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Season 1, 92 episodes

Episode 1: Beware the Lunar Molemen
- Now playing
- 43m
- Jul 14, 2009
We're proud to have Len Peralta of JawBone Radio and Monsters By Mail, and Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla and Qore as our first victims, er, guests. This episode was a blast, dealing with the end of the world, the terraforming of Mars, and of course, MoleMen.
Episode 2: Water Wars
- 48m
- Aug 6, 2009
For our next trick, Scott and I got Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, and Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to square off with their visions of the future. You may think Leo is the optimist, but you'd be wrong. Witness the title of our episode. It was Jim that has the rosier view of the future. Including the chance for all of us to someday become Ashton Kutcher. Listen in folks, it's a good one.
Episode 3: Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities
- 42m
- Sep 10, 2009
This time on FourCast, comic, movie, and TV writer Gerry Conway and podcaster Brian Ibbott predict a world brimming with superheroes, domed cities, and RPGs based on your trip to the grocery store.
Episode 4: The Machine President Sits Alone
- 35m
- Oct 15, 2009
This time we are blessed with two musicians whom we are both fans of. Jonathan Coulton, known best for his Code Monkey and zombie songs, and MC Frontalot, known best, apparently for his back trouble int he nerdcore documentary but really for his amazing nerd rap prowess. We discuss their visions of synthetic life, machine-led government, nanobots, and the amazing growth of our brains. Or will we have brains in the future?
Episode 5: Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles
- 22m
- Nov 5, 2009
We're doing things a little differently this time. We had so much good conversation this time around, that we're pbreaking the show into three parts. Part one of the prediction extravaganza with Scott Kurtz and Jeff Cannata sees us discuss the end of journalism as we know it and ponder a world with one game console platform.
Episode 6: America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation
- 23m
- Nov 12, 2009
In part two of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz, it's time for the long term predictions. We discuss the decline of America and the potential rise of virtual nations.
Episode 7: Omega Point Steals Our Gender
- 31m
- Nov 18, 2009
The final part of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz covers the final simulation of everything and the elimination of all genders. Or does it? In fact, it does.
Episode 38: Sing Along with the Singularity
- 59m
- Jul 6, 2010
While we have a lot of fun worrying about self-driving cars, it's really the singularity we should be worried about. Justin Robert Young pretty much believes it will be disaster, while Brian Brushwood has a rosier vision.
Episode 39: House of Trash
- 45m
- Jul 12, 2010
Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.
Episode 40: Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies
- 48m
- Jul 20, 2010
Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.
Episode 41: Goodbye to Our Bodies
- 45m
- Jul 26, 2010
Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.
Episode 42: It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World
- 48m
- Aug 2, 2010
No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.
Episode 43: Don't Insert Animals There
- 1h 11m
- Aug 9, 2010
Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.
Episode 44: Humanity Is Saved!
- 54m
- Aug 16, 2010
Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.
Episode 45: Whale Wars
- 1h 2m
- Aug 23, 2010
We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.
Episode 46: Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm
- 53m
- Aug 30, 2010
Find out why teleportation will work for dead cats. Also, we'll pick a job for you but it won't be in self-help.
Episode 47: Don't Steal My Arm
- 59m
- Sep 13, 2010
Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.
Episode 48: The Great Seawall of Atlantica
- 51m
- Sep 20, 2010
Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.
Episode 49: Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow
- 50m
- Sep 27, 2010
Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.
Episode 50: Rise of the Dolphoctopus
- 1h
- Oct 4, 2010
Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.
Episode 51: Planet of the 1990s Diseases
- 36m
- Oct 12, 2010
Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.
Episode 52: Subscribe to the Perfect Memory
- 52m
- Oct 18, 2010
Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.
Episode 53: BBQ on Mars
- 53m
- Oct 25, 2010
Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.
Episode 54: The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth
- 51m
- Nov 1, 2010
Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.
Episode 55: Giraffe Burger To Go, Please
- 50m
- Nov 8, 2010
No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.
Episode 56: What Would Blue-Jay Do?
- 53m
- Nov 15, 2010
The wild turkey shoot is coming to a big city near you, and you'll be able to literally share your memories of the event.
Episode 57: Vote Arsonist!
- 1h 2m
- Nov 22, 2010
We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.
Episode 58: It's All a Simulization
- 42m
- Nov 29, 2010
Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.
Episode 59: Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock
- 56m
- Dec 6, 2010
Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.
Episode 60: Spray-on Shopping With Cher
- 52m
- Dec 13, 2010
Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.
Episode 61: Government Is Soylent Green
- 1h 2m
- Dec 20, 2010
Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.
Episode 62: Goober Great!
- 1h 2m
- Jan 3, 2011
Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.
Episode 63: Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living
- 55m
- Jan 17, 2011
Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.
Episode 64: Infinity Is Freaking Huge
- 1h 4m
- Jan 24, 2011
Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.
Episode 65: Gold-Backed Data Currency
- 57m
- Jan 31, 2011
Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.
Episode 66: Robot Sugar
- 58m
- Feb 7, 2011
In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.
Episode 67: Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War
- 59m
- Feb 14, 2011
In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.
Episode 68: Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse
- 1h 3m
- Feb 28, 2011
The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.
Episode 69: We Are All X-Men
- 52m
- Mar 7, 2011
We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.
Episode 70: The Future Is Unclear
- 50m
- Mar 21, 2011
Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.
Episode 71: To The Caves!
- 1h 2m
- Mar 28, 2011
We're headed to the gold standard, going bankrupt, losing our faith in science and we'll lose the world to the slime molds anyway.
Episode 72: We Are the Mole Men
- 44m
- Apr 4, 2011
Hollywood won't stop making comic book movies, but we will stop talking to teach other in our ultraseats. And it will all happen underground.
Episode 73: You Died of Spacsyntery
- 51m
- Apr 11, 2011
The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.
Episode 74: The Future of No More
- 58m
- Apr 18, 2011
No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!
Episode 75: Weightless Immortality
- 58m
- Apr 25, 2011
Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.
Episode 76: Head in the Clouds
- 58m
- May 9, 2011
We're putting a hard drive in our heads, and we can't tell the Google history index has changed history, but we're all in caves now, so it's OK.
Episode 77: Stop Chad!
- 56m
- May 24, 2011
If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!
Episode 78: Got Nanobots?
- 54m
- Jun 6, 2011
Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.
Episode 79: Talk to the Animals
- 59m
- Jun 13, 2011
Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.
Episode 80: Space Nomads
- 52m
- Jun 21, 2011
We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.
Episode 81: Robot Everything
- 51m
- Jun 27, 2011
Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.
Episode 82: Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please
- 59m
- Jul 11, 2011
Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.
Episode 83: Nice Bioluminescent Spots
- 58m
- Jul 18, 2011
Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.
Episode 84: It's All About Superheroes
- 42m
- Jul 25, 2011
We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.
Episode 85: Distributed Everything
- 46m
- Aug 1, 2011
We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.
Episode 86: The Gassy One
- 1h
- Aug 8, 2011
We'll taste our movies and burn our trash, but we'll all be made of broccoli. Yet a trip to Jupiter will take our mind off it.
Episode 87: Grow Your Own Home
- 59m
