Is The World F*cked?

Hey doc? This heart’s ticking when it should be tocking – can you print me up a new one? That’s right, we’re wading knee-deep into the gooey world of bioprinting. According to Grand View Research, the global 3D bioprinting market size was valued at $2B USD in 2022 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 12.5% as we move into the future to 2030. This amazing growth is att...

OK, it's true that PJ and I yabbered so much about Elon Musk in the past episode that we ran out of time – guilty! Although to some degree it's because Elon Musk has done so goddam much ... even we were surprised when we took a good look. Were you? So we thought we'd do one of the most influential and divisive characters in the world today (as the same people who loved him for Tesla...

How many world-changing businesses can one human start, grow, manage and sell?  What if you're Elon Musk? Let's see, there's Paypal, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, and a whole bunch more  … plus that game he created and sold when he was just 12 years old. Yep. What were you doing at 12? If anyone deserves the title of ‘Future-Maker,’ (said with gusto, reverb, and echo) then it’s Mr Elon M...

Oh privacy, privacy, wherefore art thou privacy? Our data is being pilfered in a zillion ways George Orwell could never have imagined, so we thought it high time we closed down TickTock and locked Alexa in the closet and kicked the Roomba out, and pull the batteries from your phones so we can have a confidential chat with you. Is that OK? Are we letting our rights disappear one bit at a time - unt...

Konichiwa! For a change of pace we're sharing observations from one of our all-time favourite cities: quirky, crazy, tech-loving Tokyo - THE place for inspiring glimpses of what our future could be, and fresh thinking on how we embed technology into our city living lives. Tokyo is an ultra-modern city, as per the famous always-bustling Shibuya Crossing. There's loads of fantastic eating,...

Hey - what's that flying around up there in the night sky? Smile - you're on satellite camera. Private companies are spraying tens of thousands of satellites into orbit. What in blazes are they DOING up there? Who is operating them?  Does anyone actually know? And – most importantly – why are all those orbiting cameras pointed at PJ’s house? According to UNOOSA records, there are 8,261 s...

3…2…1…BLAST OFF! Fly me to the Moon, baby! With everyone hell-bent on sending humans back to our little grey buddy to take selfies and maybe mine the guts out of it, we tease out the good, the bad, and the ugly. And what about Mars and those mineral-laden asteroids? And, most importantly, what do PJ and Dr Bruce REALLY think of billionaire astronauts in cowboy hats? Strap in folks, and don't...

You know those subscriptions that you forget to cancel?  You ain't seen nothin' yet! First, it was monthly subscriptions to software, games, movies, (porn, for some of you!) and music. Well, now it's cars. Uh oh, what could go wrong? PJ and Dr Bruce take a look at what a car subscription is, why it's coming to a garage near you, and how manufacturers will get whacky and creativ...

Dr Bruce goes ga-ga over battery-powered airplanes – yes, they are very real right now! So you thought Electric Vehicles were cool - sit back, tray table up, and relax as we explore battery-powered aircraft, how they might help save the world, and the new meaning of "range anxiety" at 30,000 feet. Imagine flying with no noise but the wind on the wings that keep you up. Peaceful? PJ'...

Welcome to "The Deepfake Zone" with Dr Bruce and PJ ... or so you think! We're diving headfirst into the terrifying world of deepfake technology and how it's already changed your life forever. You just don't realise it ... or do you? It's a wild ride as Dr. Bruce outlines the frightening scenarios that take PJ from seeing it as a laugh, full of celebrity face-swaps an...

Psst, wanna live another fifty years? Wanna smooth out those wrinkles? There’s a new industry out there that promises to do both. PJ and Dr Bruce poke fun at the charlatans and snake-oil salesman while smoking out the mind-blowing therapies which really are coming our way (message to industry: we’ll settle for a reversal of male pattern baldness). How far will you wind back your clock? When we&apo...

If recycling is so good and important, why do we do it so badly? We dumpster-dive into the disappointments and try to dig out a few kernels of hope for the future. When we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here . And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcastin...

Now we have a new fun toy -- the ability to edit the DNA in ALL forms of life. Will we modify crops to feed the starving, make franken-puppies, or do that "designer baby" thing and give our kids superpowers? Can we resist the temptations? Oh boy, you thought AI was big ... This is BIG! And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The...

Is housing affordability f*cked - especially for the younger generations?  Ask PJ (a Gen-Xer by the way) and then stand back for the answer. This is his passion-project: the right to own the roof over your head, and live "an adult life" unbeholden to real estate mongrels... um.. moguls. Leave housing for people who live in houses - all of them. Well, that's where we start. Then we s...

Bruce tries to inject a dose of positivity after our climate-change wrist-slasher in episode 3 by looking at how far we can go with solar if we really try. But are we installing it fast enough? And why is the gas man knocking on PJ's door at the exact moment we're criticising his product? True story. So slap on the sunscreen, slip on your shades, and let's find out!  Want to dig dee...

Some bigwigs put out a letter calling for a 6-month moratorium on AI development, so we had to ask: is Bill Gates smoking what Elon smokes? And what genie would Dr Bruce rather have stuffed back in that bottle? Hint: it has to do with cringey celebrity endorsements, outrageous rip-off schemes and a planet-burning waste of electricity :-) And for the record, when we're doing real work and not...

Will augmented reality, virtual reality and "meta" (whatever that means) suck us into a blue-pill hellscape of immersive advertising and haptic-assisted porn? And what about bringing back dead people? Strap on your goggles for this one!  And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying h...

You knew we'd go there. That's right, we're tackling the biggest and baddest issue there is. And things get weird (oh my God, is PJ a climate sceptic or is he yanking my chain? Lucky we're mates!). We get real about what's going on, how fast things are moving, and what we can do from here, including crazy sh*t like sucking carbon back out of the sky. This one's a roll...

The robots are coming, the robots are coming! And PJ doesn't like it when they have arms and legs. It's weird. But we're going MUCH further in this episode than how they look (although you'll be amazed how they look). What happens when your tin-plated buddy is conscious and charming and carries a gun? Or have we got it all wrong and robots are here to save us? And for the recor...

It's episode 1 baby, and we're diving right in. You thought ChatGPT was a head spin? You ain't seen nothin' yet! Today we're having a laugh tackling some of the things about AI that we really love, and really hate, and trying to decide if it's going to save us or screw us. Enjoy! And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find...