Sep 9, 202510 minS1
<p>David Foster Wallace was not a futurist, technologist, or academic theorist. Yet, few writers captured the emotional and existential toll of modern life as presciently as he did. With a mind equal parts linguistic...
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They Tried to Warn Us
Hosted by Ray Welling · history · EN-AU
About this Podcast:
What if the people who predicted the future… could see what we’ve done with it? They wrote books. They issued warnings. They mapped out our technological Faustian bargains before we signed the dotted line.Now they’re back… sort of.They Tried to Warn Us is the podcast that resurrects dead thinkers—writers, theorists, prophets, poets—and asks them what they make of the world we’ve built.Why does it feel like we’re hurtling toward dystopia wearing VR goggles?Because they told us. We just didn’t listen.
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What is They Tried to Warn Us about?
What if the people who predicted the future… could see what we’ve done with it? They wrote books. They issued warnings. They mapped out our technological Faustian bargains before we signed the dotted line. Now they’re back… sort of.
Who hosts They Tried to Warn Us?
They Tried to Warn Us is hosted by Ray Welling. The show has published 11 episodes to date.
What has They Tried to Warn Us covered recently?
Recent episodes include "David Foster Wallace: The Cost of Consciousness" (9 September 2025, 10 minutes), "Herbert Marcuse: The Machine That Sells Obedience" (9 September 2025, 9 minutes), and "Mary Shelley: Frankenstein and the Ethics of Creation" (1 September 2025, 12 minutes).
How often does They Tried to Warn Us publish?
They Tried to Warn Us publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 12 minutes across 11 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on They Tried to Warn Us?
Booking probability for They Tried to Warn Us is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. They Tried to Warn Us requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. They Tried to Warn Us's contact route on record: public web form.
About the host
Ray Welling hosts They Tried to Warn Us, a history podcast with 11 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Sep 9, 20259 minS1
<p>In his 1964 masterwork One-Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse described a society where dissent was smothered not by overt oppression but by consumer satisfaction; where entertainment replaced engagement and even...
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<p>Mary Shelley didn’t just invent science fiction. She wrote a blueprint for the age of innovation without accountability. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was a parable of invention, creation, and catastrophic...
- Aug 26, 202510 minS1
<p>When we think of dystopia, we often imagine Orwell’s jackboot: surveillance, censorship, control through terror. But Aldous Huxley offered a different nightmare – one where oppression wears a grin. In Brave New World...
- Aug 19, 20259 minS1
<p>He cracked the Nazi Enigma code—and may have shortened World War II by two years. He helped invent the modern computer—before the term even existed. He asked a question no one had dared to ask: “Can machines think?”...
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<p>Guy Debord was a Marxist filmmaker and founder of the Situationist International, a group of radical artists and thinkers who believed that modern life had been hijacked by appearances. Debord saw not just the rise...
- Aug 14, 20259 minS1
<p>What happens when the man who warned us about runaway technology comes back to see how it all turned out? In this episode, French philosopher Jacques Ellul—author of The Technological Society—explains why every...
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<p>Before memes, before iPhones, before your mom started texting in all caps—there was Marshall McLuhan. The Canadian media theorist, cultural provocateur, and surprise cameo star in Annie Hall makes his ghostly return...
- Jul 29, 202532 minS1
<p>“What happens when the man who saw it all coming returns to tell us… we misunderstood the punchline?”</p><p>In this premiere episode of They Tried to Warn Us, we resurrect the voice and mind of media theorist Neil...
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Jul 25, 20254 minS1<p>They Tried to Warn Us is the podcast that resurrects dead thinkers—writers, theorists,prophets, poets—and asks them what they make of the world we’ve built.</p><p>We’ve used a little creative license—and a lot of...
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