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By Tracey Follows
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.” Follow to receive each new transmission as it is released.AI-mediated systems - where the machinable and unmachinable selves meet.
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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 becoming machine-readable. Artist and AI pioneer Holly Herndon explains why anything captur
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 brands. For most of modern marketing history, brands were treated as designed identities: names, logo
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 Imagining the Digital Future Center, about the new report Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure
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 emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and geno
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 emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and geno
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 emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and geno
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 emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and geno
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 emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and geno
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 emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and geno
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 emerging technologies - from artificial intelligence to digital identity systems, and geno
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. She doesn’t exist. In this episode of Me:chine Dialogues, Tracey Follows speaks with journalist Ro
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 published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificia
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 published at that time. The book explores how emerging technologies - from artificia
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 me-chine.com *** Music "A New Day (intro)" Performed by Skott Licensed courtesy of Cosmos Music, Safari Riot Licensed court
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 boundaries of identity. From acclaimed albums like Platform and Proto to her revolut
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 VR to create human-centred, immersive experiences that redefine how we understand emotio
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 news media and information gathering, focusing on the emergence of AI and its potenti
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 fierce competition between Microsoft and Google to lead the AI revolution. We discuss the mot
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 the intricate world of government surveillance. We discuss how commercial data is le
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. Chase delves into the complexities of identity manipulation in the digital age and th
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 information on my website www.futuremade.group. It took minutes for AI to distil the inform
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 languages into a preservation vault. We delve into the intricacies of language preservatio
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. In this episode I speak with Germeshausen Professor Pattie Maes and technologist
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 consider the importance of balancing AI's benefits with ethics. I also welcome L
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 effective private military firm. Erik discusses the creation and importance of th