Angus Fletcher
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2,582 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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And the more that I started working with the army, people in my department basically stopped talking to me in the same way.
They thought, oh, you're like a spy, basically.
You're like, you've been like programmed.
But anyway, I got brought in and it was so different from what I thought.
So first of all, most of this unit, they're just people you would imagine a lot of them are women from all different parts of the world.
And their job is to solve problems from the future before they happen.
And so they sit in this room and they're like, what are all the things that are going to happen tomorrow that are bad?
How do we stop them now?
At first when I heard this, I was like, well, this is just bonkers.
But then you get in the room and you realize they are identifying these problems and they are solving them.
And in my case, what is really weird is our friend Malcolm Gladwell
had tweeted out very kindly a promotion from this book that I had written.
And so it had gotten on the radar of these folks and they'd read the book and they'd understood the book and they'd started tracking my research.
And they came to me and they said, hey, Professor Futch, what we've noticed is you're publishing all this like really weird out there stuff.
It seems pretty interesting.
And it seems like none of your colleagues are citing your work.
Like they all say really nice things about you, but none of them incorporate anything that you've done into their research.
It's like you've created this field that is just like dying.
I was like, yeah, that just kind of described kind of what I'm doing.
And they're like, would you like to actually test these theories?
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