- Aug 15, 2011
Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.
Episode 88: Black Tar Einstein
- 49m
- Aug 22, 2011
We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.
Episode 89: We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords
- 51m
- Aug 29, 2011
We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.
Episode 90: Putting the "I" In IPO
- 51m
- Sep 12, 2011
Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
Episode 91: Designer Prosthetics
- 51m
- Sep 19, 2011
Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.
Episode 92: Vote Gibbon
- 50m
- Sep 26, 2011
It's survival of the cutest, or survival of the aliens that can't enjoy simulations. But we can't use telepathy because of the ads.
Episode 93: Go Goa'uld or Go Home
- 59m
- Oct 4, 2011
Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.
Episode 94: Space Dragons
- 58m
- Oct 12, 2011
We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.
Episode 95: Swappin' Body Parts
- 55m
- Oct 17, 2011
We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
Episode 96: Return of Alien Nation
- 1h
- Oct 24, 2011
Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.
Episode 97: Pulp Toy Story Dogs
- 59m
- Oct 31, 2011
We all create the movies we want in our barter society, when we're into playing realistic D&D sims. But we're all part of the AI game.
Episode 98: Holographic Bieber
- 48m
- Nov 8, 2011
Sure, you can't hug a child with robotic eyes, and printing a baby has issues, but our perma-kittens will take our minds off it.
Episode 99: Spider State
- 1h 2m
- Nov 14, 2011
We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.
Episode 100: Voodoo Bernie Is the Future
- 56m
- Nov 21, 2011
We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.
Episode 101: The Guilted Age
- 1h 4m
- Nov 28, 2011
Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.
Episode 102: Megafauna
- 1h
- Dec 5, 2011
Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.
Episode 103: Moonifest Destiny
- 57m
- Dec 12, 2011
China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.
Episode 104: Introducing the Thought DVR
- 1h 2m
- Dec 19, 2011
We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.
Episode 105: My Bricks Are Online
- 50m
- Jan 3, 2012
We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.
Episode 106: Eyeball in My Colon
- 58m
- Jan 16, 2012
We learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can get our entertainment everywhere.
Episode 107: Robot Death or Lizard Face
- 1h 3m
- Jan 24, 2012
Sure we can't tell if it's a computer, but it won't kill us. It will kill our physical-altered progeny. Am I right?
Episode 108: Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma
- 52m
- Feb 6, 2012
Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.
Episode 109: Ubiquitous Media
- 45m
- Feb 13, 2012
Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.
Episode 110: Photography Becomes Archaeology
- 51m
- Feb 27, 2012
We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!
Episode 111: Beam Me Out Mommy
- 51m
- Mar 5, 2012
Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.
Episode 112: The Nanobots Made My Brain Do It
- 53m
- Mar 12, 2012
Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.
Episode 113: Kickstart My Comic Heart
- 51m
- Mar 19, 2012
Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
Episode 114: No Keyboard, No Security
- 50m
- Apr 2, 2012
We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.
Episode 115: Spectrum in My Head
- 48m
- Apr 9, 2012
We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.
Episode 116: TV and Movies Merge
- 45m
- Apr 23, 2012
Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.
Episode 117: Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose
- 42m
- Apr 30, 2012
We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.
Episode 118: No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books
- 49m
- May 7, 2012
While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.
Episode 119: What’s the Digital Matter?
- 46m
- May 14, 2012
We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.
Episode 120: Your Tube Is Here
- 50m
- May 21, 2012
Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.
Episode 121: Jam the Reptile Terrorists
- 47m
- Jun 4, 2012
When we all have wearable computing we'll need to jam it and stop the parallel universes from invading us. But at least we have easy access to Point Break.
Episode 122: Lastcast
- 1h 2m
- Jun 11, 2012
Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.

Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions.

2009 to 2012
1 season
1h 2m per episode
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Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions, as well as the always interesting FourCast Findings and FourCast QuickFire Questions segments. They're a little lazy, so they bring on two guests every episode and make them do the work.

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Created by: Tom Merritt
Scott Johnson
Status: Ended
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 92
First aired: July 14, 2009
Last aired: June 11, 2012
Original language: English
Countries: United States of America

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Season 1, 92 episodes

Episode 1: Beware the Lunar Molemen
- Now playing
- 43m
- Jul 14, 2009
We're proud to have Len Peralta of JawBone Radio and Monsters By Mail, and Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla and Qore as our first victims, er, guests. This episode was a blast, dealing with the end of the world, the terraforming of Mars, and of course, MoleMen.
Episode 2: Water Wars
- 48m
- Aug 6, 2009
For our next trick, Scott and I got Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, and Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to square off with their visions of the future. You may think Leo is the optimist, but you'd be wrong. Witness the title of our episode. It was Jim that has the rosier view of the future. Including the chance for all of us to someday become Ashton Kutcher. Listen in folks, it's a good one.
Episode 3: Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities
- 42m
- Sep 10, 2009
This time on FourCast, comic, movie, and TV writer Gerry Conway and podcaster Brian Ibbott predict a world brimming with superheroes, domed cities, and RPGs based on your trip to the grocery store.
Episode 4: The Machine President Sits Alone
- 35m
- Oct 15, 2009
This time we are blessed with two musicians whom we are both fans of. Jonathan Coulton, known best for his Code Monkey and zombie songs, and MC Frontalot, known best, apparently for his back trouble int he nerdcore documentary but really for his amazing nerd rap prowess. We discuss their visions of synthetic life, machine-led government, nanobots, and the amazing growth of our brains. Or will we have brains in the future?
Episode 5: Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles
- 22m
- Nov 5, 2009
We're doing things a little differently this time. We had so much good conversation this time around, that we're pbreaking the show into three parts. Part one of the prediction extravaganza with Scott Kurtz and Jeff Cannata sees us discuss the end of journalism as we know it and ponder a world with one game console platform.
Episode 6: America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation
- 23m
- Nov 12, 2009
In part two of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz, it's time for the long term predictions. We discuss the decline of America and the potential rise of virtual nations.
Episode 7: Omega Point Steals Our Gender
- 31m
- Nov 18, 2009
The final part of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz covers the final simulation of everything and the elimination of all genders. Or does it? In fact, it does.
Episode 38: Sing Along with the Singularity
- 59m
- Jul 6, 2010
While we have a lot of fun worrying about self-driving cars, it's really the singularity we should be worried about. Justin Robert Young pretty much believes it will be disaster, while Brian Brushwood has a rosier vision.
Episode 39: House of Trash
- 45m
- Jul 12, 2010
Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.
Episode 40: Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies
- 48m
- Jul 20, 2010
Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.
Episode 41: Goodbye to Our Bodies
- 45m
- Jul 26, 2010
Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.
Episode 42: It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World
- 48m
- Aug 2, 2010
No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.
Episode 43: Don't Insert Animals There
- 1h 11m
- Aug 9, 2010
Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.
Episode 44: Humanity Is Saved!
- 54m
- Aug 16, 2010
Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.
Episode 45: Whale Wars
- 1h 2m
- Aug 23, 2010
We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.
Episode 46: Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm
- 53m
- Aug 30, 2010
Find out why teleportation will work for dead cats. Also, we'll pick a job for you but it won't be in self-help.
Episode 47: Don't Steal My Arm
- 59m
- Sep 13, 2010
Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.
Episode 48: The Great Seawall of Atlantica
- 51m
- Sep 20, 2010
Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.
Episode 49: Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow
- 50m
- Sep 27, 2010
Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.
Episode 50: Rise of the Dolphoctopus
- 1h
- Oct 4, 2010
Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.
Episode 51: Planet of the 1990s Diseases
- 36m
- Oct 12, 2010
Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.
Episode 52: Subscribe to the Perfect Memory
