Future Around & Find Out

Dan Blumberg

You know what would be awesome? If we could build the future we want — before we muck it up. Future Around & Find Out helps builders think clearly about AI and emerging technologies, grapple with the implications, and decide what to build next. Independent technologist and former NPR journalist Dan Blumberg speaks with founders, makers, and you to celebrate breakthroughs, call BS on the hype, explore how things might go sideways — and how we can steer the future in the right direction. The Webby Awards have honored the show (formerly known as CRAFTED.) as a top tech podcast three years in a row! On Tuesdays, we feature interviews with the builders changing how we work, live, and play. On FAFO Fridays, futurist Kwaku Aning joins Dan for a playful recap of the week in tech, including the amazing, the scary, and the strange. You’ll also hear about innovations that too often get overshadowed by AI, including in deep tech, biotech, fintech, quantum computing, robotics, blockchain, and more. Across it all, you’ll hear sharp takes on what comes next and what builders need to know now. So let’s Future Around & Find Out together! https://www.FutureAround.com

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Future Around & Find Out

Episodios

BONUS: A quick riff on that weird Anthropic graph with Paul Ford | FAFO Friday

"It Sounds Like Something From Marvel" — Building an Antivirus for AI... With AI | Daniel Hulme (Founder, Conscium)

Choose Your Own Adventure | It's FAFO Friday

Dead as a Dodo? Maybe Not! Colossal's Beth Shapiro on the Science of De-Extinction — and Moonshots

To Accede or Not To Accede? That Is The Question | It's FAFO Friday!

"I just want AI to replace me as a scientist" | The co-founder of Diagnostic Robotics predicts the future

AI Delivers Mediocre Results—By Design. So How Do You Stand Out? | MetaLab CEO Luke Des Cotes

Could AI Make Capitalism Better? Henrik Werdelin Is Optimistic

"Shut Up, C-3PO!" or Do We Have a Duty To Treat Machines Well? | FAFO Friday

Everyone's “Jumpy” Right Now: Azeem Azhar on When—Or Is It If?—AI Can Be Profitable

Claude Goes High Brow With Its Super Bowl Ad and "Constitution"; OpenAI Scrambles | It's FAFO Friday!

Steer the Future or Get Steamrolled: Baratunde Thurston on Our Collective Power

Future Around & Find Out (New Name! New Trailer!)

The name of this podcast is about to change! Here's why (very short solo episode)

Will AI Disrupt — or Entrench — the Travel Industry's Big Players? | Rafat Ali (Founder & CEO, Skift)

A 2026 Bingo Card for All Things Online Speech | Ctrl-Alt-Speech Cross-post

Five Skills for Navigating the Whitewater World of Work in 2026

Would you have wanted Steve Jobs's life? (Famous & Gravy cross-post)

Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Drinking In the Future of Podcasting | Dan's Guest Spot on WWW

Startup Funding Is Weird Right Now: Carta's Head of Insights on AI's Impact | The Startup Podcast (cross-post)

How to Grow Your Startup. Featuring “Growth Levers and How to Find Them” Author and Startup Advisor Matt Lerner (Founder & CEO, SYSTM) | Rebroadcast

Thanksgiving Special: "What is my actual impact on society?" Legendary technologist Kelsey Hightower on the power we all have

The Roboticist Using AI to Fix How We Pick Startups — Live from Web Summit with Chris Coomes

AI’s Got It “Good Enough” (and That Ain’t Good) — A Web Summit Debrief, Live from Lisbon!

AI coding agents: overhyped, amazing, or both? Interesting reactions to the Anonymous CTO episode

Why This CTO Says AI Coding Agents Are “Insidious”, Overhyped, and Nowhere Near Replacing Human Engineers

PopTech 2025: FetusGPT, De-extinction, Shade-as-a-Service, and More Crazy (but Real!) Ventures

Optimism In Spite of Chaos: A Debrief from Climate Week

Did anyone actually read that MIT AI study that made the market swoon? (I did!) Also: The latest on AI in schools and Melania’s robot paranoia

The Deep Tech Innovations That Could Save the World | Pablos Holman (Inventor & Investor) [Rebroadcast]

Is AI a New Form of Colonialism? | Empire of AI Author Karen Hao (Rebroadcast)

AI Voice Generation Is Crazy Good! Rapid Prototyping Audio Creative With Wondercraft Co-founder Oskar Serrander

Building an AI-native Podcast App to Turn Listening Into Learning | Kevin Smith (Co-founder, Snipd)

Inspiring the Next Generation to Build Great Money Habits (Whatever Those Are) | Tim Hong (CPO of MoneyLion)

3 years in a row! The Webby Awards say we're a top tech podcast! Here are some show highlights...

We're Still in AI's “Fart App” Era… And Other Deep Thoughts from SXSW, With Rob Kenedi

Why the "Mary Poppins of Computing" Says We Must Change the Way We Teach Tech | Linda Liukas (Author of "Hello Ruby")

Quantum & Coffee: SXSW 2025 Impressions, With Kwaku Aning

How Google Built a Moonshot Factory — And How You Can, Too | Astro Teller (Captain of Moonshots at X, The Moonshot Factory)

Big Drones, Big Dreams: Elroy Air’s Quest to Revolutionize Air Delivery (David Merrill, Co-founder)

AI, Psychedelics, the Gut-Brain Axis, and New Frontiers in BioTech | From SXSW's Next Stage (Re-release)

The Deep Tech Innovations That Could Save the World | Pablos Holman (Inventor & Investor)

AI, Deepfakes, and How Technologists Can Help Us Trust What We See and Hear | Sam Gregory (Exec. Dir. of WITNESS)

Crafting Puzzle, Challenging QuickBooks, and Helping Startups Grok Their Financial Health | Sasha Orloff (Co-founder & CEO of Puzzle)

Design for Emotion. Leverage AI. Be Curious. | Design Better’s Co-founders on Building Great Products

Personalized Learning Is the Future. Here's How Outschool Is Building It | Amir Nathoo (Founder & CEO)

AI, Creativity, and Soul: How Hilary Mason Chooses Her Own Adventure (Co-Founder & CEO of Hidden Door)

AI: Is Bigger Better? The Environmental and Social Cost of Large Models | Karen Hao (AI Journalist)

How to 3x your output with AI by building a "GPTeam" (From Beyond the Prompt)

AI and the Future of Medicine | Kira Radinsky (CEO of Diagnostic Robotics and Co-founder of Mana.bio)