Ep. 07 Marina Gorbis at PDF2016

Summary: <img width="150" height="150" src="http://teamhuman.fm/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/marina-gorbis-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image"><p>Today’s Team Human was recorded live on the floor of the 2016 <a href="https://personaldemocracy.com/conference">Personal Democracy Forum</a>, where we caught up with <a href="http://www.iftf.org/marinagorbis/" target="_blank">Marina Gorbis</a>, executive director to the Institute for the Future (<a href="http://www.iftf.org/home/" target="_blank">IFTF</a>). Marina joins Team Human to help us see how a utilitarian value set has been embedded into our society and its technologies. Together Marina and Douglas discuss those ambiguous and even anomalous qualities of being human, while looking to a future that embraces humanity as something greater than mere data points.</p><p>This episode also features Rushkoff’s closing talk at the Personal Democracy Forum.</p><p>You can learn more about the Marina’s Work at IFTF by visiting <a href="http://www.iftf.org">iftf.org </a>or directly linking to her latest book: <i><a class="internal-link" title="Opens internal link in current window" href="http://www.iftf.org/natureofthefuture/">The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World</a></i>.</p><p> </p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>