Explores the point of the podcast and why it will number about 30 episodes of some 8 minutes each. It also gives an outline of future episodes:
- appr. 5 episodes on 3 histories of technologies (internet, electricity, x-rays)
- appr.3 episodes for picking the main areas that we need to keep an eye on for developing a future (eg. government, media, finance, food and health)
- appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2023
- appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2026
- appr. 3 episodes for "predicting" 2030
- appr. 10 episodes for writing stories that describe the future, most likely 10 obituaries written from the perspective of 2030
- appr. 5 episodes for discussing meta-questions - these will likely be sprinkled throughout the podcast