250 Episodes

  1. Self-Actualization in the Global Brain with Cadell Last of Philosophy Portal

    Published: 5/23/2025

  2. The Architecture of The Next Creative Economy with Michael Dean

    Published: 5/3/2025

  3. The Art & Technology of Conversation with Robert Poynton

    Published: 4/23/2025

  4. Scale Theory: Contemplating Everything-At-Onceness with Joshua DiCaglio

    Published: 4/5/2025

  5. Jim O'Shaughnessy on Creativity, Crisis, and Trust as The Fabric of Society

    Published: 3/29/2025

  6. Aishwarya Khanduja on Living Inquiry & Fostering Imagination

    Published: 3/22/2025

  7. Matt Segall on Culture as The Lifeblood of The Machine Economy

    Published: 3/14/2025

  8. Andrew McLuhan on Needling The Somnambulists about How We've Never Been Autonomous

    Published: 3/7/2025

  9. J.F. Martel on Machines vs. Fractals, Black Box Personhood, and Navigating The AI Fairy Tale

    Published: 2/28/2025

  10. Adah Parris on Neurodivergent Cyborg Shamans & Elemental Tech Ethics

    Published: 2/19/2025

  11. Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy

    Published: 2/12/2025

  12. Jessica Clark on Making New Realities with New Media

    Published: 2/6/2025

  13. New Selves of Neural Media & AI as 'The Poison Path' with K Allado-McDowell

    Published: 1/30/2025

  14. Futures Indistinguishable from Magic with Robin Sloan

    Published: 1/22/2025

  15. Transcending (and Including) Partisan Debate with Stephanie Lepp

    Published: 1/16/2025

  16. Mycopunk Community Coordination with Christina Bowen of Socialroots

    Published: 1/8/2025

  17. The Inner Life of a Responsible Tech Practitioner with Benjamin Olsen

    Published: 12/25/2024

  18. Reclaiming Attention from 'The Ravenous Maw of The Screen' with Richard Doyle

    Published: 12/18/2024

  19. 📚🧙🏼‍♂️🦾 232 - Myth & Magic in Technological Metamodernism

    Published: 12/2/2024

  20. ⏳🎨🔮 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-Time

    Published: 11/21/2024

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Let's dream better! Join paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield for bold, far-ranging explorations into the nature of agency in the age of automation, wisdom and innovation, responsibility and power, and the care and feeding of the new superpowers conferred to us by magical technologies. Weekly dialogues at the edge of the knowable, learning to navigate Global Weirding and exponential AI with the curiosity and play required of us. Building on twenty years of independent research plus firsthand experience of the tech, arts, and science worlds, Humans On The Loop is a show to transform you and help us make better use of our greatest natural resource: our attention. michaelgarfield.substack.com