# Modem Futura Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675.md RSS feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/3frRI0HN Official site: https://www.modemfutura.com Author: Sean Leahy, PhD Episodes: 98 ## Resource Modem Futura is your weekly guide to the future of science, technology, and society—where futures and foresight meets real-world impact. Hosts Sean Leahy and Andrew Maynard—educators, futurists, and public scholars—dive into the breakthroughs and big questions shaping tomorrow: AI ethics, space exploration, climate tech, bio-engineering, digital media, STEM education, and the shifting future of work. In candid, banter-filled conversations with innovators, scholars, and storytellers, they unpack how emerging technologies influence human values, creativity, and culture—and what these trends mean for you today. Whether you’re curious about quantum computing, electric air taxis, or the sociology of robots, Modem Futura connects cutting-edge research with the narratives that drive innovation. Join us each week to explore possible, probable, and preferred futures, and discover practical insights for navigating an increasingly tech-driven world. Follow and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and be part of the conversation exploring what it will mean to be human in the future! ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/modem-futura-7035675 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675.md ## Episodes - [Summer Watch List: Silo Season 3, Sugar, Silicon Valley & Neuromancer](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/summer-watch-list-silo-season-3-sugar-silicon-valley-neuromancer) — 2026-07-24T19:00:00+00:00 - [SpudCells: Have Scientists Built Life From Scratch?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/spudcells-have-scientists-built-life-from-scratch) — 2026-07-21T08:00:00+00:00 - [AI as Critical Infrastructure: Inside the Anthropic Fable Export Ban](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/ai-as-critical-infrastructure-inside-the-anthropic-fable-export-ban) — 2026-07-14T08:00:00+00:00 - [Summer Reading List Part 2: Sci-Fi, Spy Fiction & Analog Treasures](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/summer-reading-list-part-2-sci-fi-spy-fiction-analog-treasures) — 2026-07-07T08:00:00+00:00 - [Summer Reading List 2026: The Books That Inspired Our Imagination (Part 1)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/summer-reading-list-2026-the-books-that-inspired-our-imagination-part-1) — 2026-06-30T08:00:00+00:00 - [WEF Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026: A Futures Breakdown](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/wef-top-10-emerging-technologies-2026-a-futures-breakdown) — 2026-06-23T01:49:32+00:00 - [AI Jobs, Liquid Software & Human Flourishing with Jeff Abbott](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/ai-jobs-liquid-software-human-flourishing-with-jeff-abbott) — 2026-06-16T08:00:00+00:00 - [Synthetic Cells, Mirror Life, and the Future of Engineered Biology — with Emma Frow](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/synthetic-cells-mirror-life-and-the-future-of-engineered-biology-with-emma-frow) — 2026-06-09T08:00:00+00:00 - [Alien Minds, Time Travelers, and Consciousness Backups: A Futures Thought Experiment](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/alien-minds-time-travelers-and-consciousness-backups-a-futures-thought-experiment) — 2026-06-02T08:00:00+00:00 - [Project Hail Mary, Dead Civilizations, and the Trouble with Feel-Good Endings](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/project-hail-mary-dead-civilizations-and-the-trouble-with-feel-good-endings) — 2026-05-26T08:00:00+00:00 - [School's Out for Summer: AI, Vibe Coding, and What Teaching Still Requires](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/school-s-out-for-summer-ai-vibe-coding-and-what-teaching-still-requires) — 2026-05-19T08:00:00+00:00 - [The Dawkins Effect: Why Even Skeptics Fall for AI Consciousness](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/the-dawkins-effect-why-even-skeptics-fall-for-ai-consciousness) — 2026-05-12T08:00:00+00:00 - [Convergence Day: Opus 4.7 and the Reliability Question](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/convergence-day-opus-4-7-and-the-reliability-question) — 2026-05-05T08:00:00+00:00 - [The