The Future of You
The Future of You
The Future of You is the audio home for Tracey Follows’ work on selfhood in the synthetic age: identity, agency, AI, systems, and who we become when we live with machines.
The channel brings together podcast episodes, conversations, audio essays and original recordings exploring how intelligent systems are changing people, organisations and society.
FUTURE OF YOU asks: What is technology doing to who we are?
The podcast explores digital identity, predictive systems, artificial intelligence, automation, intimacy, trust, synthetic selves and human agency.
SYSTEM & SELF asks: What happens between the systems shaping us and the selves living within them? System & Self is Tracey Follows’ worldview and foresight method for understanding the relationship between the systems shaping our lives and the selves living within them.
ME:CHINE asks: What happens when machines begin to participate in the making of the self? Me:chine explores the meeting of the machinable and unmachinable self: the parts of us that can be datafied, predicted, copied or generated, and those dimensions of human experience that resist complete computational capture.
DIARY OF A FUTURIST scans everyday life for signals of these shifts.
On this channel
The Future of You podcast explores how technology is reshaping identity and agency.
The Future of You audio series presents Tracey’s original 2021 book The Future of You, released chapter by chapter as an audio archive.
Me:chine Dialogues brings Tracey into conversation with thinkers exploring identity, AI and the emerging synthetic condition.
Together, the work traces an evolving inquiry into selfhood in the synthetic age — from the digital self and the machine-readable self to synthetic selves and Me:chine.
Explore further
→ Futuremade: futuremade.group
→ Me:chine: me-chine.com
→ The Future of You: futuremade.group/the-future-of-you
About Tracey Follows
Tracey Follows is a futurist, author and founder of Futuremade. Her work explores selfhood in the synthetic age: identity, agency, AI, systems, and the relationship between systems and selves.
Her work includes The Future of You, System & Self and Me:chine.
Her central proposition is:
“Every future is written between the system and the self.”
The Future of You won Best Technology Show at the Independent Podcast Awards 2023.
The Future of You
Latest Episodes
Who Gets to Interpret You? | The Machine-Readable Self
What happens when identity stops being something we declare and becomes something machines infer?In this specially assembled edition of The Future of You, Tracey Follows returns to four conversations that reveal how the self is ...
The Database Brand: How AI is changing what a brand is
This is a short audio essay, based on the first Futuremade View.In The Database Brand, Tracey extends her work on identity, machine readability and the shift from the Designed Self to the Database Self, applying it to bra...
Human Resilience in the AI Age
What if the real threat from AI is not that it suddenly takes over?What if we just slowly hand ourselves over?In this episode of Me:chine Dialogues, Tracey Follows speaks with Lee Rainie, Director of Elon University’s Ima...
Conclusion — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)
These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time.The book explores how...
Chapter 7: Destroying You — The Future of You: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? (2021)
These recordings are taken from the original 2021 edition of The Future of You by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and published at that time.The book explores how...
