"Train the Monkey First" — How Google Built a Moonshot Factory | Astro Teller (Captain of Moonshots)

"It Sounds Like Something From Marvel" — Building an Antivirus for AI... With AI | Daniel Hulme (Founder, Conscium)

Would a conscious AI be safer than a zombie AI?

Choose Your Own Adventure | It's FAFO Friday

Quantum leaps, robot dancers, and breakfast tacos

Dead as a Dodo? Maybe Not! Colossal's Beth Shapiro on the Science of De-Extinction — and Moonshots

Why bringing back extinct species can protect those still here

To Accede or Not To Accede? That Is The Question | It's FAFO Friday!

Murderbots, mass layoffs, and media takeovers...

"I just want AI to replace me as a scientist" | The co-founder of Diagnostic Robotics predicts the future

Realizing a childhood dream

AI Delivers Mediocre Results—By Design. So How Do You Stand Out? | MetaLab CEO Luke Des Cotes

AI wrappers, FTW!

Could AI Make Capitalism Better? Henrik Werdelin Is Optimistic

A pitch for positivity

"Shut Up, C-3PO" or Do We Have a Duty to Treat Machines Well?

"Never tell me the odds!"

Everyone's “Jumpy” Right Now: Azeem Azhar on When—Or Is It If?—AI Can Be Profitable

Why AI winners will come from odd places

Claude Goes High Brow With Its Super Bowl Ad and "Constitution"; OpenAI Scrambles | It's FAFO Friday!

TGIFAFOF

Steer the Future or Get Steamrolled: Baratunde Thurston on Our Collective Power

On living well *with* machines

Why do Tim Cook and CEOs keep bending the knee? Baratunde Thurston on a basic truth they don't get

Solidarity

Introducing... Future Around & Find Out!

FAFO!

Why I changed the name of this podcast and newsletter

Let's Future Around & Find Out!

Why I'm changing the name of this newsletter and podcast

Coming real soon! Jan 20!

Will AI Disrupt — or Entrench — the Travel Industry's Big Players? | Rafat Ali (Founder & CEO, Skift)

And can we stop the enshittification of travel?

A 2026 Bingo Card for All Things Online Speech

Ctrl-Alt-Speech takes over the mics

Five Skills for Navigating the Whitewater World of Work in 2026

Happy New Year! Now try to keep your balance...

Would you have wanted Steve Jobs's life?

Famous & Gravy sluices through the reality distortion field

Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Drinking In the Future of Podcasting

Podcasters talk podcasting (and web and whatnot!)

What You Need to Know About Startup Funding Right Now, With Carta's Head of Insights, Peter Walker | The Startup Podcast (cross-post)

Uh oh, I smell another cheap podcast crossover...

How to Grow Your Startup. Featuring “Growth Levers and How to Find Them” Author and Startup Advisor Matt Lerner (Founder & CEO, SYSTM)

Advice for underthinkers, overthinkers, delegators, and founders in search of growth

Thanksgiving Special: "What is my actual impact on society?" Legendary Technologist Kelsey Hightower On the Power We All Have

🤗 A little Thanksgiving gratitude from one of my favorite interviews

The Roboticist Using AI to Fix How We Pick Startups — Live from Web Summit with Chris Coomes

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