I have a new What It Means to be Human podcast out, in which I describe the brave new world agenda and my optimism in the human capacity to control our own future. “We are not helpless against the admittedly powerful forces of technological change,” I say. “Rather than waiting for the future to mindlessly evolve, let’s intelligently design it instead—with human exceptionalism as the lodestar.” Check it out.
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