Hosted by Elenor Dreed and Carry McNerney, Good Robot is a podcast that discovers many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology.
Transhumanist fantasies with Alexander Thomas
In this episode, Elenor talks to Alexander Thomas, a filmmaker and academic, who leads a BA in media production at the University of East London. They discuss their new book about transshumanism, a philosophical movement that aims to improve human abilities through technology, and whose followers include Jeff Bezos, Alon Musk, Larry Page, and DJ Steve Aoki apparently. Alex itself is one of the leading critics of the transshumanism. It invents the transshumanist fantasy about the fate of humans, it is confusing by the extremes of probability: they either believe that AI will bring us a radical abundance or completely extinct. In this episode Alexander says, transshumanism reduces life with information process and intelligence, which is similar to a kind of IQ Fatisism
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D Alexander Alexander Thomas is a multi-award winning film director and screenwriter. What does their academic research questions mean to be human when cultural, cyberetic and biotechnological development weakens the imagination of human beings and the imagination as the eternal category. Alexander has directed four multi-award winning short films, including Beverly, with more than 100 international festivals and programs screened, won 38 awards and listed for a long time. Alexander is the host and producer of Future Podcast’s AZ, who searches for 26 major topics of our time to give a better understanding of our future, and includes visits to global thought leaders. He has co-run the company Intoothfuture, which develops creative projects designed for entertainment, educated and inspiration on future related themes. He has contributed chapters written by books, numerous articles and reviews and allowed the thinking of radio 4.
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D A Alenor Drage and D Ker. Kerry M in Karni’s Leverhulum Center for Future Fut Fut FUTA Intelligence, where they work on the Mercerator-Stifling Fund project on desirable digitalization. Previously, he was Christina Gav Postdoctoral Researchers at Gender and Technology at the University of Cambridge Center for Gender Studies. During the Kovid -19 epidemic they decided to co -establish a good robot podcast to explore many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology.
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