Ainissa Ramirez

Podcast #35: Ainissa Ramirez

Science evangelist Ainissa Ramirez takes a look at how major technologies have shaped human culture—both intentionally and not.

By Betsy Brunner | June 4, 2020 | Culture, Ethics, Health, Knowledge, Media, Podcasts, Society, Transportation, Well-Being | Attention, Bias, Binary Thinking, Circadian Rhythms, Communications, Community, Consumerism, Control, Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Diversity, Education, Electric Light, Emotional Reactivity, Empathy, Engineers, History, Imagination, Invention, Inventors, Language, Literature, Memory, Motivation, Non-Verbal Communication, Nuance, Photography, Polarization, Politics, Reading, Science, Self-Empowerment, Self-Identity, Social Media, Speed, STEM, storytelling, Telegraph, Texting, The Alchemy of Us, Trains, Twitter, Unintended Consequences

Pace of Change

Disruptive Technologies Outpace Our Adaptability

As digital technologies improve exponentially, the pace of change has become too great for healthy adaptation.

By Mo Lotman | August 9, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Economics, Employment, Philosophy, Society, Well-Being | Agriculture, AI, Clay Christensen, Disruption, Employment, FailCon, Homo Sapiens, Invention, Moore's Law, Moveable Type, Pace, Retraining, Silicon Valley, Speed, The Internet, The Wheel, Wisdom

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, part one

It is exactly two hundred years ago that Byron, Percy Shelley, and his wife, Mary Shelley, were sequestered by a [...]

By David A. J. Reynolds | November 2, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Philosophy, Religion, Society | Christianity, Communism, Empire, Frankenstein, Genesis, God, Industry, Invention, Literature, Omnipotence, Poetry, Progress, Science, Secularism, Sublime, Transcendence, Walt Whitman

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