
About this podcast
What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam Becker. Each week, Adam and a new guest will try to find hope in the darkness of the current political moment through earnest (and entertaining!) conversations about what such a future might look like. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the…
25 episodes · society
Dreaming Against the Machine
About this podcast
What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam Becker. Each week, Adam and a new guest will try to find hope in the darkness of the current political moment through earnest (and entertaining!) conversations about what such a future might look like. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the…
Recent episodes
- Sharing a new series from Future Hindsight, Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising.3 Sept · 40 min
- Episode 21: The AI Bubble, with Matt Scherer1 Sept · 1 h 00 min
- Episode 20: Resisting AI Data Centers, with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez25 Aug · 54 min
- Episode 19: Space Colonization, with Lucian Walkowicz and Erika Nesvold18 Aug · 1 h 00 min
- Episode 18: Science Policy, with Alondra Nelson11 Aug · 54 min
- Episode 17: Weapons of Math Destruction, with Cathy O’Neil4 Aug · 54 min
- Episode 16: What is Elon Musk? With Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff28 Jul · 57 min
- Episode 15: Hopeful Science Fiction, with Becky Chambers21 Jul · 51 min
- Episode 14: Psychological Warfare, with Annalee Newitz14 Jul · 1 h 01 min
- Episode 13: More Everything Forever, with Adam Becker7 Jul · 1 h 13 min