Future Tense

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Simon Luckhurst, writer and producer of Ear Movies, talks to ABC Radio's Jake Cupitt about the release of Remembering Tomorrow, season five of Ear Movies. The clip features snippets of GIGO, read by Geoff Morrell.

As rising seas, violent storms and an increasingly controlling government all impact on Sydney, a young girl and her family head inland hoping to find a safer, better place to live.

We’re now living on the cusp of the age of AI. And AI is probably a bit like fire, isn’t it? I mean, a great servant, but a terrible master. Or would it be?

What happens when the world’s newest form of addiction doesn’t just capture attention - but consumes its users entirely?

A poet and his brother go on the run to avoid a dangerous new kind of weapon. Sorry, we're having some ethical difficulties with this one. Please come back again soon.

This nostalgic story looks back a generation, before so much of the technology that we take for granted today was present. In its way it evokes the German word, ‘sehnsucht’ which means a yearning for something that may not exist.

This is a story about a breakthrough in technology that promises to make life easier, however one unsuspecting user becomes its casualty.

This is a story about a family secret. When an unsuspecting niece and her new boyfriend come to visit her uncle, what will be revealed once their sky car touches down at his remote country house?

This is a story of hope. When a mysterious stranger arrives in a small outback town you can bet there’s going to be challenges, confrontations and some blues harp…