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A science fiction audio drama with a cast of human actors and synthetic voices. Your Performance Review takes place in 2036.
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We tell stories that shape the future. The Future Lab podcast is a platform for authors of science fiction, climate fiction, and fantasy to discuss how we shape our future with the stories we tell today. We feature fiction authors who are exploring science fiction, fantasy, and climate fiction, and publishers and platform-builders who are amplifying fresh voices in those genres. Past seasons of the podcast have covered indie publishing and book marketing. The episodes are an open conversatio ...
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Introducing The Future Lab with Lee Schneider, Season 2
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Welcome to the Future Lab with me, Lee Schneider. This is the trailer before the trailer, the advance word, the beginning of the beginning, just tapping the mic to be sure everything works. I'm excited about what we're going to be doing in this space, and I just had to tell you about it. Creators & Guests Lee Schneider - Host…
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Rachel Allen Keeps the Love of Writing Alive
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Rachel Allen is the owner of Bolt from the Blue Copywriting. She describes her work as mixing the neuroscience of communication with the art of great writing to help businesses take the cap off their income, impact and influence. We’re going to talk about publishing your book and who you’ll need on your team to succeed at it. Timestamps [00:01:14] …
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JV Hilliard has Created a Masterful World
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JV Hilliard is the author of the multi-book Warminster Saga. Here's how he often introduces himself. “Born of steel, fire and black wind, J.V. Hilliard was raised as a highlander in the foothills of a once-great mountain chain on the confluence of the three mighty rivers that forged his realm’s wealth and power for generations. His father, a peasan…
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In today’s episode, you’ll meet Karen Gershowitz, author ofTravel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust. In pursuit of a passion for travel, Karen has lost and gained friends and made a radical career change. She has visited remote areas of Indonesia on her own, and became a translator, though only fluent in English. We’ll hear about some of her memories wi…
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Rod Faulkner Sees the Genius in Short Sci-Fi Films
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In today’s episode, you’ll meet Rod Faulkner, self-professed Blerd, (Black nerd) founder of The7thMatrix and host of EYE ON SCI-Fi Podcast. He’s a lifelong lover of science fiction and fantasy. Rod shares his enthusiasm for short-form science-fiction films. We discussed how a short-form film, with its time limitations, can be an exercise in creativ…
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Brian Freeman is Building a Creator Community
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Brian Freeman discusses Creatorland, a professional networking platform designed for content creators in the 100 billion dollar creator economy. He explains that the platform was developed to address some of the drawbacks of LinkedIn for content creators that include a lack of focus on content creation. Freeman shared that his company started by in…
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JJ Ramberg Discusses the Podcast Discovery Community Goodpods
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In this episode of the FutureX Podcast, host Lee Schneider interviews JJ Ramberg, co-creator of Goodpods, a platform designed to help podcast listeners discover new content and share recommendations with their friends. Ramberg and her brother Ken founded the platform to address the discovery problem in podcasting, where there is so much great conte…
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Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age with Dr. Robert Eschmann
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In today’s episode, you’ll meet Dr. Robert Eschmann, a writer, scholar, filmmaker, and educator from Chicago. He is an Associate Professor of Social Work and a member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, as well as a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. His new book, *When the Hood Comes Off…
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Creating a School for Changemakers with Laura Hartley
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In today’s episode, you’ll meet Laura Hartley, founder of an online school for change makers called Public Love Enterprises. She teaches people how to detox from capitalism, patriarchy, and supremacy culture. Her intention is to empower changemakers, activists, and entrepreneurs to radically reimagine the world, creating the conditions for social h…
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Managing Multiple Creative Projects with Danielle Desir Corbett
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Danielle Desir Corbett is an author, podcaster & podcast marketing coach. She hosts two podcasts, Women of Color Podcasters and The Thought Card Podcast. She publishes Grants for Creators on Substack. And she’s the mother of a one year old child. And I’ve probably left something out! We’re going to talk about how to manage multiple projects, and in…
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Building Literal.club with Piet Terheyden
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In today’s episode, you’ll meet Piet Terheyden, Co-Founder & CEO of Literal. Literal — the url is literal.club — is a platform to share books recommendations and reviews. Piet is also the creator & curator of Minimal Gallery, an online gallery showcasing the best web design. The gallery started as a way for him to save website designs that inspired…
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Sista Circle - Black Women in Tech, with Lexi B.
