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Alex Holland

Journalist, Tea Pub operator, and Founder of SolarPunk Stories Alex Holland helps us learn to tell better and more constructive stories about our collective future. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how AI can be compared to the Conquistadors. 📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How We Taught Technology to Program […]

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Currents 082: Dan Shipper on Practical Applications of GPT-3

Jim talks with Dan Shipper about practical uses of GPT-3 and ChatGPT at the personal scale. They discuss how Dan started playing with these tools, the feeling of new generative AIs, GPT-3 vs ChatGPT, writing a screenplay using ChatGPT, using GPT-3 to analyze journal entries, circumventing the context window limitation, GPT-3 as a journaling tool,

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Parag Khanna – Why Mobility is Destiny

The map of humanity isn’t settled — not now, not ever. In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been mobility—the ever-constant search for resources, stability and opportunity. Driven by global events from conflicts, famine, repression and changing climates – to opportunities for trade, social

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Jeff Emmett

Co-founder of the Commons Stack and Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience Jeff Emmett tells us about the wonders of mycelia – and why we may all want to start considering ourselves mycopunks. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the only answer to more tech is more human investment 📰 You can read a written

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Ismail Ali – Psychedelics: History at the Crossroads

Psychedelics and other mind-altering substances have been used for thousands of years across the world in religious, spiritual, celebratory, and healing contexts. Despite a half century of a “War on Drugs” in the United States, there has been a recent resurgence in public interest in ending drug prohibition and re-evaluating the roles these substances can

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Micah Sifry

Organizer, The Connector journalist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us evaluate how directly we need to be involved in political activism to keep democracy sustainable. 🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares a story about how the universe winked at him, and why he thinks we’ll all be okay. 📰 You can

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Eric Debrah Otchere – Sonic Spaces: A Psychology of Music and Work

Eric Debrah Otchere’s research revolves around the power of music in the context of work; covering an ambitious range from ethnographic research on Ghanaian indigenous fishing culture to personalized musical preferences via modern technology. Throughout history, the power of music to enhance productivity and focus at work has been explored, leveraged and exploited – by

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Ryan North – How to Invent Everything

How would someone fare if they were dropped into a randomly chosen period in history? Would they have any relevant knowledge to share, or ability to invent crucial technologies given the period’s constraints? Ryan North uses these hypothetical questions to explore the technological and implicit knowledge underpinning modern civilization, offering a practical guide of how

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Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023. Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the educational landscape, the worldviews that emerged from 1950s speculative fiction, and why media ecology never took

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AVATAR, BROS AND OUR SKIN – Where Woke Goes Right and Wrong

In this episode, I take a look at three cultural artifacts that present worldcentric ideals of sustainability, egalitarianism and gender fluidity through an ethnocentric lens of good versus evil: Avatar: The Way of Water – James Cameron’s latest movie in his great green myth of Pandora, a pristine planet attacked by modernity (and a few

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