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Let's dream better! Join paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield for bold, far-ranging explorations into the nature of agency in the age of automation, wisdom and innovation, responsibility and power, and the care and feeding of the new superpowers conferred to us by magical technologies. Weekly dialogues at the edge of the knowable, learning to navigate Global Weirding and exponential AI with the curiosity and play required of us. Building on twenty years of independent research plus first ...
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Now, with almost 300,000 people who have listened to the show. Tech on Politics is produced by Animal Ventures, an agency of innovation that partners other animals to create, implement, and invest in some of the most exciting and emergent technologies. We educate the worlds leading executives and together we rapidly protype, build, and design new ideas. It's time for a new political discourse and a more robust conversation around political and governmental innovation. Join host Tom Serres as ...
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The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean
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1:24:19This week’s guest is the singular Michael Dean, who graduated from architecture school and played in a band before spending years in tech working on virtual reality, only to metamorphose into one of the best essayists I’ve ever read. With support from Humans On The Loop supporters O’Shaughnessy Ventures and Cosmos Institute, Dean is now decoding th…
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The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton
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1:26:34“When I have a rich, powerful, mind expanding, mind bending conversation like this, I'll need to go and lie down in darkened room afterwards.”– Robert Poynton This week’s guest is my friend and inspiration Robert Poynton, Founder of Yellow Learning, Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford, and author of three beautiful short books — …
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Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio
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1:54:47This week’s guest my friend Joshua DiCaglio, Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University and author of the fabulous Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry. It’s a book bout how contemplating scale can transform us — how it’s one thing to understand the microcosm and macrocosm through our maps and another thing entirely to really sit wit…
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Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society
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1:38:17This week Jim O’Shaughnessy (Website | X) joins Humans On The Loop to carry our first on-record conversation on Infinite Loops into bold new terrains! Jim is one of the most renowned investors and asset managers of all the time and the author of several hugely best-selling and influential books on investing, including What Works on Wall Street, Inv…
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Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination
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1:29:17Where do we need boundaries, and where do we need flows? And how can we ensure that we can redistribute them according to the changing needs of any given moment? These are the kinds of questions I would ask if I were trying to meta-solve a meta-crisis, and this is why I’m glad to share this conversation with you. Today’s guest Aishwarya Khanduja, i…
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Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy
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1:18:48This week I dialogue with Matthew David Segall, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for the Cobb Institute, and author of the Footnotes To Plato blog as well as numerous books on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Friedrich…
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Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous
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1:06:56This week on Humans On The Loop I welcome Andrew McLuhan, author, teacher, and Director of The McLuhan Institute, a generational ark for media theory in a world that desperately needs more help understanding the relationships between our tools, our minds, and our society. Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • Spotify Please consi…
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J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale
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1:18:04Halfway through one of my favorite sci-fi novels, Charles Stross’ Accelerando, we tune in to the members of an interstellar first contact mission as they pass the time debating whether the Technological Singularity has happened yet. Spoiler alert: all of them are uploaded minds appearing in a consensus VR environment as various post-human avatars, …
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Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics
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1:18:31Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • Spotify If you value this series, please consider becoming a patron here on Substack or with tax-deductible donations at every.org/humansontheloop (you’ll get perks either way). About This Episode This week we speak with “strategic futurist and pattern navigator” Adah Parris, a London-based w…
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Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy
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1:19:03Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • Spotify If you value this series, please consider becoming a patron here on Substack or with tax-deductible donations at every.org/humansontheloop (you’ll get perks either way). Our next members hangout will be Saturday Feb 15th at 3 pm Mountain Time and I would love to see you in the mix! Ex…
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Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media
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1:19:28Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week I speak with author, futurist, and strategist Jessica Clark of Dot Connector Studio. Jessica has honed her skills for decades on a path that’s carried her from AAAS to The Library of Congress to The Encyclopedia Britannica to the Center for Media and Social Impact to The New …
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New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell
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1:22:27Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week we speak with K Allado-McDowell, artist, musician, and co-founder of the Artists & Machine Intelligence program at Google. K pioneered human-computer co-authorship with the book Pharmako-AI, as well as Air Age Blueprint, Amor Cringe, and the graphic novel Outside, plus works …
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Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan
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1:24:33Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week I speak with New York Times best-selling author and creative technologist Robin Sloan about the themes of his inimitable novel Moonbound, one of those reads that wrapped me in a vortex of wonder and synchronicity, and raises questions like: Where is the line between technolog…
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Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp
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1:10:04Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week I speak with my friend Stephanie Lepp (Website | LinkedIn), two-time Webby Award-winning producer and storyteller devoted to leaving “no insight left behind” with playful and provocative media experiments that challenge our limitations of perspective. Stephanie is the former …
