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197 - Tadaaki Hozumi on Japanese Esotericism, Lost Civilizations, and The Singularity (Part 1)

Humans On The Loop

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The Lost Animism of the Internet of Things

Sally Kohn: I was enamored of your reflections that you were sharing on Facebook through this whole experience. The technology that Japan is making is understood through it a severely different frame than the frame through which American consumers are actually acquiring it. And there's, it's like that's being shipped off to us as though it's the interface for the spirit realm. But somehow Japan made it all the way through into the age of intense computational technology without having ever lost that. She says we're not just sort of retrieving in a Marshall McLuhan sense, this lost animism through like Internet of Things devices. "We live in an intelligent environment that we're communicating with"

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