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FourCast(2009)

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First Air Date: 2009-07-14
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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 92

Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions, as well as the always interesting FourCast Findings and FourCast QuickFire Questions segments. They're a little lazy, so they bring on two guests every episode and make them do the work.

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Tom Merritt
Tom Merritt
Self - Host
Scott Johnson
Scott Johnson
Self - Host

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 92
E01
Beware the Lunar Molemen

Air Date: 2009-07-14

43m

We're proud to have Len Peralta of JawBone Radio and Monsters By Mail, and Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla and Qore as o...

E02
Water Wars

Air Date: 2009-08-06

48m

For our next trick, Scott and I got Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, and Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to square off with the...

E03
Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities

Air Date: 2009-09-10

42m

This time on FourCast, comic, movie, and TV writer Gerry Conway and podcaster Brian Ibbott predict a world brimming w...

E04
The Machine President Sits Alone

Air Date: 2009-10-15

35m

This time we are blessed with two musicians whom we are both fans of. Jonathan Coulton, known best for his Code Monke...

E05
Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles

Air Date: 2009-11-05

22m

We're doing things a little differently this time. We had so much good conversation this time around, that we're pbre...

E06
America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation

Air Date: 2009-11-12

23m

In part two of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz, it's time for the long term predictions. We discus...

E07
Omega Point Steals Our Gender

Air Date: 2009-11-18

31m

The final part of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz covers the final simulation of everything and th...

E38
Sing Along with the Singularity

Air Date: 2010-07-06

59m

While we have a lot of fun worrying about self-driving cars, it's really the singularity we should be worried about. ...

E39
House of Trash

Air Date: 2010-07-12

45m

Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.

E40
Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies

Air Date: 2010-07-20

48m

Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.

E41
Goodbye to Our Bodies

Air Date: 2010-07-26

45m

Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.

E42
It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World

Air Date: 2010-08-02

48m

No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.

E43
Don't Insert Animals There

Air Date: 2010-08-09

1h 11m

Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.

E44
Humanity Is Saved!

Air Date: 2010-08-16

54m

Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.

E45
Whale Wars

Air Date: 2010-08-23

1h 2m

We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is ...

E46
Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm

Air Date: 2010-08-30

53m

Find out why teleportation will work for dead cats. Also, we'll pick a job for you but it won't be in self-help.

E47
Don't Steal My Arm

Air Date: 2010-09-13

59m

Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.

E48
The Great Seawall of Atlantica

Air Date: 2010-09-20

51m

Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.

E49
Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow

Air Date: 2010-09-27

50m

Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.

E50
Rise of the Dolphoctopus

Air Date: 2010-10-04

1h 0m

Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.

E51
Planet of the 1990s Diseases

Air Date: 2010-10-12

36m

Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.

E52
Subscribe to the Perfect Memory

Air Date: 2010-10-18

52m

Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.

E53
BBQ on Mars

Air Date: 2010-10-25

53m

Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.

E54
The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth

Air Date: 2010-11-01

51m

Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.

E55
Giraffe Burger To Go, Please

Air Date: 2010-11-08

50m

No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.

E56
What Would Blue-Jay Do?

Air Date: 2010-11-15

53m

The wild turkey shoot is coming to a big city near you, and you'll be able to literally share your memories of the ev...

E57
Vote Arsonist!

Air Date: 2010-11-22

1h 2m

We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.

E58
It's All a Simulization

Air Date: 2010-11-29

42m

Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.

E59
Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock

Air Date: 2010-12-06

56m

Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.

E60
Spray-on Shopping With Cher

Air Date: 2010-12-13

52m

Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.

E61
Government Is Soylent Green

Air Date: 2010-12-20

1h 2m

Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.

E62
Goober Great!

Air Date: 2011-01-03

1h 2m

Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.

E63
Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living

Air Date: 2011-01-17

55m

Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.

E64
Infinity Is Freaking Huge

Air Date: 2011-01-24

1h 4m

Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.

E65
Gold-Backed Data Currency

Air Date: 2011-01-31

57m

Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.

E66
Robot Sugar

Air Date: 2011-02-07

58m

In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.

E67
Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War

Air Date: 2011-02-14

59m

In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.

E68
Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse

Air Date: 2011-02-28

1h 3m

The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.

E69
We Are All X-Men

Air Date: 2011-03-07

52m

We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.

E70
The Future Is Unclear

Air Date: 2011-03-21

50m

Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.

E71
To The Caves!

Air Date: 2011-03-28

1h 2m

We're headed to the gold standard, going bankrupt, losing our faith in science and we'll lose the world to the slime ...

E72
We Are the Mole Men

Air Date: 2011-04-04

44m

Hollywood won't stop making comic book movies, but we will stop talking to teach other in our ultraseats. And it will...