- 52m
- Oct 18, 2010
Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.
Episode 53: BBQ on Mars
- 53m
- Oct 25, 2010
Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.
Episode 54: The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth
- 51m
- Nov 1, 2010
Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.
Episode 55: Giraffe Burger To Go, Please
- 50m
- Nov 8, 2010
No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.
Episode 56: What Would Blue-Jay Do?
- 53m
- Nov 15, 2010
The wild turkey shoot is coming to a big city near you, and you'll be able to literally share your memories of the event.
Episode 57: Vote Arsonist!
- 1h 2m
- Nov 22, 2010
We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.
Episode 58: It's All a Simulization
- 42m
- Nov 29, 2010
Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.
Episode 59: Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock
- 56m
- Dec 6, 2010
Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.
Episode 60: Spray-on Shopping With Cher
- 52m
- Dec 13, 2010
Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.
Episode 61: Government Is Soylent Green
- 1h 2m
- Dec 20, 2010
Democracy through Farmville, chip implants for nutrition advice, and more.
Episode 62: Goober Great!
- 1h 2m
- Jan 3, 2011
Seth Rogen's future, landfill rage, and the greatest peanut butter combination of all time.
Episode 63: Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living
- 55m
- Jan 17, 2011
Life will be sweet when algorithms govern our social lives and body bugs govern our biology.
Episode 64: Infinity Is Freaking Huge
- 1h 4m
- Jan 24, 2011
Brain hacking will be easier when we're always connected to the Net to watch live coverage of state secessions.
Episode 65: Gold-Backed Data Currency
- 57m
- Jan 31, 2011
Hot swap your organs without interrupting the WiFi in your brain, and bad news is consolidated at MySpoo.
Episode 66: Robot Sugar
- 58m
- Feb 7, 2011
In our parochial future filled with pirates, robots will tolerate us while Scott pole-dances under the name Robot Sugar.
Episode 67: Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War
- 59m
- Feb 14, 2011
In our future, there will be no governments, only science wars.
Episode 68: Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse
- 1h 3m
- Feb 28, 2011
The rise of citizen scientists who record their life will lead us to global harmony on Mars.
Episode 69: We Are All X-Men
- 52m
- Mar 7, 2011
We learn to love the mole men, throw out our DVDs and break up into small countries.
Episode 70: The Future Is Unclear
- 50m
- Mar 21, 2011
Our guests have good reasons for having hazy future predictions. But the crazy? They bring the crazy.
Episode 71: To The Caves!
- 1h 2m
- Mar 28, 2011
We're headed to the gold standard, going bankrupt, losing our faith in science and we'll lose the world to the slime molds anyway.
Episode 72: We Are the Mole Men
- 44m
- Apr 4, 2011
Hollywood won't stop making comic book movies, but we will stop talking to teach other in our ultraseats. And it will all happen underground.
Episode 73: You Died of Spacsyntery
- 51m
- Apr 11, 2011
The proxy war will rage but we'll find water on 581g, and get plenty of online music and education.
Episode 74: The Future of No More
- 58m
- Apr 18, 2011
No more I/O devices, no more copyright and no more URLs. But we will have ChromeOS!
Episode 75: Weightless Immortality
- 58m
- Apr 25, 2011
Find out the best way to be weightless and live forever with Aaron and Mary on this episode of FourCast.
Episode 76: Head in the Clouds
- 58m
- May 9, 2011
We're putting a hard drive in our heads, and we can't tell the Google history index has changed history, but we're all in caves now, so it's OK.
Episode 77: Stop Chad!
- 56m
- May 24, 2011
If Chad doesn't get us in his dictatorial domination of new media, thumb-cats will!
Episode 78: Got Nanobots?
- 54m
- Jun 6, 2011
Desktop sales take off, data mining makes us safer, memories get cataloged, and more.
Episode 79: Talk to the Animals
- 59m
- Jun 13, 2011
Twitter and Facebook will die, GPS gets hacked, animal chats make us all vegetarians, but we all die anyway, and more.
Episode 80: Space Nomads
- 52m
- Jun 21, 2011
We wander the universe playing Call of Duty 20 on our million-core processors, and using our slaptops, and more.
Episode 81: Robot Everything
- 51m
- Jun 27, 2011
Humans grow the eff up, get happy, replace our body parts and get happy.
Episode 82: Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please
- 59m
- Jul 11, 2011
Textbooks are free, hydroponic farmers grow in our cities, and computers become Gods.
Episode 83: Nice Bioluminescent Spots
- 58m
- Jul 18, 2011
Bioluminescent spots running down your back with billboards.
Episode 84: It's All About Superheroes
- 42m
- Jul 25, 2011
We won't die, and we won't have nay land, but we'll all be experts.
Episode 85: Distributed Everything
- 46m
- Aug 1, 2011
We all share Internet, power and brains, but how long now will be really smelly and social.
Episode 86: The Gassy One
- 1h
- Aug 8, 2011
We'll taste our movies and burn our trash, but we'll all be made of broccoli. Yet a trip to Jupiter will take our mind off it.
Episode 87: Grow Your Own Home
- 59m
- Aug 15, 2011
Scan your tomatoes, travel at Mach 20 and put your phone in your brain.
