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Team Human with Douglas Rushkoff — 413 episodes

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1

Gamifying the Apocalypse: Climate Prep, Zombie Games, and Mutual Aid (w/Charlotte Binns)

2

Escaping the Simulation: A Somatic Guide to Reality

3

The Magic of the Broken: David J (Bauhaus / Love and Rockets)

4

AI Angels, Demons, and the Fight for the Future (w/ Philip Rosedale)

5

"What If" Is the Enemy of Fascism (w/Brian Eno)

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Exposing the Billionaire Funding Behind AI Safety Movements (w/ Kat Tenbarge)

7

The Internet Felt Like This in 1994. AI Might Be Our Last Chance.

8

Disaster Capitalism and the Case for Leveling Down - Rushkoff on Crazy Town

9

The Lobotomy of History: Reclaiming Our Extraordinary States (w/ Jeffrey Kripal)

10

The Holy War Delusion: Is it Time to Retire Our Religions?

11

Grant Morrison: The Enemies of Humanity Are Wielding Occult Power

12

The Tech Elite’s “Frictionless” Fantasy (And Why It Will Fail)

13

The Internet Is an Occult Machine (w/ Shira Chess)

14

My Dinner With Jeffrey: What the Epstein Files Reveal About Us All

15

Do Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead? (w/ Taylor Lorenz)

16

The Esoteric State of the Union: Magic, Will, and the New Neighborhood with Mitch Horowitz

17

Is It Fascism or Just a Lack of Impulse Control? With Jonathan Larsen

18

We’re Soaking In It: Why It’s Too Late to Prepare for Authoritarianism

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We Are Time Travelers: Retrocausality & The Long Self with Eric Wargo

20

Cameron Berg: Alien Minds & Self-Other Overlap - Teaching AI Empathy

21

You're Not Crazy: Reality Has Grown Absurd

22

Tom Llewellyn: Is Sharing the New Satanism?

23

Ari Kuschnir: Trump Ayahuasca - AI and the Alchemical Imaginary

24

Cracks in the Pavement

25

Vicki Robin: Parable of the Tribes

26

Jeremy Lent: Reweaving Civilization

27

Arden Leigh: Chasing the Hungry Ghosts

28

The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other

29

Jonathan Larsen: This is Just the Beginning - Enacting the Team Human Agenda

30

Andrew Slack: Superman vs Ubermensch

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Cory Doctorow: Enshittification is Not Inevitable

32

The Intentional Collapse

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Can Collapse Benefit Everyone? Luke Kemp: Goliath's Curse

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Will AI Kill Us for the Lulz? Nate Soares: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

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Jonathan Larsen: The Easy Way or The Hard Way

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AI Just Ate Language: The End of the Age of Horus

37

R.U. Sirius: Reality is up For Grabs

38

Borrow a Drill, Save the World

39

Camille Sojit Pejcha: Sex vs. Capitalism

40

Liana Sananda Gillooly: Is Sobriety the Future of Psychedelics?

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Is it Okay to Feel Good in the Midst of Chaos?

42

From Meta to Soma: Rushkoff on New Models [Bonus]

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Matthew Remski: Antifascist Dad

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Duncan Trussell: AI is a Magic Mirror

45

Eliott Edge: Magic and Mocktails

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Don’t Shoot the Messenger: AI is not the problem

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De Kai: Humans Get ONE Shot to Parent AI

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Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Outgrowing Modernity

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Erik Davis: AI, Weirdness, and Windows to Other Worlds

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Life is Not a Simulation: It's Magic

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Alex Kazemi: Live from The Strand

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David Bollier: The Commons Are Not a Tragedy

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Conner Habib: Live Up To Your Fool Potential

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The Fascist Atmosphere

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Mitch Horowitz

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Edward Ongweso Jr

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Radha Agrawal

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Universal Weirdness

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Jonathan Larsen

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Molly Crabapple

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Helena Norberg-Hodge

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The Job Hasn't Changed

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Dr. Mara Einstein "Hoodwinked"

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Chapel Perilous with Gabriel Kennedy and Grant Morrison

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Every Thing Is In Between

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Rushkoff's Christmas Monologue: Corleone-Style Diplomacy and the Post-human Future

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Mitch Horowitz: Occultism and the Fight for Reality - Live from CX

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Announcing Team Human Live in NYC on December 10 with Mitch Horowitz

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Greg Epstein "Tech Agnostic"

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Post-Election Monologue: This Game is Not Reality

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Anthony James

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Program Or Be Programed: Book Launch Q&A w/ Douglas Rushkoff and Matt Klein

