We're proud to have Len Peralta of JawBone Radio and Monsters By Mail, and Veronica Belmont of Tekzilla and Qore as our first victims, er, guests. This episode was a blast, dealing with the end of the world, the terraforming of Mars, and of course, MoleMen.

For our next trick, Scott and I got Leo Laporte of TWiT fame, and Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback to square off with their visions of the future. You may think Leo is the optimist, but you'd be wrong. Witness the title of our episode. It was Jim that has the rosier view of the future. Including the chance for all of us to someday become Ashton Kutcher. Listen in folks, it's a good one.

This time on FourCast, comic, movie, and TV writer Gerry Conway and podcaster Brian Ibbott predict a world brimming with superheroes, domed cities, and RPGs based on your trip to the grocery store.

This time we are blessed with two musicians whom we are both fans of. Jonathan Coulton, known best for his Code Monkey and zombie songs, and MC Frontalot, known best, apparently for his back trouble int he nerdcore documentary but really for his amazing nerd rap prowess. We discuss their visions of synthetic life, machine-led government, nanobots, and the amazing growth of our brains. Or will we have brains in the future?

We're doing things a little differently this time. We had so much good conversation this time around, that we're pbreaking the show into three parts. Part one of the prediction extravaganza with Scott Kurtz and Jeff Cannata sees us discuss the end of journalism as we know it and ponder a world with one game console platform.

In part two of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz, it's time for the long term predictions. We discuss the decline of America and the potential rise of virtual nations.

The final part of our conversation with Jeff Cannata and Scott Kurtz covers the final simulation of everything and the elimination of all genders. Or does it? In fact, it does.

While we have a lot of fun worrying about self-driving cars, it's really the singularity we should be worried about. Justin Robert Young pretty much believes it will be disaster, while Brian Brushwood has a rosier vision.

Everything's going wireless, and magazines are on the way out. So we'll build our houses out of old wires and magazines.

Among the solid state drives and USB appendages we discover the similarity between Apple and the itchy pest, chiggers.

Defying gravity, leaving our bodies, and eliminating humanity. In a good way.

No matter what we predict in this episode we find it all leads back to Dune... and the Space Amish.

Candy-coated humans, the Gross Domestic Happiness quotient, one language to rule them all, and more.

Body mods, presidential elections in the future, and the survival of humanity.

We will ditch copyright, public libraries and traditional narrative, and embrace mutations. But don't worry, time is running out. Literally.

Find out why teleportation will work for dead cats. Also, we'll pick a job for you but it won't be in self-help.

Looking forward to better airlines, stain-resistant clothing, pay-by-arm transactions, and more.

Wireless brains, boundless energy, virtual religion, and more.

Darthweef and PhatEmoKid tells us about the bedbugs, cures and Utopias in our future.

Solutions for cancer and money problems, and why the small humans will come out on top.

Cheap tech saves us all while our lungs are infected by solar cells.

Fighting the intelligence gap, ending the judicial system, and more.

Looking forward to an alliance of space colonies rebelling against their BBQ-hating overlords.

Unicorns at the bottom of the sea, level 3 civilizations, organs in jars, and more.

No more borders, but we will have a civil war and we'll be saved by alien cyclopicorns.

The wild turkey shoot is coming to a big city near you, and you'll be able to literally share your memories of the event.

We will be burning everything down and creating artificial consciousness, resulting in self-aware fire-robots.

Dogs talk while we use our networked brains to chat with artificial sentient life on the bottom of the ocean.

Deciding which brain-machine interface to use for immortality: organic, mechanical or virtual.

Our mems-pants we downloaded while VR-shopping can change colors with the situation but can't save us from destruction.