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Jim talks with Douglas Rushkoff about where the internet came from, where it might go, & how to move from dystopian despair to productive engagement… Continue reading Currents 051: Douglas Rushkoff on the Once and Future Internet
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Jim talks with Greg Lukianoff, president & CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and co-author, with Jonathan Haidt, of The Coddling of the American Mind… Continue reading Currents 050: Greg Lukianoff on Free Speech
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Jim talks with Gary Bengier about his science fiction novel Unfettered Journey, depicting a hard-science view of a possible world 140 or so years in the future… Continue reading EP 152 Gary Bengier on Hard-Science Futures
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Jim talks with Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder about the growing movement of Doomer Optimism… Continue reading Currents 049: Ashley Colby & Jason Snyder on Doomer Optimism
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Jim talks with Daniel Mezick about two books on leadership & social coherence, Michael Suk-Young Chwe’s Rational Ritual & Christopher Boehm’s Hierarchy in the Forest… Continue reading EP 151 Daniel Mezick on Ritual and Hierarchy
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Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Welf von Hören, co-founder of the recently beta-launched Potential app… Continue reading Currents 048: Welf von Hören on Potential
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Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Jeremy Lent about his latest book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe… Continue reading EP 150 Jeremy Lent on the Web of Meaning
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Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Samuel Scarpino on Covid-19 epidemiology and disease surveillance… Continue reading Currents 047: Samuel Scarpino on the Epidemiology of Covid-19
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Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Joshua Vial, co-founder of the multifaceted social-impact support network Enspiral…
Continue reading EP 149 Joshua Vial on Enspiral
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Jim talks with Henry Elkus and Sam Feinburg, founders of the global problem solving organization Helena… Continue reading Currents 046: Henry Elkus & Sam Feinburg on Solving Societal Problems