E73
You Died of Spacsyntery

Air Date: 2011-04-11

51m

The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.

E74
The Future of No More

Air Date: 2011-04-18

58m

No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!

E75
Weightless Immortality

Air Date: 2011-04-25

58m

Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.

E76
Head in the Clouds

Air Date: 2011-05-09

58m

We're putting a hard drive in our heads, and we can't tell the Google history index has changed history, but we're al...

E77
Stop Chad!

Air Date: 2011-05-24

56m

If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!

E78
Got Nanobots?

Air Date: 2011-06-06

54m

Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.

E79
Talk to the Animals

Air Date: 2011-06-13

59m

Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.

E80
Space Nomads

Air Date: 2011-06-21

52m

We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.

E81
Robot Everything

Air Date: 2011-06-27

51m

Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.

E82
Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please

Air Date: 2011-07-11

59m

Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.

E83
Nice Bioluminescent Spots

Air Date: 2011-07-18

58m

Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.

E84
It's All About Superheroes

Air Date: 2011-07-25

42m

We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.

E85
Distributed Everything

Air Date: 2011-08-01

46m

We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.

E86
The Gassy One

Air Date: 2011-08-08

1h 0m

We'll taste our movies and burn our trash, but we'll all be made of broccoli. Yet a trip to Jupiter will take our min...

E87
Grow Your Own Home

Air Date: 2011-08-15

59m

Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.

E88
Black Tar Einstein

Air Date: 2011-08-22

49m

We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.

E89
We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords

Air Date: 2011-08-29

51m

We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.

E90
Putting the "I" In IPO

Air Date: 2011-09-12

51m

Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.

E91
Designer Prosthetics

Air Date: 2011-09-19

51m

Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.

E92
Vote Gibbon

Air Date: 2011-09-26

50m

It's survival of the cutest, or survival of the aliens that can't enjoy simulations. But we can't use telepathy becau...

E93
Go Goa'uld or Go Home

Air Date: 2011-10-04

59m

Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.

E94
Space Dragons

Air Date: 2011-10-12

58m

We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.

E95
Swappin' Body Parts

Air Date: 2011-10-17

55m

We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.

E96
Return of Alien Nation

Air Date: 2011-10-24

1h 0m

Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.

E97
Pulp Toy Story Dogs

Air Date: 2011-10-31

59m

We all create the movies we want in our barter society, when we're into playing realistic D&D sims. But we're all par...

E98
Holographic Bieber

Air Date: 2011-11-08

48m

Sure, you can't hug a child with robotic eyes, and printing a baby has issues, but our perma-kittens will take our mi...

E99
Spider State

Air Date: 2011-11-14

1h 2m

We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.

E100
Voodoo Bernie Is the Future

Air Date: 2011-11-21

56m

We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.

E101
The Guilted Age

Air Date: 2011-11-28

1h 4m

Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.

E102
Megafauna

Air Date: 2011-12-05

1h 0m

Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.

E103
Moonifest Destiny

Air Date: 2011-12-12

57m

China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.

E104
Introducing the Thought DVR

Air Date: 2011-12-19

1h 2m

We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.

E105
My Bricks Are Online

Air Date: 2012-01-03

50m

We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.

E106
Eyeball in My Colon

Air Date: 2012-01-16

58m

We learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can g...

E107
Robot Death or Lizard Face

Air Date: 2012-01-24

1h 3m

Sure we can't tell if it's a computer, but it won't kill us. It will kill our physical-altered progeny. Am I right?

E108
Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma

Air Date: 2012-02-06

52m

Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.

E109
Ubiquitous Media

Air Date: 2012-02-13

45m

Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.

E110
Photography Becomes Archaeology

Air Date: 2012-02-27

51m

We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!

E111
Beam Me Out Mommy

Air Date: 2012-03-05

51m

Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.

E112
The Nanobots Made My Brain Do It

Air Date: 2012-03-12

53m

Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.

E113
Kickstart My Comic Heart

Air Date: 2012-03-19

51m

Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.

E114
No Keyboard, No Security

Air Date: 2012-04-02

50m

We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tab...

E115
Spectrum in My Head

Air Date: 2012-04-09

48m

We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.

E116
TV and Movies Merge

Air Date: 2012-04-23

45m

Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.

E117
Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose

Air Date: 2012-04-30

42m

We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.

E118
No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books

Air Date: 2012-05-07

49m

While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.

E119
What’s the Digital Matter?

Air Date: 2012-05-14

46m

We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.

E120
Your Tube Is Here

Air Date: 2012-05-21

50m

Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.

E121
Jam the Reptile Terrorists

Air Date: 2012-06-04

47m

When we all have wearable computing we'll need to jam it and stop the parallel universes from invading us. But at lea...

E122
Lastcast

Air Date: 2012-06-11

1h 2m

Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.

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