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Futures Podcast #26: Dawn of the Transhuman Era, with Prof. Steve Fuller

presented by Luke Robert Mason, Steve Fuller

If we’re imaging a republic of humanity and we’re imagining it in the condition or morphological freedom, then we’re going to have to imagine a much wider range of human embodiment than we even imagine now.

Futures Podcast #25: Humankind, with Rutger Bregman

presented by Luke Robert Mason, Rutger Bregman

A realistic view of human nature recognises that we are a species that have evolved to be friendly, that this is our true superpower, that we can cooperate on a skill that no other species can, and that we need to reconnect with this superpower if we want to do anything about the great challenges that lie ahead of us.

Futures Podcast #24: Birth, Food, Sex & Death, with Jenny Kleeman

presented by Jenny Kleeman, Luke Robert Mason

We’re dependent on ever greater magnitudes of technology, when I feel that real power comes from a willingness to reform your behaviour. If we outsource fundamental aspects of human existence in return for the illusion of control over our nature, I think we disempower ourselves.

Futures Podcast #23: The World According to Physics, with Jim Al-Khalili

presented by Jim Al-Khalili, Luke Robert Mason

Ultimately, there’s a reality out there and for me, science—and physics in particular—is the best way of understanding the nature of that reality.

Futures Podcast #22: Cultivating Long Term Thinking, with Roman Krznaric

presented by Luke Robert Mason, Roman Krznaric

I think there is a global growing movement of what I think of as time rebels, who are challenging that idea of linear time, extending our horizons beyond our mortality. A hundred years, a thousand years ahead. Ten thousand years ahead. Their voices are becoming stronger and stronger.

Futures Podcast #21: How Hype Obscures the Future, with Gemma Milne

presented by Gemma Milne, Luke Robert Mason

Hype only has power in its illusion and if more people started from a mindset of critical thinking, hype wouldn’t have its power.

Futures Podcast #20: Abolish Silicon Valley, with Wendy Liu

presented by Luke Robert Mason, Wendy Liu

You know, we need to think about collective action and collective solutions. We need to envision a new paradigm for how society should be governed.

Futures Podcast #19: Coevolution of Humans and Machines, with Edward A. Lee

presented by Edward A. Lee, Luke Robert Mason

What we need is a new philosophy of technology that is much more integrated with our understanding of culture and human processes.

Futures Podcast #18: Evolutionary Mismatch, with Adam Hart

presented by Adam Hart, Luke Robert Mason

We are such a globally successful species in terms of our numbers and spread that we really do need to reassess our relationship with how we sit on the planet. I think we’ll get there, but we won’t get there quite as quickly as we might like.

Futures Podcast #17: Our Future Selves, with Yancey Strickler

presented by Luke Robert Mason, Yancey Strickler

It’s largely my theory that the post-internet innovation won’t be like AR or AI or whatever; another technological revolution. I think the revolution after the internet is consciousness—human consciousness. The networked organism of all of us. I don’t mean that in a singularity kind of way.