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Dreams Of Future Past

Dreams Of Future Past

By: Clock Tower Media
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Throughout history, people have imagined what the future might look like — sometimes in bold visions, sometimes in whimsical predictions. Dreams of a Future Past is a podcast that explores how humanity has dreamed of the future through movies, technology, philosophy, and design.

With an upbeat, conversational tone, the show will dive into iconic dreams of the future — from concept cars and world’s fairs, to sci-fi films and technology — and ask: what came true, what never did, and why? Along the way, listeners will discover the stories of inventors, businesspeople, and dreamers who helped shape our imagination of tomorrow.

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Episodes
  • Blade Runner 2049 — Memory, Meaning, and Manufactured Souls
    Jun 17 2026

    In Blade Runner 2049, director Denis Villeneuve expands the original’s question of humanity into something quieter and more unsettling: whether our memories and relationships are real. Set in a world of artificial memories, engineered beings, and AI relationships, the film trades action for introspection, presenting a future where meaning feels increasingly manufactured. Its vision of AI companionship, corporate control, and emotional isolation feels less like speculation and more like an extension of modern life.

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    Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as we explore a future where memory defines reality, replicants strive for human connection, and meaning is something you have to choose for yourself.

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    41 mins
  • H.R. Giger, Designing a Future That Feels Alive and Wants You Dead
    Jun 3 2026

    Giger’s vision of the future isn’t something to aspire to, it’s something to survive. H. R. Giger didn’t imagine sleek machines or heroic frontiers, he gave science fiction its nightmares. Emerging from postwar Europe and shaped by Cold War anxiety, Giger’s work channeled subconscious fear rather than optimism. Where Ralph McQuarrie made the future believable, Giger made it predatory. His biomechanical worlds fused flesh and machine, turning bones into architecture and technology into something invasive.

    In Alien, his Xenomorph terrified a generation with a vision that impacts us today. His work anticipated fears of dehumanizing systems and corporate indifference, where people become components.

    Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as we explore the artist who turned the future into something visceral, unsettling, and impossible to ignore.

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    37 mins
  • Leonardo da Vinci — The Original Futurist
    May 20 2026

    Was Leonardo da Vinci a Renaissance artistor the first true futurist? Living in a world without engines, electricity, or modern materials, Leonardo imagined flying machines, armored vehicles, and robotics centuries before they were possible. As the ultimate polymath, he blurred the line between art and engineering, using observation of nature to design human-centered machines and systems. While he correctly anticipated principles of flight, anatomy, and complex infrastructure, his ideas were limited by the lack of power sources, materials, and manufacturing and his ideas remained only in his notebooks. Yet his legacy endures as the blueprint for curiosity-driven innovation, proving that imagination often arrives long before technology catches up.

    Please join Greg, Ian, and McKay as we as we explore one of the most inventive and brilliant minds in history, a man who ignored the boundaries between art, science, architecture, and engineering and was sketching the future long before it arrived.

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    46 mins
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