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East Forest "Music For Mushrooms"

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

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Rushkoff is Back: Vibing on the Vibe

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Martin Winiecki "Water is Love"

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Richard Metzger: Magick Show

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Love and Magick are Our Best Hope

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Artificial Creativity

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Team Human Special: Live Q&A

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The Speed of the Internet

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Joanne McNeil

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The Secret History and Unwritten Future of Psychedelics and Technology

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Rushkoff Q&A: Native Ecosystems Live Here

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Astra Taylor & Leah Hunt-Hendrix

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The Model is Not the Territory

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John Oakes

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Mushon Zer-Aviv

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Nathan Schneider

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Brian Merchant

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Douglas Rushkoff on Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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Noah Tsika

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Brendon Lemon

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Transcendence is for Losers

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Shawn Kittelsen

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Heather Dewey-Hagborg

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Rebecca Bray & Rachel Gita Karp

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Covid Speaks like ChatGPT

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In Depth with Douglas Rushkoff - Book TV

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Kibbitz Room XIII

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Carne Ross

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Katherine G. Fry

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Demigod Wannabes

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Kibbitz Room XII

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Jem Bendell

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Nora Bateson

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Mitch Horowitz - Team Human Live in NYC

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Leaving X and Social Media Behind

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Rushkoff on TIME's Person of the Week

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Andrea Chalupa

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A Message from Douglas

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Dennis Yi Tenen

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Maggie Jackson

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Kibbitz Room XI

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Kevin Slavin

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Naomi Klein

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Madeline Ashby

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Kibbitz Room X

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Émile P. Torres

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David Brin

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The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson w/ Gabriel Kennedy

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Rushkoff on TrueAnon: Bloodless Hype Machines

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Kibbitz Room IX live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

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Nika Roza Danilova

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Annie Kelly

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Thomas Negovan

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Kibbitz Room VIII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

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Gary Marcus

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Douglas Rushkoff: I Will Not Be Autotuned - Live from All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech Mixer

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Malcolm Harris

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Fenton Bailey

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Kibbitz Room VII live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

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Rex Weyler

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Claire Leibowicz, Justin Hendrix, John Borthwick, and Douglas Rushkoff - live at Betaworks

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Marina Gorbis & Jerry Davis

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Alissa Quart

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Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

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Alex Holland

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Jeff Emmett

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Micah Sifry

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Kibbitz Room V live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

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Jessamyn West

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Mitch Horowitz

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Infectious Altruism - Holiday Special

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Kibbitz Room IV live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

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Molly White

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Eric Zimmerman

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Noah Hutton

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Cory Doctorow

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Surviving Apocalyptic Economics w/ Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin - Live from Ottawa International Writers Festival

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Greg Barris

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In Celebration of Speculative Fiction: 22 Ideas About The Future Book Launch w/ Eva Pascoe, Stephen Oram, and Benjamin Greenaway

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Kibbitz Room III live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

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Clinton Ignatov

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Sherry Turkle

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Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires - Twitter Spaces w/ Adrienne Gibbs

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Jenny Odell

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Survival of the Richest

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Paris Marx

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Marc Brickman

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Janelle Orsi

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Kibbitz Room II live from the Team Human Apocalypse Bunker

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Conner Habib

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Éliane Ubalijoro & David Jensen

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Kibbitz Room live from the Virtual Apocalypse Bunker

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Philip Rosedale

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Lisa Lovebucket

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Nick Kroll

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A Closer Look at Cyberia (KOPB, 1994) - Preview

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Micah Sifry

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Cyberia @ Powell's Books (1994) - Preview

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Sue Thomas

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Special Announcement: Survival of the Richest

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Neşe Devenot and David Nickles

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Cyber Salon 2002 - Preview

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Hannah Close

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Judaism as an Approach to Media and Society - Nothing Sacred Interview Preview

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Ari Wallach

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Douglas Rushkoff "There's No Such Thing as Content" - Trend Day Keynote Preview

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Mark Stahlman

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Douglas Rushkoff "Religion As Open-Source Proposition" - Preview

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Laurie Segall

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David McRaney

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Douglas Rushkoff "Hidden Potential" - GEL 2006 Preview

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Vicki Robin

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Douglas Rushkoff "Open-Source Reality" - Preview

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Divya Siddarth

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Renee Hobbs

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Jamie Cohen

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Maggie McGuane

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Alex Kazemi - Preview

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Stuart Swezey

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Cristian Movila - Preview

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David Zweig

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Greg Barris - Preview

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Ryan George

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Unfinished Live "A Better Web is Possible: How Do We Make it Happen?" - Preview

