In this episode I continue to discuss the "AI moment" - what I call the Event Horizon. It was recorded before the announcement of the signing of the a ceasefire between the USA and Iran.

Covered in this episode:

Gig work, how to think about the person, the tech bro phenomena and their seemingly hatred of people (and this I will say I AI-ed with Google Gemini to a fairly good extent). Whether, they do hate humanity is an open question but they do come across as if they do.

A discussion of order and disorder. In retrospect what I didn't include was the potential rationale that AI will lead to disorder being behind their leanings towards extreme libertarianism mixed with authoritarian leadership.

Ethics versus micro choices.

And a bit of poetry on human flourisng.

This is the notes for both epsiodes.

YouTube by Hannah Fry - a must watch really. _Why AI Agents are either the best or worst thing we've ever built_. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw

Nvidia and SpaceX - IPO – Bloomberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J63KvjQlN8M&t=2s

Holy Post podcast 722 they talked about the impacts of the cuts to USAID.

The Lancet. https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2014/07/07/douglas-adams-technology-rules/

CBC Frontburner podcast May 11. – regarding incentives but it is partial.

Youtube video by More Perfect Union https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aooiDA-AsNo

MIT Technology Review podcast= The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home.

The Economist May 30th 2026 p63 Barteby How Should Bosses Talk about AI

Legal activity problems with AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgN0fyYKLfc (audio)

"Big Tech" versus humans references.

https://peoplevsbig.tech https://peoplevsbig.tech/the-movement/

https://www.reddit.com https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1mejq1d/tech_ceos_dont_seem_to_realise_just_how_antihuman/

https://www.linkedin.com https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mikerosenbergwriting_the-reason-so-many-people-passionately-hate-activity-7460395755845869571-vUFG

https://www.linkedin.com https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/human-capital-boards-common-blind-spot-j%C3%B8rgensen-gcb-d-nacd-dc-md0wc

https://futurism.com https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-ceos-baffled-hatred

https://www.facebook.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/875231447226552/posts/1099404598142568/

https://futurism.com https://futurism.com/future-society/tech-ceo-ai-hate

https://keenon.substack.com https://keenon.substack.com/p/why-tech-billionaires-are-so-angry

https://www.youtube.com https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ogxwPyJPTMw

https://www.humanrightsresearch.org https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/big-tech-s-shift-to-the-right

https://www.instagram.com https://www.humanrightsresearch.org/post/big-tech-s-shift-to-the-right

https://www.amnesty.org https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/why-are-big-tech-companies-a-threat-to-human-rights/

https://www.thetimes.com https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/how-world-of-work-changed-times-enterprise-network-t0zvf96wv

https://www.wheresyoured.at https://www.wheresyoured.at/techs-elite-hates-labor/

https://medium.com https://medium.com/@adrianbooth/tech-ceos-whos-the-meanest-of-them-all-a684a7da0d20

https://www.reddit.com https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/bhuyjy/the_elitist_nature_of_tech_culture_and_why_its/

https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tech_bro

https://medium.com https://medium.com/@l.churchill427/why-tech-bros-are-fleeing-silicon-valley-insiders-view-9c4e05f7ab2a

https://www.reddit.com https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1oy535n/tech_capitalists_dont_care_about_humans_literally/

https://nypost.com https://nypost.com/2020/09/26/why-silicon-valley-ceos-are-such-raging-psychopaths/

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/idols-of-the-valley

Every now and then a new technology comes along that fills our field of view from horizon to horizon. AI is now in that moment where other technologies like atomic power has been before.

What are we to make of this moment? That is the point of this little series.

Show notes will be included with the final episode.

In the Everywhere, Everything, All At Once Revolution (Almost), how do we get into our moment?

We need a new bestiary (Latin: bestiarium vocabulum) is a compendium of beasts.

Some academic articles.

Business History Review 98 (Spring 2024): 203–236. doi:10.1017/S0007680523000946. The Will to Chaos and Disorder: The Behemoth as a Model of Political Economy.

Leviathan And Kraken: States, Corporations, And Political Economy

Robert Fredona, Sophus A. Reinert 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/hith.12153

https://news.asu.edu/20231009-solutions-monsters-cybersecurity-and-how-slay-them

The Westpac ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0UEMlfTj_M

And an analysis of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFBGqncN3WU

Introduction

News concludes 9:30

Corporate Raiders Min 11:00

The bestiary min 14:00

5 Horsemen of the apocalypse

A – Avatar

B – Behemoth

B – Big Brother

B – Black Swans

B - Bots

B - Bugs

C - Chatbots

D - Dragons

E

F – Frankenstein

G – Godzilla

G -

H

I

J

K – Kraken

K – Kings (Dragon)

L – Leviathan

M – Magnificent 7

M - Minotaur

N

O

P – Phishers

P -Pigs

Q

R - Gray Rhinos

S

T – Trolls

T - Trojan

U - Unicorns

V – Vampires

V - Viruses

W – Double You

W – Worms

W - Werewolves

X

Y

Z

This is the second season of my roll of the dice series. In this season I am focussing of the changes throughout the economy, and less on the values behind and being pushed by those changes. I think it is really important to take stock and observe so we are clear about what is happening. This episode really is about everything. Well almost. The technological disruptions occurring across the enormous services sector are fascinating. This is just a little snapshot of the last few years of developments.

Covered in this episode.

