There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 11 hours 34 minutes
episode 1: 8.01: A Book Club!
An overview of Season 8: a book (and movie!) club devoted to the canon (as we define it!) for technology and ethics.
episode 3: 8.03: Phaedrus Examined
Should we even keep reading this book—with its criticisms of books?
episode 4: 8.04: The Postmodern Condition—Explained
Jean-François Lyotard on postmodernity, science, and kitschy art.
episode 4: 8.04: The Postmodern Condition—Explained
Jean-François Lyotard on postmodernity, science, and kitschy art.
episode 5: 8.05: The Postmodern Condition—Examined
Lyotard’s postmodernism, the politics of power, and aesthetics: what do we keep and what do we reject?
episode 6: 8.06: The Age of Spiritual Machines—Explained
Reading Ray Kurzweil’s prognostications about the future—and coming to terms with his ruthless optimism.
episode 8: 8.08: Jurassic Park—Explained
What the well-known novel and movie have to say about science, ethics, epistemology, and hubris.
episode 9: 8.09: Jurassic Park—Examined
Don’t go into science for the money: you will get killed by dinosaurs.