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xiaowei r. wang - Live from Unfinished Live

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Amber Case Twitter Spaces - Preview

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Ryan Broderick

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Sarah Pessin - Preview (2021 Salon)

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Ellen Pearlman

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The Yes Men on Newsmax - Preview

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Richard Heinberg

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R. U. Sirius (1993) - Preview

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Irwin Kula

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Special Report: Yes Men's Andy Bichlbaum Pranks Newsmax

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Sarah Pessin

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Jeremy Lent Salon - Preview

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Naomi Klein

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John Perry Barlow - Preview

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Jeremy Lent

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Heather Dewey-Hagborg + Joerg Blumtritt "An Oral History of the Internet" (Preview)

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Nate Hagens

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Tyson Yunkaporta in High Fidelity - Patreon Special (Preview)

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Duncan Trussell

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Ode to Robert Anton Wilson - The Stoa (Preview)

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Alexander Stern

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Bruce Sterling - Patreon Special (~1990)

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Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini "Feels Good Man"

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Ken Jordan - Patreon Special (2009)

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Ela Minus

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Yes Men - Patreon Special (2009)

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Luke Burgis

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danah boyd - Patreon Special (2009)

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Frank Brodhead

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David Pescovitz (2009) - Patreon Special

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Kenya (Robinson)

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Xeni Jardin - Patreon Special

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Tyson Yunkaporta

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Dennis McKenna (1992) - Patreon Special

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Cyberia Reunion in High Fidelity (feat. R. U. Sirius, Jody Radzik, Ani Phyo., and Nick Philip)

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Aleister & Adolf: Rushkoff and Michael Oeming on Jimmy Church's FADE to Black - Patreon Special

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Vicki Robin

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Genesis P-Orridge: 1993 conversation (Part 3) - Patreon Special

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Yaël Eisenstat

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Genesis P-Orridge: Bonus 1993 conversation (Part 2) - Patreon Special

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Mark Pesce

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Genesis P-Orridge: Bonus 1993 conversation (Part 1) - Patreon Special

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Conner Habib

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Riane Eisler "From Domination to Partnership"

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Harvey Pekar: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special

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Julia Watson "Survival of the Most Symbiotic"- Live from IMPAKT Festival

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Sonia Shah "We're Always Strangers, Ourselves" - Live from IMPAKT Festival

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David Lynch: Bonus 1986 Interview - Patreon Special

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George Dyson "Nature is on Team Machine

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Jessica Gordon Nembhard "Black Ideas Matter"

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Joanna Harcourt-Smith: Bonus 2009 Interview - Patreon Special

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Marina Gorbis "Mutuality"

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Grant Morrison "Freaks Like Us"

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Terence McKenna: Bonus 1993 Interview - Patreon Special

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Douglas Rushkoff "Find the Others" at Disinfo.Con 1999 - Patreon Special

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Dríade Aguiar "Culture Makes History"

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Timothy Leary: Bonus 1993 Interview - Patreon Special

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Jim Rutt "An Invitation to Game B"

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Nora Bateson "The Changemaker's Trap"

257

Michael Nesmith "Life After Television"

258

Matt Stoller "Make America Ours Again"

259

Julie Holland, M.D. "Good Chemistry"

260

Richard Metzger "Do They Owe Us A Living?"

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Tyson Yunkaporta "Find the Other Others"

262

Martin Winiecki "The Great Unveiling"

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Jared Diamond "Robots in the Outfield"

264

Priscillia Ludosky "Occupying Reality"

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Brian Hughes "The Undercurrent of Extremism"

266

Reverend Billy and Savitri D "Charging the Wildness"

267

James Howard Kunstler "The Long Emergency"

268

Helena Norberg-Hodge “Everything Works Better Locally”

269

Mark Stahlman "Get Digital, Go Medieval"

270

Steven Hassan "Re-establishing Contact"

271

Allison Fine "Things Worth Fighting For"

272

James Lovelock "We Humans are a Good Thing"

273

Lauren Duca “Inheriting the Future” + Christopher Bouzy “Human Trollbots”

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Paul Krassner "When Fake Was Fun"

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Eric Gullichsen "Navigating A Shared Space"

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Yancey Strickler "A More Generous World"

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Deborah Cullinan "From the Community"

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Vinnie Colaiuta "Rhythm is Life"

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Tiffany Shlain "Unplugging One Day a Week" + Tribute to Paul Krassner

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Charles Eisenstein "Questioning Quantification" + Bretton Woods@75 Keynote

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Bryan Walsh "Avoiding Apocalypse" + Adrienne Haynes "Community Empowerment"

