John Smart: Accelerating Change Isn’t Slowing Down

Transhumanist Manifestos and Dilemmas: A Decade and a Half of Reflection: Fifteen years ago, I penned the first versions of Hamlet’s Transhumanist Dilemma and A Transhumanist Manifesto. Much has changed since then, including my perspective. I began with a question inspired by Hamlet: Will technology replace biology? by Singularity.FM

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Technology is The How, Not the Why or What: Technology is the new religion, Silicon Valley – the new Promised Land, and entrepreneurs – the new prophets. They promise a future of abundance and immortality—a techno-heaven beyond our wildest dreams. And we are all believers. by Singularity.FM

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From Mutual Dependence to Obsolescence: The Future of Labor in an AI-Driven Economy: Throughout history, capital and labor have been interdependent forces driving economic growth. Capital relies on labor to generate returns on investment, while labor depends on capital for wages. Despite historical fluctuations in their balance of powe... by Singularity.FM

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Our Future, AI and Veganism: 6 Reasons Why I Went Vegan: I have now been vegan for almost 9 years and people keep asking me how I feel and why I did it. So let me share a quick health update as well as the original 6 reasons why I went vegan. Since going vegan I have lost and kept off 25 pounds or about […] by Singularity.FM

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It’s Ethics. Not Tech Ethics.: I have noticed that almost every startup in almost every industry is claiming “a revolutionary AI or blockchain breakthrough.” [Often both.] More recently I’m flabbergasted to see a similar fad in the growing number of self-proclaimed Tech and AI ethic... by Singularity.FM

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Modern Bard Dr. Martin Shaw: Be a Story-maker for Your Times: Dr. Martin Shaw is the best oral storyteller that I know of. He is also the only person who can impromptu tell the entire Odyssey by his imagination alone. Martin is well versed in a variety of stories from classic Greek to pagan, indigenous, by Singularity.FM

58 min listen

Kevin Kelly on Wisdom and Excellent Advice for Living: When I started blogging and podcasting back in 2009 topics like wisdom were near-invisible, if not considered irrelevant to the conversations of AI, transhumanism, genetic engineering, human enhancement, and so on. by Singularity.FM

87 min listen

Émile Torres on Transhumanism, Longtermism and Existential Risks: My goal with this podcast has always been to be a bit of a gadfly to your as well as my intellectual growth and, hopefully, a midwife to your best ideas rather than a disseminator of a specific movement or ideology. Thus, by Singularity.FM

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Nikolas Badminton on Facing Our Futures: Futurism is Activism: My podcast guest today is Nikolas Badminton. Nik is the Chief Futurist at futurist.com. He has worked with over 300 organizations in foresight, strategy, and disruption – including NASA, the United Nations, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Rolls Royce, by Singularity.FM

92 min listen

My NBF Contest Pitch: The Greatest Leadership Opportunity of the 21st Century: This is my 4 min video pitch for the 2023 Nordic Business Forum Speaker Contest. Hope you enjoy it but feel free to let me know if that’s not the case ? The Greatest Leadership Opportunity in the 21st Century A story I stumbled on in 2006 changed my ... by Singularity.FM

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Massimo Pigliucci on Story, Virtue, Character and AI: Prof. Massimo Pigliucci is one of those very rare people who manage to combine the pursuit of deep science and the living ethos of practical philosophy. Massimo has Ph.D. degrees in Genetics, Evolutionary Biology, and Philosophy. by Singularity.FM

66 min listen

Ukrainian Transhumanist Alex Padalka: A War Against Our Democratic Values: When the war in Ukraine started, I asked myself if I could do anything to help. I have no friends or family in Ukraine, but I remember that a couple of years ago, I was interviewed by someone from Donetsk. When I got in touch with Alexander Padalka, by Singularity.FM

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Ursula Eysin on Uncertainty and Future Scenarios: Ursula Eysin is the founder of Red Swan, a consultancy focusing on the development of future scenarios. She is a trained ballerina, plays the flute, speaks 7 languages, does math, and reads chemistry books for fun. Besides that, by Singularity.FM

124 min listen

Zoltan Istvan on AI, Transhumanism, Politics and Ethics: Zoltan Istvan is a former journalist, political candidate, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and founder of the US Transhumanist Party. He has been on this podcast twice before when we discussed Istvan’s presidential campaign and his bestselling novel ... by Singularity.FM

