Media Theorists
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Douglas Rushkoff
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Nicholas Carr
Author

Jaron Lanier
Author

Ethan Zuckerman
Interview host

Marshall Poe
Interview host

Janneke Adema
Author

Cory Doctorow
Novelist

Peter Turchi
Author

Mark Crispin Miller
Social Scientist

Chelsi Cocking
Software Developer

Dennis Howard
Journalist

David Carroll
Media Theorist
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As the web rots and spams and scams infiltrate every aspect of modern life, we need to re-learn how to prioritize authentic human experiences. Media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff, host of the Team Human podcast, joins the ritual to discuss the strange state of the world and which new weird edges are inviting opt

JARON LANIER on Tech, Music, Creativity & Who Owns the Future - Highlights
“What I meant when I said there is no AI is that I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think we confuse ourselves too easily. This goes back to Alan Turing, the main founder of computer science, who had this idea of the Turing test. In the tes

JARON LANIER on Humanism, Tech, Creativity & Who Owns the Future - Highlights
“What I meant when I said there is no AI is that I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think we confuse ourselves too easily. This goes back to Alan Turing, the main founder of computer science, who had this idea of the Turing test. In the tes
Part 2 of 2: Team Human vs. The Digital Machine: Can We Reclaim Our Humanity? Douglas Rushkoff
Team Human vs. The Digital Machine: Can We Reclaim Our Humanity? (Part 2) – with Douglas Rushkoff . Are we losing our humanity in the digital age? Or is there still hope for Team Human? . In Part 2 of this mind-expanding conversation, Douglas Rushkoff—one of the world’s top 10 influential intellectuals (according to MI

AI, Virtual Reality & Dawn of the New Everything w/ JARON LANIER, Father of VR, Musician, Author
“AI is obviously the dominant topic in tech lately, and I think occasionally there's AI that's nonsense, and occasionally there's AI that's great. I love finding new proteins for medicine and so on. I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think

AI, Virtual Reality & Dawn of the New Everything w/ JARON LANIER, VR Pioneer, Musician, Author
“AI is obviously the dominant topic in tech lately, and I think occasionally there's AI that's nonsense, and occasionally there's AI that's great. I love finding new proteins for medicine and so on. I don't think we serve ourselves well when we put our own technology up as if it were a new God that we created. I think