Click above to listen to part 1 of Keeping Humans in the Loop, featuring Martin Rees, cosmologist, astrophysicist, Great Britain’s Astronomer Royal, and author of On the Future: Prospects for Humanity. He discusses what it means to be a technical optimist and a political pessimist.

Keeping Humans in the Loop:
Part 1: Martin Rees / Technical Optimism
Part 2: Douglas Rushkoff / Team Human
Part 3: Malka Older / Democratic Information

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