Jagged Frontier: Reading Stanford's Human Centered 2026 AI Index](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/the-jagged-frontier-reading-stanford-s-human-centered-2026-ai-index) — 2026-04-28T08:00:00+00:00 - [Mythos and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: When AI Outruns Our Wisdom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/mythos-and-the-sorcerer-s-apprentice-when-ai-outruns-our-wisdom) — 2026-04-21T08:00:00+00:00 - [Artemis II: The Science, the Wonder, and the Future of Being Human](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/artemis-ii-the-science-the-wonder-and-the-future-of-being-human) — 2026-04-14T08:00:00+00:00 - [Two Tools That Will Change How You Think About the Future](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/two-tools-that-will-change-how-you-think-about-the-future) — 2026-04-07T08:00:00+00:00 - [Fluid Futures: 10 Signals Reshaping an AI-Mediated World](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/fluid-futures-10-signals-reshaping-an-ai-mediated-world) — 2026-03-31T08:00:00+00:00 - [Futures Improv: Power, Probes & Post-Human Civilization](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/futures-improv-power-probes-post-human-civilization) — 2026-03-24T08:00:00+00:00 - [The Invisible Upgrade: How AI Is Already Changing How We Think](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/the-invisible-upgrade-how-ai-is-already-changing-how-we-think) — 2026-03-17T08:00:00+00:00 - [The Futures Cone: Preposterous to Plausible](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/the-futures-cone-preposterous-to-plausible) — 2026-03-10T08:00:00+00:00 - [Technologic: What Old iPods, Tiny Cameras, and Tangled Cables Teach Us About the Future](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/technologic-what-old-ipods-tiny-cameras-and-tangled-cables-teach-us-about-the-future) — 2026-03-03T08:00:00+00:00 - [The Futures Triangle and the Intent Map: Practical Tools for Thriving with AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/the-futures-triangle-and-the-intent-map-practical-tools-for-thriving-with-ai) — 2026-02-24T08:00:00+00:00 - [The Fun They Had - Asimov Predicted AI Tutors in 1950's](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/the-fun-they-had-asimov-predicted-ai-tutors-in-1950-s) — 2026-02-17T08:00:00+00:00 - [Vibe Coding and the Return of Personal Software](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/vibe-coding-and-the-return-of-personal-software) — 2026-02-10T08:00:00+00:00 - [The Future From a Kid's Perspective with Freddie Leahy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/the-future-from-a-kid-s-perspective-with-freddie-leahy) — 2026-02-03T08:00:00+00:00 - [Pluribus: When Happiness Becomes the Apocalypse](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/pluribus-when-happiness-becomes-the-apocalypse) — 2026-01-27T08:00:00+00:00 - [Signals of Collapse (and Hope): WEF 2026 Global Risk Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/signals-of-collapse-and-hope-wef-2026-global-risk-report) — 2026-01-20T08:00:00+00:00 - [Jurassic Park Was Right: AI, Inherited Power, and the Cost of Moving Too Fast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/jurassic-park-was-right-ai-inherited-power-and-the-cost-of-moving-too-fast) — 2026-01-13T08:00:00+00:00 - [Technosphere and Solarpunk: Designing Energy Futures That Let Us Thrive with Clark Miller](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/technosphere-and-solarpunk-designing-energy-futures-that-let-us-thrive-with-clark-miller) — 2026-01-06T08:00:00+00:00 - [2025 Year in Review Recap: AI, Education, Futures Thinking & the Future of Being Human](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/2025-year-in-review-recap-ai-education-futures-thinking-the-future-of-being-human) — 2025-12-30T08:00:00+00:00 - [Why Human Craft and Creativity Still Wins in an Age of AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/why-human-craft-and-creativity-still-wins-in-an-age-of-ai) — 2025-12-23T08:00:00+00:00 - [Is Life a Simulation? AI, Games, and the Future of Reality with Rizwan Virk](https://stenobird.com/podcast/modem-futura-7035675/is-life-a-simulation-ai-games-and-the-future-of-reality-with-rizwan-virk) — 2025-12-16T08:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. A page view does not automatically enqueue transcription.