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Lse Festival 2019 | Brave New World [Audio]
Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future
ted.com
Science may deliver on its promise of a longer life, but somewhere down the line, fundamental questions about our social and cultural realities have receded into the background. We are turning into consumers rather than producers of science, while the big science hegemony (stem cells, nanotechnology and the poster boy — machine intelligence) take precedence in popular discussion. Local, regional and people-led solutions to on-ground problems have simultaneously dwindled away. How do we build a science that speaks to these cultural realities? Prof. Milind Sohoni shares his thoughts. Full conversation via the link in the bio. [The Third Eye, Science, Education]
instagram.comWe have amazing tools at our fingertips. But the crises of our time are not commercial, technological, or scientific; they are fundamentally humanistic. We need an inquiry into the assumptions and the inherited design of the modern human experience. How will we live, learn, work, play, and sustain ourselves in the twenty-first century?
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
“ This century does not dehumanize us. It disinhabits us.
On one side, humans are redefining their relationship with their own bodies. From germ theory (1860) to GLP-1 drugs (2023), we have moved from understanding to administration.
The body is no longer a temple; it’s a startup chasing optimization, hacking itself for efficiency.
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #109
Alternative Prosperity: Reframing The "Good Life"
klaffket.gumroad.com
Doctors, engineers and customers no longer want merely to fix mental problems – they seek to upgrade the mind. We are acquiring the technical abilities to begin manufacturing new states of consciousness, yet we lack a map of these potential new territories.