

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

#4 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The master and his emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

#5 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Seeing Like a State
How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

#6 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Moonbound
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
NetSmart
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Imaginary Landscapes

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Present Shock
When Everything Happens Now

#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
From Nowhere
Artists, Writers, and the Precognitive Imagination

#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Smart mobs
The Next Social Revolution
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Reclaiming Art in The Age of Artifice
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Hell: In Search of A Christian Ecology
None

#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Ascent of Information
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Darwin’s Pharmacy

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Luminarium
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Quarterlife
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Into the Stillness
Dialogues on Awakening Beyond Thought
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Extitutional Theory

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The Pathless Path
Imagining a New Story for Work and Life