Explores the point of the podcast and why it will number about 30 episodes of some 8 minutes each. It also gives an outline of future episodes: - appr. 5 episodes on 3 histories of technologies (internet, electricity, x-rays) - appr.3 episodes for picking the main areas that we need to keep an eye on for developing a future (eg. government, media, finance, food and health) - appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2023 - appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2026 - appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2030 - appr. 10 episodes for writing stories that describe the future, most likely 10 obituaries written from the perspective of 2030 - appr. 5 episodes for discussing meta-questions - these will likely be sprinkled throughout the podcast

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Thinking about the future is not the same as trying to predict. Predicting is very difficult indeed. But even when predicting incorrectly, there is some value in the exercise. What is it? Foresight, reduction of anxiety, pleasure?This experiment tries (very hard) to predict the future correctly in 3 incremental steps: 2023, 2026, and 2030 (probably 30 8-minute episodes in all). It does so by weaving many different strands of life together - because when we look at history, this is how history has always progressed.But the object of interest is not primarily in the vision of 2030, it is in the side effects of arriving at it.By Arne Hessenbruch, Lecturer at MIT.https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnehessenbruch/