Goodbye, Google
What if a technology company becomes so rich, so powerful, so exploitative, and so oblivious that that the harm it's doing begins to outweigh the qual...
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The future is shaped by technology—but technology is shaped by us. Every month, Soonish brings you stories showing how the choices we make together forge the technological world of tomorrow. From MIT-trained technology journalist Wade Roush. Learn more at soonishpodcast.org. We're a proud member of the Hub & Spoke audio collective! See hubspokeaudio.org.
Fusion! And Other Ways to Put the Adventure Back in Venture Capital
Venture capital is the fuel powering most technology startups. Behind every future Google or Uber or Snapchat is a syndicate of venture firms hoping f...
Hope for Ultra-Rare Diseases
In this episode of Soonish you'll meet Stanley Crooke, the former CEO of Ionis Pharmaceuticals and the head of a new nonprofit called N-Lorem, which i...
Technology and Education After the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impact on education on schools around the world, often rendering in-classroom instruction too dangerous...
"We've Needed Something to Bring Us Together"
In honor of the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden—a day of long-awaited endings and new beginnings—I'm republishing my Season 2 opener, "Shadows of Augu...
The Inventor of the Cell Phone Says the Future Is Still Calling
In 1973, there was only one man who believed everyone on Earth would want and need a cell phone. That man was a Motorola engineer named Martin Cooper....
The End of the Beginning
Soonish's six-month detour into electoral politics finishes where it started, with a conversation with our favorite futurist, Jamais Cascio. We talked...
American Reckoning, Part 2: A New Kind of Nation
Welcome to a special two-part series about the looming clash over the future of America. In Part 1, we looked at the tattered state of our democracy a...
American Reckoning, Part 1: Civil Wars and How to Stop Them
Welcome to a special two-part series about the looming clash over the future of America. In Part 1, we look at the tattered state of our democracy as ...
After Trump, What Comes Next?
Donald Trump will not be president forever. Whether he leaves office in 2021 or 2025; whether he steps down peacefully or not; whether he’s replaced b...