Road to 2112 — Real News, Future Story

Cozy near-future short stories where people and robots live side by side. Each episode is a standalone tale inspired by today's real news. Part of the Road to 2112 series by Jun Sasaki.

Road to 2112 — Real News, Future Story is a arts podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 131 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Road to 2112 — Real News, Future Story, a arts show with 131 episodes published.

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  Road to 2112 — Real News, Future Story

  Five Feet / Road to 2112

  Sep 22, 20266 min

  Real news → Future story. Each story imagines a near future inspired by today's real news. Five Feet This story was inspired by the University of Zurich and University of Bern article "Social interactions in isolated, confined, and extreme environments." Twelve people who spent ten months at the Concordia station in Antarctica were tracked with wearable sensors, and the crew members with the longest contact time reported conflict and distrust most strongly, while small subgroups formed among those who shared a language or a nationality. In the story, a machine becomes a place for a man who is worn down by company and made lonely by solitude. Do you have somewhere you can rest without having to consider anyone at all? Read free on Kindle Unlimited More stories & author profile ✅ Subscribe for more gentle futures #whatif #storytelling #NearFuture #FutureTrends

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  The Four Hundred Twenty-Seventh / Road to 2112

  Sep 21, 20266 min

  Real news → Future story. Each story imagines a near future inspired by today's real news. The Four Hundred Twenty-Seventh This story was inspired by the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland article "Using Biodiversity as the Basis for New Drugs." Soil samples sent in by ordinary citizens yielded one hundred eighteen new species of myxobacteria, widening a classification once counted as eleven families and thirty-two genera to twenty-eight families and ninety genera, and turning up five new compound classes active against fungi, viruses, and bacteria. In the story, a woman who has never once hit anything in thirty-one years gets word about a spoonful of soil she mailed nineteen years earlier. What are you still doing without expecting an answer, and when will it reach whom? Read free on Kindle Unlimited More stories & author profile ✅ Subscribe for more gentle futures #whatif #storytelling #NearFuture #FutureTrends

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  Eleven Thousand Years / Road to 2112

  Sep 20, 20266 min

  Real news → Future story. Each story imagines a near future inspired by today's real news. Eleven Thousand Years This story was inspired by the University of Michigan article "Rock-eating fungi flourish deep below our feet." Six hundred and eighty-nine fungal species were recovered from shale between roughly eight hundred and eighteen hundred feet underground, thirteen of them previously undescribed, and more than two hundred strains were cultured into the first public collection of deep subsurface fungi. In the story, a single strain that spent eleven thousand years in darkness wakes up and the first thing it breaks down is something people made. What should we call the things that have been going on all along without anyone knowing? Read free on Kindle Unlimited More stories & author profile ✅ Subscribe for more gentle futures #whatif #storytelling #NearFuture #FutureTrends

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  Thin Ground / Road to 2112

  Sep 19, 20266 min

  Real news → Future story. Each story imagines a near future inspired by today's real news. Thin Ground This story was inspired by the Newswise article "Soil microbiomes reorganize to maintain ecosystem functioning during long-term nutrient depletion." In soils that lost their nutrients over hundreds of thousands of years, microbial diversity declined while the connections between organisms grew steadier and more resilient, and capacities such as nitrogen fixation and decomposition actually increased. In the story, a woman shown a picture of thin soil receives it instead as a picture of her own community. In a place where the numbers keep dropping, has the line between you and someone else grown thinner, or denser? Read free on Kindle Unlimited More stories & author profile ✅ Subscribe for more gentle futures #whatif #storytelling #NearFuture #FutureTrends

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  Ninety Percent / Road to 2112

  Sep 18, 20266 min

  Real news → Future story. Each story imagines a near future inspired by today's real news. Ninety Percent This story was inspired by the INFORMS article "Picking the Best Bot: Collaboration Strategies for Humans and Bots in Order Pick Systems." Warehouse throughput is higher when a picker switches among several autonomous mobile robots according to the type of order than when the picker stays with one fixed partner, overturning the assumption that a fixed pair is the most efficient arrangement. In the story, a robot tells the person who keeps requesting him to call someone else, and then finds the place where he is still called. When you can no longer ask someone for everything, has that person moved further away? Read free on Kindle Unlimited More stories & author profile ✅ Subscribe for more gentle futures #whatif #storytelling #NearFuture #FutureTrends

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