'Fly Me to the Moon' Podcast: How Corporate Futurism Erases Marginalized Visions of Tomorrow
Original framing: “Mundys: 'Fly me to the Moon' podcast on air, stories and ideas to tell the futures to come” — bing news
Marginalized communities—Indigenous peoples, Global South workers, disabled activists—are systematically excluded from futurist conversations. For example, *Land Back* movements in North America or *Zapatista* autonomy in Mexico offer lived alternatives to corporate futurism, yet are absent here. The podcast’s host-centric format reinforces the extractive logic that futurism is a privilege of the powerful, not a collective project.
The 'Fly Me to the Moon' podcast exemplifies how corporate futurism operates as a *soft power* mechanism—normalizing elite visions of progress while erasing systemic alternatives.
Its framing obscures the historical pattern of futurist hubris (from the 1960s space race to today’s AI mania) and the structural violence of excluding Indigenous and Global South temporalities. Solutions must move beyond critique to *restorative* action: centering marginalized knowledge systems, regulating corporate narratives, and building community-owned futures labs. The trickster here is not just exposing the absurdity of unchecked futurism but demanding we ask: *Whose futures are being told, and at whose expense?