Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

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Our global civilization faces multiple systemic threats.

The inevitable deeply disruptive transition will lead…
EITHER to untold pain and suffering – via chaos
OR (maybe) to a New Era – via conscious evolution.

On this site, we curate the content of some of the people and organizations who are consciously working directly or indirectly on Humanity’s Transition.

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Most recent 20 Videos, Podcasts and Medium Posts

Most recent 15 Videos, Podcasts and Medium Posts

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Jim talks with Daniel Mezick on the theme of games and their relationship to governance. They discuss Jane McGonigal’s four properties of games, the nature of authority, position-based vs role-based …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, Canadian pop artist, author, journalist, magician, and CEO of VOID Collective, Alex Kazemi.New Millennium Boyz: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/New-Millennium-Boyz/Alex-Kazemi/9798888459539 Alex’s website: https://alexkazemi.com/Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s Earth.Learn …Read more

Jim talks with Zak Stein about the psychological and developmental risks of AI in K-12 education. They discuss education vs schooling, technology’s role in human-to-human interaction, GPS & skill atrophy, …Read more

Jim talks with Daniel Rodriguez about the state of AI software development and its implementation in industry. They discuss Daniel’s background at Microsoft & Anaconda, transformer-based technologies, software engineering as …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, activist, Blogger, and Director of the Reinventing the CommonsProgram at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, David Bollier.Team Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s …Read more

Jim talks with Ryan Blosser about the ideas in his book Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship, co-authored with Trevor Pearsall. They discuss the motivation behind …Read more

Jim talks with Adam Lake about Reboot America, a project aimed at reforming American democracy. They discuss existential threats facing humanity, the two-party corporate duopoly, a Princeton study on policy …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, novelist, spiritualist and host of the podcast Against Everyone, my friend Conner Habib. This conversation continues tomorrow on Conner’s podcast, Against Everyone.Conner’s Patreon: patreon.com/connerhabibConner’s Website: …Read more

Jim talks with Sara Walker about the ideas in her new book Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence. They discuss Sara’s path from theoretical physics …Read more

Has digital technology turned us all into fascists? Rushkoff explores fascism as an environment in which we live, rather than the specific ideology of one “side.” He shows how technology, …Read more

Playing for Team Human today, occult historian, author, and esotericist Mitch Horowitz, sharing the formulas that give us all access to Practical Magic. Mitch Horowitz: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/Practical Magic: https://www.mitchhorowitz.com/booksTeam Human is …Read more

Edward Ongweso Jr., Senior Researcher at Security in Context and co-host of This Machine Kills, journeys with us into the political economy of technology and the deep crazy that is …Read more

Jim talks with Ashley Hodgson about her YouTube series “The New Enlightenment” and its heterodox perspectives on economics and social systems. They discuss Iain McGilchrist’s influence & his book “The …Read more

Radha Agrawal, Co-Founder of Daybreaker and author of Belong, helps us break from our online-induced community confusion and learn to find true connectedness again.About Radha AgrawalRadha Agrawal is a dynamic …Read more

Douglas Rushkoff recognizes the high weirdness of our circumstances, and the universal strange characterizing this moment in our shared history. He also offers four recommendations for us to take agency …Read more

How will AI shape our understanding of our creativity and ourselves? In February, artist and technologist K Allado-McDowell delivered a fascinating Long Now Talk that explored the dimensions of Neural …Read more

Sara Imari Walker – An Informational Theory of Life by The Long Now Foundation …Read more

Jim talks with John Robb about the ideas in his recent essay “Blitzing DC,” about how a networked organization took over Washington. They discuss the early roots of network warfare …Read more

Jonathan Larsen, Founder of The Fucking News, proves there’s still a path forward for the fourth estate.You can view the full video conversation: https://youtu.be/b8M4zkhtTZgTeam Human is proudly sponsored by Everyone’s …Read more

Jim talks with Timothy Clancy about wicked mess problems & the potential for a new Cold War centered on AI. They discuss the evolution from chat-based to reasoning AI, military …Read more

Culmination in the Second Trump Administration: A Clausewitzian ReadingCarl von Clausewitz observed that every offensive reaches a culminating point, the moment when accumulated resistance, logistical strain, and sheer chance sap …Read more

Theories of Consciousness Smackdown: IIT vs GNWTRelated Jim Rutt Show podcasts: — Team IIT: EP105 Christof Koch on Consciousness — Father of GWT: EP108 Bernard Baars on ConsciousnessConsciousness science has long been rich in hypotheses …Read more

I’ve been asking myself for a while now: Why are so many people today drawn to oligarchs and demagogues? I recently posted this question on Facebook, and the thread that …Read more

Over the past few weeks I’ve had a number of people coming to me to see if I could help them make sense of what was going on in the …Read more

In an era of planetary crisis and a time when universities are increasingly under attack, an underlying question that has gradually moved to the center of attention is this: what …Read more

Yesterday we embarked on a new journey of discovery to help strengthen and grow a planetary network of bioregions — with people from all over the world who want to help regenerate …Read more

I often use the phrase “intersubjective verification of the interobjective” to describe a key method of knowledge making and sense-making. Some people politely call it “mighty dense,” while others more …Read more

Chasing the Whisper of Telos in a Cosmic ImprovThe Discourse, it seems, is a never-ending tango between meaning and meaninglessness — between those who suspect the Universe has a grand, ineffable plan and …Read more

In these times of turbulent change, we cannot depend upon the stability of human systems. The boundaries through which most of them were created are fickle and unfit for the …Read more

As we enter 2025, I want to share some reflections and intentions.One realization of last year has been this: Our number one challenge isn’t biodiversity loss, climate change, polarization, countries …Read more

Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of claims that Elon Musk isn’t the real deal — that he’s just riding on the ideas of others or that his accomplishments aren’t all that …Read more

On July 31st, 2024, my father, Dieter Scharmer, passed away peacefully. At the age of 94, he had lived and worked almost his entire life on the same piece of …Read more

Each new disaster brings my own healing process to a deeper level… as I grieve all that is dying and place my heart in the future that comes after collapse.Yesterday …Read more

In February 2024, the Territorial Foundations movement of Colombia decided to design and implement a Territorial Regeneration Fund. This fund is part of a collective bet as a movement to …Read more

At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are excited to announce our new learning journey for 2025 called How to Organize Your Bioregion.This will be a six month long …Read more

Hi everyone, my name is Joe Brewer and today I want to share with you some of my observations about the problematic framing of the climate discourse.Now some of you …Read more

In this room, we uncover hidden messages through steganographic methods and research.Task 2: Analyze the AudioQuestion: What is the link inside of the audio?To solve this task, I used Sonic Visualizer to …Read more

Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s NextIn 2024, over 2 billion of us voted in national elections. So what have we learned so far this year, in general and from the …Read more

— It’s Bigger Than You Think And It’s All About The Wasted Votes There is a lot of talk about a Republican Electoral College advantage — that the Republicans can win an …Read more

task fileThis TryHackMe room demonstrates how easy it is to extract identifiable information from a single photo, showcasing the power of Open Source Intelligence.1. What is this user’s avatar of?For the …Read more