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The Future is Ow

The Future Is Ow

A show where we tug at the the tangled tendrils of technology, politics, the internet, and the future of Having Fun on the Computer. Techno-optimists need not apply, unless you mean the Detroit kind.

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116:04

IPCC You Later

The Future is Ow ·

2021/08/30

The FiO Boys shake the sand from their sandals, bid farewell to the Maltese dogracing tracks and Dalmatian casinos of their month-long euro-style sabbatical and roll up their sleeves for a double-stuf'd return episode. At the top of the show, we talk $TSLA, vertical integration, and cross ourselves before exploring the fey and fallen phrase ''double full-time remote.'' Then we descend further still into the inky chasm of our apocalyptic imaginarium to talk climate change and the most recent IPCC

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2:02

Oopsie Doopsie

The Future is Ow ·

2021/08/23

We were gone fishin' the last month but don't worry - we're back in the lab, monitoring our instruments and parsing the freshest, rawest intel for your consumption and enjoyment.

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70:31

The Guys Who Pod About Goats

The Future is Ow ·

2021/07/22

The FiO boys take a break from the news cycle and dig the clicker out of the cushions to review the 2009 'satire' film The Men Who Stare at Goats. Within, they mine it's gormless mediocrity for insights about the US security state, our collective relationship to the Iraq War, and George Clooney's face.>Check out Espresso Tempo on Apple and Spotify.

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80:23

McAdieu

The Future is Ow ·

2021/07/06

We bid a fond farewell to globetrotting sex maniac, sovereign citizen and antivirus impresario John McAfee and recount a few milestones from his bizarre, debauched time on Spaceship Earth. Then we talk last week's heatwave, why we'll never get to have an apocalypse, and finally run through a recent article explaining the myriad crimes and atrocities taking place at Airbnb's around the globe and their round the clock efforts to keep them covered up beneath a heap of cash and NDA's.>Check out Espresso

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98:34

One Chimerican Gay Moon Government

The Future is Ow ·

2021/06/24

The big special guys talk Apple being naughty, Amazon at it again, and the ongoing full-court press to stir up the good-hearted American into a tizzy about the red menace in the east - and why we should smile on our Chinese brothers and sisters and game with them instead of doing a nuclear war.>Check out Espresso Tempo on Apple and Spotify.

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109:04

Rent-a-Op

The Future is Ow ·

2021/06/09

The FiO boys sally forth again into a whole bevy of strange and cryptic subject matter including a check-back-in with our favorite room-temperature IQ insurrectionists and their ongoing legal woes, the coming Paul Blart-ification of policing, and the legions of deep-cover Pentagon assets who may or not be posing as your friends, family and coworkers for no discernible reason. Finally, Mack get's vaxxed just in time to talk COVID Lab Leak and all that the renewed consideration of a synthetic origin

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126:43

Gas Gulpers & Anti-Trusters

The Future is Ow ·

2021/05/25

It's an absolutely tumescent, Jabba the Hutt-sized ep this week as we play the hits from two weeks ago's news. So sink into your gasoline-filled waterbed and prepare to absorb the razor sharp punditry of your favorite disembodied voices on : Instagram for Kids, emotion recognition software, and more telecom mega-mergers. It's all great and we love it, and we can't wait to tell you about it.

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96:20

Scrambled Brains & Fried Plantains

The Future is Ow ·

2021/05/11

The boys repair to the FiO Situation Room to talk geopolitics vis-à-vis vaccine diplomacy and the viselike grip of the international intellectual property regime on the developing world. While we're in there, we also examine renewed interest in a spate of mysterious migraine-and-diarrhea cocktails being surreptitiously served to our spies and statesmen around the globe. Are America's enemies microwaving her foreign officials' brains like Salisbury steaks? Did I take my medicine this morning? These

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111:17

DARPA : Revenge of the Nerds

The Future is Ow ·

2021/04/27

We've got a blue ribbon hog of an episode today as the guys jimmy the locks at the Pentagon and make our way to it's dark heart to look with horror on the giant jarred brain that animates American empire. Which is to say, we talk about Annie Jacobsen's book The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency and discuss the unsung government agency and the nerds behind it who architected much post-war world for good or for ill.We also have a guest

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87:46

Cyberkurt and tha Gut Explorers

The Future is Ow ·

2021/04/14

We return to don our music critic's miter and review Kurt Cobain's first new track in some years, discuss the Amazon to-do from two weeks ago now, and raffle off a Jonah's Young Urban Achiever charter school student to undergo irreversible surgico-cybernetic alteration .

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82:28

SPAC (Special Podcast, Awesome Content)

The Future is Ow ·

2021/03/31

The fellas are back after a hiatus spent hiring, firing and rewiring The Future Is Ow Joint Holdings Ltd. to bring you a leaner, more flexible and market-friendly podcasting entity. In this episode we turn the Eye of Sauron back on Amazon and their efforts to transform the people working for them into fleshy workbots who pee in bottles. We also seek context and deeper understanding via a quick journey back to This Time Last Century and the rise of scientific management, or, Taylorism. All thatand

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86:02

Ceci n'est pas un iPod

The Future is Ow ·

2021/03/15

In which we go over the stimmy bill, robot pedestrians, dumb AI, universal basic income, and the poison pill of mayoralty. Apologies in advance to German shepherds and retired New England Patriot's linebacker Teddy Bruschi.

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99:08

Uber For Your Nan's House

The Future is Ow ·

2021/03/08

Another big one as the boys pontificate on the subjective nature of art and beauty, dueling gubernatorial shitheads Abbot and Cuomo, and drone warfare. Then we examine a recent ruling by the UK's supreme court forestalling the gig-ification of jolly old England for the time being, and turn a jaundiced eye towards the gig economy in general and it's implications for all of our futures.

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76:19

Dallas Deep Freeze and Boston DIEnamics

The Future is Ow ·

2021/03/02

The fellas talk about the completely unforseeable and unpreventable weather event in Texas and the Midwest that left shelves bare at the electricity store, and then dive into the Beantown robotics firm whose krumping automatons of viral video fame definitely won't be running search and destroy missions in the Levant or replacing you at your branding agency in the next 10 years, mostly because they don't work.

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85:33

Kill the Celeb In Your Head ft. Agnes Bae

The Future is Ow ·

2021/02/23

We bring on our first ever guest in the form of friend and cultural maven Agnes Bae to delve into the tawdry and tumultuous miseducation of Britney Spears and what her ongoing saga says about our culture and spectacle-saturated society. We also tickle our toesies against the non-functional gas pedal of a prospective Apple Car and rejoice in the knowledge that Silicon Valley has squared the circle of equitable resource distribution with just two letters : VR.

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120:57

We (Mic) Stand on the Shoulders of Giants

The Future is Ow ·

2021/02/20

We go very, very long to have a joint proustian reverie over the Mythbusters, hold our jeweler's loupe to the first few weeks of the Biden admin, celebrate some fresh, new market-friendly proposals to turn your local government over to MailChimp and much more.

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78:52

The Silence of the Bans

The Future is Ow ·

2021/02/13

In which we talk about Parler going away, censorship in the modern agora of online, Amazon some more, Gamestop a week late, and make explicit who are podcasting heroes are (hint: think brain dead).Also I promise I'll learn how to talk into the mic for the next episode. If you can't hear what I'm saying just assume it was something smart and insightful.

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86:48

The Future is Ow Inagural Episode

The Future is Ow ·

2021/02/13

Without anyone having asked, another podcast is thrust screaming and wobbly-legged into the world. Our podcast. In this our inaugural ep we do some bants and talk about facial recognition, the capitol riots, and the curtain call of the Trump era.

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