Looking to the Future Podcast

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The “Big Band Theory”–Creative Systems Theory Takes On Existence As a Whole

2018-05-2146:27

In my recent book Quick and Dirty Answers to the Biggest of Questions, I describe how Creative Systems Theory helps us address all manner of “ultimate questions”—big picture concerns that in times past have tended to leave us baffled. … Read More

Three Ways Artificial Intelligence Could Be the End of Us — And What Will Be Required For This Not to Be Our Fate

2018-05-2123:40

I’ve touched on the gifts and curses nature of AI In several previous podcasts and articles. Here I more specifically detail the dangers and more directly tie needed actions to culturally mature understanding. Print Version: Pertinent Links: Techno-brilliance and Techno-stupidity … Read More

Science and Religion—Toward a Larger Picture (and How Creative Systems Theory Gets Us Very Close)

2018-01-3001:09:29

Techno-Brilliance, Techno-Stupidity, and the Dangers of Techno-Utopian Craziness—Needed Perspective if Our Future is to be Anything We Can Celebrate

2017-10-0943:49

As a futurist, my primary focus is the human dimension. I often write about new technologies, but when I do, my comments have to do with how we best understand them and apply them—in short, with how to use new … Read More

Transitional Absurdity: Contemporary Craziness and Its Antidote (Or How the Ludicrous Can Co-Exist With Hope)

2017-07-1753:02

The Creative Systems Theory concept pf Transitional Absurdity describes how a lot that we can find most disturbing—indeed ludicrous—in our time is predicted by how change in human systems works. It is an essential tool for the culturally mature leader’s … Read More

Rethinking Identity: How the Myth of the Individual Provides Essential Evidence for Cultural Maturity’s Needed “Growing Up” As a Species (and the Critical Importance of a More Complete Picture of Identity Going Forward)

2017-05-3035:53

This podcast examines how our modern age concept of the individual stops short of what it means to be a person and the implications if a more complete—more systemic—understanding of identity

Perspective for a Time of Deep Discord: Why We See Things So Differently (and Why Just Trying To Talk About It Is So Often Not Helpful)

2017-05-3031:14

This podcast examines how social/political differences have deeper origins than we tend to assume and the implications for debate and effective decision-making

Bringing Wisdom to the Future—Creative Systems Theory’s Concept of Cultural Maturity

2017-05-3001:06:33

This podcast provides a big-picture overview of the concept of Cultural Maturity. Think of it as an introductory speech for people not yet familiar with the concept and its implications.

Culturally Mature Perspective and the Climate Change Debate: How Asking the Wrong Question Results in Actions That Are, in Effect, Suicidal

2017-05-3021:12

This podcast examines how the application of simple risk assessment principles makes clear that the climate change debate is in fact over. It also examines the implications of needed more mature leadership and perspective.

Bringing Big-Picture Perspective to the Often Pain-filled Confusions of the Immigration Debate

2017-04-2628:06

This podcasts examines how today’s highly polarized debate with regard to immigration is a product of not addressing the issue in larger enough (sufficiently systemic) ways.

Health Care Reform as Political Crazy-Maker

2017-04-2608:40

This podcast examines how the modern health care debate fails to ask the most essential question and the craziness that predictably results when we do not. Print version Pertinent links The Radical Implications of a New Maturity in Our Relationship with Death.

The Future’s Human Dimension

2017-04-2507:04

This brief podcast introduces me as a futurist and our task with this twelve part series on the concept of Cultural Maturity ## Print Version Pertinent Links: (The website www.creativesystems.org includes links to multiple sites that address culturally mature understanding.)

Seven Questions On Which Our Future Depends—A Window Onto Humanity’s Needed “Growing Up”

2017-04-2514:33

This podcast provides a “preview of coming attractions” look at issues we will take on in future podcasts ## Print Version Pertinent Links Culturally Mature Moral Decision-Making: Its Necessity and What It Requires What Cultural Maturity is Not #2: Postmodern Pseudo-Significance . An End to War As We Have Known It Making Sense of Terrorism: What We Too Often Miss Climate Change and Culture’s Big Picture Asking Big Enough Questions: The Possibility of Human Extinction. How Changes in What It Means to Lead are Redefining Our Human Task Partisan Pettiness: An Abject Failure of Leadership . Understanding Today’s Radical New Chapter in the Story of Love The Myth of the Individual . The Key to Artificial Intelligence Not Being the End of Us What Cultural Maturity is Not #1: Techno-Utopian Delusions . A New Story for the Future: Confronting Our Times Crisis of Purpose How Cultural Maturity Becomes “The Only Game In Town” . The Profound—and Essential—Implications of a New Maturity in Our Relationship with Death. “Come On” Steven Hawking: The Quandary of Question of Free Will In an Apparently Deterministic Universe Science and Religion

Cultural Maturity—A Snapshot Introduction

2017-04-2512:02

This podcast introduces the concept of Cultural Maturity and the new human capacities that Cultural Maturity’s changes make possible. ## Print Version Pertinent Links

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