A Future Tense retrospective

Dec 11, 2025
29 mins

Episode Description

This is the program’s final episode and, as such, we look back over the past 17 years. What did the future look like back in 2009 when the show first aired? What have been the major trends during that time? Which predictions came to fruition and which didn’t? And what cautions do our guests have as we look ahead? 

Guests

Mica Sifry – US-based writer and editor 

Neema Singh Guliani – lawyer and policy expert 

Cory Doctorow – Canadian-British blogger, journalist and sci-fi author  

Professor Michael Mann – climatologist and geophysicist 

Associate Professor James Dyke - Earth Systems Science, University of Exeter  

Assistant Professor Sven Brodmerkel – Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University 

Professor Quassim Cassam – Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick 

Associate Professor Laura D’Olimpio – School of Education, University of Birmingham 

Effy – chatbot user 

Professor Frank Pasquale – Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School

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