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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hype only has power in its illusion and if more people started from a mindset of critical thinking, hype wouldn’t have its power.
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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.
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What we need is a new philosophy of technology that is much more integrated with our understanding of culture and human processes.
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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.
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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.