
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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Air Date: 2009-07-14
We're proud to have Len Peralta of JawBone Radio and Monsters By Mail, and Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla and Qore as o...
Air Date: 2009-08-06
For our next trick, Scott and I got Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, and Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to square off with the...
Air Date: 2009-09-10
This time on FourCast, comic, movie, and TV writer Gerry Conway and podcaster Brian Ibbott predict a world brimming w...
Air Date: 2009-10-15
This time we are blessed with two musicians whom we are both fans of. Jonathan Coulton, known best for his Code Monke...
Air Date: 2009-11-05
We're doing things a little differently this time. We had so much good conversation this time around, that we're pbre...
Air Date: 2009-11-12
In part two of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz, it's time for the long term predictions. We discus...
Air Date: 2009-11-18
The final part of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz covers the final simulation of everything and th...
Air Date: 2010-07-06
While we have a lot of fun worrying about self-driving cars, it's really the singularity we should be worried about. ...
Air Date: 2010-07-12
Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.
Air Date: 2010-07-20
Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.
Air Date: 2010-07-26
Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.
Air Date: 2010-08-02
No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.
Air Date: 2010-08-09
Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.
Air Date: 2010-08-16
Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.
Air Date: 2010-08-23
We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is ...
Air Date: 2010-08-30
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.
Air Date: 2010-09-13
Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.
Air Date: 2010-09-20
Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.
Air Date: 2010-09-27
Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.
Air Date: 2010-10-04
Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.
Air Date: 2010-10-12
Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.
Air Date: 2010-10-18
Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.
Air Date: 2010-10-25
Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.
Air Date: 2010-11-01
Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.
Air Date: 2010-11-08
No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.
Air Date: 2010-11-15
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...
Air Date: 2010-11-22
We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.
Air Date: 2010-11-29
Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.
Air Date: 2010-12-06
Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.
Air Date: 2010-12-13
Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.
Air Date: 2010-12-20
Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.
Air Date: 2011-01-03
Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.
Air Date: 2011-01-17
Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.
Air Date: 2011-01-24
Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.
Air Date: 2011-01-31
Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.
Air Date: 2011-02-07
In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.
Air Date: 2011-02-14
In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.
Air Date: 2011-02-28
The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.
Air Date: 2011-03-07
We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.
Air Date: 2011-03-21
Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.
Air Date: 2011-03-28
We're headed to the gold standard, going bankrupt, losing our faith in science and we'll lose the world to the slime ...
Air Date: 2011-04-04
Hollywood won't stop making comic book movies, but we will stop talking to teach other in our ultraseats. And it will...
Air Date: 2011-04-11
The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.
Air Date: 2011-04-18
No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!
Air Date: 2011-04-25
Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.
Air Date: 2011-05-09
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...
Air Date: 2011-05-24
If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!
Air Date: 2011-06-06
Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.
Air Date: 2011-06-13
Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.
Air Date: 2011-06-21
We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.
Air Date: 2011-06-27
Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.
Air Date: 2011-07-11
Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.
Air Date: 2011-07-18
Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.
Air Date: 2011-07-25
We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.
Air Date: 2011-08-01
We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.
Air Date: 2011-08-08
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...
Air Date: 2011-08-15
Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.
Air Date: 2011-08-22
We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.
Air Date: 2011-08-29
We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.
Air Date: 2011-09-12
Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
Air Date: 2011-09-19
Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.
Air Date: 2011-09-26
It's survival of the cutest, or survival of the aliens that can't enjoy simulations. But we can't use telepathy becau...
Air Date: 2011-10-04
Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.
Air Date: 2011-10-12
We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.
Air Date: 2011-10-17
We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
Air Date: 2011-10-24
Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.
Air Date: 2011-10-31
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...
Air Date: 2011-11-08
Sure, you can't hug a child with robotic eyes, and printing a baby has issues, but our perma-kittens will take our mi...
Air Date: 2011-11-14
We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.
Air Date: 2011-11-21
We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.
Air Date: 2011-11-28
Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.
Air Date: 2011-12-05
Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.
Air Date: 2011-12-12
China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.
Air Date: 2011-12-19
We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.
Air Date: 2012-01-03
We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.
Air Date: 2012-01-16
We learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can g...
Air Date: 2012-01-24
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?
Air Date: 2012-02-06
Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.
Air Date: 2012-02-13
Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.
Air Date: 2012-02-27
We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!
Air Date: 2012-03-05
Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.
Air Date: 2012-03-12
Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.
Air Date: 2012-03-19
Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
Air Date: 2012-04-02
We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tab...
Air Date: 2012-04-09
We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.
Air Date: 2012-04-23
Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.
Air Date: 2012-04-30
We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.
Air Date: 2012-05-07
While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.
Air Date: 2012-05-14
We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.
Air Date: 2012-05-21
Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.
Air Date: 2012-06-04
When we all have wearable computing we'll need to jam it and stop the parallel universes from invading us. But at lea...
Air Date: 2012-06-11
Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.