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Modem Futura

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Modem Futura

Sean Leahy, Andrew Maynard

Summer Reading List Part 2: Sci-Fi, Spy Fiction & Analog Treasures

July 07, 2026 3:00am 30 min

The summer reading list concludes — and takes some wonderfully unexpected turns. In part two of their annual tradition, Sean and Andrew trade the cyberpunk canon of part one for a stack that ranges from Terry Pratchett's...

Summer Reading List 2026: The Books That Inspired Our Imagination (Part 1)

June 30, 2026 3:00am 33 min

Summer in Tempe is hot, and so is the case for putting down your phone and picking up a book you actually own. In Part 1 of our annual Summer Reading List, Sean and Andrew trade the doorstop novels, dog-eared paperbacks,...

WEF Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026: A Futures Breakdown

June 22, 2026 8:49pm 1:17

Every year, the World Economic Forum releases its Top 10 Emerging Technologies list — and this year, Andrew shares his front-row history with it: he was in the room in Dubai back in 2011 when the whole thing began. In th...

AI Jobs, Liquid Software & Human Flourishing with Jeff Abbott

June 16, 2026 3:00am 53 min

School's out, the studio's packed into boxes, and Modem Futura is officially on summer roadshow — broadcasting from Andrew's home studio with returning guest Jeff Abbott, founding partner at Blitzscaling Ventures, founde...

Synthetic Cells, Mirror Life, and the Future of Engineered Biology — with Emma Frow

June 09, 2026 3:00am 56 min

What do we actually mean when we say we've made life in a lab? In this episode, Sean and Andrew welcome back ASU's Emma Frow — a researcher working at the rare intersection of bioengineering, governance, and care — to wa...

Alien Minds, Time Travelers, and Consciousness Backups: A Futures Thought Experiment

June 02, 2026 3:00am 44 min

We're back for another round of Futures Improv — the segment where an AI-generated scenario lands on the table and we improvise our way through what it might mean for the rest of us. This time the spinner sends us into t...

Project Hail Mary, Dead Civilizations, and the Trouble with Feel-Good Endings

May 26, 2026 3:00am 41 min

A timed episode (they gave themselves 35 minutes — barely made it) becomes an excuse for two arguments stitched together. First, Sean and Andrew finally have it out over Andy Weir's *Project Hail Mary*: Sean loved both t...

School's Out for Summer: AI, Vibe Coding, and What Teaching Still Requires

May 19, 2026 3:00am 1:02

What happens when the semester ends and you finally have a moment to look back at what just happened? In this episode, Sean and Andrew sit down for an honest, reflective conversation about what it actually looks like to ...

The Dawkins Effect: Why Even Skeptics Fall for AI Consciousness

May 12, 2026 3:00am 58 min

When Richard Dawkins — the man who gave us The Selfish Gene and decades of rigorous scientific skepticism — published an essay declaring that Claude, an AI chatbot, might be conscious, the internet had feelings. Some che...

Convergence Day: Opus 4.7 and the Reliability Question

May 05, 2026 3:00am 51 min

Something has changed with Claude — not catastrophically, not visibly, just enough that the writers, researchers, and builders who'd come to rely on it have started to notice the seams. What does it mean when a tool you'...

The Jagged Frontier: Reading Stanford's Human Centered 2026 AI Index

April 28, 2026 3:00am 1:00

A system that can win gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad but can't read an analog clock. A technology being adopted faster than almost anything in modern history, yet only six percent of teachers say their s...

Mythos and the Sorcerer's Apprentice: When AI Outruns Our Wisdom

April 21, 2026 3:00am 39 min

Anthropic's unreleased "Mythos" model surfaced thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities nobody had ever caught — some buried in trusted software for nearly three decades — and the company decided it was too powerful to ship...

Artemis II: The Science, the Wonder, and the Future of Being Human

April 14, 2026 3:00am 47 min

For the first time since 1972, human beings have traveled to the vicinity of the moon — and on this episode of Modem Futura, Sean and Andrew sit with what that actually means. Recorded while the Artemis II crew was still...

Two Tools That Will Change How You Think About the Future

April 07, 2026 3:00am 45 min

What if the future wasn't something that arrived all at once — but more like a series of waves, some barely visible on the horizon, others already crashing around your feet? In this episode, Sean and Andrew explore two o...

Fluid Futures: 10 Signals Reshaping an AI-Mediated World

March 31, 2026 3:00am 56 min

What if the biggest risk right now isn't moving too slowly — it's optimizing for a world that no longer exists? That's one of the central provocations in this episode, as Sean and Andrew dig into the newly released "Expl...

Futures Improv: Power, Probes & Post-Human Civilization

March 24, 2026 3:00am 1:06

What does it mean for a civilization to truly master power — and what happens to human nature when scarcity is no longer an excuse? In this spring break edition of Modem Futura, Sean and Andrew take their favorite format...

The Invisible Upgrade: How AI Is Already Changing How We Think

March 17, 2026 3:00am 1:03

Something is happening with AI that almost nobody is talking about — and the reason nobody's talking about it is because, by design, you can't see it. In this episode, Sean and Andrew dig into what Sean calls "the invisi...

The Futures Cone: Preposterous to Plausible

March 10, 2026 3:00am 1:04

What if thinking about the future isn't about predicting what will happen — but about mapping what could? In this episode of Modem Futura, Sean and Andrew dive deep into one of the most foundational tools in futures stud...

Technologic: What Old iPods, Tiny Cameras, and Tangled Cables Teach Us About the Future

March 03, 2026 2:00am 51 min

What happens when you dig through a box of old iPods and realize the tangled cables might be the least complicated thing you pull out? In this episode of Modem Futura, Sean and Andrew unpack—literally—a collection of vin...

The Futures Triangle and the Intent Map: Practical Tools for Thriving with AI

February 24, 2026 2:00am 53 min

What does it actually look like to thrive — not just survive — in an era of rapid AI integration? In this episode, Sean and Andrew go behind the scenes on their  sold out workshop at ASU's 2026 FOLC Fest, designed for hi...

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