Playing for Team Human today, former Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations for Political Advertising at Facebook, diplomat, corporate social responsibility advisor, and technology activist, Yael Eisenstat. Eisenstat helps us distinguish between the conscious and the automatic malfeasance of our social infrastructure. What can we do to improve our social media platforms, and where does […]

The transhumanist movement is less a theory about the advancement of humanity than a simple evacuation plan. Techno-utopians like to think of themselves as orchestrating a complete break from civilization — a leap into outer space, cyberspace, machine consciousness, or artificial life. But their ideas just extend our same blind addiction to consumption, destruction, progress,

The ultimate goal of personal transcendence was to leave the sinful, temporary body behind and float as a free, perfected consciousness. All that prior consumption was just fuel for the rocket, and the regrettable destruction something to leave behind with the rest of physical reality. This wasn’t a break from consumer capitalism, but the fulfillment

Singularitans consider technology more trustworthy than humans. Surveillance is not just a profit center for social media, but a way of safeguarding digital society from human resistance. I Will Not Pass the Evolutionary Torch To My Robot Successor medium.com Human beings are not the problem; we are the solution

Playing for Team Human today, futurist, inventor, and author of “Augmented Reality,” Mark Pesce. Pesce augments our understanding of the many interfaces between ourselves and whatever it is that’s out there. Does cybernetics break the western conception of linear time, arrow-for-progress, colonial expansion thing? In his opening monologue, Rushkoff discusses why elected officials should not

On encountering the destructiveness of European colonialists, Native Americans concluded that the invaders must have a disease. They called it wettiko: a delusional belief that cannibalizing the life force of others is a logical and morally upright way to live. The Native Americans believed that wettiko derived from people’s inability to see themselves as enmeshed,

The billionaires are the system itself. They cannot act with autonomy; they can only do whatever it is they think will make them money. The introduction of Lulz into their world means that there are now conscious, autonomously acting humans. Our moves make no sense to the algorithms or the market makers, because they are

Rushkoff explores how r/WallStreetBets delivered cybernetic karma to those who deserve it in this week’s #TeamHuman monologue — Stream now 🔊 Yaël Eisenstat | Team Human www.teamhuman.fm Ep. 175 Playing for Team Human today, former Global Head of Elections Integrity Operations for Political Advertising at Facebook, diplomat, corporate social responsibility advisor, and technology activist, Yaël