yearly subscription when you subscribe at go.nature.com/flashforward. And here is the video of the ancient crocodile robot I mentioned. Dipsea: An audio app full of short, sexy stories designed to turn you on. Get an extended 30 day free trial when you go to DipseaStories.com/flashforward. BetterHelp: Affordable, private online counseling. Anytime, anywhere. Flash Forward listeners: get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/flashforward Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the final episode of Flash Forward.
0:14.0	In case you missed our earlier updates, the show is ending in its current form, now basically.
0:19.8	We've done almost 150 episodes, over close to 7 years, and it's time to move to a new
0:27.3	phase.
0:28.4	So I've been calling this the end of Flash Forward 1.0 because the show isn't exactly
0:32.9	ending completely, it's just ending in its current form of every other week, a new future.
0:39.9	Next year, you're going to hear a whole new version of the show, which I've been calling
0:43.8	Flash Forward 2.0.
0:45.3	I'm still not sure what it will be exactly, but I'm excited to work with Julia and find
0:49.9	out.
0:50.9	So if you like our work and you want to support what comes next, now is a great time to
0:53.8	become a patron.
0:54.8	I feel like it's the final episode, so I'm allowed to do a shameless plug like that.
0:58.2	And if you do that, you'll get behind the scenes updates as we figure out our path forward
1:02.4	and a bunch of other fun stuff.
1:03.6	So you can go to flashforwardpod.com slash support to learn more about how to join and do
1:08.8	that.
1:09.8	And my one final ask for all of you for the year and for this phase of Flash Forward is
1:13.8	that I'm doing a little survey to help us understand what you got out of the show and
1:17.6	help us kind of figure out what might come next.
1:19.5	So please, please, please go to flashforwardpod.com slash survey and take a minute to answer the
1:25.0	questions that are there.
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