D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply

E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities

F Construction

G Wholesale and retail trade

H Transportation and storage

I Accommodation and food service activities

J Publishing, broadcasting, and content production and distribution activities

K Telecommunications, computer programming, consultancy, computing infrastructure, and other information service activities

L Financial and insurance activities

M Real estate activities

N Professional, scientific and technical activities

O Administrative and support service activities

P Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Q Education

R Human health and social work activities

S Arts, sports and recreation

T Other service activities

U Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use

V Activities of extraterritorial organizations and bodies

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Some notes

Global supply chains.

https://unctad.org/news/gas-grain-fertilizer-disruptions-raise-risks-food-security-and-trade

https://www.economies.com/forex/news/beyond-oil:-which-global-supply-chains-has-the-iran-conflict-disrupted%20-48545

The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/

This is the second season of my roll of the dice series. This episode really is about everything. Well almost. The technological developments occurring across agriculture, mining and manufacturing are breath taking. This is just a little snapshot of the last few years of developments.

Normally, I like to add a bunch of references. This episode has too many, and I have accumulated this knowledge over decades of watching and doing analysis in this field. However, wikipedia has been really valuable in checking some of the specifics of ships sizes. Here is a link to the aerospace company mentioned https://beta.team/

You may think I was a bit skimpy on the computer industry, which is true but it gets enormous coverage and sometimes it is important to focus everywhere else.

The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/

If you are wondering how I think about building the arc of story telling through this podcast and multiples seasons, this little podcast may help.

Well we finally get there. I get around to talking about AI. Because of its widespread use and various applications I thought it best to do a bit of a big survey of many the ways we currently use AI.

Here are some story notes.

The Economist - The World Ahead 2026

How are people using AI technology now (well 2023) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/upshot/up-ai-uses.html

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CBC Nov 2025 - The human labour to improve AI answers. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ai-economy-human-labour-data-annotation-fine-tuning-jobs-9.6967918

Deloitte in Australia partly wrote a government policy brief using AI and it was wrong. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/06/deloitte-to-pay-money-back-to-albanese-government-after-using-ai-in-440000-report

CBC white coat black arts. Chatbots. The human face of 'AI psychosis' https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6899214

Mentioned: Kevin Kelly The Inevitable. https://www.amazon.ca/Inevitable-Understanding-Technological-Forces-Future/dp/0143110373

The episode is all about how we use stuff and how much we use. From growing almonds to cooling data centres to our global probably unsustainable use of sand.

Just a few of the resources used to make this podcast.

Australian social media ban for under 16s

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/dec/04/social-media-ban-instagram-facebook-accounts-shutting-down-closing-teen-under-16-australia

Almonds production. https://www.almonds.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/Water_footprint_plus_almonds.pdf

2012 PNAS. The water footprint of humanity Arjen Y. Hoekstra and Mesfin M. Mekonnen www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1109936109

Water and Data centres

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/16163527-can-deleting-eails-help-save-water-drought

Data Centres AI Power and Water Usage (Goodyear Data Centre). https://andthewest.stanford.edu/2025/thirsty-for-power-and-water-ai-crunching-data-centers-sprout-across-the-west/

Really excellent explanation.https://theconversation.com/data-centers-consume-massive-amounts-of-water-companies-rarely-tell-the-public-exactly-how-much-262901#

MIT Technology Review - We did the math on AI's energy footprint. Here's the story you haven't heard.

ABC – Globally Sand is a problem. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-25/sand-mining-impacts-vietnam-bridges/104511578\

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/sand-shortage-daniel-franks/105918556

The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/

The season is all about the (almost) everywhere everything all at once revolution we are living through at the present moment. Today, its about the almost everywhere nature of change.

We live in a fast changing world it seems. While the world tech hubs are still the mountain peaks of the global technosphere, the 21st technologies are mostly quickly beginning to spread. Everything is changing it seems but how far do the changes go.

Notes

News

Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/ . Pay Wall but the first para is readable.

LLM and Roomba. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/llm-robot-vacuum-existential-crisis

Go listen to Holy Post 696: Transcending Our Political Divisions & Labels with Andy Beshear.

Development. Dani Rodrik Journal Econ Growth (2016) 21:1–33. Premature Deindustrialisation

Energy. International Energy Agency. Access to electricity stagnates, leaving globally 730 million in the dark. https://www.iea.org/commentaries/access-to-electricity-stagnates-leaving-globally-730-million-in-the-dark

Mobility. The Economist October 4th 2025. Automation. Way more. SAN FRANCISCO. The peculiar economics of self-driving taxis.

AI and Development. Technology: Leaps and limits. Can artificial intelligence make the poor world richer? Economist 25 October 2025 p63-64.

Weird and Wonderful. Those Year 7 students https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/3d-printed-hands-made-by-port-macquarie-high-school-sudents/105793670

Utter disruption. Suspected drone sightings disrupt flights at Belgium airports. BBC 4 Nov 2025 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyk9k399lyo

The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/

Watch out for more information and connected content with each episode on the blog https://theology-and-technology.blogspot.com/

Notes

The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/

Futureviille

https://www.amazon.ca/Futureville-Discover-Purpose-Reimagining-Tomorrow/dp/1595554610/ref=monarch_sidesheet_title

Jesse Nickel. A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God

https://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9781506483351/A-Revolutionary-Jesus

CPX Centre for Public Christianity

https://publicchristianity.org/podcast/which-dystopia-won/

Douglas Adams

https://timharford.com/2025/09/cautionary-tales-dont-panic-douglas-adams-guide-to-tomorrow-with-arvind-ethan-david/