Your Undivided Attention cover image

Should've Stayed in Vegas — with Natasha Dow Schüll

Your Undivided Attention

00:00

Are We Going to Reverse Engineer the Human Psyche With Climate Change?

We already have Godlike technology or we are already gods. We might as well get good at it. So if we're geoengineering towards catastrophe, we might as wellGet conscious about our geoengineering and not do the self-destructive thing and see ourselves away from climate change. The idea there buys in to the idea of individual responsibility because it assumes that you need full information in order to occupy your full agency. And also what in this particular example, and I think for some of these technologies as well, the assumption is that we're just giving people what they want - which is a false premise.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app