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David Wood on the Singularity Principles: The Singularity Principles is a unique, comprehensive, and principled framework for riding the tsunami of change coming our way, instead of drowning in it. It is a one-of-a-kind work written by a person who is singularly qualified with the necessary kn... by Singularity.FM

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Danko Nikolic and John Smart on AI, Practopoiesis, and Autopoiesis: This is an interview with Danko Nikolic and John Smart on the future of AI and their respective theories of Practopoiesis – Neuromimicry, and Autopoiesis – Biomimicry. During our 2-hour conversation with Danko and John, by Singularity.FM

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Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell on Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History: Prof. Lewis Dartnell is an astrobiologist who looks for life on distant planets. In his most recent book, however, Dartnell turns his gaze inward and backward to the human story – who we are, how we came to be, where we are coming from, and, by Singularity.FM

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David Loy on Zen, EcoDharma, AI and Story: Without a doubt, the social revolution in the West and individual insight/enlightenment in the East are among humanity’s greatest accomplishments. But we can have them separate no longer for we desperately need both because individual people make socie... by Singularity.FM

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Byron Reese on Stories, Dice and Rocks That Think: Byron Reese is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, and futurist. He has enjoyed a wide range of success over 30 years, including two NASDAQ IPOs as well as the sale of three companies he founded. Today Byron is the CEO of JJ Kent, by Singularity.FM

132 min listen

Cadell Last on Nietzsche, Transhumanism and Story: I have always wanted to discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy and how it relates to technology and transhumanism. The problem is that a very short list of people will make me enjoy such a challenging conversation. Luckily, Dr. by Singularity.FM

122 min listen

Joscha Bach on AI, Cosmology, Existence and the Bible: Joscha Bach is a beautiful mind and a very rewarding interlocutor. No surprise I had many requests to have him back on my podcast. I apologize that it took 4 years but the good news is we are going to have a third conversation much sooner this time aro... by Singularity.FM

128 min listen

The Cassandra of Futurism Faith Popcorn: Futurism Doesn’t Come from the Past: Faith Popcorn founded her futurist marketing consultancy in 1974. The New York Times has called her “The Trend Oracle” and according to Fortune Magazine she is “The Nostradamus of Marketing”. Faith is a trusted advisor to the CEOs of Fortune 200 compan... by Singularity.FM

112 min listen

Kendall Haven on Story Proof: The Science Behind the Startling Power of Story: Dr. Kendall Haven is the only West Point graduate to ever become a professional storyteller. Haven holds a Doctorate in Oceanography and spent eight years as a Senior Research Scientist for the Department of Energy before finding his true passion for w... by Singularity.FM

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Brian Boyd on the Origin of Stories: Brian Boyd is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His work has appeared in 20 languages and has won awards on four continents. Most importantly, Prof. Boyd is the author of On the Origin of Stories which examines the... by Singularity.FM

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John Smart: Foresight is Your Hidden Superpower: John Smart has taught and written for over 20 years on topics like foresight and futurism as well as the drivers, opportunities, and problems of exponential processes throughout human history. John is President of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, by Singularity.FM

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Jonah Sachs on Winning the Story Wars and ReWriting the Human Story: Jonah Sachs is an author, speaker, and viral marketing pioneer. He helped create some of the world’s first and most heralded digital social change campaigns. Jonah Sachs is also the author of Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Be... by Singularity.FM

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Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals: Many of you know that I’ve been working on a new book provisionally titled ReWriting the Human Story: How Our Story Determines Our Future. And so I thought it could be useful to me and interesting to you if I were to have a conversation with a few stor... by Singularity.FM

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Roshi Jundo Cohen on Zen, AI, Transhumanism and Saving the World: Many of you know that I am a fan of Buddhism in general and Zen Buddhism in particular. So I’ve always wanted to get a Zen Master on the podcast. I never imagined, however, that there is a Zen Master who has listened to almost every episode of my show.... by Singularity.FM

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Angus Fletcher on Wonderworks: Seek The Untold Story: Prof. Angus Fletcher is a story scientist working at the intersection of story and neuroscience. Angus started as a neuroscientist at the University of Michigan but eventually decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Shakespeare at Yale. by Singularity.FM

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SciFi Author PJ Manney on the New Mythos and (Con)Science: This is the second interview of my series on story and my guest is PJ Manney. PJ is the author of the Phoenix Horizon Trilogy and has already been a guest on Singularity.FM twice before. [See our 1st and 2nd interviews.] She is a friend, by Singularity.FM

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John Smart: Accelerating Change Isn’t Slowing Down

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