Is There a Trade Off Between Technology and Human Suffering?

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Life is not supposed to be this big box of joy that always has unlimited fun within your future. And if you go by what the buddhas say, life is suffering, and it's more about how you relate. I don't think we're going to stop technology in order to wait to catch up with evolutionary biology. But i do think it'll be interesting to see how we adapt to that.

"The only constant is change", they say.

In this episode, Cal and Steph discuss just how drastically the world has changed and will continue to change.

From the iPhone... to the Internet... to antibiotics... to human flight... to to the sequencing of DNA... to perhaps the most important fact that humans now live more than double as long... these developments all happened within the last 100 years.

Given that things within a single lifetime can go from being inconceivable to ubiquitous, it's mind-blowing to imagine what might be come.

They use the remainder of the episode to explore what might be to come, whether it be proactive medicine, computer-brain interfaces, printed food, digital warfare, and much more.

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