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Cofounder of Greenpeace and writer of the Deep Green column Rex Weyler helps us transcend the idea that we can fix the environment – or anything else – so we can finally learn to participate as members of a living world.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how re-socializing people can help us change the register.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Individual Liberty is No Longer the Goal, on Medium.

About Rex Weyler

Rex Weyler is a writer and ecologist. His books include Blood of the Land, a history of indigenous American nations, nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; Greenpeace: The Inside Story, a finalist for the BC Book Award and the Shaughnessy-Cohen Award for Political Writing; and The Jesus Sayings, a deconstruction of first century history, a finalist for the BC Book Award.

In the 1970s, Weyler was a cofounder of Greenpeace International and editor of the Greenpeace Chronicles. He served on campaigns to preserve rivers and forests, and to stop whaling, sealing, and toxic dumping.

He currently posts the “Deep Green” column at the Greenpeace International website. He lives on Cortes Island in British Columbia, with his wife, artist Lisa Gibbons.

Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at the Partnership on AI (PAI) Claire Leibowicz, Tech Policy Press CEO and Editor Justin Hendrix, Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff come up with guiding principles for the future of artificial intelligence on a live panel discussion recorded at Betaworks on Monday, April 3.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff announces a new MA program in Media Arts and Performance, for community-minded artist, media activists, and performers.

📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, Wanna Make Something Together, on Medium.

About Claire Leibowicz

Claire Leibowicz is the Head of the AI and Media Integrity Program at The Partnership on AI (PAI) and a doctoral candidate at Oxford. Claire has worked in AI and society for almost a decade, developing multistakeholder strategies, researching responsible AI, and informing technology practices and policies.

Keep up with Claire Leibowicz

Website | Twitter | LinkedIn | Partnership on AI

About Justin Hendrix

Justin Hendrix is CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a new nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. Previously, he was Executive Director of NYC Media Lab. He spent over a decade at The Economist in roles including Vice President, Business Development & Innovation. He is an associate research scientist and adjunct professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions expressed here are his own.

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📰 Tech Policy Press | Twitter | LinkedIn

About John Borthwick

John Borthwick is CEO of betaworks. betaworks is a technology company that builds and invests in companies across the social, data driven media internet. Companies that betaworks has built include Giphy, Dots, bitly and Chartbeat. Betaworks also acquired and re-launched Digg and Instapaper. Prior to betaworks, John was Senior Vice President of Alliances and Technology Strategy for Time Warner Inc. John’s company, WP-Studio, founded in 1994, was one of the first content studios in New York’s Silicon Alley. John holds an MBA from Wharton (1994) and an undergraduate degree BA in Economics from Wesleyan University (1987). He sits on the board of WNYC and the New Museum.

Keep up with John Borthwick

Betaworks | Twitter | LinkedIn | Betaworks AI Camp: Argument

Executive Director of the Institute for the Future Marina Gorbis and Institute for the Future Equitable Enterprise Initiative Advisor Jerry Davis discuss how to change the register from industrial values to collaborative commerce.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how denaturalizing power reveals the constructed landscape.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, If it Ain’t Real, Don’t Fix it, on Medium.

About Marina Gorbis

Marina Gorbis is Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF), a 50-year old non-profit research and educational organization based in Silicon Valley. She has brought a foresight and a futures perspective to hundreds of organizations in business, education, government, philanthropy, and civic society. Marina’s current research focuses on transformations in the world of work and new forms of value creation.

📕 The Nature of the Future | 🎙 Future Now Podcast | Twitter

About Jerry Davis

Jerry Davis is the Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School of Business and Professor of Sociology, The University of Michigan. Davis received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

📕 Managed by the Markets | Twitter

For more about IFTF:

Equitable Enterprise Initiative | Website | LinkedIn | Twitter

Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream Alissa Quart helps us dispel the myth of the self-made man once and for all.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains why he believes we’ve hit peak billionaire mindset.

📖 Alissa Quart’s book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, is now available.

About Alissa Quart:

Alissa Quart is the author of five acclaimed books of nonfiction including the forthcoming Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream (Ecco, 2023), Squeezed (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018), Republic of Outsiders (The New Press, 2013), Hothouse Kids (Penguin Press, 2006), and Branded (Basic Books, 2004). She is the Executive Director of the non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and is also the author of two books of poetry, Thoughts and Prayers and Monetized. She has written for many publications including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and TIME. Her honors include an Emmy, an SPJ award, and received a Nieman fellowship. She lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Keep up with Alissa Quart:

Twitter | LinkedIn | Economic Hardship Reporting Hardship

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the sixth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, February 17, 2023.

Rushkoff fields questions about virtual reality’s potential to transform storytelling, what it means to be punk, and how artists can navigate recent tech layoffs.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses four interventions in the human machine he plans to explore with the Institute for the Future.

🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed.

Journalist, Tea Pub operator, and Founder of SolarPunk Stories Alex Holland helps us learn to tell better and more constructive stories about our collective future.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how AI can be compared to the Conquistadors.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How We Taught Technology to Program Humans, on Medium.

📕 Read Sell the Sizzle

About Alex Holland:

Alex has worked as a journalist in the UK, Venezuela and India, started and led the campaign to stop Brixton Market getting knocked down and created the world's first Tea Pub which was also Crowdcube's most shared startup. He loves reading, writing and is one of these lost tribes of posh people who was born in Brixton.

📰 Keep up with SolarPunk stories:

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Co-founder of the Commons Stack and Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience Jeff Emmett tells us about the wonders of mycelia - and why we may all want to start considering ourselves mycopunks.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff explains how the only answer to more tech is more human investment

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Grade Papers Written by AI, on Medium.

🍄 Learn more about Mycopunk Principles

About Jeff Emmett:

Jeff Emmett is a Token Engineering researcher at BlockScience, and co-founder of the Commons Stack. Drawing inspiration from mycelial networks and biomimetic processes, he realized he is and always has been a mycopunk - but now there's a word for it! His goal is to iterate towards a toolkit for customizable regenerative economies that support purpose-driven communities and mitigate the excesses of modern capitalism. Jeff is the author of Rewriting the Story of Human Collaboration and Challenges & Approaches to Scaling the Global Commons.

Keep up with Jeff Emmett:

Twitter | LinkedIn

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Organizer, The Connector journalist, and author of The Big Disconnect Micah Sifry helps us evaluate how directly we need to be involved in political activism to keep democracy sustainable.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff shares a story about how the universe winked at him, and why he thinks we’ll all be okay.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Magic is Real, on Medium.

Keep up with Micah Sifry:

The Connector | Mastodon | Twitter

🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed.

Playing for Team Human today, it’s Team Human! Douglas Rushkoff hosts the fifth Team Human call-in show from the community Discord server. This show was recorded on Friday, January 20, 2023.

Rushkoff fields questions about how AI will change the educational landscape, the worldviews that emerged from 1950s speculative fiction, and why media ecology never took off in Europe.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff invites us to welcome the unpredictable.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, Probability Leads Only to Death on Medium.

🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed.

Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it.

🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how to grade papers written by AI.

📰 You can read a written version of Rushkoff’s monologue, How to Read Papers Written By AI, on Medium.

📕 Learn more about West’s book, Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide.

About Jessamyn West:

Jessamyn West is a library technologist from Randolph Vermont. She is a nationally known speaker, writer, and educator on the issues facing today's libraries. Her blog focusing on libraries and politics, Librarian.net, is one of the earliest and longest running librarian websites.

Keep up with Jessamyn West:

Website | Twitter | Today in Librarian Tabs

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