The Central Question of Our Time

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Technology is increasing our power. Exponential tec means tech that makes better versions of itself. So we could say the central question of our time is, if we've been poor stewards of power for a long time, and that's always caused problems, but the problems now become existential. They become catastrophic. We can't keep doing that. How do we become a adequately good stewards ofxexpedential power in time? Right? How do we develop the good decision making processes, the wisdom necessary to be able to be Stewards of that much power? I think that's a fair way to talk about the central thing,. i think this thread we were about to get to, i

We’ve explored many different problems on Your Undivided Attention — addiction, disinformation, polarization, climate change, and more. But what if many of these problems are actually symptoms of the same meta-problem, or meta-crisis? And what if a key leverage point for intervening in this meta-crisis is improving our collective capacity to problem-solve?

Our guest Daniel Schmachtenberger guides us through his vision for a new form of global coordination to help us address our global existential challenges. Daniel is a founding member of the Consilience Project, aimed at facilitating new forms of collective intelligence and governance to strengthen open societies. He's also a friend and mentor of Tristan Harris.

This insight-packed episode introduces key frames we look forward to using in future episodes. For this reason, we highly encourage you to listen to this unedited version along with the edited version.

We also invite you to join Daniel and Tristan at our Podcast Club! It will be on Friday, July 9th from 2-3:30pm PDT / 5-6:30pm EDT. Check here for details.