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Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots
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1:14:07Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week’s guest is my friend and inspiration, knowledge ecologist Christina Bowen. If I were to try and start a movement, I would call her first. Christina is CEO and co-founder of socialroots.io, an NSF- and Omidyar Network-funded software platform for cross-group collaboration that…
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The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen
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1:01:45Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts When technology gets byzantine, when the heady early years of cybernetic mysticism give way and our software engineers become the new priests of the Catholic institutions of Big Tech, maybe we can learn a thing or two from a Byzantine Catholic who’s made Responsible Technology their li…
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Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle
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1:40:05Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts When, suddenly, the barrier between “imagination” and “reality” evaporates as our familiar notions of here/there, now/then, in/out, and other/self twist up into a ball of non-Euclidean spaghetti, whom better to help steer the course through these “turbulent philosophical waters” than R…
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📚🧙🏼♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism
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1:06:00Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode “The best academic lecture/slam poetry/sermon/magical invocation/attunement and invitation to engage I’ve experienced in a long while.”– Daniel Lindenbarger Next week, after nearly nine years of development, this show grows up to become Humans On The Loop, a transd…
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⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time
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🐦⬛🐙🖤 230 - Jamie Curcio on Living in Mythpunk, Eldritch Complexity, and Finding The Bright Side of Dark Ages
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1:00:53Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week I talk with Jamie Curcio to ask, whom do we serve? Who gives us power, and to whom do we give ours? Where does that power come from? To whom do we sell our stories? We explore the world behind the world, linking Jamie’s writing and game world-building in the domain he calls m…
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👾🖼️🏯 229 - Sara Phinn Huntley on Making A Field Guide to DMT Entities
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1:22:25Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts This week on Future Fossils I welcome back Sara Phinn Huntley (help her fight cancer!), a multimedia artist, writer, and researcher who has spent the last two decades exploring the intersection of psychedelics, technology, and philosophy. An intrepid psychonaut and carto…
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🧬🕰️⚗️ 228 - William Sarill on Intuition in Science & The Physics of Philip K. Dick
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1:52:07This week we speak to multidisciplinary independent researcher William Sarill, whose life has traced a high-dimensional curve through biochemistry, art restoration, physics, and esotericism (and I’m stopping the list here but it goes on). Bill is one of the only people I know who has the scientific chops to understand and explain how to possibly un…
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🎙️🖇️🕸️ 227 - MG + Tim Adalin of Voicecraft: Network Philosophy, Caring Organizations, & Wiser Innovation
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1:30:26This week on Future Fossils, I meet with the wonderful Tim Adalin of Voicecraft. Watch us get to know each other a little bit better on a swapcast (his edit here) that throws a long loop around the world. Tim is precisely the kind of thoughtful investigator I love to encounter in conversation. Enjoy! ✨ Support This Work • Buy my brain for hourly co…
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📚🧐🦾 226 - Stephen Reid on Technological Metamodernism
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1:13:43Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode How can we design virtuous technologies while acknowledging the complexity and unintended consequences of technological innovation? How can we foster curiosity, playfulness, and wonder in a world increasingly dominated by anxiety and technological determinism? This…
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🤰🏽🧐🕸️ 225 - Alyssa Allegretti on Sacred Domesticity and Hard Times in The Liminal Web
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1:45:19Subscribe, Rate, & Review on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode If you’re wondering why this episode came later than I promised, well…look no further than the text and subtext of this very rich discussion: it ain’t easy being a scholar when your kids keep banging down the door. This week I speak with professional organizer, sin…
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🔍👁️🔮 224 - Helané Wahbeh of IONS on Arguments against Materialism and for New Theories of Consciousness
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58:57Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode This week on Future Fossils we speak with Helané Wahbeh (LinkedIn), Director of Research at The Institute of Noetic Sciences, adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University, and author of over ninety …
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🔥🌎💒 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking Blasphemy
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2:15:42Subscribe, Rate, & Review Future Fossils on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts ✨ About This Episode The world is getting hotter, faster, stranger, and scarier every year. Species disappear each day, life-critical diversity replaced with media, consumer goods, capital, and trash. And yet…what do any of us feel inspired to do about it? Why has humank…
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👾🍄🧮 222 - Andrés Goméz Emilsson on Psychedelic Computer Science & The Mathematics of Consciousness
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1:39:51Now also on YouTube! In this episode we’re joined by Andrés Goméz Emilsson, President and Director of Research at the Qualia Research Institute (QRI), with whom we go deep on their computational approach to probe the mysteries of consciousness and the psychedelic experience — and thereby, perhaps, make the world a substantially happier place. Join …
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📯💗🌌 221 - Tom Morgan on Answering The Call of Destiny & Love As An Attractor
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1:26:19“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is wh…
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🤖🌳📈 220 - Austin Wade Smith on Convivial Ecological Institutions and Open Source Commons for Sensemaking
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1:20:09This week I riff with Austin Wade Smith (they/them) — an animist, designer, ecologist, and creative technologist based in Brooklyn, New York and the Executive Director of Regen Foundation, a US-based non-profit working with distributed ledgers and AI to design sovereign regenerative economics. Austin’s work explores opportunities for social, legal,…
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🙏🏽⛩🤖 219 - Joshua Schrei on Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I.
