Belief in AI can destroy the world. Responsibility stays human. — Jaron Lanier.

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"The Big Lie Behind AI" Listen to the Futurology podcast.

In our lifetime, we learned that nearly every star has its own planets. Earth is one story among trillions.

🎙️Adam Frank (@adamfrank4.bsky.social) on Futurology podcast: “How to Spot an Alien Civilization”

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Maybe humanity isn’t destroying the planet. Maybe it’s how the planet learns to see itself.

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Adam Frank (@adamfrank4.bsky.social)- "How to Spot an Alien Civilization" is streaming now. Listen and subscribe to the Futurology podcast.

Maybe AI won’t replace artists after all. Maybe it’s the next great artistic medium. 

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🎙️ Ken Liu (@kyliu99.bsky.social) on Futurology: "When the Machine Becomes the Medium"

“For billions of years, there were no airplanes — until someone imagined them.”

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Technology, like art, is an expression of our humanness.

🎙️ Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social on Futurology: When the Machine Becomes the Medium

The Atlantic Writer, Ross Andersen (@rossandersen.bsky.social) in conversation with Futurology Producer Grant Slater (@grantslater.bsky.social) get into the dangerous gap between humanity's understanding of time and the consequences of our actions.

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Humanity has written 125 million books. AI read all of them in six months.

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 "A Cosmic Voyage Through Deep Time" is streaming now. Ross Andersen (@rossandersen.bsky.social) in conversation with Grant Slater (@grantslater.bsky.social)

Atlantic Writer Ross Andersen (@rossandersen.bsky.social) asks the questions shaping the future. 

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In this episode, Andersen speaks with Futurology Producer Grant Slater (@grantslater.bsky.social) about time defining  the evolution of intelligent life.

Aminah Bradford examines the hierarchy of oversimplifying the spirit to the "good" and the material to the "bad". 

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The major paradigm shift that microbiology is facing now is this relational, ecological, emergent, symbiotic understanding of being human.”

-Aminah Bradford

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“What does it mean to live in a world that we depend upon for life, but that also can make us sick?”

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In this episode of Futurology, Aminah Bradford talks with Jonathan Blake about what she calls microbial theology.

Listen now! 🎧  "The Spiritual Life of the Microbiome”.

Does the global culture resemble a traditional family dynamic? 

Pico Iyer and Nathan Gardels discuss how decades globalization has led to a clash of civilizations and identity

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Listen now! 🎧 “The Wisdom of Not Knowing”, reflections on culture from novelist Pico Iyer

“We can only find eternity in the moment”

For novelist Pico Iyer wisdom resides not in mastery but in doubt. From his decades of constant travel to his retreats in silence Iyer describes how humility and stillness can open a clearer view of the world than certainty ever could

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We live in a culture hooked on speed and certainty. Hot takes, quick fixes, and algorithms that appear to know us better than we know ourselves. Despite living in the “age of information”are humans less connected than ever?

The Wisdom of Not Knowing with Pico Iyer and Nathan Gardels, available now

From conquering the West to conquering the stars

NASA Historian Lois Rosson describes the way lingering ideas of Manifest Destiny continue to shape visualizations of space to this day.

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Lois Rosson and Claire Webb explore how cosmic visualization operates. What do these images reveal? Not just about the universe, but about the historical and cultural moment from which they emerge?

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From the scientific methodologies that construct these images to the ideological lenses through which they are interpreted, Lois Rosson and Claire Webb examine the epistemological and political dimensions of how we visualize the universe.

In this episode, Lois Rosson and Claire Webb explore the politics behind how we visualize the universe, from the science that shapes the image to the ideologies that color our perception.

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