FastForward Radio -- The Empowered Individual
Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon examined coming social and technological changes that promise to empower individuals. The past century has seen human beings empowered in ways that were previously unimaginable, but that might be just the beginning. Are we on the verge of the true Age of Empowerment?
This discussion was inspired by a throwdown from blogger HappyCrow, who writes:
I'm writing this in the explicit hope that I can get the folks over at Speculist to pick this up and run with it, but my theory is the REAL change brought on by all this singularity stuff will happen when there's enough bandwidth and storage for the average person to understand how everything around him or her works.
An intriguing notion. Is understanding of technology the key to personal empowerment? And what other factors might come into play? Tune in and find out.
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Our front bumper is a sample of Marginal Prophets' "The Difficult Song."
Our exit music this week is from Tipping - Marucci - Dube. The song is "The Binary Song." Its the first instrumental song to be featured on FastForward Radio.
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