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1:29:37This week marks the beginning of Embodied Ethics in The Age of A.I., a six-week online course led by writer and teacher Joshua Schrei, host of The Emerald Podcast. This course is, in large part, inspired by an episode he wrote last year called “So You Want To Be A Sorcerer in The Age of Mythic Powers” — exploring the mythic dimensions of tech innov…
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🎋🔬🕸️ 218 - Neil Theise on Complexity & Nonduality
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1:26:55I’m honored to share a profound and soulful conversation on science and spirituality with Neil Theise, professor of pathology at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, discoverer of a new human organ (the interstitium), lifelong Zen meditator, and author of the superb book, Notes on Complexity. ✨ Mentioned & Related Links: Embodied Ethics in The Age …
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💻💶🌏 217 - Gregory Landua & Speaker John Ash on Regenerative Accelerationism & How To Heal A Broken Internet
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1:35:39If you care about this show as a public good, consider signing up on Substack or Patreon today for bonus episodes, live calls, and more — or at least mash “subscribe” on Spotify or Apple Podcasts and leave a five-star review. The unborn future archaeologists who find these episodes inscribed in DNA will thank you! Today I welcome you to join me for…
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🐦⬛🦖🕵🏼♀️ 216 - Jingmai O'Connor on Dead Birds & Living Paleontologists
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1:33:53This week I speak with Jingmai O’Connor (Staff Page | Instagram), Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles (a.k.a. Priestess of Dead Dino-Birds) at The Field Museum in Chicago, about the magnificent strangeness of Mesozoic flying reptiles, the perverse anthropology of paleontologists, and much else. Contrary to expectations for a show with “fossils” in…
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🫂👩🏼💻🔍 215 - Social Science & Collective Intelligence with Brigham Adams of Goodly Labs
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1:39:48This week I speak with social scientist Nicholas Brigham Adams (Twitter, LinkedIn) about his work at Goodly Labs to create new infrastructure for collective intelligence — new systems for collective fact-checking and sense-making that can help us rise to the occasion of our inherently social, planet-scale challenges. And the time for this work is d…
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👁️🔄📀 214 - J.F. Martel, Phil Ford, & Megan Phipps on Weird Cybernetics: Waking Up From The Ecstasy
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1:20:22✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you! Merry Christmas, Future Fossils! This is Michael Garfield welcoming you to episode 214 of the podcast that explores our place in time — and as demonstrated in the Dr. Who and Aliens franchises, Blade Runner 2049, and Batman Returns, Christmas is a fruitful bac…
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🕸️⛩️💻 213 - Amber Case & Michael Zargham on Entangled Technologies & Design As Governance
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1:11:03✨ Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Unborn archaeologists thank you! This week I speak with two of the most thoughtful people I know in tech, cyborg anthropologist Amber Case and systems engineer Michael Zargham (Founder & CEO of BlockScience) — who work together on tools for building trust between tech users and tech companies…
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🌏🚜🫀212 - Manfred Laubichler & Geoffrey West on Life In The Anthropocene & Living Inside The Technosphere
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1:12:01Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever! This week on the show I speak with physicist Geoffrey West (SFI) and evolutionary biologist Manfred Laubichler (ASU, SFI) about the transformations that our geosphere, biosphere, technosphere, and noosphere are undergoing as the “extended phenotype” of human innovation runs rampant…
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💻🍄🧙🏼♂️ 211 - Adam Aronovich on A Cultural Anthropology for The Psychedelic Internet
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1:14:43Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever! This week on Future Fossils we pierce the veil with Adam Aronovich, cultural anthropologist and psychedelic integration therapist, to talk about the strange brew of web-connected healing and web-inflicted paranoia and delusions of grandeur, conspiracy epistemics, how people are bei…
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👁️🧠🎧 210 - Mitch Schultz & Shanta Stevens on Documenting The Next Psychedelic Revolution
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1:24:55Subscribe and review at Apple Podcasts and/or Spotify. Or wherever! This week I welcome back psychedelic film-maker and culture-cultivator Mitch Schultz, Director of the legendary documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule, alongside our mutual co-conspirator, experience design consultant and psychedelic provocateur Shanta Stevens. The two of them have f…
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🍄🎥👁️ 209 - Ken Adams on A Life of Psychedelic Film-Making & Collaboration with Terence McKenna
