Broadcast From Later

We’re talking about new institutions, retro materials, and the same old lego bricks — on Broadcast From Later w/ Gem Barton, Tobias Revell, and Trevor Haldenby. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

John Nichols, whose handle is @lajethrojenkins on X, Radha Mistry, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Robert Bolton exchange signals of change. The conversation covers:  The law firm for children exercising their legal rights to a safe climate;  How Chinese consumers are bypassing retail markups by making group purchases directly from the factories;  And: Will the NBA as we know it still exist in 2030? We look...

Scott Smith, Susan Cox-Smith, and Madeline Ashby join Robert Bolton to talk about futures practices and exchange weak signals of change.  This conversation covers: niche climate transition issues wedging political division; the arms race between impulse consumer confections and appetite suppressants; and the return of sneakernets. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels In...

Critic and editor Mimi Zeiger joins broadcast. We chat: LA architecture, aqueduct acupuncture, planetary menopause, ascribing personhood to ceiling fans, and “a wet lab for noospheric emergence.” Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on...

It’s a new Broadcast From Later with Robert Bolton, Sydney Allen-Ash, Julienne DeVita, and Daniel Anthony Daam-Rossi (of Radical Norms).  In this conversation, Daniel tells us about a brain implant that restored a paralyzed woman’s ability to communicate. Julienne shares food futures signals surfaced while researching for the new podcast, Eating Tomorrow. Rob wonders about the implications of Flip...

Julian Bleecker of the Near Future Lab joins Valdis Silins, Jayar LaFontaine and Robert Bolton for an exchange of weak signals of change. The conversation covers:  / North Korea’s new cyberwarfare proficiencies: their hacker army stole $3 billion in crypto / Creative work is not living up to its promise: Time to imagine harder / GPT hyperproductivity and Amazon’s very reasonable self-publishing li...

We discuss: pets as economic indicators; the growing prevalence of digital therapeutics; and what the adult webcam industry’s BTS production advisors mean for the future of work — with Richard Thomas, Irwin Adam, Radha Mistry, and Robert Bolton. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later...

Bianca Weeko Martin — artist, architect, curator, writer — joins Asia Clarke, Robert Bolton, and Sydney Allen-Ash for a conversation covering the resource dynamics of African coups; uncomfortable offshore e-greetings; and the manipulative misuse of kink speak. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check...

Designer, futurist, and cartoon artist, Viraj Joshi joins Tobias Revell, Sydney Allen-Ash and Robert Bolton to talk drop-shipped, crowd-funded cloud-seeding; the uncanny bigotry of AI generated fashion models; and how we ended up in the era of “quantitative aesthetics” — on Broadcast From Later. Signals: Particle Washing: What could possibly go wrong with DIY geo-engineering? Artificial Diversity:...

Kofi Gyekye and Clinton Robinson join Rob and Valdis to talk about new flight paths, Ossington strip origin stories, nomad values, weird sensing, Telfar’s America, and the whatsapp groups of Brooklyn blocks.  Weak Signals: / For the first time ever, there will be commercial flight routes between the African continent and the Eastern Caribbean.  / A new technique involving machine learning and a pa...

Jerrold McGrath and Luisa Ji (UKAI Projects) join From Later strategists Robert Bolton and Udit Vira to go over the fine print of Jackson Fall’s HustleGPT, dream up a new mythos for the church of satellite worship, and ponder why unsettling stories make for better TV. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our source...

A wholesome hang with John Nichols aka LaJethro Jenkins, Radha Mistry, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Robert Bolton, the conversation meanders questions like: Is Kai Cenat the poster child for a new era of ambient celebrity? Could the health analytics captured by Emm, a digitally-enabled menstrual cup, be worth the encroachment over body-device boundaries? In light of the Replika AI-romance and ERP (erotic...

Arup foresight folks and FL family, Radha and Tobias join From Later strategists Rob and Valdis to chat auditory deep fakes, distributed power generation, and NPC mimicry.  / Project Shasta Adobe’s Project Shasta can isolate and extract elements from an audio recording— most notably, the human voice. Shasta then synthesizes its best version of that voice based on the audio data present in the reco...

FL strategists are broadcasting with artist Hima Batavia to explore wearable gut biomes, mundane how-to videos, and lab formulated breast milk.  File under nomadic biomimicry/nutritional hyperplasia/embodied environments/prepper city-guides/civility practice/designer milk.  Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our...

Sam Venis, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Miranda Shou join Robert Bolton to explore animal noise analysis, accreditation on the blockchain, and emerging sports marketing strategies.  / DeepSqueak Can we communicate with animals? DeepSqueak is a machine learning tool built to analyze rodent noises for indications of stress, but it’s also being used to identify marine species in the wild and to parse animal...