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Current Issue podcasts address contemporary issues from a culturally mature, systemic perspective. Particularly with today’s extreme political polarization, it is important to have perspective that views questions from above the partisan fray.

Three Ways Artificial Intelligence Could Be the End of Us — And What Will Be Required For This Not to Be Our Fate

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I’ve touched on the gifts and curses nature of AI In several previous podcasts and articles. Here I more specifically detail the dangers and more directly tie needed actions to culturally mature understanding. Print Version: Pertinent Links: Techno-brilliance and Techno-stupidity … Read More

Techno-Brilliance, Techno-Stupidity, and the Dangers of Techno-Utopian Craziness—Needed Perspective if Our Future is to be Anything We Can Celebrate

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As a futurist, my primary focus is the human dimension. I often write about new technologies, but when I do, my comments have to do with how we best understand them and apply them—in short, with how to use new … Read More

Culturally Mature Perspective and the Climate Change Debate: How Asking the Wrong Question Results in Actions That Are, in Effect, Suicidal

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This podcast examines how the application of simple risk assessment principles makes clear that the climate change debate is in fact over. It also examines the implications of needed more mature leadership and perspective.

Bringing Big-Picture Perspective to the Often Pain-filled Confusions of the Immigration Debate

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This podcasts examines how today’s highly polarized debate with regard to immigration is a product of not addressing the issue in larger enough (sufficiently systemic) ways.

Health Care Reform as Political Crazy-Maker

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This podcast examines how the modern health care debate fails to ask the most essential question and the craziness that predictably results when we do not.

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  • Techno-Brilliance, Techno-Stupidity, and the Dangers of Techno-Utopian Craziness—Needed Perspective if Our Future is to be Anything We Can Celebrate
  • Transitional Absurdity: Contemporary Craziness and Its Antidote (Or How the Ludicrous Can Co-Exist With Hope)

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