Juan Orbea

Rushkoff unpacks parts of his new book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, on the need to collectively break away from a top-down mindset to embrace circularity and resiliency. 

Is the human brain different from a computer?The answer depends on what we mean by the word “computer.” Certainly the brain uses very different methods from conventional contemporary computers. Most computers today are all digital and perform one (or perhaps a few) computations at a time at extremely high speed. With regard to digital versus analog... See more

One of the curious features of the book that a reader will notice almost immediately is that it sometimes feels like two books in one: sometimes, it's a book about the concept of network states, and at other times it's an exposition of Balaji's grand megapolitical theory.Balaji's grand megapolitical theory is pretty out-there and fun in a bunch of... See more

The Importance of Having a Body

Venture capital has delivered great historical returns but is illiquid and hard to access. Fortunately, innovation does not occur only at venture-backed startups. 

As human beings, we can perceive less than ten trillionth of light waves. "Our experience of reality," says neuroscientist David Eagleman, "is limited by our biology." He wants to change that. His research on brain processes has led him to create new interfaces, such as a sensory vest, to process unpublished information about the world around us.

But I regard the freeing of the human mind from its severe physical limitations of scope and duration as the necessary next step in evolution. In making this statement, it is important to emphasize that terms like evolution, destiny, and spiritual quest are observations about the end result, not the basis for these predictions. The primary force... See more