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/497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh

/497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh

Update: 2025-07-01
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On technology, transhumanism, and progress.


James Hughes (Exec Director, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies) and Eli Sennesh (postdoc, Vanderbilt) present a futurist approach to Alex and contributing editor Leigh Phillips.




  • What is wrong with the acronym TESCREAL?




  • Why is it wrong to worry about future transhumanism when we need to grapple with the technologies of now?




  • What are the limits of bourgeois futurism? What is an alternative futurism?




  • Has AI changed everything? Will it?




  • Are we actually living in an age of rapid technological advance?




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/497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh

/497/ Are We Living in Fast Times? ft. James Hughes & Eli Sennesh

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