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018: How Warmer Weather and Collapsing Ecosystems are Driving a Tourism Doom Spiral
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been a fair amount of coverage of maritime activities at Futur-ish and we’re pleased to bring you another episode where Radha was triggere...
017: The Weird Technology that Might Replace GPS
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As we’ve documented before (see; Kessler Syndrome), the infrastructures we rely on and take for granted are increasingly crumbling and under threat....
016: The Movement Charging you to Disconnect
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How much would you pay to be bored? Well, for the kids of Amsterdam it’s about 7 bucks to have their phones locked up and sit and read or do crosswo...
015: Throwing Money and Ideology at the Population Timebomb
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While it’s generally agreed that the global population is continuing to expand (at least until flatlining at the end of the century) for some parts ...
014: Robotaxis into Car Shares; The Real Future of Transport
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
While you were counting down to 2026 on New Years, Tobias was counting down the last seconds of a future he very personally dreamed of; a future with ...
013: Hacking the Collapse of Healthcare into Your Own Hands
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
All over the world, healthcare systems are straining under the weight of ageing populations, crippling costs and overheads and new and novel condition...
012: Why Leaders are Turning to Gambling to Bet Which Way the World Will Burn
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There’s been enough warning from fiction and indeed reality that people should really know better than to reduce the horror of conflict to gaming, p...
011: How Banning Architecture Might Mean more Buildings for Your Brain
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Somewhere, in a Trump administration office, someone decided that architects aren’t all that and now they’re being de-professionalised and removed...
Update: Tis The Season
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Futur-ish are taking a short hiatus from our bi-weekly release schedule for the holiday. We’ll be back in 2026!
010: The Problems with Australia’s Bottomless Brunch of free Energy
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The sun has been the biggest tech success story of the last quarter century. Solar panels are cheaper than fences, efficiency just keeps going up and ...
009: The Teens Rejecting AI Gimmicks for See-through Plastic Blocks
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It used to be that the plastic blocks most teens might be interested in were multicoloured and used for stacking on top of each other. Now they’re t...
008: The Most Futuristic Little Town in Middle England
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The future comes at you at unexpected ways. If the bullish pronouncements of tech bros are to believed it’s in the gadgets, gizmos and gimmicks domi...
007: The Discord Server that did a Dungeon Raid on a Government
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next time you’re desperately casting heal on your paladin, spare a moment to think about the young revolutionaries using your dress-up-and-prete...
006: The Rumour That Cost Thirty-Five Billion Dollars and Created A Data Center Radar
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Truly, nothing is new and everything has happened before and so we find ourselves, amidst a collapsing geopolitical order with some very fancy gadgets...
005: Love Islands? Come and Get Your Sovereignty On
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve all wanted our own patch of land to do what we want, right? Little bit of crypto? Pharmaceutical experiments? Human cloning? Well the manifest...
004: The Future Right at Your Feet that you Never Think About (with Nick Foster)
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While you're being relentlessly bombarded with multi-trillion dollar projections, promises and prognostications for the latest gizmo a quiet giant has...
003: The Space Trash Apocalypse You Haven’t Been Thinking About
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If the apocalypse was around the corner, would you want to know? Well good news for you, we may already be in it, but because it's hard to pin things ...
002: The Cutest Little Robot at the End of Computation
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You haven't seen everything they could do with mushrooms until you've seen a disaster rescue robot powered by a mycelium brain. Of course, mycelium's ...
001: Thriving the Apocalypse on the World’s Most Exclusive Perma-Cruise
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sometime in 2028, the world's largest private yacht sets sail. Forever. Getting yourself a berth will set you back 10 million bucks but you'll be guar...
Episode 000: Introducing
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Introducing Futur-ish