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.
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→ 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.
Episodes
59 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...
Chapter 6: Enhancing 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...
Chapter 5: Replacing 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...
Chapter 4: Connecting 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...
Chapter 3: Creating 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...
Chapter 2: Watching 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...
Identity Slop: The Rise of Synthetic Media Experts
What if the expert quoted in the story doesn’t exist?Jesse Chambers is quoted across British newspapers as a travel expert, offering advice on everything from cruise ships to long-haul flights.There is just one problem....
Chapter 1: Knowing 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: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and...
Introduction — 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: Can Your Identity Survive 21st Century Technology? by Tracey Follows. The chapters are presented here as an audio archive of the text as it was written and...
Me:chine Dialogues - The Manifesto
The first in a brand new transmission from The Future of You podcast, called Me:chine Dialogues. Listen to the manifesto and subscribe now to tune into the frequency of Me:chine World. Visit us at
Identity Play and the Artist with Holly Herndon
In this awesome episode, I’m lucky to be talking to Holly Herndon, a Berlin-based artist and groundbreaking musician. With a PhD from Stanford University and a pioneering spirit, Holly merges cutting-edge AI with music to challenge the boundari...
Reconnecting With The Emotional Self Through VR with Sarah Ticho
In this episode, I’m talking to Sarah Ticho, founder of Hatsumi and Co-founder of XR Health Alliance about the fascinating intersection of virtual reality (VR), immersive media, health, and well-being. Sarah’s work focuses on using ...
Perspective Agents in the Autonomous Age with Chris Perry
In this episode we delve into the transformative impact of AI on humanity and society with Chris Perry, Chief Innovation Officer and Chair at Weber Shandwick Futures. His new book, "Perspective Agents," challenges traditional views of ...
Supremacy: The Race for AI Dominance with Parmy Olson
Will Microsoft or Google win the race to control the future of AI?In this episode I’m talking to journalist and author Parmy Olson whose new book “Supremacy: AI, Chat GPT, and the Race That Will Change the World” explores the fi...
Surveillance and Data: Byron Tau on Government Monitoring and AI Risks
Byron Tau is an American investigative journalist and author of the new book "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State” so in this episode I’m talking to Byron about...
Weaponising Identity in the Algorithmic Age with Chase Hughes
In this episode I’m talking to Chase Hughes – a US military veteran-turned-expert in human behaviour, profiling, and persuasion, regularly training elite govt and big business on behaviour skills. He is a leading trial consultant too. ...
BONUS: The Future of You(r) Podcast: Is NotebookLM a Game-Changing Tool?
Welcome to The Future! This special episode of The Future of You has been created using the tool everybody’s talking about; Notebook LM.With just a few taps of the keyboard this 10-minute bonus podcast has been created from the informati...
Language Loss and Identity with Jack Connor
In this episode I’m chatting about the importance of language to our identity with linguist and tech entrepreneur Jack Connor.Jack is about to embark on a trip to the Arctic where he will deposit language data from more than 500 languag...
Meet Your Future Self with Pattie Maes and Pat Pataranutaporn
What if you could use AI to see what your life would be like when you are 60, or better understand how you got there? Today on The Future of You I’m talking to the creators of an interactive experience that will allow you to do just that.
Your Identity, Unplugged with Erik Prince
In this episode of The Future of You I’m talking to Erik Prince, co-founder of Unplugged, a privacy-first smartphone to rival Big Tech. A former Navy SEAL, Erik is also the founder and former CEO of Blackwater—the world’s largest and most effec...
The State of AI with Richard Yonck and Lord Chris Holmes
In this episode of The Future of You, we hear from futurist and author Richard Yonck. We discuss some common fears and misconceptions around AI. We also consider a realistic timeline for AI advancements such as self-driving cars and co...