Episode 88: Black Tar Einstein
- 49m
- Aug 22, 2011
We got brain drain, big bangs and charity that gives back.
Episode 89: We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords
- 51m
- Aug 29, 2011
We wear our computers, improve our toilets and all die in a singularity. But we can think our way out of it.
Episode 90: Putting the "I" In IPO
- 51m
- Sep 12, 2011
Beatniks, home power and board games will make our future complete.
Episode 91: Designer Prosthetics
- 51m
- Sep 19, 2011
Aliens will bind us, waste will be dealt with and the makers will inherit the Earth.
Episode 92: Vote Gibbon
- 50m
- Sep 26, 2011
It's survival of the cutest, or survival of the aliens that can't enjoy simulations. But we can't use telepathy because of the ads.
Episode 93: Go Goa'uld or Go Home
- 59m
- Oct 4, 2011
Civil War leads to education reform, and finally to the singularity.
Episode 94: Space Dragons
- 58m
- Oct 12, 2011
We live long enough to end the US, colonize the universe and meet the alien dragons.
Episode 95: Swappin' Body Parts
- 55m
- Oct 17, 2011
We'll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
Episode 96: Return of Alien Nation
- 1h
- Oct 24, 2011
Giant halogens on Mars, equal rights for time, and all hail the electronic king.
Episode 97: Pulp Toy Story Dogs
- 59m
- Oct 31, 2011
We all create the movies we want in our barter society, when we're into playing realistic D&D sims. But we're all part of the AI game.
Episode 98: Holographic Bieber
- 48m
- Nov 8, 2011
Sure, you can't hug a child with robotic eyes, and printing a baby has issues, but our perma-kittens will take our minds off it.
Episode 99: Spider State
- 1h 2m
- Nov 14, 2011
We stay away from space, impose a police state and then hand it over the printed-out spiders.
Episode 100: Voodoo Bernie Is the Future
- 56m
- Nov 21, 2011
We get avatars and live for a long time, but the aliens will keep us in line.
Episode 101: The Guilted Age
- 1h 4m
- Nov 28, 2011
Pop in your new eyes and enjoy the new middle ages, before humanity shuts down for good and becomes hermit snipers.
Episode 102: Megafauna
- 1h
- Dec 5, 2011
Chip me baby one more time. Also giant elephants protect us.
Episode 103: Moonifest Destiny
- 57m
- Dec 12, 2011
China's on the Moon, the robots beat everyone else, but at least we have voice control.
Episode 104: Introducing the Thought DVR
- 1h 2m
- Dec 19, 2011
We move into the ocean, shut off annoyances and stop cruelty. Really? Yes.
Episode 105: My Bricks Are Online
- 50m
- Jan 3, 2012
We all stop commuting, but we have self-driving cars! And holographic keyboards.
Episode 106: Eyeball in My Colon
- 58m
- Jan 16, 2012
We learn how to grow eyeballs in inappropriate places, our biometrics gets hacked, but we don't care because we can get our entertainment everywhere.
Episode 107: Robot Death or Lizard Face
- 1h 3m
- Jan 24, 2012
Sure we can't tell if it's a computer, but it won't kill us. It will kill our physical-altered progeny. Am I right?
Episode 108: Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma
- 52m
- Feb 6, 2012
Also you'll need an email address in the future, but not necessarily an ID.
Episode 109: Ubiquitous Media
- 45m
- Feb 13, 2012
Computing will be everywhere and so will media, but it will all happen in our minds.
Episode 110: Photography Becomes Archaeology
- 51m
- Feb 27, 2012
We pick our pictures after the fact and take back control of publishing!
Episode 111: Beam Me Out Mommy
- 51m
- Mar 5, 2012
Pregnancy will get easier, safer and we'll pay the hospital bills in hugs.
Episode 112: The Nanobots Made My Brain Do It
- 53m
- Mar 12, 2012
Your heads up display won't let you get lost, but you're rewired brain may not like where you go.
Episode 113: Kickstart My Comic Heart
- 51m
- Mar 19, 2012
Kickstart my comic heart and speak my version of English while you do it.
Episode 114: No Keyboard, No Security
- 50m
- Apr 2, 2012
We'll need a disaster to teach us computer security, but we won't have those nasty keyloggers since we'll all use tablets.
Episode 115: Spectrum in My Head
- 48m
- Apr 9, 2012
We'll have enough bandwidth to live in the Simiverse and shoot documentary movies there.
Episode 116: TV and Movies Merge
- 45m
- Apr 23, 2012
Cinemas will show TV shows, movies come straight to your TV, plus other shocking developments.
Episode 117: Free Phone, Strong Heart, Can't Lose
- 42m
- Apr 30, 2012
We'll have an Amazon phone that's ad supported and upgraded organs to enjoy it with.
Episode 118: No Ultrabooks, Just Paper Books
- 49m
- May 7, 2012
While the name ultrabook will become meaningless, eBooks will not replace the dead trees entirely.
Episode 119: What’s the Digital Matter?
- 46m
- May 14, 2012
We'll be able to program matter to be whatever we want, too bad nobody will know how it works.
Episode 120: Your Tube Is Here
- 50m
- May 21, 2012
Travel by tube in your custom car listening to your custom station.
Episode 121: Jam the Reptile Terrorists
- 47m
- Jun 4, 2012
When we all have wearable computing we'll need to jam it and stop the parallel universes from invading us. But at least we have easy access to Point Break.
Episode 122: Lastcast
- 1h 2m
- Jun 11, 2012
Scott and Tom share their predictions in this the triumphant finale of FourCast.

