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About Have A Nice Future | WIRED
Politics has never been stranger – or more online. Each week on WIRED Politics Lab, our reporters guide you through the exciting, challenging and sometimes entertaining vortex of internet extremism, conspiracies, and disinformation. Expect in-depth analysis and conversations based on facts and research. Plus, we’ll give you information you can actually use to lift the fog of disinformation we find ourselves in today.
- Publisher
- WIRED
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Jul 2020
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
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From The Big Story: Why the Future Doesn't Need Us
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I felt compelled to confront it. Kaczynski's dystopian vision describes unintended consequences. A well-known problem with the design and use of technology, and one that is clearly related to Murphy's Law. Anything that can go wrong, will. Actually, this is Finagle's Law, which in itself shows that Finagle was right. Our overuse of antibiotics has led to what may be the biggest such problem so far, the emergence of antibiotic-resistant and much more dangerous bacteria. Similar things happened when attempts to eliminate malarial mosquitoes using DDT caused them to acquire DDT resistance. Malarial parasites likewise acquired multidrug-resistant genes. […]
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- YouTube views
- 4,535,736,286
- Score snapshot 3 Jul 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 236 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 83 ratings
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- YouTube
- 63
- Engagement
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