Is the Technology the Main Driver in Changing Human Nature?

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The total direction for us as a species is going to depend on what happens in the next 20 years. Do you think human nature is informing the technology in a way that the technology follows the nature? i'm really interested what the new anthropology will be, if we're sleuthy smart animals we just keep making more technologies that give them what they want so it's crazy that the thing that might actually enable real control and real independence is the technology that could also absolutely destroy it and fractionalize us.

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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