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Soonish

Soonish

54 Episodes • By Wade Roush • www.soonishpodcast.org
We can have the future we want—but we have to work for it. Soonish brings you stories and conversations showing how the choices we make together forge the technological world of tomorrow. From MIT-trained technology journalist Wade Roush. Learn more at soonishpodcast.org. We're a proud member of the ...more
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The Otherworldy Power of a Total Eclipse
The most important piece of advice David Baron ever ... more
Mar 18 2024 1h 8m
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Looking Back at 50 Episodes of Soonish
After a long hiatus, Soonish is back for a celebrati... more
Feb 19 2024 1h 5m
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For the Love of Audio: It's the Hub & Spoke Radio Hour
Hey listeners! A new, original episode of Soonish is... more
Feb 14 2024 51m
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Bonus Episode: TASTING LIGHT Publication Day
Why does the world of young adult fiction seem to ha... more
Oct 11 2022 58m
Will Alexander - A Unhaunted Place
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Strange Newt Worlds
This week we're featuring a conversation with Ian Co... more
Jun 15 2022 1h
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A Soundtrack for the Pandemic
For most people, nightmares produce insomnia, exhaus... more
May 21 2022 58m
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Can Albuquerque Make Room for Its Past and Its Future?
Last summer, a pair of murals celebrating New Mexico... more
May 6 2022 46m
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How Novartis Built a Hit Factory for New Drugs
When you hear people use the phrase "It's a hits-dri... more
Mar 12 2022 1h
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How LEGO Learned to Click Again
LEGO is so omnipresent in today’s culture—through it... more
Feb 26 2022 55m
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Art and Technology at Disney
This week, Soonish presents Part 2 of The Persistent... more
Feb 12 2022 54m
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The Reinvention of Apple
This week, I've got something different for Soonish ... more
Jan 29 2022 54m
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This Is How You Win the Time War
Clock time is a human invention. So it shouldn’t be ... more
Nov 4 2021 53m
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Goodbye, Google
What if a technology company becomes so rich, so pow... more
Jun 25 2021 42m
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Fusion! And Other Ways to Put the Adventure Back in Venture Capital
Venture capital is the fuel powering most technology... more
May 18 2021 38m
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Hope for Ultra-Rare Diseases
In this episode of Soonish you'll meet Stanley Crook... more
Apr 30 2021 45m
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Technology and Education After the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has had a devastating impac... more
Feb 3 2021 39m
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"We've Needed Something to Bring Us Together"
In honor of the inauguration of Joseph R. Biden—a da... more
Jan 20 2021 45m
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The Inventor of the Cell Phone Says the Future Is Still Calling
In 1973, there was only one man who believed everyon... more
Dec 18 2020 41m
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The End of the Beginning
Soonish's six-month detour into electoral politics f... more
Nov 15 2020 55m
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American Reckoning, Part 2: A New Kind of Nation
Welcome to a special two-part series about the loomi... more
Oct 12 2020 41m
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American Reckoning, Part 1: Civil Wars and How to Stop Them
Welcome to a special two-part series about the loomi... more
Oct 9 2020 53m
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After Trump, What Comes Next?
Donald Trump will not be president forever. Whether ... more
Sep 15 2020 36m
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Unpeaceful Transition of Power
Voters, hold on to your hats. The U.S. election syst... more
Jun 24 2020 48m
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Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible: How One Futurist Frames the Pandemic
Futurists—who sometimes prefer to be called scenario... more
May 12 2020 36m
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Making Moonrise
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and M... more
Nov 14 2019 43m
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