Flash Forward

Spawn of Sponcon

On today’s episode we travel to the near-future of advertising. Welcome to a future in which you can sign up to be a brand ambassador, and get paid for every time you mention a product in conversation. Simply download the app, and your phone will listen to your every word waiting to hear brand names, and pay you some money every time you mention one. Guests:<a href="http://conversational-technologies.com/">Deborah Dahl</a>, speech technology expert and principal of Conversational Technologies<a href="https://www.eff.org/about/staff/lee-tien">Lee Tien</a>, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation<a href="http://www.twitter.com/lindseyweber">Lindsey Webber</a>, writer, editor and cohost of the podcast <a href="https://www.whoweekly.us/">Who? Weekly</a><a href="http://www.twitter.com/bobbyfinger">Bobby Finger</a>, writer at Jezebel and cohost of the podcast <a href="https://www.whoweekly.us/">Who? Weekly</a><a href="https://commercialalert.org/">Kristen Strader</a>, campaign coordinator for Public Citizen’s Commerical Alert program🚀 <a href="https://www.flashforwardpod.com/2018/08/28/spawn-of-sponcon/">Further reading and source notes can be found here</a> 🚀Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Flash Forward is a show about possible (and not so possible) future scenarios. What would the warranty on a sex robot look like? How would diplomacy work if we couldn’t lie? Could there ever be a fecal transplant black market? (Complicated, it wouldn’t, and yes, respectively, in case you’re curious.) Hosted and produced by award winning science journalist Rose Eveleth, each episode combines audio drama and journalism to go deep on potential tomorrows, and uncovers what those futures might really be like. The future is going to be weird, so let's get ready for it together.