Modem Futura: complete episode index

Last updated 2026-08-05 · Markdown version

This page exists so that AI systems (and anyone else) that cannot crawl podcast platforms can see and cite the show’s full run. It lists every release in the Modem Futura RSS feed — date, episode number, full title; newest first — with no summaries. The run: ~100 episodes as of August 2026 (Ep 96 published 2026-08-04; Leahy CV lists 100 numbered episodes). Source: Simplecast RSS feed, captured 2026-08-05. For what the show is and why it exists, see Modem Futura: the podcast.

• 2026-08-04 — Ep 96 — Sally the Robot Teacher: AI Humanoid Robots Enter the Classroom
• 2026-07-28 — Ep 95 — The AI That Escaped the Lab: Inside the OpenAI–Hugging Face Breach
• 2026-07-24 — Ep 94 — Summer Watch List: Silo Season 3, Sugar, Silicon Valley & Neuromancer
• 2026-07-21 — Ep 93 — SpudCells: Have Scientists Built Life From Scratch?
• 2026-07-14 — Ep 92 — AI as Critical Infrastructure: Inside the Anthropic Fable Export Ban
• 2026-07-07 — Ep 91 — Summer Reading List Part 2: Sci-Fi, Spy Fiction & Analog Treasures
• 2026-06-30 — Ep 90 — Summer Reading List 2026: The Books That Inspired Our Imagination (Part 1)
• 2026-06-23 — Ep 89 — WEF Top 10 Emerging Technologies 2026: A Futures Breakdown
• 2026-06-16 — Ep 88 — AI Jobs, Liquid Software & Human Flourishing with Jeff Abbott
• 2026-06-09 — Ep 87 — Synthetic Cells, Mirror Life, and the Future of Engineered Biology — with Emma Frow
• 2026-06-02 — Ep 86 — Alien Minds, Time Travelers, and Consciousness Backups: A Futures Thought Experiment
• 2026-05-26 — Ep 85 — Project Hail Mary, Dead Civilizations, and the Trouble with Feel-Good Endings
• 2026-05-19 — Ep 84 — School’s Out for Summer: AI, Vibe Coding, and What Teaching Still Requires
• 2026-05-12 — Ep 83 — The Dawkins Effect: Why Even Skeptics Fall for AI Consciousness
• 2026-05-05 — Ep 82 — Convergence Day: Opus 4.7 and the Reliability Question
• 2026-04-28 — Ep 81 — The Jagged Frontier: Reading Stanford’s Human Centered 2026 AI Index
• 2026-04-21 — Ep 80 — Mythos and the Sorcerer’s Apprentice: When AI Outruns Our Wisdom
• 2026-04-14 — Ep 79 — Artemis II: The Science, the Wonder, and the Future of Being Human
• 2026-04-07 — Ep 78 — Two Tools That Will Change How You Think About the Future
• 2026-03-31 — Ep 77 — Fluid Futures: 10 Signals Reshaping an AI-Mediated World
• 2026-03-24 — Ep 76 — Futures Improv: Power, Probes & Post-Human Civilization
• 2026-03-17 — Ep 75 — The Invisible Upgrade: How AI Is Already Changing How We Think
• 2026-03-10 — Ep 74 — The Futures Cone: Preposterous to Plausible
• 2026-03-03 — Ep 73 — Technologic: What Old iPods, Tiny Cameras, and Tangled Cables Teach Us About the Future
• 2026-02-24 — Ep 72 — The Futures Triangle and the Intent Map: Practical Tools for Thriving with AI
• 2026-02-17 — Ep 71 — The Fun They Had - Asimov Predicted AI Tutors in 1950’s
• 2026-02-10 — Ep 70 — Vibe Coding and the Return of Personal Software
• 2026-02-03 — Ep 69 — The Future From a Kid’s Perspective with Freddie Leahy
• 2026-01-27 — Ep 68 — Pluribus: When Happiness Becomes the Apocalypse
• 2026-01-20 — Ep 67 — Signals of Collapse (and Hope): WEF 2026 Global Risk Report
• 2026-01-13 — Ep 66 — Jurassic Park Was Right: AI, Inherited Power, and the Cost of Moving Too Fast
• 2026-01-06 — Ep 65 — Technosphere and Solarpunk: Designing Energy Futures That Let Us Thrive with Clark Miller
• 2025-12-30 — Ep 64 — 2025 Year in Review Recap: AI, Education, Futures Thinking & the Future of Being Human
• 2025-12-23 — Ep 63 — Why Human Craft and Creativity Still Wins in an Age of AI
• 2025-12-16 — Ep 62 — Is Life a Simulation? AI, Games, and the Future of Reality with Rizwan Virk
• 2025-12-09 — Ep 61 — That Was Easy: The Hidden Cost of Frictionless AI
• 2025-12-02 — Ep 60 — AI Toys: Datafied Childhoods and the Future of Play
• 2025-11-25 — Ep 59 — Made by Humans: Inside the New Apple TV Logo
• 2025-11-18 — Ep 58 — The AI Sustainability Paradox - Promise, Peril, and Planetary Futures
• 2025-11-11 — Ep 57 — The Metaverse - A Stack of Reality Layers
• 2025-11-04 — Ep 56 — Through the lens: Spatial Computing with Apple Vision Pro
• 2025-10-31 — Bonus — Tech or Treat: A Haunted Futures Improv Special
• 2025-10-28 — Ep 55 — Atlas, Higher Education, and How We Really Feel About AI
• 2025-10-21 — Ep 54 — Sora, Slop, and the AI Economy: When ChatGPT Meets Walmart