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Ep. 136 Live from MAHA with Stephen Bartolomei and Brigitte McQueen Shew "Optimizing for Connection"

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Mary L. Gray "Invisible by Design" + Betaworks Studios Keynote

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Live from VRTO with Keram Malicki-Sanchez & Amelia Winger-Bearskin

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Jennifer Dumpert "Liminal Dreaming"

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Ep. 132 David Wallace-Wells "The Power of Panic"

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Ep. 131 Cory Doctorow "The Oligarchy's Operating System"

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Ep. 130 Astra Taylor "Democracy is a Verb"

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Ep. 129 Clive Thompson "The Lust for Scale"

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Ep. 128 Brewster Kahle "The Library of Everything"

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Ep. 127 "All Hands On Deck" Extinction Rebellion with Gail Bradbrook and Clare Farrell

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Ep. 126 Ananya Roy "Occupying the Master’s House"

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Ep. 125 Aaron Gell "We're in the same story, here."

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Ep. 124 "Don't Know Much About History" - Live from the Greene Space with Roger McNamee

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Ep. 123 Live from Portland with Blaed Spence and Jennifer Rauch "Beyond the Screen"

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Ep. 122 Live at WNYC's the Greene Space with Naomi Klein - "The Big Tent"

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Ep. 121 Ron Kim "No More Race to the Bottom"

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Ep. 120 Jacinta Gonzalez and Amy Herzog on "Amazon's Cloud Industrial Complex"

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Ep. 119 Team Human Live: Douglas Rushkoff and Siobhan O'Connor "Just the Way You Are"

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Ep. 118 Aaron Maté "The Russians Are Coming!"

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Ep. 117 Book Launch: A Live Team Human Conversation with Douglas Rushkoff and Seth Godin

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Ep. 116 Live at Civic Hall Pt. 2: A Demonology of Algorithms with Mark Pesce

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Ep. 115 Live at Civic Hall Pt. 1: Penny Abeywardena

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Geert Lovink on "Sad by Design" (Corrected Audio)

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Jamie Cohen "The Commodity of Authenticity"

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Jason Stockwood "System Reboot"

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Chenjerai Kumanyika "Uncivilization"

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Enspiral: "Better Work Together"

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Jason Schmitt "A Pirate Bay of Knowledge?"

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Jessica Blank "A Walk In Their Shoes"

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Fred Turner "Beyond the Master Plan"

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Nora Bateson "Warm Data"

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Philip McKenzie and Michael Wood-Lewis "There Goes the Neighborhood"

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Nathan Schneider "A Place Where It's Easier To Be Good"

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Sarah Esther Lageson PhD "Giving Each Other Some Slack"

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danah boyd "Seeing New Worlds"

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Alissa Quart "It's Not Your Fault"

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Molly Crabapple and Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture) Live at Civic Hall

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Eliott Edge: Finding the Other "Others"

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Chris Dancy "I Put Myself In Airplane Mode"

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Special Announcement! Team Human Live w/ Molly Crabapple and Jace Clayton August 16th at Civic Hall

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Parker Posey "It's the Screens That Got Small."

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Bo Burnham "The Movie of Your Own Life Does Not Suck"

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Team Human w/ Virtual Futures Live in London Part 2: Rupert Sheldrake

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Team Human w/ Virtual Futures Live in London Part 1: Pat Cadigan

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Palak Shah "Who's Gonna Care?"

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Live at the Alchemist's Kitchen: Dr. Mark Filippi "Moon Over Matter"

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Adah Parris "The Art of Conversation"

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Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff “Humane Tech or Capitalism Rebranded?”

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George Monbiot "Beyond Salvation and Disaster"

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Eli Pariser "The Ground Under Our Feet"

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Jason Louv "A World of Gods and Monsters"

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Juho Makkonen "Breaking the Unicorn Myth"

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Molly Sauter "Stupid Smart Cities"

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Charles Hugh Smith "Investing in Community"

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Molly Wright Steenson "Play in the Uncanny Valley"

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Brian Keating "Honey, I Shrunk the Cosmos"

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Jeremy Lent "The Patterning Instinct"

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Kenric McDowell "The Right Kind of AI"

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Suzanne Slomin "Feeding A Living Culture"

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Live at Gray Area Night Two Pt. 2: Erik Davis and Josette Melchor

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Live at Gray Area Night Two Pt. 1: Lauren McCarthy

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Live From Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Pt.2: Howard Rheingold

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Live From San Francisco at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts Pt.1: Annalee Newitz

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Damien Williams "We Built It From Us"

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Eleanor Saitta "Is It Safe?"

