Sometimes the pop culture we love just teens hits differently in retrospect.

Maybe it's a tabloid story we couldn't get enough of or an illicit student-teacher relationship

on our favorite show. We're Suzy Banna-Karim and Jessica Bennett,

posts of the new podcast in retrospect, where each week we'll revisit a cultural moment from

the past that shaped us and probably you to try to understand what it taught us about the world

and our place in it. You're the first person that I've talked to about this for years and years.

Listen to in retrospect on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you find your favorite shows.

Welcome to Tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio.

Hey there and welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland. I'm an executive

producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech are you? Today we're going to talk about

the future and I've got jokes about that because the future is where you and I will spend the rest

of our lives. For those planned nine from outer space fans out there, that shout out us to you.

This episode is sponsored by Nissan. Nissan asked me if I could talk about the future and it was

really exciting to get that opportunity and I'm happy to seize it. Now I've talked a lot in recent

episodes about stuff like the Metaverse, the concept of Web 3, some people call it Web 3.0 and

the controversial subject of NFTs and I've been pretty critical of how things are going so far.

But I thought this is a good opportunity for me to take a step back, try and take a more objective

look, talk about what the premise is behind all of these semi-related topics and to get an idea of

what could be because again, we're going to talk about the future. We're also going to talk about

how things are going right now and give some unfortunate examples of fumbling the bag because

that has happened. It tends to happen whenever there's a massive transition in tech. So

this is not me saying, hey, remember all that stuff I said that was critical of these technologies,

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