Is The World F*cked?

How to tackle plastic pollution? Can we? We rip into the plastic polluters spewing their packaging across our landscapes and into our rivers and growing the monumental garbage-islands that are already blanketing our oceans. What can we do to stop these vandals? What can we do to trap the stuff earlier? Can we make recycling work? Are bio-plastics the answer? Warning: we’re angry, and we aren’t holding back!

And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here. Enjoy!

Bet that got your attention! If you day trade - or anything like it - you HAVE to listen to this episode - whether your financial advisor likes it or not. Oh yeah, because to hell with all that energy stuff we've been discussing for a while, today the boys are talking money! Mullah! Bacon! Coin!
BANK!!!!!

We're channelling our inner Gordon Gekkos and ripping into the stock market mafia you never hear about. Not the run-of-the-mill ostentatious Lamborghini-revving Wall Street rip-off merchants --- but the actual cheats.
The sophisticated types, the silent quants, the ones who write superfast algorithms, gain advantage with super short connections and build software black boxes to effectively print money continuously 365 days a year while taking on ZERO risk themselves.
We have a bunch of fun discussing their slick tricks and INSANE schemes (the ones we know about!) and where they go from here.
Is greed good? Are you a day trader? This is the episode for YOU.
Make sure to share it with all your friends and tell 'em in bold capital letters: THE STOCK MARKET IS RIGGED! (allegedly - hahaha).
Or ... maybe tell 'em it's all fine and dandy, nothing to see here, while you quietly fire-up your own algorithmic trading engine. I mean, if every other bloodsucker is doing it, why not you and us? Anything for an edge, baby! Kaaaaa-ching!

And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here. Enjoy!

Fresh from presenting on the future of medicine, Dr Bruce is busting to talk about what he considers one of the most exciting frontiers right now -- reading and decoding directly off the brain (and writing to it too!).
Neuroethicists are split on whether a study that uses brain scans and AI to decode imagined thoughts poses a threat to mental privacy. But whatever you think - the advances are coming thick and fast, and we're already doing impossibly wonderful things like helping paraplegics walk again and catching criminals, with much, much more in the pipeline.
There's EEG, fNIRS [functional near-infrared spectroscopy], fMRI [functional magnetic resonance imaging], EMG, and other modalities that collect biological, electrophysiological, and other functions from the human brain. You can then use this data to identify particular patterns for the purpose of thought prediction and analysis. You can use it to make inferences based on brain states: are you tired, are you thinking about us, what are you thinking about, are you bored? are you telling the truth? what is your PIN number? what are the codes, and are you planning something terrible - like a crime?
Well, that is what could be in our future - especially when brain data is collected by consumer products or at retail outlets... so it's great - and not so great all at the same time - again.

And you guessed it - PJ’s evil side is already conjuring up darker, naughtier applications! Plug in your earbuds and dial 'em up to ten. This one will blow all your circuits! (although you probably already knew that!)

And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here. Enjoy!

Is narcissism on the rise? Are we all in danger if losing our souls behind a cloud of selfies and avocado-on-toast pics and ‘look at me’ TikTok dance videos? Yep, it’s only one of the biggest questions of our time, and today your fearless and dynamic duo of podcasting is diving in! PJ offers advice on how to spot a narcissist. Dr Bruce exhibits an unhealthy fixation with the Queen of Denmark. And at some stage we try to squeeze in some actual science (but we don't try very hard).
Oh and by the way, dear listener, did we sound amazing? Were we sexy and sophisticated? Did you like our cover pic? Did you share us with all your friends? Did you? Huh? Did you?
:-)
And for the gruesomely minded, here's that list of selfie-related injuries and deaths we talked about!

And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here. Enjoy!

The robots are coming, the robots are coming! And PJ doesn't like it when they have arms and legs. It's weird. But we're going MUCH further in this episode than how they look (although you'll be amazed how they look). What happens when your tin-plated buddy is conscious and charming and carries a gun? Or have we got it all wrong and robots are here to save us?

And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here. Enjoy!