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1:32:34This week I have the joy of sharing a long-overdue discussion with legendary psychedelic media pioneer Ken Adams (Vimeo | LinkedIn), one of the first people I ever interviewed on record years before Future Fossils and whose influence on my own creative life cannot be overstated. Two of Ken’s main claims to fame are the films he created in collabora…
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👷🏽🌎🎊 208 - Building Cultural Capacity for A REAL Psychedelic Renaissance with Samantha Sweetwater, Ian-Michael Hebert, and Jahan Khamsehzadeh @ Psychedelic Science 2023
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1:29:07This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com This week on the show I share a reading and panel discussion with three amazing psychedelic thought-leaders I facilitated as a satellite event during the MAPS 2023 Psychedelic Science Conference! Samantha Sweetwater (author of The Wisdom of WTF?!? and the for…
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🌊🏄🌱 207 - Tech & Community LIVE at Junkyard Social Club with Evan Snyder, Ryan Madson, Roger Toennis, Aaron Gabriel, & Juicy Life
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1:15:44This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com This week I’m glad to share a special Future Fossils Live recorded at one of the coolest places I have ever seen, the Junkyard Social Club in Boulder, Colorado! It’s a menagerie of interesting brilliant weirdos, including my old friend and original co-host/ro…
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🤩🎻🤖 206 - Scout Rainer Wiley on AI vs. BS Jobs, The Return of Culture, and Eldritch Wonders in The Bright Apocalypse
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1:22:29This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com ...about AI, art, culture, celebrity, identity, and trauma. Before we begin: I’m teaching a six-week online course on science, philosophy, economics, media, and dinosaurs! Join me at NuraLearning.com for Jurassic Worlding, a psychedelic deep dive into self-fu…
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🎶⚔️👏🏼 205 - Greg Thomas & Stephanie Lepp on Jazz Leadership & Antagonistic Cooperation
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1:32:14This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit michaelgarfield.substack.com Before we begin: I’m teaching a six-week online course on science, philosophy, economics, media, and dinosaurs! Join me at NuraLearning.com for Jurassic Worlding, a psychedelic deep dive into self-fulfilling techno-thrillers and the analog-digital transition,…
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💐📚🏛️ 204 - Jamie Joyce on The Society Library and Tools for Making Sense Together
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1:09:13This week we talk with Jamie Joyce of The Society Library! ✨ SOME References: An Oral History of The End of ‘Reality’ Regina Rini and the Epistemic Backstop Stephanie Lepp Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens Alison Gopnik The Hyperion Cantos The Internet Archive Ed Bernays ✨ Support Future Fossils: Subscribe anywhere you go for podcasts. Subscribe to the pod…
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203 - Kevin Kelly on Excellent Advice for Living, Playing with AI, and Staying Curious
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58:26Pardon the delay, as I’ve been gathering more conversations than I’ve shared. Future Fossils is about to go into the rapids with three amazing back-to-back episodes! The next will be with Jamie Joyce of The Society Library and then it’s Greg Thomas of The Jazz Leadership Project with producer/futurist Stephanie Lepp (formerly The Center for Humane …
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202 - Caveat Magister on Psychomagic, Amusement Parks, & Turning Your Life Into Art
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1:38:08In this episode I welcome Caveat Magister, resident philosopher of Burning Man, to Future Fossils to discuss his latest book, Turn Your Life Into Art! We talk about transformational cross-country and urban adventures, psychomagic, and the difference between two kinds of experience design — one of which structures something fun but easily consumable…
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201 - KMO & Kevin Wohlmut on our Blue Collar Black Mirror: Star Trek, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Jurassic Park, Adventure Time, ChatGPT, & More
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1:46:17This week we talk about the intersections of large language models, the golden age of television and its storytelling mishaps, making one’s way through the weirding of the labor economy, and much more with two of my favorite Gen X science fiction aficionados, OG podcaster KMO and our mutual friend Kevin Arthur Wohlmut. In this episode — a standalon…
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200 - Ehren Cruz & Daphne Krantz on Psychedelics, Addiction, and Transcendence
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1:44:36Welcome to episode two hundred of Future Fossils! On this episode, I'm joined by Ehren Cruz (LinkedIn, Instagram, Website) and Daphne Krantz (LinkedIn, Instagram, Website) to discuss transcendence, trauma, and transformation. We talk about the festival world, our individual journeys, the rise of psychedelics in therapeutic applications, the potenti…
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