Is The World F*cked?
Welcome to "Is The World F*cked?" - a weekly raw and irreverent look at the future... starting today! We look at where the world's going in technology, economics, social policies and lots of other crazy sh*t!
We get real about where we could be going if we got our act together, what scares the hell out of us, and what makes our heads spin.
Your hosts are Dr Bruce McCabe, The Global Futurist, and Bruce's mate, "PJ" Jones, one of the original digital marketers in this world. We kick around the big issues everyone's thinking about but might hesitate to raise in polite company, while keeping it real and having some fun. Because, without the laughs, what's the point? And then we try to decide in the end, is the world f*cked, or not?
You can check out our "day jobs" at www.brucemccabe.com and www.alexim.com.au respectively, although this podcast was never meant for our clients (we're scared to death they'll find it). This podcast is for YOU - if you're thinking about the big stuff - and whether the world is f*cked, or not!
Is The World F*cked?
#25 - Oppenheimer and the Nukes. So are we?
Time for an ITWF field trip so we scraped together all our podcast earnings and bought two tickets to “Oppenheimer,” and while we suck as movie reviewers we more than make up for it in enthusiasm!
After which we segue into some light-hearted topics such as, um, the necessity of Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the madness of Mutually Assured Destruction, the number of nukes currently locked and cocked and waiting to annihilate us, and those 'near misses' we keep having!
Dr Bruce confesses to an unhealthy fixation with visiting intercontinental ballistic missile silos and we try to rescue things with a happy (and true!) story of the Russian who saved the world.
“Where’s the doomsday clock set to?” Ten seconds closer to midnight, after they hear our podcast!
And for the record, when we're doing real work and not podcasting, you'll find Dr Bruce, The Global Futurist presenting here and PJ applying his digital marketing genius here. Enjoy!
