Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

This content was posted on  27 Jul 21  by   Douglas Rushkoff  on  Facebook Page
Human beings can intervene in the machine. That’s not a refusal to accept progress. It’s …

Human beings can intervene in the machine. That’s not a refusal to accept progress. It’s simply a refusal to accept any particular outcome as inevitable.

Team Human doesn’t reject technology. Artificial intelligence, cloning, genetic engineering, virtual reality, robots, nanotechnology, bio-hacking, space colonization, and autonomous machines are all likely coming, one way or another. But we must take a stand and insist that human values are folded into the development of each and every one of them.

Those of us who remember what life was like before these inventions remade the landscape have a duty to recall and proclaim the values that are being left behind.

📚 Read the final sections of Medium’s serialization of Team Human:

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In this closing excerpt from Team Human, Rushkoff calls on us to “Find the Others”


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