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A podcast that brings you up to date with the promises of the future, made in the past. It's impossible to keep up with the latest on everything. News media only has so much space, and as you doom-scroll seeking an update on cancer cures or flying cars, you'll find a million answers, mostly wrong, and many of them involving kittens.Good news!Hosted by journalist and presenter, David Curnow, "Where Are We At With...?" speaks to experts in the field to get the very latest on what's being done, and how far away your flying car or robot butler really is.

In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural selection. Instead, he proposes a theory of human evolution and history based on "entanglement," the ever-increasing mutual dependency between humans and things.