Thinking our Way out of Extinction with guest Rebecca Costa
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 Dr. Future 3.08.11 Rebecca Costa Listen Now
In Dr. Future News we delve into the Internet situation in Libya, the high tech sleep behavior of Americans, alien microbes, moon caves, realistic androids, eye-controlled laptops, and a new bionic eye.
The second hour features guest Rebecca Costa, a sociobiologist whose unique expertise is to spot and explain emerging trends in relationship to human evolution, global markets, and new technologies.
Some of the basic precepts of her popular new book, The Watchman’s Rattle, are:
Humankind’s Cultural Complexity is exceeding our biological capability…
Biology evolves slowly compared to our culture and technology.
When complexity makes facts difficult to acquire, we experience ‘Gridlock’..a paralyzed state..
When gridlock happens we resort to beliefs instead of rational solutions and system collapse is often then not far away..
So, the question is, “Can there be a non-doomsday scenario solution for our species and what might that look like?”
Click on in, find out…
Reader Comments (1)
I really liked Sun's comment to a caller during the show about the nature of acquiring vast wealth and the money supply in the United States. There is an imbalance of wealth in the United states that will have to be addressed. I think a show on this topic would be great.