Technological Metamodernism course notes

Bringing together ideas from technology, philosophy, design, game theory, mythology, speculative fiction and consciousness studies

Dear friends,

Thanks to those who donated in the OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round, I’m pleased to be able to open-source the notes from my recent Technological Metamodernism course.

A 107-page Google Doc, with four NotebookLM-generated summary podcasts and four recordings:

• Google Doc

• YouTube playlist

• Markdown version (good for LLMs, images removed, ~40k tokens)

• Telegram group

I would say this is most important and cutting-edge course I’ve taught, bringing together ideas from technology, philosophy, design, game theory, mythology, speculative fiction and consciousness studies at a moment when AI and other emerging technologies are radically reshaping society. A huge thanks to the guests Ellie Hain, Rufus Pollock, Emil Ejner Friis, Michael Garfield & Alexander Beiner, the course participants, and everyone whose work features, especially Hanzi Freinacht, The Consilience Project, Vitalik Buterin, Alnoor Ladha, Josh Schrei, Sophie Strand and Andrés Gómez Emilsson.

• Comments are enabled on the doc – feel free to suggest changes and additions.

• I am interested in turning the notes into a book. If you would like to sponsor me to do this, or if you know someone that would like to, please get in touch by reply. I am also open to speaking and consulting opportunities.

• If you'd like to leave a tip, you can do so via Ethereum/EVM networks to stephenreid.eth, or via Stripe.

• I am open to running another cohort of the course, if there’s demand. Let me know if you’re interested.

Keep an eye out for details of in-person Futurecraft gatherings in February and May next year.

Mettā,
Stephen

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