Who Owns You?
Dr. J. chats with David Koepsell, Asst. Prof. of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology, about his book Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes. They discuss the absurd legal rationales for the patenting of the human genome, and disastrous consequences for biotech innovation that the patent mess has wrought. (MP3)
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Brains - Military, Disgusted, Forgetful
Jonathan Moreno on The use of neuroscience by the US military, Douglas Rushkoff on the need to train citizens in digital combat arts, the relationship of disgust sensitivity to conservatism, and Greg Beato’s defense of memory deletion in the participatory panopticon. (MP3)
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Online Learning and the Future of Higher Education
Dr. J chats with Ed Klonoski, the president of Charter Oak State College, a leading distance learning innovator. They discuss the way students use online learning, the changing and emerging technologies, and the challenge of open sourcing education. (MP3)
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Building Local Resistance to Commodified Life
IEET Fellow Douglas Rushkoff is author of, among his dozen books, Playing the Future, Open Source Democracy and Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out, the novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy, and the graphic novels Club Zero-G and Testament. He has written and hosted two award-winning Frontline documentaries, and is working on a third, Digital Nation. He hosts a weekly radio show the Media Squat. We discuss his most recent book Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back (lifeincorporated.net). (Part 2 of 2)
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The Origins of Corporate Alienation
IEET Fellow Douglas Rushkoff is author of, among his dozen books, Playing the Future, Open Source Democracy and Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out, the novels Ecstasy Club and Exit Strategy, and the graphic novels Club Zero-G and Testament. He has written and hosted two award-winning Frontline documentaries, and is working on a third, Digital Nation. He hosts a weekly radio show the Media Squat. We discuss his most recent book Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back (lifeincorporated.net). (Part 1 of 2)
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Evil Genes Part 2
Dr. J. chats with Barbara Oakley about her book Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend (evilgenes.com), a sweeping review of the emerging neuroscience of psychopathy and Machiavellianism, and their relationship to history, politics and evolution. (Part 2 of 2)
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Evil Genes Part 1
Dr. J. chats with Barbara Oakley about her book Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend (evilgenes.com), a sweeping review of the emerging neuroscience of psychopathy and Machiavellianism, and their relationship to history, politics and evolution. (Part 1 of 2)
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Designer Apocalypse
When the apocalypse comes who ya gonna call? Not the rich, hiding in their bunkers. And which apocalypse? Designer babies? Asteroids? Skynet? (MP3)
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Economic Rights
Economic rights are fundamental human rights. European social democracies are the best at providing for basic economic security. Some of the evidence for Euro-socialist superiority comes from comparative studies of happiness. We can start providing more economic security here by expanding public options and universal access to healthcare. (MP3)
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Esalen’s Tantric Transhumanism part 2
Dr. J. chats with Jeffrey Kripal, author of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, a history of the Big Sur retreat center that helped create the human potential movement. Part 2 of 2.
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Esalen’s Tantric Transhumanism part 1
Dr. J. chats with Jeffrey Kripal, author of Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, a history of the Big Sur retreat center that helped create the human potential movement. Part 1 of 2.
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Transition to a Resilient Civilization
Dr. J. chats with Shaun Chamberlin about his new book The Transition Timeline For a Local, Resilient Future. Chamberlin is the founder of the Dark Optimism site. (MP3)
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Neurophilosophy, Geoengineering, and the Merits of Capitalism v. Socialism
David Brooks on neurophilosophy. The mainstreaming of legal (albeit medical) marijuana in California. Jamais’s Five Laws of Robotics. The sudden discussion of geoengineering at highest levels of science policy-making. Younger Americans and U.S. Democrats are almost evenly divided on desirability of “socialism” vs. “capitalism,” and even some Republicans are beginning to wonder. (MP3)
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Brains: Meditating, Wired and Poor
Meditation can lessen pain, and make parts of your brain bigger. We have better wires to stick in brains. Poverty hurts brains and mental health. (MP3)
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Inhuman Thoughts
Dr. J. spoke with Asher Seidel, a professor of philosophy at Miami University and author of Inhuman Thoughts: Philosophical Explorations of Posthumanity. (MP3)
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