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  • Push-Button World: The Future of the Jetsons

    25 OCT. 2023 · The Jetsons premiered in 1962 and became the codification of what the future family looked like. With its comedically played predictions about automation and changing social norms, it gave us a look at what was to come. To get more listening that feeds your curiosity and fuels your creativity, view our full sonic encyclopedia at www.clay.inc.
    Escuchado 8m 47s
  • Based on a True Story: Lucian's Journey to the Moon

    18 OCT. 2023 · The satirist Lucian of Samosata once tackled the over-the-top stories of world travels that were so popular during his day. And the result? A trip to the moon and back - written in the 2nd century AD. To get more listening that feeds your curiosity and fuels your creativity, view our full sonic encyclopedia at www.clay.inc.
    Escuchado 11m 59s
  • The World of Tomorrow: 1939 New York World's Fair

    11 OCT. 2023 · 80 years ago, the future looked considerably different. The 1939 New York World's Fair offered a "futurama," a look at the "world of tomorrow." Now, just what did this massive exhibit portray? And what would change in the few short years that followed? To get more listening that feeds your curiosity and fuels your creativity, view our full sonic encyclopedia at www.clay.inc.
    Escuchado 8m 50s
  • Cryptic Forecasts: The Quatrains of Nostradamus

    4 OCT. 2023 · Nostradamus is perhaps the most famous name involved in the business of predicting the future. But his work has been broadly challenged because it is subject to interpretation. He densely layers his work to obscure the meaning. In today's episode, we work to make sense of what the seer meant when he penned his quatrains. To get more listening that feeds your curiosity and fuels your creativity, view our full sonic encyclopedia at www.clay.inc.
    Escuchado 12m 22s
  • The Universal Reformation: The Rosicrucian Prophecy of Enlightenment

    23 AGO. 2023 · In the era of the Reformation there arose an organization that, like Lutheranism dawning at the time, was emblazoned with the symbol of a rosy cross. Thus, the name "Rosicrucians." The secret society had a big vision of the future though - a dream that the whole world was about to wake up... Get more podcasts at www.clay.inc.
    Escuchado 10m 45s
  • Building Bigger: Étienne-Louis Boullée's Tributes to the Age of Enlightenment

    16 AGO. 2023 · Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary - and his visions belong among the greatest ideas that have never been realized. Among his great designs are his Cenotaph dedicated to Isaac Newton. His towering structures make us imagine what could have been - in a future that embraced neoclassicism and took it to new heights. Check out more podcasts at www.clay.inc.
    Escuchado 10m 11s
  • Designing Things to Come: Buckminster Fuller's Life and Legacy

    2 AGO. 2023 · Buckminster Fuller was ahead of his time. He was a man with his eye on efficiency and the common good. What do we learn from the thinker who gave us "Starship Earth"? And which of his ideas can we pick up and run with today. Get more podcasts from the CLAY Podcast Network at pod.clay.inc.
    Escuchado 12m 23s
  • Prototyping Tomorrow: The Foresight and Shortfalls of Disney's EPCOT

    26 JUL. 2023 · Before the visionary's city on a hill could be built, the visionary died. Today, we're looking at what Walt Disney saw from afar - what EPCOT was intended to be. And what the sprawling metropolis he envisioned became. Stream more podcasts at pod.clay.inc.
    Escuchado 11m 34s
  • The Reawakening & Tomorrow: The View of the Future from the Renaissance

    19 JUL. 2023 · The world was expanding. And the dreams of the Renaissance didn't just include this terrestrial ball. Some were thinking higher - of going to moon itself. It took us some four hundred years for a country that didn't even exist yet to get there. Today, we're exploring the world to come in view of Renaissance. Support the podcast by getting the book "Renaissance Futurities" with this link: https://amzn.to/44NHzDq Get the full library of shows at pod.clay.inc
    Escuchado 12m 38s
  • From talking to animals to space mining to immortality: the future according to Arthur C. Clarke

    15 MAY. 2023 · Arthur C. Clarke said that the more believable your predictions are about the future, the less likely they are to be true. Join us as we take a tour of the awfully familiar predictions Clarke made some 80 years ago. Listen to all Conceit Media podcasts at www.conceit.audio Check out today's sponsor at www.enkindle.shop
    Escuchado 2m 46s

We've always wanted to know what comes next. We've always breathlessly anticipated things to come. And we're usually wrong. We're digging into yesterday's visions of tomorrow. Along with the ways...

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We've always wanted to know what comes next.
We've always breathlessly anticipated things to come.
And we're usually wrong.
We're digging into yesterday's visions of tomorrow. Along with the ways they've inspired innovation.


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This is a podcast from Conceit Media. Check out all of Conceit Media’s podcasts at www.conceit.audio.
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