Treecorder - Science & Fiction Podcast

Treecorder is a German-language science-and-fiction podcast with one foot in speculative culture and the other in present-day technology. It does not treat science fiction as escapism alone. The recent episodes use it as a test chamber for social media, cybersecurity, AI, resilience, and community. A discussion about leaving Facebook and Instagram becomes a larger examination of data collection, Metapixel tracking, targeted advertising, and predictive analytics. The point is not only that platforms know a lot. The sharper concern is what can be inferred, sold, automated, or acted on before a person has consciously decided anything. Another episode shifts from privacy to the brain. Short-form content, youth regulation, and platform design are framed as questions about development, agency, and the kind of media environment people are willing to normalize. The show is serious about risk, but it is not only bleak. It often tests a dystopian scenario against a more hopeful one, using fiction as a structured way to think rather than as decoration. Cybersecurity adds a harder practical layer. Ransomware, hacker networks, state actors, deepfake calls, and AI-generated voice fraud are discussed in plain terms, with the emphasis on what ordinary people can actually recognize or prepare for. The resilience episodes widen the lens again. Psychological resilience, sleep, information habits, and everyday routines sit beside the bigger questions about regulation and technology. Treecorder also turns toward its own future, asking how a community around science and fiction might work and what kind of platform would make real exchange possible. The overall feel is conversational, searching, and sometimes dryly amused. It is best for listeners who like careful back-and-forth more than tidy conclusions. Treecorder keeps asking how today’s systems could become tomorrow’s fiction, and how fiction might help people notice the pattern sooner.