I approach the future differently than most people whose work addresses what may lie ahead. Most futurists focus on new technologies, or possibly on obstacles that might present themselves in our efforts at technological advancement. I see the questions on … Read More
Addressing future moral challenges will require new human capacities, capacities that before now we could not have fully understood, much less applied. In part this is because we will be confronted by new kinds of moral questions—for example, those that … Read More
The moral dimension today presents a startling—and easily unsettling— circumstance. Effectively addressing moral challenges is requiring new human capacities, capacities that before now we could not have fully understood, much less applied. In part this is because we confront new … Read More
Physicist Stephen Hawking recently proposed that artificial intelligence, as it comes to ever more exceed the processing speed of human intelligence, will, with time, be our undoing. Others, including Tesla’s Elon Musk have seconded the warning. Are the dangers as … Read More
Adapted from Cultural Maturity—A Guidebook for the Future A key to understanding the seductions and risks of easy answers concerns what we might call the mythologizing of experience. Mythologizing may be for some an unfamiliar notion, but it is not … Read More
Adapted from a manuscript draft of Creative Systems Theory: Ruth (a parent): My concern is pretty different from what I’ve heard so far—more personal, about being a parent. But I think much is related. Being a responsible parent today … Read More
Always in times past, cultural belonging has meant having at one’s disposal a set of generally clear moral rules. Culture has served like a parent—telling us what is right and what is not. Suddenly things are not so clear. Moral … Read More