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

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

May 21st, 2018 23m 40s

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: Te

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

Jan 30th, 2018 1h 9m

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

Oct 9th, 2017 43m 49s

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)

Jul 17th, 2017 53m 2s

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

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)

May 30th, 2017 35m 53s

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)

May 30th, 2017 31m 14s

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

May 30th, 2017 1h 6m

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

May 30th, 2017 21m 12s

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

Apr 26th, 2017 28m 6s

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

Apr 26th, 2017 8m 40s

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 versionPertinent linksThe Radical Implications of a New Maturity in Our Relati

The Future’s Human Dimension

Apr 25th, 2017 7m 4s

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

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

Apr 25th, 2017 14m 33s

This podcast provides a “preview of coming attractions” look at issues we will take on in future podcasts##Print VersionPertinent LinksCulturally Mature Moral Decision-Making: Its Necessity and What It Requires What Cultural Maturity is

Cultural Maturity—A Snapshot Introduction

Apr 25th, 2017 12m 2s

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

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