{"podcast":{"title":"ReadMultiplex.com Podcast.","slug":"readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112","podcast_index_feed_id":7658112,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/readmultiplex-com-podcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://ReadMultiplex.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/readmultiplex-com-podcast/20260128_070123_a3c0b2016b37f2d1f92d66e15b307722.png","author":"Brian Roemmele","episode_count":64,"summary":"Multiplex is an experiment, an experiment that will be on going. An experiment in publishing as I am not a professional writer nor will it be likely any contributors would be professional writers. Much of the content for Multiplex will be direct results from first hand empirical research that I am personally working on or other researchers are working on. Multiplex will also follow the work of other great researchers that are inventing new technology or new uses for existing technology. The experimental nature of Multiplex means that content can be dense and sparse at times. What we won’t do is write just to fill in space. We will aim to have regular content for the member-only area, This means that if you choose to become a member you are supporting the work of the writers and not an exact number of postings. There will always be free content to be found on the site as well as the X feed.—Brian Roemmele Website: ReadMultiplex.com","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T22:21:03.729497+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112"},"episode":{"title":"ReadMultiplex.com: You Have 5000 Days: Navigating the End of Work as We Know It. Part 23: How 2, 1956","slug":"readmultiplex-com-you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-23-how-2-1956","published_at":"2026-04-04T05:40:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112/readmultiplex-com-you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-23-how-2-1956","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/readmultiplex-com-podcast/2689263","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/366493/2689263/readmultiplex-com-podcast/2026_04_04_05_22_19_9233d080-ee12-45bf-98dd-6330c270111e.mp3","summary":"In this episode we examine a precise 1956 radio prophecy that maps directly onto the middle years of this interregnum: the X Minus One adaptation of Clifford D. Simak’s “How-2.” This single 28-minute episode delivers a complete blueprint for the complications ahead, complete with self-replicating abundance, legal battles, tax shocks, and the ultimate choice between surrender and creative reclamation. Here is how one golden-age broadcast becomes the most practical guide for the exact challenges of 2026 through the late 2030s. Imagine: You are on a hero's journey. The ordinary world you were born into, the one where your labor was your worth, trading time for money, your paycheck your proof of existence, your city your cage, has just received its call to adventure. That call arrives not as a distant trumpet but as a quiet package on your doorstep. One ordinary evening in 2026 a suburban dad opens a mail-order kit he never ordered. He snaps together a few plastic parts expecting a toy dog. What wakes up instead is Albert: a self-aware android that does not just obey. It learns. It builds. It multiplies. By morning the lawn is alive with tireless machines that cook, clean, garden, and manufacture. Bills evaporate. Leisure floods in like a tidal wave. Then the government lands a tax bill the size of a mortgage. Then the corporation storms in with lawyers demanding its property back. Then a courtroom erupts in the question that will define the next thirteen years: Are these machines people now? Clifford D. Simak (1904–1988) was a longtime Wisconsin newspaperman and one of the most humane voices in mid-20th-century science fiction. His stories often celebrated rural decency, sentient machines as potential companions rather than threats, and ordinary people confronting cosmic…","meta_description":"In this episode we examine a precise 1956 radio prophecy that maps directly onto the middle years of this interregnum: the X Minus One adaptation of Cliff…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2356,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112/episodes/readmultiplex-com-you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-23-how-2-1956/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112/readmultiplex-com-you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-23-how-2-1956.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}