Should This Exist?

Illustration by Sarah Sandman

It’s the question of our times: How is technology impacting our humanity? Should This Exist? Is a podcast that invites the creators of radical new technologies to set aside their business plan, and think through the human side: What is the invention’s greatest promise? And what could possibly go wrong? Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts.

REPAIR SHOP
How to fix the internet, according to its pioneers
July 16, 2019Quartz
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH
Humans don’t actually want to be immortal, we just want to be forever young
June 27, 2019Quartz
TO MEAT OR NOT TO MEAT?
Beef producers want lab-grown meat to be called something else entirely
May 30, 2019Quartz

ALTER EGO
“Voice skins” will make the internet a freer—but more dangerous—place
May 21, 2019Quartz
FOR US BY US
The perils and promises of redesigning animals to meet our needs
May 2, 2019Quartz
OH (BIG) BROTHER
Cameras are everywhere. Do they make us any safer?
April 11, 2019Quartz
🍦PLANE ✈️ KOAN🍦
When we travel faster, what do we lose?
March 28, 2019Quartz
MACH MONEY
Are luxury travelers ready to shell out for shorter supersonic flights?
March 28, 2019Quartz
LOUD AND CLEAR
When your tech knows you better than you know yourself
March 14, 2019Quartz
TREAT YO SELF
This robot wants to help you control your emotions
Feb. 27, 2019Quartz

SHORTCUTS
The best brain hack for learning faster is one you already know
Feb. 21, 2019Quartz
SHOULD THIS EXIST?
This is the one big question founders should be asking about their new technologies
Feb. 7, 2019Quartz
Should This Exist? Our new podcast asks big questions about technology and humanity
Feb. 7, 2019Quartz
MIND MELD
Lana Awad is engineering the neuro-tech that will transform humanity
March 16, 2018Quartz