Season 2 Trailer

Slate Technology

Slate

History, Technology, Society & Culture

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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What can 19th century polar exploration teach us as humans plan missions to Mars? Do modern online dating apps have anything to learn from romances over the telegraph wires? Dig into the past, and you’ll find surprising lessons about what’s next for our modern world. Season 2 of The Secret History of The Future drops July 03, 2019. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

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0:00.0	We live in a time when billionaires are launching their own space programs.
0:04.1	Elon Musk has outdone themselves.
0:05.6	A computer might decide if you get hired or fired.
0:08.7	Who are the primary designers of these algorithms?
0:11.6	Definitely white men.
0:13.0	And you could soon be eating burgers grown in a petri dish.
0:16.0	Oh, it makes me feel really strange.
0:18.8	It would all seem unbelievable if it wasn't all true.
0:21.9	So how do you make sense of it all?
0:23.5	Well, what if the best way to look forward is to look back?
0:28.3	From Slate, I'm Seth Stevenson.
0:30.5	And from The Economist, I'm Tom Standage.
0:32.8	And we're back with the second season of our podcast that looks to the past for lessons about what's coming next.
0:38.9	It's called The Secret History of the Future.
0:43.6	In season two, we're digging even deeper to find unexpected and illuminating stories of bygone technologies.
0:51.0	Tune in to find out why the history of fingerprinting provides a warning about DNA profiling.
0:56.7	DNA is complex science. We try to simplify it for juries, but it is complex.
1:02.4	Why bicycles were the dating apps of the 1890s. Does it change things to know there are so many
1:07.6	more people waiting there on the dating app in your phone. I think it does.
1:11.2	Certainly it does.
1:12.4	How Victorian polar explorers can offer advice to astronauts heading to Mars.
1:17.8	Some of the crew members were in charge of taking care of the dogs.
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