Im so torn when watching this talk, on the one side I absolutely agree with the ideas presented, but on the other hand I realize it will take years to communicate all these shifting perspectives.

Thank you very much I really hoped this was presented to a wider audience, maybe @Chris Martens (they/them) you should consider some popular conferences.

Besides all the problems and challenges presented in the talk one huge problem i see currently is the debating culture. Even the anticipation of change seems problematic. Not even talking about complex things where one would need to find common ground with a lot of foreign ideas....

@Chris Martens (they/them) Are you familiar with Ursula Franklin's dichotomy of holistic vs prescriptive technologies? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Franklin#Technological_society I'm currently listening to https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology and reminded of competitive vs complementary artifacts.

Here is a snippet of that comment: the presented Thoughts are inspiring, cool, disturbing and unsettling: - We don't use technology as a Tool, but as an Environment, which we use to perceive other humans and our "real" environment/nature. Such that we as humans only can function in this technology environment. - We replace the perception of humans with machine related Terms and Algorithms. Not only do we treat machines like humans, but also humans like machines. - technology by itself has no agenda. Only the model of operation in which we use the technology created that directed influence. Most of the technologies today are used in a market oriented model with the goal to enable growth. All models of operation like markets, national states, education and science/academia are created by ourselves - so it follows that we are also able to change them again. It is our Obligation as humans to ensure that all models of operations serve our well being

I do think Rushkoff make it a bit easy for himself ( and thus us) here

I see a couple of Problems: • humans tend to like to create things, starting from scratch, but it is WAY harder to change existing things that to start something new • our cultural evolution has become so complex that it is not simply possible to change one thing without creating unknown problems somewhere else • the monopolies that were created through our cultural evolution created very problematic behaviour in our population, this in combination with a evermore capable technology ( nuclear , gene editing , digital tech etc..) created the potential for catastrophic events to be much more likely

Now while this does sounds very negative I did found some projects that do give me some hope