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Cyborg or Virtual Utopia w/ John Danaher

FUTURES Podcast

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Are We Being Natural Born Seiborgs?

In his new book, Alharari argues that a huge amount of our lives are lived in artificially constructed environments. Whether it's religion or capitalism, these aren't natural things. Theyre artificial things that we've given a degree of agency. So you could argue that thelong term trend for civilization is to have an increasingly virtual form of life living inside increasingly artificial environments.

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