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What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam Becker. Each week, Adam and a new guest will try to find hope in the darkness of the current political moment through earnest (and entertaining!) conversations about what such a future might look like. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the public conversation about what our world can and should be.
Multitude hosts Dreaming Against the Machine, a society show with 21 episodes published.
It's a triple astrophysicist episode! This week, Adam talks with Lucian Walkowicz and Erika Nesvold about why space colonization is a terrible idea, and what would be a better idea for the future. They also talk about sc
This week, Adam talks with Alondra Nelson, sociologist and former head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under Joe Biden. They talk about the destruction of scientific research in the US under Tr
This week, Adam’s guest is mathematician, algorithmic auditor, and author Cathy O’Neil. They talk about the uses and misuses of math and computer science, and what led both of them away from academic STEM into the wilds
This week's guests are historian Quinn Slobodian and writer Ben Tarnoff, authors of the new book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed . Adam talks with them about what Musk is, how he gained so much power, and what we can
This week, Adam fanboys at Becky Chambers , author of the Wayfarers series and one of his favorite science fiction writers. They talk about imagining cozy futures, hopepunk, why space ain't the place, and big trees. Pre-
This week's guest is author and journalist Annalee Newitz, whose most recent nonfiction book, Stories are Weapons, is about the history of psychological warfare. Adam and Annalee discuss psyops, science fiction, the orig
This week, Adam talks with Katie Mack, physicist and author, about feeling some type of way about the end of the universe. Along the way we also discuss illusions of control, entropy, and why it can be good to feel insig
This week's guest is tech critic, podcaster, and professionally angry dude Ed Zitron . Adam asks Ed what things would have to happen for him to be less angry (mostly, regulating the tech industry). Along the way they als
This week is a ✨Very Special Episode✨, a crossover with the hosts of our fellow Multitude show Wow if True ! Isabel J. Kim is an award-winning science fiction author, Amanda Silberling is a journalist at TechCrunch, and
This week, Adam talks with historian Susannah Glickman about the recent history of how we think about the future of technology, and why we have more power over that future than we might think. Along the way, they talk ab
This week, Adam talks with Moiya McTier about the power of myth in shaping our sense of the past and the future. They also talk about the nature of genius and inspiration, and why Dreaming Against the Machine itself is (
This week, Adam talks with Shannon Vallor, a philosopher of AI, about the metaphors we use to talk about AI and ourselves. They also dunk on libertarians and San Francisco billboards, and consider what kind of hope we ca
This week, Adam talks with political scientist and internet curmudgeon Dave Karpf about some really bad ideas about the future in two really bad books, why those books are bad, why Ezra Klein is too credulous about one o
This week's guest is the legendary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, author of The Ministry for the Future, the Mars trilogy , and many other books. Adam asks him about the role of science fiction in shaping o
This week, Adam talks with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, physicist and author of the new book The Edge of Spacetime , about their shared love of Star Trek and its vision of a hopeful future. They also talk about labor organi
Welcome to our debut show! This week, Adam talks with Reo Eveleth, journalist and podcaster, about who gets to imagine the future, the power that comes with that role, and why certain visions of the future have endured i
What would a good future look like? In this solo preview of the show, journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker explains his struggles with this question, and how that led him to start this podcast. Along the way, he tal
What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam Becker. Each week, Adam and a new guest will try to find hope in th
Susannah Glickman
1 appearance on this show
Moiya McTier
astrophysicist
1 appearance on this show
Dave Karpf
Professor · George Washington University
1 appearance on this show
Kim Stanley Robinson
Author
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
author of The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie · The Stacks Book Club
1 appearance on this show
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