Future Tense
A podcast by ABC listen, ABC Radio - Fridays
343 Episodes
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Beyond the cloud — storing data in space
Published: 29/05/2025 -
Forgetting, not memory, moves us forward
Published: 22/05/2025 -
Bitcoin boom or digital deception?
Published: 15/05/2025 -
Can the oceans solve our carbon removal problems?
Published: 8/05/2025 -
YouTube turns 20; and the interesting side of boredom
Published: 1/05/2025 -
Remember the Jevons Paradox!
Published: 24/04/2025 -
The power and peril of the optimistic mind
Published: 17/04/2025 -
AI's "hidden labour" and the move toward a linkless internet
Published: 10/04/2025 -
The roots of techno-authoritarianism
Published: 3/04/2025 -
Some challenges to conventional economic thinking
Published: 27/03/2025 -
Civility, trash talking and more sociable cities
Published: 20/03/2025 -
Limitarianism — could a cap on wealth reduce inequality?
Published: 13/03/2025 -
Understanding attention and a craving for certainty
Published: 7/03/2025 -
Flow Batteries, windships, and a new approach to off-grid solar
Published: 27/02/2025 -
Modern museums, accountability, and openness
Published: 20/02/2025 -
Nuclear tombs and the distant discourse of danger
Published: 13/02/2025 -
The danger of generational labelling
Published: 6/02/2025 -
Could Utopian thinking save democracy?
Published: 30/01/2025 -
How to ensure privatisation serves the public good
Published: 23/01/2025 -
The vicious cycle of fear and anger — and how it traps society
Published: 16/01/2025
A critical look at new technologies, new approaches and new ways of thinking, from politics to media to environmental sustainability.