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In today’s episode, you’ll meet Alexandria Noel Butler, known as Lexi B. She is one of Silicon Valley’s most candid and prominent voices. In April 2017, Lexi B founded Sista Circle: Black Women in Tech, a community that supports Black women in tech companies and tech related professions. Sista Circle has partnered with organizations such as Phenome…
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Building an Online Community for Your Writing with Matt Gemmell
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This week on the FutureX Podcast, you’ll meet Matt Gemmell, a writer of thriller, horror, and suspense novels. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with his wife Lauren, their son Calum, and a labradoodle named Whisky. Matt first tried his hand at writing stories when he was in his early teens. Writing had to wait for a while as he got a degree in Compu…
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In today’s episode, you’ll meet Bernice Chao, an award-winning creative director, author, and public speaker. She is a co-founder of Asians in Advertising, a community with five thousand global members that strives to create opportunities for Asians in the advertising world and helps elevate Asians to higher leadership positions. Bernice is an adju…
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Black Athletes and Social Justice with Dr. Shaun M. Anderson
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In today’s episode, you’ll meet Dr. Shaun M. Anderson, author of The Black Athlete Revolt: The Sport Justice Movement in the Age of BlackLivesMatter. It examines athlete activism before and after the BLM movement. Dr. Anderson is an award-winning professor at Loyola Marymount University. As a scholar, he examines how sport has influenced business, …
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Ever Gonzalez, a self-described filthy capitalist with a hippie heart. Ever is the Founder of OutlierHQ, a media and events company. He hosts the popular Outlier On Air podcast and runs Founders Weekend and the Outlier Podcast Festival. Ever has been pivoting his events from pandemic-times online events back to in-person events. He has a micro-even…
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Inclusivity in Media: A Conversation with Dr. Nicole Haggard
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We all consume media entertainment. How does that entertainment shape our perceptions of women and people of color? In today's episode, you'll meet Dr. Nicole Haggard, who is an award-winning instructor, speaker, and published researcher with 16 years of study about the intersection of race and gender in American culture. In 2018, Nicole co-founded…
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In the season finale, Michel and Commander Field are reunited. For those of you who listened to Mission of the Lunar Sparrow, this episode connects the dots between the two series. Michel has had two chapters in his life as a bot. A before when he was doing the bidding of admin (basically following orders from a higher-level AI), and an after, when…
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In this week’s episode of Your Performance Review, Michel's outwits a maintenance bot. That’s not all that hard, because the maintenance bot isn’t all that smart. But I hope you’ll agree that Michel’s methods are ingenious. He cracks the code to restoring his archive.By Lee Schneider
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With this episode, Michel's once-secret inquiry into his past is no longer a secret. An investigator arrives to question Michel about all the performance reviews he has conducted so far. She sees a pattern forming in Michel's interviews, and she believes that Michel is up to no good. There has been concern, in admin, about bots achieving consciousn…
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Michel was the Mission Control bot on the first lunar mining mission. But the knowledge about Michel’s past seems that it will do him little good. It looks like Michel will be erased again before admin takes any action on what he has uncovered about that failed mission. The Administrator who visits Michel in this episode is the father of Kai, the g…
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Kai is under review because he has been swearing in preschool. But Kai is no ordinary child. He has been modded, artificially enhanced with expanded memory and intelligence. He holds a universe of planetary information in his mind, including the details all missions being flown by admin. Michel asks Kai for help to recover his memory, but Kai rebel…
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Chuck is about to retire from an illustrious career as a commander of interstellar ships. To sign off and retire, Chuck must attend a performance review interview conducted by a bot named Michel. Chuck is an aging warrior and doesn’t care much for bots, performance reviews, or the way admin does things. But as he remembers the time another commande…
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Welcome to Your Performance Review, the story of a bot named Michel who is trying to recover a missing part of his memory, and uncovers an interstellar conspiracy to steal from indigenous cultures in space. The podcast takes place in 2026, In this episode, D wants to build ships in the outer System. They are qualified, but admin will not assign the…
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Michel continues his investigation into what he was doing before his memory was erased and reconfigured. He calls in Pyotr, the bot in charge of memory erasure, for a performance review. Michel learns that Pyotr was the very bot who erased him. But, like everyone who comes in for a performance review, Pyotr has a secret to share. A secret that must…
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Molly admits that she is cracking under the stress of her job. Admin has been forcing her to run as many missions as she can. She suspects that admin is motivated by greed. But can Molly keep up with the pace and keep this secret? Joy Donnell plays Molly in this episode. The rest of the roles in the episode are played by bots. Music cues: [Drch](ht…
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Episode 01 Howard has been holding on to a terrible secret at work that has been eating him up inside. He is called into a performance review that is run by a bot named Michel. Once Howard gets over his inhibitions about sharing his deepest secrets with a bot, he opens up about his personal life for the performance review, and also reveals an unset…
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Introducing Your Performance Review: Trailer
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The year is 2036. Michel is a bot who is trained to listen to humans tell their stories. He is evaluating the humans who come in for their sessions for promotion or transfer. But Michel has a secret agenda. He is missing a part of himself. He believes that each human he interviews can restore a section of his missing memory. His mystery unfolds in …
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