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Broadcast From The Singularity episodes
- Ep 10: Zoltan Istvan and the Transhumanist Wager
Zoltan Istvan - author, sailor, inventor of volcano surfing - joins us to talk about sailing, seasteading, his floating library, and the world's most provocative coming-of-age story: The Transhumanist Wager.
Get the shownotes here.
- The Transhumanist Wager
- Volcano Surfing: the original, other efforts, images
- Cryonics, (how does it work?)
- Seasteading, the institute, the Forbes article
- Kickstart a floating city
- What Zoltan's Transhumania might look like
- Life extension
- Zoltan on some other controversial subjects
36 min - Ep 9: Colin Wright and His Amazing Science Fiction
In this episode, Micah interviews world-traveling science fiction writer Colin Wright. A kid hears voices, stops taking his meds, and suddenly finds them directing him into the middle of a vast web of power and intrigue. A hacktivism group works against a singularity cult leader to crypto-free the world. These are the kind of ideas explored in Colin's writings, and we dig into them here!
Get the shownotes here.
- Colin's books, including A Tale of More and the Real Powers series
- Colin on Twitter
- Crypto-Anarchy and the Crypto-Anarchist Manifesto
- Bicameralism
- Alphas, TV series
- Zoltan Istvan's Transhumanist Wager on Wikipedia and on Amazon
34 min - Ep 8: Tying up Loose Ends
This episode was recorded in 2012, but through a sequence of unfortunate and lazy events, it is only now being released in July 2013. See how prescient we were about the future, discover whether the world ever came to an end, find out about the Singularity & fashion, why Google makes cars, and what the difference between birds and planes tells us about AI.
Get the shownotes here. Topics discussed:
- The mayan prophecies suggest the world is about to end. Will we survive 2012?!
- Are we shaping the Singularity, or is the Singularity shaping us?
- Do we just exist to serve the purpose of the machines?
- Are we just serving in someone else’s story, or do we write our own?
- Despair, Jason Silva and creating meaning
- Our interview with Jason Silva
- What Technology Wants, the book that triggered these questions.
- Is culture homogenizing? Will the whole world wear Levi’s and drink Coca-Cola?
- Ancient tribes vs the Amish
- Is Facebook proof that the whole world will turn into isolated echo chambers?
- The fashion singularity: society has stopped experimenting with clothes
- Is the singularity gaining public awareness?
- Will the Singularity be boring? And if so, what will be the next stage of technological evolutionary hipsterdom?
- Johnny Depp’s new singularity movie:
- The Lone Ranger, err...
- Transcendence
- Limitless & Cognitive Enhancement
- ProVigil
- Working for the 2010 Census
- Instagram’s new terms of service
- The TOS of the Singularity: Apple and Google are splitting our personalities between them
- Are we going to have to choose sides in the Singularity?
- This podcast is basically proof that we were talking about the Singularity before the Singularity was cool
- Ray Kurzweil joins Google
- Why Google is making cars: The value of foresight to an organization like Google, with massive resources
- Birds vs Planes
58 min - Ep 7: Derek Webb & the AI, part 2
In the second part of our interview, Derek Webb talks about how to approach the oncoming future with values and practicality, as well as going into the problems with laws, the Amish, hippies, Kevin Kelly, and the iPhone 13.
Get the shownotes here.
- Kevin Kelly, uber-hippie and hero
- Sola-mi - Download Derek's album about the first Artificial Intelligence for free.
- DerekWebb.com - Listen to and purchase his latest album, Ctrl.
- @derekwebb Follow Derek Webb on twitter.
26 min - Ep 6: Derek Webb & the AI, part 1
In the first part of our interview, Derek Webb introduces us to an album about the dawn of the first AI, and poignantly shows us just how disconnected we're all becoming.
Stayed tuned for the rest of our conversation.
Get the shownotes here.
- Sola-mi - Download his album about the first Artificial Intelligence for free.
- DerekWebb.com - Listen to and purchase his latest album, Ctrl.
- @derekwebb Follow Derek Webb on twitter.
27 min - Ep 5: Jason Silva and The Adjacent Possible
Ryan catches up with Jason Silva at the Seattle Interactive Conference to talk about the adjacent possible, genomes as artwork, embracing ecstasy, and dealing with existential despair. Get the shownotes here.
@jasonsilva
Jason Silva's website
Seattle Interactive Conference
15 min - Ep 4: Mormonism & The Singularity with James Carroll
Our series on Spirituality and the Singularity continues! In this episode, James Carroll shares his experiences in the diverse worlds of A.I. and Mormonism. James is a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and a member of the board of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. Get the shownotes here. Find out more about James here:
http://james.jlcarroll.net
http://james.jlcarroll.net/publications/
20 min - Ep 3: Spirituality & The Singularity with Mike Morrell
How does the Singularity impact Spirituality? This series kicks off with Mike Morrell and Micah Redding talking about the intersection of Christianity and accelerating change. Mike gives us an expansive look at the history of humanity from the dawn of time to the far future, and introduces some of the dilemmas and hopes that spiritual people can bring to the discussion. Get the shownotes here.
Find out more about Mike Morrell here:
http://mikemorrell.org
http://thespeakeasy.info
Stay tuned for other perspectives - next up, Mormon Transhumanists!
25 min - Ep 2: Which side are you on?
John, Ryan, and Micah discuss how to look at the future and the Singularity. Are you an optimist, a pessimist, or a catastrophist? What nightmare scenarios are possible? What is the best-case scenario, and how can we steer in that direction?
Get the shownotes here.
39 min - Ep 1: Art, Science, and The Technium
What is art? What's it like to paint on an infinite canvas? Is art the only thing standing between us and the robot invasion?
Micah Redding, Ryan Hogan, and John Yates in the first official podcast of Broadcast From The Singularity!
Get the shownotes here. Ideas Discussed:
- The Singularity
- The Technium as coined by Kevin Kelly
- The Implications of the Technium on The State of The Art
- How the Technium redefines art forms
- Artists, Developers, and The Deep Structures of The New World
- Consciousness is a virtual world, that has been trying to reach out and colonize our reality, in all of our various art forms
- Social media has exploded to fill the canvas
- Film, writing, music started out on different ends of the canvas, but are trying to converge
- Technology and the Baroque Unconscious
- Technology is an expanding canvas, sucking in our art, flattening and minimalizing it
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About Broadcast From The Singularity
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Micah, Ryan, John Yates, and friends discuss wild-eyed ideas about the future. With unique guests, they delve into life in the age of constantly accelerating change, and what that means for…
technology, culture, and the future of the world.