The Future of You

What happens when machines become part of our relationships? And what happens to us when we start conversing with machines? In this episode of Me:chine Dialogues , Tracey Follows speaks with Sherry Turkle , MIT professor, psychologist and one of the world’s most influential thinkers on technology, identity and human relationships. For more than four decades, Sherry has studied what our relationshi...

What happens when identity stops being something we declare and becomes something machines infer? In this specially assembled edition of The Future of You , Tracey Follows returns to four conversations that reveal how the self is becoming machine-readable. Artist and AI pioneer Holly Herndon explains why anything captured in media can become training data. Journalist Kashmir Hill traces the rise o...

This is a short audio essay, based on the first Futuremade View . In The Database Brand , Tracey extends her work on identity, machine readability and the shift from the Designed Self to the Database Self, applying it to brands. For most of modern marketing history, brands were treated as designed identities: names, logos, promises, personalities and desired places in the minds of consumers. But i...

What if the real threat from AI is not that it suddenly takes over? What if we just slowly hand ourselves over? In this episode of Me:chine Dialogues , Tracey Follows speaks with Lee Rainie, Director of Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center, about the new report Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age , co-authored with Janna Q. Anderson. This is a substantial rep...

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self....

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self....

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self....

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self....

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self....

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self....

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and genomics  - are reshaping the nature of personal identity and the idea of the self....

What if the expert quoted in the story doesn’t exist? Jesse Chambers is quoted across British newspapers as a travel expert, offering advice on everything from cruise ships to long-haul flights. There is just one problem. She doesn’t exist.  In this episode of Me:chine Dialogues , Tracey Follows speaks with journalist Rob Waugh about the emergence of synthetic experts: fabricated identities design...

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity,  social credit systems, avatar assistants, v...

These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity,  social credit systems, avatar assistants, v...

The first in a brand new transmission from The Future of You podcast, called Me:chine Dialogues.  Listen to the manifesto and subscribe now to tune into the frequency of Me:chine World.  Visit us at me-chine.com *** Music  "A New Day (intro)" Performed by Skott Licensed courtesy of Cosmos Music, Safari Riot  Licensed courtesy of Downtown Music UK Limited, Safari Riot Publishing, Sony Mus...

In this awesome episode, I’m lucky to be talking to Holly Herndon, a Berlin-based artist and groundbreaking musician. With a PhD from Stanford University and a pioneering spirit, Holly merges cutting-edge AI with music to challenge the boundaries of identity.  From acclaimed albums like Platform and Proto to her revolutionary project Holly Plus , Holly has redefined what it means to create and per...

In this episode, I’m talking to Sarah Ticho, founder of Hatsumi and Co-founder of XR Health Alliance about the fascinating intersection of virtual reality (VR), immersive media, health, and well-being.  Sarah’s work focuses on using VR to create human-centred, immersive experiences that redefine how we understand emotions, memory, and identity. We discuss Sarah’s pioneering projects, including Sou...

In this episode we delve into the transformative impact of AI on humanity and society with Chris Perry, Chief Innovation Officer and Chair at Weber Shandwick Futures. His new book, "Perspective Agents," challenges traditional views of news media and information gathering, focusing on the emergence of AI and its potential to reshape our knowledge sources.  He sees perspective as the prima...

Will Microsoft or Google win the race to control the future of AI? In this episode I’m talking to journalist and author Parmy Olson whose new book “Supremacy: AI, Chat GPT, and the Race That Will Change the World” explores the fierce competition between Microsoft and Google to lead the AI revolution. We discuss the motivations of tech pioneers like Deepmind’s Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis and...

Byron Tau is an American investigative journalist and author of the new book "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State ” so in this episode I’m talking to Byron about the intricate world of government surveillance.  We discuss how commercial data is leveraged by the US government and other entities for extensive monitoring....

In this episode I’m talking to Chase Hughes – a US military veteran-turned-expert in human behaviour, profiling, and persuasion, regularly training elite govt and big business on behaviour skills. He is a leading trial consultant too.  Chase delves into the complexities of identity manipulation in the digital age and the urgent need to safeguard our identities.  We cover the weaponisation of ident...

Welcome to The Future! This special episode of The Future of You has been created using the tool everybody’s talking about; Notebook LM. With just a few taps of the keyboard this 10-minute bonus podcast has been created from the information on my website www.futuremade.group . It took minutes for AI to distil the information and create what sounds like two people discussing my work. The conversati...

In this episode I’m chatting about the importance of language to our identity with linguist and tech entrepreneur Jack Connor. Jack is about to embark on a trip to the Arctic where he will deposit language data from more than 500 languages into a preservation vault. We delve into the intricacies of language preservation, the impact of the internet on dialects, and the fascinating intersection betw...

What if you could use AI to see what your life would be like when you are 60, or better understand how you got there? Today on The Future of You I’m talking to the creators of an interactive experience that will allow you to do just that. In this episode I speak with Germeshausen Professor Pattie Maes and technologist and researcher Pat Pataranutaporn from MIT Media Lab. Pattie and Pat are working...

In this episode of The Future of You, we hear from futurist and author Richard Yonck. We discuss some common fears and misconceptions around AI. We also consider a ​realistic ​timeline ​for AI advancements such as self-driving cars and  consider the importance of balancing ​AI's ​benefits ​with ​ethics. I also welcome Lord Chris Holmes MBE back to the podcast. We talk about his private member...