ROBOTS: Will Robots Ever Defeat Human Athletes?

Flash Forward

Flash Forward Presents

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Today’s episode is part one in our FOUR PART MINI SEASON SERIES AND SHOW FINALE [airhorn noises]. We’re going out with a robotic bang: four episodes about four different ways that robots might impact your life in the future, starting with sports. Also, you'll hear a special announcement about the future of the show. For more about that go here. Guests: Joe Choong, gold medalist in the Tokyo Olympic games in modern pentathlon. Dr. Peter Stone, a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin, and president of the International RoboCup Federation. Jessica Luther and Dr. Brenda Elsey, two of the co-hosts of sports podcast Burn it All Down. Dr. Rayvon Fouché, a professor of American studies at Purdue University. Dr. Josh Siegel, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University. Brent Verdialez, founder and CEO of STRYK. Voice Actors: Rachael Deckard: Richelle Claiborne Alex: Aiya Islam Amanda: Emma Bracy Chad: Brett Tubbs Lina: Ashley Kellem Brad: Brent Rose Halimah: Zahra Noorbakhsh Malik: Henry Alexander Kelly Summer: Shara Kirby Ashoka: Anjali Kunapaneni Eliza: Chelsey B Coombs Dorothy Levitt: Tamara Krinsky John Dee: Keith Houston Pierre Balck: Jarrett Sleeper Music 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, it's Rose, and before we go to the show today,
0:03.0	I have a big announcement to make about the future of Flash Forward.
0:07.1	What you're about to hear is the first episode of our four part season finale.
0:12.1	I'm really excited about it. I really hope you like it.
0:14.6	Those four episodes are also going to be the last episodes of Flash Forward for a while.
0:20.6	And the last episodes ever of Flash Forward in the style that you have gotten used to.
0:26.9	Flash Forward has been my weird little future cyborg baby for like seven years now.
0:33.6	We have made over 150 episodes, and it is time for something new.
0:39.5	I'm not going to go on and on here about this, but you can find more about this decision and what comes next on the website.
0:46.3	There's like a little blog post with plenty of blubbering and explanations and logistics and all of that good stuff.
0:53.5	The important thing to know is that this is the beginning of the end of Flash Forward for now.
0:58.4	And I want to celebrate everything that we've been able to make with you listeners.
1:02.6	So if you go to that blog post, you will find a link to sign up for a very special show finale event.
1:08.7	It is online. It's on December 17th.
1:11.1	And the only way to get access to it is by signing up so that I can send you like the little invite link when the time comes.
1:16.7	So go again to the blog post. If you want to sign up for that, I'll remind you as it comes closer.
1:21.6	I really hope that you'll join me and say hello and goodbye and have some fun.
1:26.1	Okay, now on to the first episode of our season finale.
1:41.7	Hello and welcome to Flash Forward. I'm Rose and I am your host. Flash Forward is a show about the future.
1:48.1	Every episode we take on a specific possible or sometimes not so possible future scenario.
1:55.5	We will always start with a little field trip into the future to check out what is going on.
2:00.4	And then we teleport back to today to talk to experts about how that world that we just heard might actually happen or not happen.
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