Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

This content was posted on  1 Apr 21  by   Douglas Rushkoff  on  Facebook Page
Once we dispense with shame, we are liberated to experience the full, sacred, unlikely wackiness …

Once we dispense with shame, we are liberated to experience the full, sacred, unlikely wackiness of being human. We are confident enough to leave the safety of the private computer simulation and jump into the wet chaos of social intimacy. Instead of marveling at the granularity of a VR world or the realism of a robot’s facial expression, we open our senses to the taste of the breeze or the touch of a lover.

We exchange the vertigo of the uncanny valley for the exhilaration of awe.

Read more from “How Our Healthy Longing for Awe Gets Exploited by the Truly Awful” from Medium’s weekly serialization of #TeamHuman 📚

https://medium.com/team-human/how-our-healthy-longing-for-awe-gets-exploited-by-the-truly-awful-d6197eeccd63

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There’s a difference between awe and excitement. These days, we mostly get the latter.


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