04_KEEP IT 200
Bellwether
An autopsy on a dead link, and the anthropology of trying to find transgender health care at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles. Elsewhere: Icarus and Cass receive a call to adventure.
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03_SERVICE PROVIDER
Bellwether
A law that was supposed to stop sex trafficking is making life more dangerous for the people it’s supposed to protect. It’s also collapsing the entire internet. Elsewhere: Icarus and Cass call on a spurned lover, who reveals that there's more to Bellwether than meets the ear.
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02_SAFE SPACE
Bellwether
After the deadly Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, cities across America responded by cracking down on unofficial live-work spaces. Alt-right internet trolls took notice, and began pitting local governments about the people they are tasked with keeping safe.
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01_AUTOPILOT OFF REDUX
Bellwether
In 2018, Elaine Herzberg became the first pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving car. But who is to blame? We prosecute the person who was behind the wheel at our own peril. Elsewhere: short-term cryo has put Cass and Icarus in a relationship crisis.
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00_README (start here)
Bellwether
BELLWETHER is a podcast of speculative journalism: true stories of the world as it is through the lens of what it might become.
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BELLWETHER Visual Trailer :: Coming 9.27.21
Bellwether
Coming September 27, 2021:
info_outlineBELLWETHER is a podcast of speculative journalism: true stories of the world as it is, presented through the lens of what it might become.
Host Sam Greenspan presents original reporting about collisions with technology—and all framed within a sci-fi radio serial, set in a future where the internet has disappeared, and humans are learning how to live alongside sentient A.I.
This extended trailer is your skeleton key for understanding the forthcoming show.
More info at bellwether.show. And please consider supporting this independent project at thisisbellwether.bandcamp.com.