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US and China Vie for AI Leadership in K-12 Education
Two new national plans promise to overhaul classrooms with AI. Here’s how the US and China differ – and overlap
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Andrew Maynard
Beyond the Hero’s Journey: AI, Protopia & the Future of Film
On this week's Model Futura, filmmaker, futurist, and impact storyteller Taryn O'Neill joins is to talk about AI‑powered moviemaking and how the stories…
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Surprised by serendipity
To celebrate the two-year anniversary of The Future of being Human , a new "serendipity" button, a way to continue the conversation using AI, and a…
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The Secret Lives of Electric Vehicle Owners
ASU professor and Tech Skeptic Goes Electric author Jamey Wetmore joins Modem Futura to discuss electric vehicle ownership, charging challenges, data…
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Ancient wolves, conservation futures, and one of the fastest growing biotech startups in history
Colossal Biosciences has been grabbing headlines with claims of bringing the long-extinct dire wolf back from the dead. But how responsible is the…
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OpenAI and Studio Ghibli style: Theft or homage?
This week's episode of Modem Futura explores how OpenAI's new image generator is stirring up old questions about art, authorship, innovation, and a…
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What does responsible innovation mean in an age of accelerating AI?
The new AI 2027 scenario suggests artificial intelligence may outpace our ability to develop it responsibly. How seriously should we take this?
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When AI Takes the Wheel: Rethinking Education for a Post-Scarcity World
This week's episode of Modem Futura explores the intersection between AI, learning, and education – and gets really speculative as we think about…
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March 2025

Reimagining learning and education in an age of AI
Reflections and provocations from a keynote given at the 2025 Yidan Prize Conference
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Can agentic AI build your entire online course?
I asked the "general AI agent" Manus to design and create an online course. There were some glitches, but the result shows what advanced AI could be…
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Tech Trends 2025: Living Intelligence, Quantum Breakthroughs, and Beyond
This week's episode of Modem Futura focuses on Amy Webb's Future Today Strategy Group’s 2025 Tech Trends Report
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When Agentic AI Takes Charge – First impressions of Manus
Having just got my hands on the new general AI agent from Manus I was excited to see what it could do. So I asked it to design, conduct and write up a…
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