Podcast Episodes featuring Walter Kirn

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

Team Human - July 19, 2017 04:13 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 332 ratings
This week on Team Human, the conclusion of Douglas's soul-searching conversation with friend and author Walter Kirn. Together, Kirn and Rushkoff explore how disingenuously promoted concepts such as “creative destruction” are used to replace human civilization with a business plan. What would it...

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

Team Human - July 12, 2017 07:13 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 332 ratings
Playing for Team Human today, author and social critic Walter Kirn. Walter and Douglas engage in a two-part conversation that questions the so-called “evolution” of technology. Just how much of our humanity are we willing to surrender to our devices? Why do we deem our own replacement by computer...

"Adaptation" with Ron Funches, Walter Kirn, and The Secret Sisters

Live Wire with Luke Burbank - June 11, 2017 10:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 295 ratings
Ron Funches details finding his comedic voice and what it takes to make his mother proud, author Walter Kirn reveals how even a trained journalist could fall into a serial killer’s elaborate con as an imposter Rockefeller, and The Secret Sisters delight with a harmonic folk earworm. ...