A (slightly) Better Tomorrow

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• SOVEREIGNTY (make believe as a method)

  October 4, 2026 · 36 min

  Wesley Herche spent years reading satellite imagery for the government and he works in solar now, and he’s building something he calls sovereign futures, which looks at centralized versus distributed technology and what that does to your…

• BLUEBIRD (making art feel possible)

  October 3, 2026 · 20 min

  Cyberpunk always imagines fighting the machines with better tech. Krissa is doing it with a paintbrush. She’s a watercolor artist who owns a studio in a historic building where everyone is welcome. We talk about making art feel possible…

• ORION (speaking for the spaceship)

  September 30, 2026 · 15 min

  What if the most important part of a Moon rocket is the people on the ground holding their breath? Nick helps put the Orion capsule on top of the rocket at Kennedy Space Center, and he calls himself the Lorax for Orion because he speaks…

• HIGH TECH LOW LIFE (fieldnotes)

  September 23, 2026 · 5 min

  Fieldnotes are the minisodes between full episodes where I answer your questions and ramble a bit. Shayari Mukherjee, a scholar in South Asia, sent me a three part question I haven’t stopped thinking about. Is “low life” a required part…

• HELLO (what this show is)

  September 11, 2026 · 1 min

  This is a show about where we’re actually headed as humans and about the people already building that future. It’s not the version where everything is fine or where it’s all over, but something slightly better every day. Guests are…

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