Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions.
Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions, as well as the always interesting FourCast Findings and FourCast QuickFire Questions segments. They're a little lazy, so they bring on two guests every episode and make them do the work.
CreatorsTom Merritt, Scott Johnson
Beware the Lunar Molemen
Jul 14, 2009
We're proud to have Len Peralta of JawBone Radio and Monsters By Mail, and Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla and Qore as our first victims, er, guests. This episode was a blast, dealing with the end of the world, the terraforming of Mars, and of course, MoleMen.
Water Wars
Aug 6, 2009
For our next trick, Scott and I got Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, and Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to square off with their visions of the future. You may think Leo is the optimist, but you'd be wrong. Witness the title of our episode. It was Jim that has the rosier view of the future. Including the chance for all of us to someday become Ashton Kutcher. Listen in folks, it's a good one.
Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities
Sep 10, 2009
This time on FourCast, comic, movie, and TV writer Gerry Conway and podcaster Brian Ibbott predict a world brimming with superheroes, domed cities, and RPGs based on your trip to the grocery store.
The Machine President Sits Alone
Oct 15, 2009
This time we are blessed with two musicians whom we are both fans of. Jonathan Coulton, known best for his Code Monkey and zombie songs, and MC Frontalot, known best, apparently for his back trouble int he nerdcore documentary but really for his amazing nerd rap prowess. We discuss their visions of synthetic life, machine-led government, nanobots, and the amazing growth of our brains. Or will we have brains in the future?
Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles
Nov 5, 2009
We're doing things a little differently this time. We had so much good conversation this time around, that we're pbreaking the show into three parts. Part one of the prediction extravaganza with Scott Kurtz and Jeff Cannata sees us discuss the end of journalism as we know it and ponder a world with one game console platform.
America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation
Nov 12, 2009
In part two of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz, it's time for the long term predictions. We discuss the decline of America and the potential rise of virtual nations.
Omega Point Steals Our Gender
Nov 18, 2009
The final part of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz covers the final simulation of everything and the elimination of all genders. Or does it? In fact, it does.
Sing Along with the Singularity
Jul 6, 2010
While we have a lot of fun worrying about self-driving cars, it's really the singularity we should be worried about. Justin Robert Young pretty much believes it will be disaster, while Brian Brushwood has a rosier vision.
House of Trash
Jul 12, 2010
Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.
Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies
Jul 20, 2010
Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.
Goodbye to Our Bodies
Jul 26, 2010
Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.
It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World
Aug 2, 2010
No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.
Don't Insert Animals There
Aug 9, 2010
Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.
Humanity Is Saved!
Aug 16, 2010
Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.
Whale Wars
Aug 23, 2010
We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.
Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm
Aug 30, 2010
Find out why teleportation will work for dead cats. Also, we'll pick a job for you but it won't be in self-help.
Don't Steal My Arm
Sep 13, 2010
Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.
The Great Seawall of Atlantica
Sep 20, 2010
Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.
Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow
Sep 27, 2010
Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.
Rise of the Dolphoctopus
Oct 4, 2010
Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.
Planet of the 1990s Diseases
Oct 12, 2010
Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.
Subscribe to the Perfect Memory
Oct 18, 2010
Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.
BBQ on Mars
Oct 25, 2010
Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.
The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth
Nov 1, 2010
Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.
Giraffe Burger To Go, Please
Nov 8, 2010
No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.
What Would Blue-Jay Do?
Nov 15, 2010
The wild turkey shoot is coming to a big city near you, and you'll be able to literally share your memories of the event.
Vote Arsonist!
Nov 22, 2010
We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.
It's All a Simulization
Nov 29, 2010
Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.
Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock
Dec 6, 2010
Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.
Spray-on Shopping With Cher
Dec 13, 2010
Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.
Government Is Soylent Green
Dec 20, 2010
Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.
Goober Great!
Jan 3, 2011
Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.
Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living
Jan 17, 2011
Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.
Infinity Is Freaking Huge
Jan 24, 2011
Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.
Gold-Backed Data Currency
Jan 31, 2011
Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.
Robot Sugar
Feb 7, 2011
In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.
Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War
Feb 14, 2011
In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.
Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse
Feb 28, 2011
The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.
We Are All X-Men
Mar 7, 2011
We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.
The Future Is Unclear
Mar 21, 2011
Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.
To The Caves!
Mar 28, 2011
We're headed to the gold standard, going bankrupt, losing our faith in science and we'll lose the world to the slime molds anyway.
We Are the Mole Men
Apr 4, 2011
Hollywood won't stop making comic book movies, but we will stop talking to teach other in our ultraseats. And it will all happen underground.
You Died of Spacsyntery
Apr 11, 2011
The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.
The Future of No More
Apr 18, 2011
No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!
Weightless Immortality
Apr 25, 2011
Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.
Head in the Clouds
May 9, 2011
We're putting a hard drive in our heads, and we can't tell the Google history index has changed history, but we're all in caves now, so it's OK.
Stop Chad!
May 24, 2011
If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!
Got Nanobots?
Jun 6, 2011
Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.
Talk to the Animals
Jun 13, 2011
Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.
Space Nomads
Jun 21, 2011
We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.
Robot Everything
Jun 27, 2011
Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.
Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please
Jul 11, 2011
Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.
Nice Bioluminescent Spots
Jul 18, 2011
Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.
It's All About Superheroes
Jul 25, 2011
We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.
Distributed Everything
Aug 1, 2011
We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.
The Gassy One
Aug 8, 2011
We'll taste our movies and burn our trash, but we'll all be made of broccoli. Yet a trip to Jupiter will take our mind off it.
Grow Your Own Home
Aug 15, 2011
Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.
Black Tar Einstein
Aug 22, 2011
We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.
We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords
Aug 29, 2011
We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.
Putting the "I" In IPO
Sep 12, 2011
Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
Designer Prosthetics
Sep 19, 2011
Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.
Vote Gibbon
Sep 26, 2011
It's survival of the cutest, or survival of the aliens that can't enjoy simulations. But we can't use telepathy because of the ads.
Go Goa'uld or Go Home
Oct 4, 2011
Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.
Space Dragons
Oct 12, 2011
We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.
Swappin' Body Parts
Oct 17, 2011
We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
Return of Alien Nation
Oct 24, 2011
Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.
Pulp Toy Story Dogs
Oct 31, 2011
We all create the movies we want in our barter society, when we're into playing realistic D&D sims. But we're all part of the AI game.
Holographic Bieber
Nov 8, 2011
Sure, you can't hug a child with robotic eyes, and printing a baby has issues, but our perma-kittens will take our minds off it.
Spider State
Nov 14, 2011
We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.
Voodoo Bernie Is the Future
Nov 21, 2011
We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.
The Guilted Age
Nov 28, 2011
Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.
Megafauna
Dec 5, 2011
Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.
Moonifest Destiny
Dec 12, 2011
China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.
Introducing the Thought DVR
Dec 19, 2011
We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.
My Bricks Are Online
Jan 3, 2012
We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.
Eyeball in My Colon
Jan 16, 2012
We learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can get our entertainment everywhere.
Robot Death or Lizard Face
Jan 24, 2012
Sure we can't tell if it's a computer, but it won't kill us. It will kill our physical-altered progeny. Am I right?
Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma
Feb 6, 2012
Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.
Ubiquitous Media
Feb 13, 2012
Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.
Photography Becomes Archaeology
Feb 27, 2012
We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!
Beam Me Out Mommy
Mar 5, 2012
Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.
The Nanobots Made My Brain Do It
Mar 12, 2012
Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.
Kickstart My Comic Heart
Mar 19, 2012
Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
No Keyboard, No Security
Apr 2, 2012
We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.
Spectrum in My Head
Apr 9, 2012
We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.
TV and Movies Merge
Apr 23, 2012
Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.
Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose
Apr 30, 2012
We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.
No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books
May 7, 2012
While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.
What’s the Digital Matter?
May 14, 2012
We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.
Your Tube Is Here
May 21, 2012
Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.
Jam the Reptile Terrorists
Jun 4, 2012
When we all have wearable computing we'll need to jam it and stop the parallel universes from invading us. But at least we have easy access to Point Break.
Lastcast
Jun 11, 2012
Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.
