{"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 27: Open Warfare.","slug":"readmultiplex-com-you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-27-open-warfare","published_at":"2026-05-07T23:09:40+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-27-open-warfare","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/readmultiplex-com-podcast-7658112","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/readmultiplex-com-podcast/2804013","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/366493/2804013/readmultiplex-com-podcast/2026_05_07_23_04_01_a066909d-05fd-4b90-912a-aa5b96460703.mp3","summary":"In the golden age of science fiction radio, when rocket ships roared forth from the warm glow of vacuum tubes, futures arrived one static-filled episode at a time, and the airwaves still carried the electric promise of tomorrow— X Minus One quietly broadcast a revolution. On January 23, 1957, Episode 85, “Open Warfare,” adapted by Ernest Kinoy from James E. Gunn’s May 1954 Galaxy Science Fiction novelette, entered the ether. Clocking in at just over twenty-one minutes, this deceptively compact drama contained the complete architectural blueprint for the collision we are living through right now: the instant when perfect machines step onto humanity’s most profoundly human stages and declare open war on what it means to strive, to excel, to connect, to create, and to endure. This installment of the You Have 5,000 Days series is not nostalgia for crackling transistors or mid-century pulp optimism. It is precise pattern recognition, the kind we have cultivated across previous parts as we mapped the Hero’s Journey through the end of work as we have known it. From the Call to Adventure (the sudden arrival of generative abundance) through the Road of Trials (displacement, reskilling, economic reconfiguration) and the Ordeal (the widespread realization that narrow-domain superhuman performance is here), we now stand at the threshold of the final act: the Abundance Interregnum proper, where humanity must decide whether to compete on machine terms or transcend them entirely. “Open Warfare” is the perfect parable for this moment. It shows us exactly how the machines will arrive, quietly, superior in calibrated domains, composite-trained on the best of us—how unbeatable they will seem for a season, and how humans will still prevail. Not by matching flawless execution, but by trans…","meta_description":"In the golden age of science fiction radio, when rocket ships roared forth from the warm glow of vacuum tubes, futures arrived one static-filled episode a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2463,"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-27-open-warfare/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-27-open-warfare.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}