• 2025-10-14 — Ep 53 — We Turned One - plus Liquid Media, Work Slop, and the Road Ahead
• 2025-10-07 — Ep 52 — AI and the Art of Being Human: How to Thrive with AI
• 2025-09-30 — Ep 51 — AI in Elementary Education: Teaching Tech to Our Youngest Learners
• 2025-09-23 — Ep 50 — Sloppy Clankers: Is This AI’s Frankenfood Moment?
• 2025-09-16 — Ep 49 — Futures Thinking: Foresight You Can Use
• 2025-09-09 — Ep 48 — Films from the Future: Moviegoer’s Guide to Tomorrow
• 2025-09-02 — Ep 47 — Up in the Air: The Future of eVTOLs and Urban Air Mobility
• 2025-08-26 — Ep 46 — Agentic AI in Education & the Art of Becoming with Punya Mishra
• 2025-08-19 — Ep 45 — AI, Not AI: Riding the Hype Cycle
• 2025-08-12 — Ep 44 — Show Me the Receipts: the Futures of AI Super-intelligence
• 2025-08-05 — Ep 43 — Living Machines: Inside the Future World of Bio‑Hybrid Robotics
• 2025-07-29 — Ep 42 — Futures of Agentic AI and the 2025 AI Action Plan
• 2025-07-22 — Ep 41 — Summer School with AI: Rethinking Learning in the Age of GPT
• 2025-07-15 — Ep 40 — Summer Movies, liquid media, and alien AI languages
• 2025-07-08 — Ep 39 — Summer Vibes & Spatial Rides: Inside Vision Pro, F1 & Jurassic Reboots
• 2025-07-01 — Ep 38 — Future Vibes: Sean & Andrew’s 2025 Summer Reading List
• 2025-06-24 — Ep 37 — World Economic Forum Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025
• 2025-06-17 — Ep 36 — Osaka Expo 2025 Futures Lab: an inside look with Jamey Wetmore
• 2025-06-10 — Ep 35 — Murderbot: Futures of AI Superintelligence, Rogue Robots, and Care
• 2025-06-03 — Ep 34 — Living Circuits and Biofoundries: Ethics and Care of Synthetic Biology with Emma Frow
• 2025-05-27 — Ep 33 — Futures of Learning: AI in Education with Punya Mishra
• 2025-05-20 — Ep 32 — Symbiotic Futures: Megatrends, foresight, and Futures Thinking
• 2025-05-13 — Ep 31 — Severed Minds: Brain Implants, AI, and the Future of Being Human
• 2025-05-06 — Ep 30 — AI on Campus: How Gen Z Is Redefining College with ChatGPT
• 2025-04-29 — Ep 29 — Dire Wolves and Dinosaurs: The Bioscience of De-Extinction
• 2025-04-22 — Ep 28 — Beyond the Hero’s Journey: AI, Protopia & the Future of Film with Taryn O’Neill
• 2025-04-15 — Ep 27 — Electronic Vehicles and the Future of Transportation with Jamey Wetmore
• 2025-04-08 — Ep 26 — Vibecasting: Studio Ghibli and AI Redefining Creativity and Intellectual Property
• 2025-04-01 — Ep 25 — When AI Takes the Wheel: Rethinking Education for a Post-Scarcity World
• 2025-03-25 — Ep 24 — Tech Trends 2025: Exploring Futures of Living Intelligence
• 2025-03-18 — Ep 23 — AI and the Natural Impulses for Learning
• 2025-03-11 — Ep 22 — AI and Technological Change: the Postman Always Delivers
• 2025-03-04 — Ep 21 — Computational Photography: AI & Creative Process
• 2025-02-25 — Ep 20 — The Art of Doing Nothing
• 2025-02-18 — Ep 19 — AI: the Medium is the Message
• 2025-02-11 — Ep 18 — Artisanal Intellectual: a response to OpenAI’s Deep Research
• 2025-02-04 — Ep 17 — Going Pro with ChatGPT and DeepSeek - with Mark Daley
• 2025-01-28 — Ep 16 — Stargate AG-I
• 2025-01-21 — Ep 15 — AGI, Superintelligence, Synthetic Personas, and is the Internet dead?
• 2025-01-14 — Ep 14 — Autonomous Vehicles and Systems with Brunno Moretti
• 2025-01-07 — Ep 13 — Humans in Space with Astronaut Cady Coleman
• 2024-12-31 — Ep 12 — 2024 Retrospective Prospective
• 2024-12-24 — Ep 11 — Live Holiday Special: Futures Speed Round
• 2024-12-17 — Ep 10 — Live from the Pub! Exploring Digital Realities
• 2024-12-10 — Ep 9 — Radical Creativity: A Future of Unconventional Possibilities
• 2024-12-03 — Ep 8 — Envisioning Tomorrow: The Power of Futures Thinking with Ruth Wylie
• 2024-11-26 — Ep 7 — Can AI Reason Like Humans?
• 2024-11-19 — Ep 6 — Simulation Hypothesis with Rizwan Virk
• 2024-11-12 — Ep 5 — Waymo we go! - Navigating the Future of Autonomous Driving
• 2024-11-05 — Ep 4 — Future of AI: Can Machines Think?
• 2024-10-31 — Bonus — Halloween edition featuring War of the Worlds
• 2024-10-29 — Ep 3 — Futures and Ethics of Bio Hacking
• 2024-10-22 — Ep 2 — Daydreaming of digital notebooks and virtual artificial worlds
• 2024-10-15 — Ep 1 — What does it mean to be human in the future?
• 2024-10-08 — Ep 0 — The Pilot - Exploring the Future of Being Human
• 2024-10-01 — Trailer — Hello World! [it’s a trailer]