(Posted by Jon Lebkowsky) I’ve been posting about the crazy Texas snowpocalypse in a couple of places this week. I’ve compiled those posts here. Vox has a good explainer about…
Emily Gertz is Senior Editor at Drilled News. She is also a journalist who reports on the intersections of climate, environment, science, technology and society. Emily, a regular Plutopia News…
In this episode, we discuss complexity, post-Covid foresight, climate change, and building capabilities to evolve and survive with Zaid Hassan. Zaid is a strategist, facilitator, social innovator and writer. He…
“We live in a paradox in which digital tech alleviates social isolation in some ways even as it worsens it in others. It may be fashioning wholly new brain pathways…
Jon and Scoop interview artist Eliza Evans, who experiments with sculpture, print, video, and textiles to identify disconnections and absurdities in social, economic, and ecological systems. They discuss some of her projects, especially her latest environmental art project, “All the Way to Hell.”
Michael Tobis considers himself a cyberneticist, in the original sense of the word cybernetic, where it suggests the optimal use of information in decision-making. He has two degrees in engineering…
