What does it look like when we merge with tech? And how do we get people to solve the world's biggest problems? [21:56]
This week, special guest Matt Ward, Joey, and Aaron talk about Jack Horner, "our fat, lazy selves," the Bystander Effect, a series of extremely bleak world problems, hamburgers, and great robes. They don't talk about which host would match to which Hogwarts house if they were wizards.
references
* 60 Minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnMS8WMDDhs): the MIT kid, and a brain interface
* Matt Ward (http://mattward.io/)'s show, Disruptors.fm, on Jurassic park and birthing a dino-chicken (https://disruptors.fm/115-the-scientist-behind-and-inspiration-of-jurassic-park-whos-also-birthing-a-dino-chicken-jack-horner/)
* Empathy by the numbers (https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/68/2/168/571277), courtesy of the Journals of Gerontology, and a Psychology Today article (https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201610/how-empathetic-are-americans-gender-and-generation-matter) to explain
* Adam Grant's Givers vs Takers (https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_are_you_a_giver_or_a_taker?language=en), a TED talk
* The Overchoice Effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice) and what happens when we get overwhelmed