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Beware the Lunar Molemen

E2 Episode 2: Water Wars

E3 Episode 3: Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities

E4 Episode 4: The Machine President Sits Alone

E5 Episode 5: Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles

E6 Episode 6: America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation

E7 Episode 7: Omega Point Steals Our Gender

E38 Episode 38: Sing Along with the Singularity

E39 Episode 39: House of Trash

E40 Episode 40: Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies

E41 Episode 41: Goodbye to Our Bodies

E42 Episode 42: It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World

E43 Episode 43: Don't Insert Animals There

E44 Episode 44: Humanity Is Saved!

E45 Episode 45: Whale Wars

E46 Episode 46: Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm

E47 Episode 47: Don't Steal My Arm

E48 Episode 48: The Great Seawall of Atlantica

E49 Episode 49: Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow

E50 Episode 50: Rise of the Dolphoctopus

E51 Episode 51: Planet of the 1990s Diseases

E52 Episode 52: Subscribe to the Perfect Memory

E53 Episode 53: BBQ on Mars

E54 Episode 54: The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth

E55 Episode 55: Giraffe Burger To Go, Please

E56 Episode 56: What Would Blue-Jay Do?

E57 Episode 57: Vote Arsonist!

E58 Episode 58: It's All a Simulization

E59 Episode 59: Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock

E60 Episode 60: Spray-on Shopping With Cher

E61 Episode 61: Government Is Soylent Green

E62 Episode 62: Goober Great!

E63 Episode 63: Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living

E64 Episode 64: Infinity Is Freaking Huge

E65 Episode 65: Gold-Backed Data Currency

E66 Episode 66: Robot Sugar

E67 Episode 67: Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War

E68 Episode 68: Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse

E69 Episode 69: We Are All X-Men

E70 Episode 70: The Future Is Unclear

E71 Episode 71: To The Caves!

E72 Episode 72: We Are the Mole Men

E73 Episode 73: You Died of Spacsyntery

E74 Episode 74: The Future of No More

E75 Episode 75: Weightless Immortality

E76 Episode 76: Head in the Clouds

E77 Episode 77: Stop Chad!

E78 Episode 78: Got Nanobots?

