Already, today, young people are having less sex and fewer partners than previous generations, though they are also watching much more porn and masturbating two to three times as often. That isn’t going to change, the Atlantic’s Kate Julian say

Climate Change Will Destroy the Nation-State And Supercharge Capitalism

Nov 28th, 2018 41m 4s

Global warming will change much more than the world’s coastlines. Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann, authors of “Climate Leviathan,” think it will bring about a new planetary sovereign, answering to no authority other than capital and climate stab

Fake News, Bad Presidents: Our Coming 19th Century Future

Nov 21st, 2018 35m 55s

Tyler Cowen thinks that in 2038, we're going back to the past. In the absence of major enemies like Nazis or Soviets, Tyler argues we'll see a return to the world of 19th-century American politics — bitter, rancorous, and dysfunctional, filled

China Will Be on Mars, and America Will Be an Island

Nov 14th, 2018 42m 32s

Bruno Macaes thinks that in 2038, China will run the world (and maybe the solar system) thanks to its embrace of technology and its globe-spanning "belt and road" initiative. America will be totally marginalized and the new world order will als

When Will Our Driverless Cars Be Here to Pick Us Up?

Nov 7th, 2018 42m 56s

Missy Cummings is on the forefront of drone and driverless technology as a consultant and director of the Duke University Humans and Autonomy Laboratory. We asked her about the future of robotic-driving technology — from planes to trains to, ye

In the Internet of Things, You Will Be Just a Thing, Too

Oct 31st, 2018 34m

Paul Ford thinks that, by 2038, computers won’t matter—because they’ll be everywhere, embedded in your clothes and constantly surveilling you and shouting at you with advertisements. Nothing will work all that well, but you won’t even notice.L

An Xiao Mina Thinks the Internet Will Split in Two, Then Go To War With Itself

Oct 24th, 2018 35m 23s

By the year 2038, there will be two internets — one controlled by the U.S., and one by China. Technologist An Xiao Mina predicts that in 20 years, America's internet will be hyperpartisan and stratified along race, gender, and class lines, whil

Dahlia Lithwick Thinks the Supreme Court Will Die by 2038

Oct 17th, 2018 36m 37s

By the year 2038, The Supreme Court as we know it will cease to exist. That's the prediction of legal reporter Dahlia Lithwick, who thinks that divided, partisan power in Washington will make it impossible to confirm new justices to the highest

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Introducing 2038

Oct 8th, 2018 58s

What will life look like in 2038? Each episode will explore a different vision — flying driverless cars, an internet cold war, a Chinese world order — featuring experts in business, technology, climate science and beyond, each defending their p

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