Why Futurists Don’t Need to Know the Future (w/ “Flash Forward” Host Rose Eveleth)
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Rose Eveleth — writer, producer, and “Flash Forward” podcast host — explains why futurists don’t need to know the future. Then, you’ll learn about the oldest examples of money ever discovered.
Additional resources from Rose Eveleth:
- Rose's website: http://roseveleth.com/
- Flash Forward podcast: https://www.flashforwardpod.com/
- Flash Forward Presents: https://www.ffwdpresents.com/
- Follow Rose on Twitter: https://twitter.com/roseveleth
Money may have been invented as long as 5,000 years ago by Grant Currin
- Wells, S. (2021, January 20). When was money invented? Bronze Age study has the answer. Inverse; Inverse. https://www.inverse.com/science/origins-of-money
- Kuijpers, M. H. G., & Popa, C. N. (2021). The origins of money: Calculation of similarity indexes demonstrates the earliest development of commodity money in prehistoric Central Europe. PLOS ONE, 16(1), e0240462. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240462
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:04.7 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why |
| 0:09.2 | futurists don't need to know the future with writer, producer, and flash forward podcast host, Rose Evela. |
| 0:15.2 | Then you'll learn about the oldest examples of money ever discovered. |
| 0:19.1 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:20.7 | What if you could take a peek into the future to know what decisions you should make in the present? |
| 0:27.0 | That's basically the job of a futurist. |
| 0:30.0 | They explore what might happen in the future and the things we can do today to make the future better. |
| 0:35.0 | And our guest today is going to answer our burning questions about futurists and how they do what they do. |
| 0:41.0 | Rose Evelith is a writer, producer, and the creator of Flash Forward |
| 0:44.9 | presents, a podcast network that demystifies the future, featuring hit shows like Flash |
| 0:49.9 | Forward and advice for and from the future. |
| 0:53.0 | In our conversation, I asked her a question |
| 0:54.9 | I've always wondered about. |
| 0:56.8 | Have a listen. |
| 0:57.9 | If you can't know the future, how can you be a futurist? |
| 1:01.3 | Yes, yes, this is a great question. The future turns out has not happened yet. |
| 1:06.2 | And that is both the cool and terrifying thing about it, right? Like that it's this really |
| 1:10.7 | amazing thing to think about, |
| 1:12.8 | but also right, like, you know, |
| 1:14.9 | one thing that futurists often hate |
| 1:17.3 | is the word predictions, |
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