Future Around & Find Out

0:00Hey, you know what would be awesome, if we could build the future we want before we muck it up. We can do it, we're building amazing things right now, but there's also this dread a lot of us feel. I mean, the headlines say AIs either going to put us all out of work or straight up kill us, or lead to heaven on earth. So what do you think? Well, I think we've got the power to build the future we actually want. Welcome to Future Around and find out, I'm Dan Blumberg, I'm a technologist and former NPR journalist and three years in a row, the web awards have honored this show as a top tech podcast. Here we celebrate breakthroughs called BS on the hype and explore how things might go sideways and how we together can steer the future in the right direction because we build these systems in a good way, they'll be more for everybody. But if we do this the wrong way, most of us are going to suffer. On the show, you'll hear sharp takes on what builders need to know now. We're in a moment of industry-wide product design chaos as wild.

1:00This is like the era of fart apps of the iPhone. Do you remember the fart apps on the Drinking Beer Accelerometer apps? Oh, yes, I do. And lots of us are still farting around right now as we figure out what AI is good for and whether it's all just a giant hallucination. It's not that like generative AI is not cool. As it to weep, it spoils out. I got it. But then the question is how the way you're going to make a dime. We'll also explore the tech that too often gets overshadowed by AI. We'll meet entrepreneurs building biotech, climate tech, quantum, robotics, blockchain and more. We'll also get weird. My project is called fetus GPT. The show's not raw, there's enough of that out there, but it's also not doom and gloom. Overall we're here to help you see and build the future. Subscribe to Future Around and find out wherever you get your podcasts and sign up for the newsletter. Go to Future Around dot com. Subscribe to Future Around and find out wherever you get your podcasts and sign up for the