FBL40 - Jeremy Lent: Meaning and Connection in the Age of Technology
The Feedback Loop by Singularity
English - January 24, 2022 17:56 - 59 minutes - 108 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsTechnology Education technology society future education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week my guest is Jeremy Lent, who is the author of several books, including The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, and his more recent work, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe.
Importantly, a great deal of Jeremy’s work addresses many of the topics that are near and dear to our hearts at Singularity, one of which is a sustainable, connected, and prosperous future. However, Jeremy believes that our current approach and worldview are causing humans, and therefore the technology we create, to often lead us in the opposite direction, towards a world of disconnection, destruction, and exploitation.
To help us navigate these potential futures, Jeremy provides us with some incredibly well-articulated insights and metaphors that help frame the options that exist before us.
Find Jeremy's work at https://www.jeremylent.com/
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Host: Steven Parton - LinkedIn / Twitter
Music by: Amine el Filali