Broadcast From Later

We’re talking about new institutions, retro materials, and the same old lego bricks — on Broadcast From Later w/ Gem Barton, Tobias Revell, and Trevor Haldenby. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

John Nichols, whose handle is @lajethrojenkins on X, Radha Mistry, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Robert Bolton exchange signals of change. The conversation covers: The law firm for children exercising their legal rights to a safe climate; How Chinese consumers are bypassing retail markups by making group purchases directly from the factories; And: Will the NBA as we know it still exist in 2030? We look at some existential threats and potential evolutionary strategies for the league. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Scott Smith, Susan Cox-Smith, and Madeline Ashby join Robert Bolton to talk about futures practices and exchange weak signals of change. This conversation covers: niche climate transition issues wedging political division; the arms race between impulse consumer confections and appetite suppressants; and the return of sneakernets. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Critic and editor Mimi Zeiger joins broadcast. We chat: LA architecture, aqueduct acupuncture, planetary menopause, ascribing personhood to ceiling fans, and “a wet lab for noospheric emergence.” Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

It’s a new Broadcast From Later with Robert Bolton, Sydney Allen-Ash, Julienne DeVita, and Daniel Anthony Daam-Rossi (of Radical Norms). In this conversation, Daniel tells us about a brain implant that restored a paralyzed woman’s ability to communicate. Julienne shares food futures signals surfaced while researching for the new podcast, Eating Tomorrow. Rob wonders about the implications of Flipper Zero, a hacker multi-tool that looks like a toy. And collectively, we question our culture’s capacity for framing and prioritizing the right problems. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Julian Bleecker of the Near Future Lab joins Valdis Silins, Jayar LaFontaine and Robert Bolton for an exchange of weak signals of change. The conversation covers: / North Korea’s new cyberwarfare proficiencies: their hacker army stole $3 billion in crypto / Creative work is not living up to its promise: Time to imagine harder / GPT hyperproductivity and Amazon’s very reasonable self-publishing limit: 3 books a day Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

We discuss: pets as economic indicators; the growing prevalence of digital therapeutics; and what the adult webcam industry’s BTS production advisors mean for the future of work — with Richard Thomas, Irwin Adam, Radha Mistry, and Robert Bolton. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Bianca Weeko Martin — artist, architect, curator, writer — joins Asia Clarke, Robert Bolton, and Sydney Allen-Ash for a conversation covering the resource dynamics of African coups; uncomfortable offshore e-greetings; and the manipulative misuse of kink speak. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Designer, futurist, and cartoon artist, Viraj Joshi joins Tobias Revell, Sydney Allen-Ash and Robert Bolton to talk drop-shipped, crowd-funded cloud-seeding; the uncanny bigotry of AI generated fashion models; and how we ended up in the era of “quantitative aesthetics” — on Broadcast From Later. Signals: Particle Washing: What could possibly go wrong with DIY geo-engineering? Artificial Diversity: What’s so off-putting about Levi’s AI-generated fashion models? Quantitative Aesthetics: In slide decks as in fine art, why are stats so seductive? Speculative Departures: Rogue Geoengineering: What forms of collective action might emerge in response to climate change? Advanced Art Statistics: Could appreciating art become more like appreciating baseball? Avatarism: Where do video game avatars fit into the future of identity, diversity, and representation? Cynical Fictions: Could a Star Trek for today’s tech be something less cynical than Black Mirror? Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Kofi Gyekye and Clinton Robinson join Rob and Valdis to talk about new flight paths, Ossington strip origin stories, nomad values, weird sensing, Telfar’s America, and the whatsapp groups of Brooklyn blocks. Weak Signals: / For the first time ever, there will be commercial flight routes between the African continent and the Eastern Caribbean. / A new technique involving machine learning and a particle accelerator may allow us to read ancient Roman scrolls carbonized in volcanic debris. / Are the digital nomads clustering in Lisbon anything like other nomadic peoples throughout history? Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Jerrold McGrath and Luisa Ji (UKAI Projects) join From Later strategists Robert Bolton and Udit Vira to go over the fine print of Jackson Fall’s HustleGPT, dream up a new mythos for the church of satellite worship, and ponder why unsettling stories make for better TV. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

A wholesome hang with John Nichols aka LaJethro Jenkins, Radha Mistry, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Robert Bolton, the conversation meanders questions like: Is Kai Cenat the poster child for a new era of ambient celebrity? Could the health analytics captured by Emm, a digitally-enabled menstrual cup, be worth the encroachment over body-device boundaries? In light of the Replika AI-romance and ERP (erotic roleplay) shutdown, how do you mourn a departed chatbot? And what can analyzing yesterday’s forgotten basketball stars tell us about the future of the game? Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

FL strategists are broadcasting with artist Hima Batavia to explore wearable gut biomes, mundane how-to videos, and lab formulated breast milk. File under nomadic biomimicry/nutritional hyperplasia/embodied environments/prepper city-guides/civility practice/designer milk. Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Arup foresight folks and FL family, Radha and Tobias join From Later strategists Rob and Valdis to chat auditory deep fakes, distributed power generation, and NPC mimicry. / Project Shasta Adobe’s Project Shasta can isolate and extract elements from an audio recording— most notably, the human voice. Shasta then synthesizes its best version of that voice based on the audio data present in the recording. As AI becomes better at recreating our likenesses, how might our conceptions around identity change? / Breeze Punk “What’s more punk than opting into inconvenience?” was the response Rob had to Tobias’ weak signal about a new small-scale wind turbine. Prototyped by Nanyang Technical University, this wind turbine can harvest energy at rates as low as 2m/sec, and could be a use case for distributed power generation. Let that cute future sink in and feel the breezepunk. / NPC Roleplay Non-Player Character (NPC) is a video game term for people perceived as unable to act or think for themselves. The TikTok trend of humans acting IRL as NPCs in various situations has Radha wondering whether we're embodying these virtual behaviours as a way of bringing the digital world into the physical. Are we training our bodies to dance with robots? Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.

Sam Venis, Sydney Allen-Ash, and Miranda Shou join Robert Bolton to explore animal noise analysis, accreditation on the blockchain, and emerging sports marketing strategies. / DeepSqueak Can we communicate with animals? DeepSqueak is a machine learning tool built to analyze rodent noises for indications of stress, but it’s also being used to identify marine species in the wild and to parse animal calls in an attempt to find new meaning in the clicks, chirps, and groans. / Soulbound Tokens Soulbound tokens (SBTs) are a blockchain technology designed to help to establish identity online. SBTs could be issued by institutions, governments, companies, peers, etc. to bolster the digital reputation of individuals and entities in Web3. SBTs provide an anonymous, non-transferable way of accruing credibility by “binding” these endorsements to someone’s “soul”, aka their crypto wallet. Are the concepts of national identity and institutional accreditation ripe for disruption? / The Drip King The Drip King is a TikTok personality doing satirical takes on sportswear trends, asking followers what sports attire he can make more “drippy.” The King’s recognition that some sports require a rebrand wasn’t lost on Paul Rabil either. Rabil, a former professional Lacrosse player, co-founded the Premiere Lacrosse League (PLL) looking to shed Lacrosse’s upper-class bro image in favour of something more progressive. Partnerships with Uninterrupted and ESPN, shared equity models, health benefits for players, and athlete-focused social media marketing are some of the ways they hope to bring more attention and a new audience to the sport. Is this the new model for emerging sports? Learn more about From Later at www.fromlater.com Social Channels Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn TikTok Interested in our sources? Check out From Later's Are.na page to explore the weak signals on our radars.