Episode

Futures Improv: Power, Probes & Post-Human Civilization

Podcast: Modem Futura
Published: Mar 24, 2026
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Summary

Sean and Andrew take Futures Improv to civilizational scale, riffing on Kardashev Types, Dyson Spheres, von Neumann probes, and the Fermi Paradox to ask what humanity's hunger for energy and expansion really reveals about our nature — and our loneliness in the cosmos. Equal parts cosmic wonder, speculative science, and accidental insight, this spring break edition is brain candy for anyone who's ever looked up at the night sky and wondered: where is everybody?