Jurassic World Improv and 4 More Podcasts to Start Your Week

Usually, host Rose Eveleth spends Flash Forward imagining a future made possible by new paradigms, like universal body-hacking or telepathy. This week, though, she gave the creative responsibilities to a recurrent neural network, who offered up a script based on every previous episode of her podcast, plus The War of the Worlds and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio play. As a result, Eveleth speculates about two futures: a post-apocalyptic world where witches go to space, and our possible future where AI regularly create our entertainment.