We rarely think about the link between trust and progress and innovation, and how societies move forward. But when you start to think of it like that, you realize that trust is actually the key component not just for companies but any organization that wants human beings to try new things.
Virtual Futures Podcast
Virtual Futures Podcast #7: Trust Shift, with Rachel Botsman
presented by Rachel Botsman, Luke Robert Mason
Virtual Futures Podcast #6: Virtual Therapy, with Michael Carthy
presented by Michael Carthy, Luke Robert Mason
Traditional psychology and counseling will help people understand in a very linear way why they are the way they are. Whereas what I’m really focused on and what I’ve been specializing in for the last number of years is the how. And for me, virtual reality therapy is the how of change.
Virtual Futures Podcast #5: Electronic Waste, with Dani Ploeger
presented by Dani Ploeger, Luke Robert Mason
This idea of (re)performing the posthuman was pretty much based on a desire to talk about the cyborg ten years after, or fifteen years, twenty years after the Cyborg Manifesto and Katherine Hayles’ book became famous. And to really—yeah, to talk about maybe the normal cyborg, the normal technologized body. You know, technology in the everyday and its implications for the way we perceive and experience our bodies.
Virtual Futures Podcast #3: Transhumanism and Risk, with Professor Steve Fuller
presented by Steve Fuller, Luke Robert Mason
Humanity 2.0 starts to challenge a lot of the assumptions of Humanity 1.0, especially in terms of issues having to do with limitations. So in other words, you might say there are two ways to go on Humanity 2.0. And in my writing, I associate these with the transhuman and the posthuman, respectively.
Virtual Futures Podcast #1: Cyborg Experiments, with Professor Kevin Warwick
presented by Luke Robert Mason, Kevin Warwick
Humans, we’re pretty limited in what we can do, let’s face it, mentally particularly. We just have a bunch of brain cells. And the possibility of enhancing our brain, our mental capabilities, I think is enormous.