COMING SOON: Welcome to Vanguard Estates

Published: Oct. 27, 2022, 5:12 p.m.

b"Oh, hello there. It\\u2019s been a while, hasn\\u2019t it? I know this feed has been pretty quiet this year, but that doesn\\u2019t mean we haven\\u2019t been working on things. In fact, next week, we\\u2019re going to drop a big project called Welcome to Vanguard Estates. It\\u2019s a fiction project, that is formatted as a choose your own path story with 14 different endings. So you\\u2019ll get a bunch of opportunities to actually pick what happens in the story.\\xa0\\nThe piece is about aging, and tech, and surveillance, and parents, and all that complicated, stressful, emotionally dense stuff.\\nNext week you\\u2019re going to get the whole story all at once, next week. So this is your warning, when you suddenly see 30 new episodes of Flash Forward all at once, that\\u2019s what that is.\\nAfter that (starting November 7th) we\\u2019re going to do some follow up episodes where we talk to experts about the real stuff that inspired the story. We'll cover everything from the neuroscience of aging, to research misconduct in Alzheimer's treatment, to robots that can put your clothes on, to the (dire) economics of care, to whether we should have nursing homes at all.\\nSo gird your podcast loins, friends, because it\\u2019s going to be\\u2026 something. I\\u2019m really excited for you to hear it.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"