Team Futurism

"I see metamodernism everywhere!"Peter Clarke and Greg Dember discuss how metamodernism can now be found in all aspects of our culture—from Sufjan Stevens lyrics to Taylor Swift concerts to our daily conversations. They also discuss why some people (notably Christians) push back against metamodernism. And finally they grapple with the implications AI will have on our culture and our understanding of what it means to be human.Greg Dember is a co-founder of watismatamodern.com and is author of the new book Say Hello to Metamodernism.

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In a recent episode of the Plain English podcast, Derek Thompson laid out the 4 top reasons why AI may not, in fact, be about to take all the jobs. In this episode of Team Futurism, Peter Clarke, Arun Kumar, and Ted McLean debate the merits of Derek’s arguments.

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Hiten Sonpal is the CEO of RISE Robotics, a company that electrifies heavy machinery.

In this interview, Peter Clarke and Hiten discuss the future of the electrification of heavy machines, the current state of humanoid robots, how automation will transform the world in the next 10 years, and other topics.

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Peter Banks is President of The Boyd Institute, which is a policy lab for America’s future. In this interview, Peter Clarke and Peter Banks discuss a wide range of topics, including: what it means to be a heterodox thinker, how to save institutions, how to have meaning in the modern world, why the abundance mindset is necessary for a better society, and the implications of AI.

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Brady Dale is a longtime reporter who covers technology and cryptocurrency. He writes the Substack Front Stage Exist and is the author of the book SBF: How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto’s Very Bad Good Guy.In this conversation, Brady Dale and Peter Clarke discuss the ongoing drama of the SBF scandal, the real identity of Satoshi, Trump's crypto dealings, the extent to which crypto is used for criminal activity, and other topics.

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We didn’t mean for this to be an episode all about conspiracy theories, but for better or worse that’s basically what it turned into.

Peter Clarke and Devon Carsen discuss the recent assassination attempt, the “mystery” of the dead and missing scientists, how AI could cause the bioweapon doomsday scenario, and how Alex Karp at Palantir wants to rule the world.

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Should AI doomers be considered members of a terrorist organization? Some prominent advocates in the e/acc community think so. We discuss.

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Peter and Devon briefly discuss the ongoing war in Iran but spend most of this episode discussing optimistic things happening in tech, including the story of the guy who cured his dog’s cancer using ChatGPT and AlphaFold, and Adam Neumann’s new residential venture, Flow.

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Michael Grunwald is a journalist and best-selling author whose new book is We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate.In this interview, Peter Clarke and Michael Grunwald discuss why we use too much land to produce our food, why biofuels are part of the problem, why regenerative farming is a false hope, why beef is so incredibly bad for the environment, and what technologies we should truly be excited about.

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Alex Josephson runs the award-winning architectural firm Partisans, based in Toronto. Recently he founded Cumulus, a digital memorial platform. According to the company website, Cumulus is on a mission to revolutionize how you memorialize your loved ones.In this interview, Peter Clarke and Alex Josephson discuss how Cumulus works and why Alex was inspired to create it. They also talk about the future of architecture, urbanism, metamodernism, and the California Forever project.

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