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David Pescovitz "Music for Aliens"

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Merrelyn Emery "Having a Role in Your World"

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Ep. 70 Danielle Butin "It Starts With Listening"

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Ghislaine Boddington "Full Immersion"

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Ep. 68 Stacco Troncoso "The Commons Is The Glue"

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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge "Weaponized Pleasure"

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Mitch Horowitz "Radical Optimism"

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Erin Barnes "In Our Backyards"

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Nikki Silvestri "More Than Mere Dirt"

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Frances Moore Lappé and Adam Eichen "The Thrill of Democracy"

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Hugh Gallagher "An Outsider's Approach"

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Tim O'Reilly "Solving for Economic Inequality?"

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Neal Gorenflo "Sharing Cities"

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Andy Fisher "Big Hunger"

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Amber Case "Calming Technology"

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Ep. 57 Richard Heinberg "There's No App For That"

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Ep. 56 Professor Steve Fuller "You Shall Be As Gods: Transhumanism, Posthumanism, and everything human in between."

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Ep. 55 Jon Lebkowsky "Folding the Fringes"

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Ep. 54 Manoush Zomorodi "Blissfully Bored"

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Ep. 53 IBM Watson "If I Only Had A Brain"

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Ep. 52 William Softky and Criscillia Benford "Recalibrating For Trust"

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Ep. 51 Make It So: Civic Hall Labs

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Ep. 50 Alexandra Juhasz "The Tiny Magic of CyberFeminism"

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Ep. 49 Michael Frederickson "Awestruck"

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Ep. 48 Arthur Brock Reclaims Currency

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Ep. 47 Richard Barbrook "It's Capitalism, Mate"

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Ep. 46 Walter Kirn Pt. 2 "Toward Human Ends or the End of Humans?"

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Ep. 45 Walter Kirn Pt. 1 "Training Our Replacements"

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Ep.44 Special Episode "Collective Power"

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Ep. 43 Adam Brock "Better Than You Found It"

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Ep. 42 Ramesh Srinivasan "Whose Global Village"

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Ep. 41 Richard D. Bartlett "There Is No Enemy Team"

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Ep. 39 Daniel Berninger "Fighting for a Human Agenda"

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Ep. 38 J.T. Rogers "The Play is the Thing"

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Ep. 37 William Hogeland "Defaulting to Colonialism"

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Ep. 36 Micah Sifry "What We Do Now! #PDF17"

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Ep. 35 Tessa Lena "Fighting the Robots"

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Ep. 34 Pia Mancini "No Shame! Towards a Cooperative Economy"

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Ep. 33 David Sax "The Revenge of Analog"

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Ep. 32 Laszlo Karafiath PhD "Meme Wars"

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Ep. 31 R.U. Sirius "Counter What?"

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Ep. 30 Bas van Abel "Fingerprints on the Touchscreen"

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Ep. 29 Caroline Jack "What Counts As Propaganda?"

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Ep. 28 Alex Rivera "Globalization From Below"

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Ep. 27 Alnoor Ladha "Rewriting the Rules"

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Ep. 26 Jason Van Anden "Mobile Justice"

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Ep. 25 Danne Woo "Visualizing Reality"

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Ep. 24 Brian Fitzgerald “The Power of Play”

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Ep. 23 Silvia Zuur “Progress Through Collaboration”

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Ep. 22 Zach Leary “It’s All Happening”

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Ep. 21 L.A. Kauffman “Direct Action”

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Ep. 20 Jonathan Larsen “Fake Reality”

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Ep. 19 Brian Hughes “Distributed Solidarities and Extremism”

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Ep. 18 Ari Wallach “Longpath Thinking”

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Ep. 17 Viktor Zaunders “Permaculture”

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Ep. 16 Natalie Foster “Future of Work”

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Ep. 15 Julie Holland MD “Finding the Others”

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Ep. 14 Post-Election Special: The Trump Opportunity

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Ep. 13 Kyra D. Gaunt Ph.D. “Full Spectrum Humanity”

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Ep. 12 Mushon Zer-Aviv “Reambiguation”

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Ep. 11 Steve Lambert “Public Displays of Collaboration”

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Ep. 10 Aaron Dignan “Hacking the Corporation”

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Ep. 09 D.C. Vito “Media Literacy”

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Ep. 08 Heather Dewey-Hagborg

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Ep. 06 Kio Stark “Talk to Strangers”

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Ep. 05 Andy Bichlbaum “Playful Resistance”

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Ep. 04 Micah White “Permanent Revolution”