The Future of You
The Future of You is the home of Tracey Follows’ ongoing work on identity, agency, and the changing relationship between systems and selves in an AI-mediated world.
This channel now brings together three strands of that work.
The Future of You podcast explores how technology is reshaping identity, from digital selves and predictive systems to automation, intimacy, trust, and human futures.
The Future of You audio series is the original 2021 book, released here chapter by chapter. It explores what Tracey came to call the technology of the self: a third dimension of identity, alongside the psychology of the self and the biology of the self. These recordings are presented as an audio archive of the original published text.
Me:chine Dialogues is a special series from The Future of You exploring identity, agency, and AI-mediated systems — where the machinable and unmachinable selves meet. It follows the emerging synthetic condition shaping who we are becoming: not man versus machine, but the meeting of selves, the part that can be copied and the part that can never be caught.
Together, these three strands trace an evolving inquiry into identity: from the digital self, to the technological self, to the Me:chine self.
Across all of them runs one continuous question: what happens to human identity when the systems around us begin to see us, sort us, predict us, generate us, and increasingly speak in our name?
Identity is becoming infrastructure for systems. This channel explores what remains of the self inside them.
Core concepts include:
Systems & Self
Identity as Infrastructure
The Technology of the Self
Me:chine — the machinable and unmachinable self
New here? Start with:
→ Me:chine Dialogues: Manifesto
→ The Future of You audio series: Chapter 1, Knowing You
→ The Future of You podcast archive
Visit:
→ Me:chine World and essays: me-chine.com
→ Podcast archive: The Future of You
→ Audio series: weekly chapters on this channel Introduction
About Tracey Follows
Tracey Follows is a futurist specialising in identity, agency, and the relationship between systems and selves in an AI-mediated world. Her work includes the frameworks Systems & Self, Identity as Infrastructure, and Me:chine, exploring the machinable and unmachinable dimensions of human identity.
The Future of You was named Best Tech Show at the Independent Podcast Awards 2023.
Her central premise: “The future is written between the system and the self.”
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The Future of You
"The Future of You" Season 2 - Trailer
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During the second season of The Future of You podcast, I’m taking a detailed look at who we are and how the technology we use every day is shaping who we are becoming. It’s clearer than ever that the biology of the self and the psychology of the self has now been joined by a third dimension….the technology of the self.
I’m Tracey Follows, futurist and founder of Futuremade, the futures consultancy. Join me as I speak with professors and philosophers, futurists and technologists to discover more about how emerging technologies are impacting our identity, and what we might want to do about it.
I’ll be releasing new episodes every fortnight, focussing on topics such as digital death, robot rights, avatars and virtual beings, cryogenics, the extreme self, the Web3 economy of the self and so much more.
Make sure you subscribe so you don’t miss the first episode when it’s released in a few week’s time.
Until then remember you can buy my book “The Future of You” at thefutureofyou.co.uk, sign up to the newsletter there or connect with me on twitter at @traceyfutures.
Let’s continue our journey into identity in the digital world and explore what’s ahead for the future of me and…the future of you.
