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Host
ABAdam Becker
About the podcast
What might a good future look like? Explore ideas about how to envision better, realistic, equitable futures with astrophysicist and journalist Dr. Adam Becker. Each week, Adam and a new guest will try to find hope in the darkness of the current political moment through earnest (and entertaining!) conversations about what such a future might look like. In a world where tech oligarchs and their power fantasies are driving visions of the future, Dreaming Against the Machine aims to take back the public conversation about what our world can and should be.
Recent episodes
24Oct6Episode 26: Space Ain't the Place (solo episode)2026Sep29Episode 25: Transhumanism and Faith, with Meghan O'Gieblyn2026Sep22Episode 24: The Myth of AI Doom, with Cal Newport2026Sep15Episode 23: Language Models, with Emily Bender2026Sep8Episode 22: Balancing on the Abyss, with Dave Karpf2026Sep3Sharing a new series from Future Hindsight, Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising.2026Sep1Episode 21: The AI Bubble, with Matt Scherer2026Aug25Episode 20: Resisting AI Data Centers, with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez2026Aug18Episode 19: Space Colonization, with Lucian Walkowicz and Erika Nesvold2026Aug11Episode 18: Science Policy, with Alondra Nelson2026Aug4Episode 17: Weapons of Math Destruction, with Cathy O’Neil2026Jul28Episode 16: What is Elon Musk? With Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff2026Jul21Episode 15: Hopeful Science Fiction, with Becky Chambers2026Jul14Episode 14: Psychological Warfare, with Annalee Newitz2026Jul7Episode 13: More Everything Forever, with Adam Becker2026Jun30Episode 12: The Cosmic Perspective, with Katie Mack2026Jun23Episode 11: Reverse Centaurs and AI, with Cory Doctorow2026Jun16Episode 10: Better Off Regulated, with Ed Zitron2026Jun9Episode 9: Algorithmic Bias, with Safiya Noble2026Jun2Episode 8: Horrible Little Guys, with Isabel J. Kim and Amanda Silberling2026May26Episode 7: The History (and Future) of Technology, with Susannah Glickman2026May19Episode 6: Mythology, with Moiya McTier2026May12Episode 5: Metaphors for AI, with Shannon Vallor2026May5Episode 4: Reactionary Futurism, with Dave Karpf2026