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Pioneers
by Mormon Transhumanist Association
Pioneers is a podcast from the Mormon Transhumanist Association about the people building the future. We sit down with scientists, engineers, philosophers, and theologians working at humanity's frontiers, and ask not just what they’re doing, but why.
Episodes
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Samo Burja on Old Institutions and New Frontiers | Pioneers Ep. 3
What would it take to make the Saudi desert look like Yosemite? Samo Burja has done the arithmetic: desalinate a Nile’s worth of water a year, pump it inland, bring in soil, plant redwoods. He thinks it would pay for itself. Samo is the editor-in-chief of Palladium Magazine, founder of Bismarck...
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Richard Bushman on Joseph Smith, Science, and the Future | Pioneers Ep. 2
What would Joseph Smith make of CRISPR? Of ChatGPT? Of the suggestion that the universe might be a simulation? It sounds like a parlor game, until you put the question to the historian who has spent more of his life with Joseph Smith than almost anyone alive. Richard Bushman is 95. He is…
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Introducing the MTA’s new podcast: Pioneers
We live in an age of peak cringe. People are drowning in cynicism, told daily that civilization is doomed. But something is stirring. A new generation is rediscovering what William James called "the strenuous mood": the deep human need to struggle for something greater than comfort and safety. In...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Pioneers is a podcast from the Mormon Transhumanist Association about the people building the future. We sit down with scientists, engineers, philosophers, and theologians working at humanity's frontiers, and ask not just what they’re doing, but why.
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Pioneers is a podcast from the Mormon Transhumanist Association about the people building the future. We sit down with scientists, engineers, philosophers, and theologians working at humanity's frontiers, and ask not just what they’re doing, but why.
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Pioneers is created and hosted by Mormon Transhumanist Association.
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