Looking to the Future Podcast
Looking to the Future Podcast
Looking to the Future Podcast
Adressesing the future from a unique and critical perspective.
The “Big Band Theory”–Creative Systems Theory Takes On Existence As a Whole
In my recent book Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions, I describe how Creative Systems Theory helps us address all manner of “ultimate questions”—big picture concerns that in times past have tended to leave us baffled. … Read More
May 21, 2018
46 min
Three Ways Artificial Intelligence Could Be the End of Us — And What Will Be Required For This Not to Be Our Fate
I’ve touched on the gifts and curses nature of AI In several previous podcasts and articles. Here I more specifically detail the dangers and more directly tie needed actions to culturally mature understanding. Print Version: Pertinent Links: Techno-brilliance and Techno-stupidity … Read More
May 21, 2018
23 min
Science and Religion—Toward a Larger Picture (and How Creative Systems Theory Gets Us Very Close)
In my recent book Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions, I describe how Creative Systems Theory helps us address all manner of “ultimate questions”—big picture concerns that in times past have tended to leave us baffled. In … Read More
Jan 30, 2018
1 hr 9 min
Techno-Brilliance, Techno-Stupidity, and the Dangers of Techno-Utopian Craziness—Needed Perspective if Our Future is to be Anything We Can Celebrate
As a futurist, my primary focus is the human dimension. I often write about new technologies, but when I do, my comments have to do with how we best understand them and apply them—in short, with how to use new … Read More
Oct 9, 2017
43 min
Transitional Absurdity: Contemporary Craziness and Its Antidote (Or How the Ludicrous Can Co-Exist With Hope)
The Creative Systems Theory concept pf Transitional Absurdity describes how a lot that we can find most disturbing—indeed ludicrous—in our time is predicted by how change in human systems works. It is an essential tool for the culturally mature leader’s … Read More
Jul 17, 2017
53 min
Rethinking Identity: How the Myth of the Individual Provides Essential Evidence for Cultural Maturity’s Needed “Growing Up” As a Species (and the Critical Importance of a More Complete Picture of Identity Going Forward)
This podcast examines how our modern age concept of the individual stops short of what it means to be a person and the implications if a more complete—more systemic—understanding of identity
May 30, 2017
35 min
Perspective for a Time of Deep Discord: Why We See Things So Differently (and Why Just Trying To Talk About It Is So Often Not Helpful)
This podcast examines how social/political differences have deeper origins than we tend to assume and the implications for debate and effective decision-making
May 30, 2017
31 min
Bringing Wisdom to the Future—Creative Systems Theory’s Concept of Cultural Maturity
This podcast provides a big-picture overview of the concept of Cultural Maturity. Think of it as an introductory speech for people not yet familiar with the concept and its implications.
May 30, 2017
1 hr 6 min
Culturally Mature Perspective and the Climate Change Debate: How Asking the Wrong Question Results in Actions That Are, in Effect, Suicidal
This podcast examines how the application of simple risk assessment principles makes clear that the climate change debate is in fact over. It also examines the implications of needed more mature leadership and perspective.
May 30, 2017
21 min
Bringing Big-Picture Perspective to the Often Pain-filled Confusions of the Immigration Debate
This podcasts examines how today’s highly polarized debate with regard to immigration is a product of not addressing the issue in larger enough (sufficiently systemic) ways.
Apr 26, 2017
28 min