(EF40) Do we need society and culture?
The big question driving Episode EF40 is … Do we need society and culture?
(EF39) Gross Fallibility
In one of the great ironies of all time, we’re showing off our gross fallibility by thinking we can make ourselves infallible through technological upgrades.
(EF39) Fireside Creation
Society is a unique creation of human beings; a complex layering of shared fictions and tribal stories we mostly agree to accept.
(EF39) Monkey Business
Our fear-based genetic code made sense living in the wild. But the time has long since passed to evolve away from our primate ancestry. Isn’t it time to stop throwing feces at one another?
(EF39) There’s Always a Flipside
Humanity rose to the top of the food chain because of our ability to cooperate and communicate; but life in society also causes much of the anguish and suffering that exists in the human condition.
(EF39) Conform or Die
You’re born into something so incomprehensibly complex that survival insists you only to attempt to comprehend tiny slivers of it.
(EF39) Your Identity: Sold to the Highest Bidder
It’s time to wake up to this downward spiral of social conformity into which you’re being sucked. Now that you’re nothing more than dataset to be sold, you’re on the path to marginalization.
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(EF39) Split Evolution
If humanity doesn’t figure out a way to distribute transhuman upgrades equally, a majority of the planet will soon find themselves in the presence of an artificially evolved species of humans.
EF39 Show Notes
Welcome to Life, Upgraded. On 1/7/2020, ten new cautionary tales of speculative fiction begin to drop every other week. The goal of Season Two of the Evolve Faster Podcast is to help you explore the contracts you’ve unwittingly signed with society and its layers of cultural institutions. Then it will be up to you to decide if it’s time to tear up and rewrite any of them. Season Two is about LIFE. Humanity rose to the top of the food chain because of our ability to cooperate and communicate; but life in society also causes much of the anguish and suffering that exists in the human condition. This season is also a philosophical meditation about the next 25 years. It doesn’t take radical extrapolation of the trends we’re already on to envision how overdependence on technology might go awry, putting risk our humanity’s last remaining stronghold: actually being human.
EF39 (S2-E0): LIFE, UPGRADED: Welcome to Season Two of the Evolve Faster Podcast
Welcome to Life, Upgraded. On 1/21/2020, ten new cautionary tales of speculative fiction begin to drop every other week. The goal of Season Two of the Evolve Faster Podcast is to help you explore the contracts you’ve unwittingly signed with society and its layers of cultural institutions. Then it will be up to you to decide if it’s time to tear up and rewrite any of them. Season Two is about LIFE. Humanity rose to the top of the food chain because of our ability to cooperate and communicate; but life in society also causes much of the anguish and suffering that exists in the human condition. This season is also a philosophical meditation about the next 25 years. It doesn’t take radical extrapolation of the trends we’re already on to envision how overdependence on technology might go awry, putting risk our humanity’s last remaining stronghold: actually being human.
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(EF39) Data is the True Power
It used to be that he who held the money held the power. But owning our data is true power.
(EF38) Consistency Not Divinity
Creativity is not a gift given to a select few. It is a difficult-to-master, acquired skill that only develops through consistent practice.