

Humans On The Loop
Michael Garfield
Let's dream better! Join paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield for bold, far-ranging explorations into the nature of agency in the age of automation, wisdom and innovation, responsibility and power, and the care and feeding of the new superpowers conferred to us by magical technologies. Weekly dialogues at the edge of the knowable, learning to navigate Global Weirding and exponential AI with the curiosity and play required of us. Building on twenty years of independent research plus firsthand experience of the tech, arts, and science worlds, Humans On The Loop is a show to transform you and help us make better use of our greatest natural resource: our attention. michaelgarfield.substack.com
Top mentioned books
 Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Humans On The Loop podcast: 
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Prophetic Culture

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Scale Theory
 A Nondisciplinary Inquiry 
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NetSmart

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The American replacement of nature
 the everyday acts and outrageous evolution of economic life 

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The master and his emissary
 The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World 
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Building Sim City

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Seeing Like a State
 How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed 

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Moonbound
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Imaginary Landscapes

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The Magic of Code

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Present Shock
 When Everything Happens Now 

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scale

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Raising AI
 An Essential Guide to Parenting Our Future 

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From Nowhere
 Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination 

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Smart mobs
 The Next Social Revolution 

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Finite and infinite games
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Reclaiming Art in The Age of Artifice
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Hell: In Search of A Christian Ecology
 None 

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The Ascent of Information
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