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Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Episode: EP 156 James Poulos on Remaining Human
Description: Jim talks with James Poulos about the ideas in his new book Human Forever: The Spiritual Politics of Digital War...
Jim talks with James Poulos about the ideas in his new book Human Forever: The Spiritual Politics of Digital War. They discuss his decision to publish the book on the blockchain, going beginner's-mind on media & communications theory, the meaning of Gnosticism, responsibility as worship & its transfer to machines, returning worth to the human, a short introduction to Marshall McLuhan, raising the first fully digital generation, expert engineers vs ethereal ethicists, "peak woke" & the collapse of wokeness, religion as "the only pe...