Hanna talks to the creators of an AI project called Future You. She also has a conversation with a future version of herself. But the person she meets is not who she expected. Share understanding this holiday season. For less than $2 a week, give a year-long Atlantic subscription to someone special. They’ll get unlimited access to Atlantic journalism, including magazine issues, narrated articles, puzzles, and more. Give today at TheAtlantic.com/podgift. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hello, this is Future Hannah.
Oh boy.
My name is pronounced Hana.
Hannah, you should know that of all people.
This is Radio Atlantic.
I'm Hannah Rosen.
Um, who are you?
Hey there.
I'm Hannah Rosen, an 80 year old journalist from the future.
I'm here to have a conversation with you about our career and life experiences
and offer some insights and advice based on my own journey.
Just a heads up though, since we are from different timelines,
things may be slightly different for me than they will be for you.
But regardless of what lies ahead, I am excited to chat with you and share my thoughts.
Oh Bo, what if you had the chance to meet your future self?
In make believe, meaning movies, people get to meet their future selves a lot.
Usually it's coming around to teach them something like a kid is desperate to be older.
I wish I were big.
Only to learn that being an adult is kind of terrible.
Or it's the holidays when everyone's supposed to be smiling,