Interview Shows Are Challenged in a Different Way

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I think that sometimes it can be scary and also to sort of feel a little bit useless to like play around in future thinking because people are like, well, things are really bad right now. I think there's an idea among some people that thinking about the future is sort of a way to not have to engage with the things that are happening now. And so yeah, I totally respect that and totally understand where you're coming from. It was actually really interesting to see the reactions to the show's format of blending fiction and journalism in both the fiction and journalism world. But then journalists were like, oh, there's made up stuff in this. And so it was sort of this weird

Paris Marx is joined by Rose Eveleth to discuss the end of her long-running podcast, why thinking about the future is important, and how tech billionaires try to shape our idea of the future to serve their ends.

Rose Eveleth is the creator and host of the Flash Forward podcast and the author of Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (And Not So Possible) Tomorrows. You can follow them on Twitter at @roseveleth.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.

The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.

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