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S1E21 021: BREAKTIME
It's all just a little bit too much. With Tobias running headlong into a thesis submission in September it's time to take a summer break and come back even stronger.
S1E20 020: Sublime Hubris and Existential Dread in the Return to the Moon
Only Radha could find the glorious spectacle of space flight ‘meh.’ Luckily for Tobias, I write these blurbs. Artemis II went round the moon and back and only one year off plan. Is this the kick-off…
019: Can Futurists be Useful? (with Dr. Bree Trevena and Charlie Warwick)
If you expected four leading foresight professionals to come and deliver a grab-bag of incredible intel, you are sorely mistaken. Instead we’re joined by Dr. Bree Trevena and Charlie Warwick to talk…
018: How Warmer Weather and Collapsing Ecosystems are Driving a Tourism Doom Spiral
There’s been a fair amount of coverage of maritime activities at Futur-ish and we’re pleased to bring you another episode where Radha was triggered by being targeted for luxury cruises. It seems…
017: The Weird Technology that Might Replace GPS
As we’ve documented before (see; Kessler Syndrome), the infrastructures we rely on and take for granted are increasingly crumbling and under threat. Cue a surge of investment and interest in…
S1E17 016: The Movement Charging you to Disconnect (with Tracee Worley)
How much would you pay to be bored? Well, for the kids of Amsterdam it’s about 7 bucks to have their phones locked up and sit and read or do crosswords. Sure, you could just do this anyway without…
S1E15 015: Throwing Money and Ideology at the Population Timebomb
While it’s generally agreed that the global population is continuing to expand (at least until flatlining at the end of the century) for some parts of the world it is falling dangerously…
S1E14 014: Robotaxis into Car Shares; The Real Future of Transport
While you were counting down to 2026 on New Years, Tobias was counting down the last seconds of a future he very personally dreamed of; a future with less cars. You see, Zipcar, the UK’s biggest car…
S1E13 013: Hacking the Collapse of Healthcare into Your Own Hands
All over the world, healthcare systems are straining under the weight of ageing populations, crippling costs and overheads and new and novel conditions exacerbated by the biodiversity crisis. A spate…
S1E12 012: Why Leaders are Turning to Gambling to Bet Which Way the World Will Burn
There’s been enough warning from fiction and indeed reality that people should really know better than to reduce the horror of conflict to gaming, petty bets and the chaos of chance. But perhaps…
S1E11 011: How Banning Architecture Might Mean more Buildings for Your Brain
Somewhere, in a Trump administration office, someone decided that architects aren’t all that and now they’re being de-professionalised and removed from public debate. At the same time, more and more…
S1 Update: Tis The Season
Futur-ish are taking a short hiatus from our bi-weekly release schedule for the holiday. We’ll be back in 2026!
S1E10 010: The Problems with Australia’s Bottomless Brunch of free Energy
The sun has been the biggest tech success story of the last quarter century. Solar panels are cheaper than fences, efficiency just keeps going up and people are installing them at rates that…
S1E9 009: The Teens Rejecting AI Gimmicks for See-through Plastic Blocks
It used to be that the plastic blocks most teens might be interested in were multicoloured and used for stacking on top of each other. Now they’re transparent and vaguely-phone shaped, designed as…
S1E8 008: The Most Futuristic Little Town in Middle England
The future comes at you at unexpected ways. If the bullish pronouncements of tech bros are to believed it’s in the gadgets, gizmos and gimmicks dominating our feeds. Meanwhile, the future is coming…
S1E7 007: The Discord Server that did a Dungeon Raid on a Government
The next time you’re desperately casting heal on your paladin, spare a moment to think about the young revolutionaries using your dress-up-and-pretend world to overthrow their governments. Reddit…
S1E6 006: The Rumour That Cost Thirty-Five Billion Dollars and Created A Data Center Radar
Truly, nothing is new and everything has happened before and so we find ourselves, amidst a collapsing geopolitical order with some very fancy gadgets (an expensive plane and some chips) going…
S1E5 005: Love Islands? Come and Get Your Sovereignty On
We’ve all wanted our own patch of land to do what we want, right? Little bit of crypto? Pharmaceutical experiments? Human cloning? Well the manifest destiny trolley has come back around again and…
S1E4 004: The Future Right at Your Feet that you Never Think About (with Nick Foster)
While you're being relentlessly bombarded with multi-trillion dollar projections, promises and prognostications for the latest gizmo a quiet giant has been gobbling up a market share that in real,…
S1E3 003: The Space Trash Apocalypse You Haven’t Been Thinking About
If the apocalypse was around the corner, would you want to know? Well good news for you, we may already be in it, but because it's hard to pin things down or look beyond the present it's hard to…
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Futur-ish has published 23 episodes since July 2025, covering topics in Arts, Design.
Futur-ish is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 28m.
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