E79 Episode 79: Talk to the Animals

E80 Episode 80: Space Nomads

E81 Episode 81: Robot Everything

E82 Episode 82: Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please

E83 Episode 83: Nice Bioluminescent Spots

E84 Episode 84: It's All About Superheroes

E85 Episode 85: Distributed Everything

E86 Episode 86: The Gassy One

E87 Episode 87: Grow Your Own Home

E88 Episode 88: Black Tar Einstein

E89 Episode 89: We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords

E90 Episode 90: Putting the "I" In IPO

E91 Episode 91: Designer Prosthetics

E92 Episode 92: Vote Gibbon

E93 Episode 93: Go Goa'uld or Go Home

E94 Episode 94: Space Dragons

E95 Episode 95: Swappin' Body Parts

E96 Episode 96: Return of Alien Nation

E97 Episode 97: Pulp Toy Story Dogs

E98 Episode 98: Holographic Bieber

E99 Episode 99: Spider State

E100 Episode 100: Voodoo Bernie Is the Future

E101 Episode 101: The Guilted Age

E102 Episode 102: Megafauna

E103 Episode 103: Moonifest Destiny

E104 Episode 104: Introducing the Thought DVR

E105 Episode 105: My Bricks Are Online

E106 Episode 106: Eyeball in My Colon

E107 Episode 107: Robot Death or Lizard Face

E108 Episode 108: Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma

E109 Episode 109: Ubiquitous Media

Episode 1: Beware the Lunar Molemen

Episode 2: Water Wars

Episode 3: Superheroes at Play in Domed Cities

Episode 4: The Machine President Sits Alone

Episode 5: Goodbye Journalism and Game Consoles

Episode 6: America Gives Way to the First Virtual Nation

Episode 7: Omega Point Steals Our Gender

Episode 38: Sing Along with the Singularity

Episode 39: House of Trash

Episode 40: Apple Is the Chigger of Tech Companies

Episode 41: Goodbye to Our Bodies

Episode 42: It's a Dune Dune Dune Dune World

Episode 43: Don't Insert Animals There

Episode 44: Humanity Is Saved!

Episode 45: Whale Wars

Episode 46: Sgt. Zapata Regrows an Arm

Episode 47: Don't Steal My Arm

Episode 48: The Great Seawall of Atlantica

Episode 49: Moop-A-Chicka-Wow-Wow

Episode 50: Rise of the Dolphoctopus

Episode 51: Planet of the 1990s Diseases

Episode 52: Subscribe to the Perfect Memory

Episode 53: BBQ on Mars

Episode 54: The Bug People Will Inherit the Earth

Episode 55: Giraffe Burger To Go, Please

Episode 56: What Would Blue-Jay Do?

Episode 57: Vote Arsonist!

Episode 58: It's All a Simulization

Episode 59: Holodeck Full of Tuba Rock

Episode 60: Spray-on Shopping With Cher

Episode 61: Government Is Soylent Green

Episode 62: Goober Great!

Episode 63: Nanite-Controlled Algorithms for Better Living

Episode 64: Infinity Is Freaking Huge

Episode 65: Gold-Backed Data Currency

Episode 66: Robot Sugar

Episode 67: Goodbye Governments, Hello Science War

Episode 68: Global Harmony Meets the Multiverse

Episode 69: We Are All X-Men

Episode 70: The Future Is Unclear

Episode 71: To The Caves!

Episode 72: We Are the Mole Men

Episode 73: You Died of Spacsyntery

Episode 74: The Future of No More

Episode 75: Weightless Immortality

Episode 76: Head in the Clouds

Episode 77: Stop Chad!

Episode 78: Got Nanobots?

Episode 79: Talk to the Animals

Episode 80: Space Nomads

Episode 81: Robot Everything

Episode 82: Prime Minister Doctorow If You Please

Episode 83: Nice Bioluminescent Spots

Episode 84: It's All About Superheroes

Episode 85: Distributed Everything

Episode 86: The Gassy One

Episode 87: Grow Your Own Home

Episode 88: Black Tar Einstein

Episode 89: We Welcome Our Tank Spider Overlords

Episode 90: Putting the "I" In IPO

Episode 91: Designer Prosthetics

Episode 92: Vote Gibbon

Episode 93: Go Goa'uld or Go Home

Episode 94: Space Dragons

Episode 95: Swappin' Body Parts

Episode 96: Return of Alien Nation

Episode 97: Pulp Toy Story Dogs

Episode 98: Holographic Bieber

Episode 99: Spider State

Episode 100: Voodoo Bernie Is the Future

Episode 101: The Guilted Age

Episode 102: Megafauna

Episode 103: Moonifest Destiny

Episode 104: Introducing the Thought DVR

Episode 105: My Bricks Are Online

Episode 106: Eyeball in My Colon

Episode 107: Robot Death or Lizard Face

Episode 108: Nobody Wants To Raise Grandma

Episode 109: Ubiquitous Media

Episode 110: Photography Becomes Archaeology