Season 2: Gen Alpha, AI Wars & The End of Everything 🤖

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Generation Alpha is growing up in a world we barely recognise...smartphones from birth, TikTok at 7, and parents who have no idea what they've unleashed. Meanwhile, AI is redesigning everything from how we work to how we fight wars, and nobody seems to be asking the big question: are we building the future or programming our own extinction?

This is Season 2 of Temporarily Scripted—a compilation of the wildest, weirdest, and most thought-provoking conversations we've had about technology, parenting, social media, the death of Hollywood, drone warfare, and why every AI company logo looks suspiciously like something rude.

What's Inside:

Why giving a 7-year-old unrestricted TikTok access is basically psychological warfare

How Facebook tracks 52,000 personal attributes per user to keep you scrolling

The North Korean soldiers getting slaughtered by drones in Ukrainian foxholes

Why working from home in tropical shorts is the ultimate power move
The terrifying reality of AI-generated ads that know you better than you know yourself

Why Mark Zuckerberg's fake tan and surfer hair don't make him a philanthropist

How AI might solve longevity, interstellar travel, or just wipe us all out first

The future where you tell an AI to make a Scorsese-style gangster film starring you and your mate—and it actually does it

Why Mars colonisation might just be a distraction from the fact we're all getting our own planets anyway

From screen time battles to drone swarms, from the death of ad agencies to the possibility that AI is the universe's virus—Season 2 is a chaotic, hilarious, and occasionally terrifying look at what happens when humanity hits the accelerator with no idea where the brakes are.

We're living through one of the most dangerous times in human history. Or maybe we're just overthinking it while scrolling through Instagram. Either way, it's worth talking about.

Watch the full episodes here: www.youtube.com/@TemporallyScripted

What's the one piece of technology you know is slowly destroying your life...but you can't seem to quit?

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 — Welcome to Generation Alpha: Born Digital, Raised by Screens
00:39 — The 71% Screen Time Struggle (And Why the Other 29% Are Lying)
01:19 — 7-Year-Olds with TikTok Accounts: A Parenting Nightmare
02:05 — "Yeah, You Can Have a Phone... A Nokia 3310"
02:20 — Technological Leapfrogging: When Parents Have No Clue
03:33 — How to Get Promoted in 3 Weeks: Just Look Busy
04:42 — The Psychology of Working From Home (In Tropical Shorts)
07:35 — Dead Time at Work: Why Lunch Breaks Are a Scam
09:16 — Facebook Knows You Better Than You Know Yourself
10:54 — 52,000 Personal Attributes Per User: How Facebook Tracks Your Brain
12:35 — Social Media Is Just a Slot Machine
13:46 — "I Got Arrested" — The Perfect LinkedIn Hook
15:10 — Digital Ad Spend: $36 Billion to $567 Billion in 15 Years
17:03 — Mark Zuckerberg's Fake Tan and Sudden Love for Free Speech
18:00 — The Meta Data Centre That Turned Someone's House into a Floodlight
19:25 — Who Controls What You Can Say: Governments or Silicon Valley?
20:53 — Humans Are Addicted to Drama: From Medieval Hangings to Social Media
21:49 — Drone Warfare and the Obsolescence of Traditional Combat
22:25 — North Koreans in Ukrainian Foxholes: "What Is That Robot?"
24:48 — The Nuclear Bomb Gamble: "Let's Just See What Happens"
25:33 — The Most Dangerous Time in Human History
27:03 — Why Do All AI Logos Look Like Something They Shouldn't?
28:03 — The Fermi Paradox: Maybe AI Is the Universe's Virus
30:03 — Population Crisis: South Korea's 0.26 Children Per Couple Problem
31:45 — AI and Longevity: Will We Figure Out How to Live Forever?
33:10 — Aging as a Photocopy of a Photocopy (And Why Lobsters Don't Die)
33:51 — AI-Generated Movies: "Make Me a Scorsese Film Starring Me and My Mate"
36:26 — Making Films for $35 That Would've Cost Hundreds of Thousands
37:45 — Everyone Gets Their Own Planet (Matched by AI, Obviously)
40:23 — There's No Going Back to a Pre-AI World

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