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Visionaries

Hosted by John Lobell, we talk with visionaries – people in the arts, technology, science, culture, and spirituality

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Visionaries - 06.11.18

Visionaries ·

2018/06/11

“The Intellectual Dark Web.” The dark web is areas of the web that are not found by search engines and that typically deal in illicit goods. Recently a group of intellectuals that have been shunned by the mainstream, who post podcasts and YouTubes, and who sometimes interview each other has been labeled “The Intellectual Dark Web.” Wassup with that?

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56:07

Visionaries - 04.30.18

Visionaries ·

2018/04/30

“MJDorian.” Our guest is Milosz Jeziorski, an award winning composer who writes music for film and television. In 2016, he took on the identity of MJDorian: a faceless music producer who wears a poltergeist mask which obscures any indication of age, race, or gender. MJDorian is currently producing a dark pop and hip hop album, drip releasing with art and music videos monthly. The project is called CATHARSIS. It features collaborations with the best unsigned singers and rappers of NYC, and focuses on

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57:36

Visionaries - 04.16.18

Visionaries ·

2018/04/17

“More meanderings on books.” Why the vicious attacks on Steven Pinker for his book, “Enlightenment Now,” which shows how some aspects of life have been radically improving. And thoughts about David Deutsch’s “The Beginning of Infinity.” (And we can’t talk about Deutsch without mentioning quantum computing and how quantum computers get their power by harnessing their siblings in parallel universes.)

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58:21

Visionaries - 04.09.18

Visionaries ·

2018/04/09

“2001: Creation from Within or Without?” This is the 50th anniversary of the movie,”2001: A Space Odyssey.” The movie is about the search for the extraterrestrial origin of a series of monoliths, one of which sparked the origin of human intelligence. So, where does our humanness come from? There are two traditions: From without, as we see in Genesis 2.7. when God breaths the spark of life into dead dust to create Adam, “2001,” and the tradition of space aliens bringing civilization to us. And From

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56:42

Visionaries - 03.26.18

Visionaries ·

2018/03/26

“A Reading List: Part 5.” Lobell continues looking at kool books for our time. Lacking the attention span to read books, Lobell listens to audiobooks, so all the books we talk about are available in audio version. Right now we are interested in the question, “What happened?” For thousands of years human civilization bumped along with great sophistication occasionally popping up, such as Rome and periods of ancient China. But there was never much wealth and people were always short on food. Then 250

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50:56

Visionaries - 03.12.17

Visionaries ·

2018/03/12

Bob Walter, Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Campbell is one of the seminal sources of the contemporary psyche, but few have read his books. Who was Joseph Campbell? How did he become the source for much of today’s cinema? What are his key works, and how might one begin to delve into his ideas? Bob Walter, Campbell’s last editor and publisher, and now director of the foundation that maintains Campbell’s literary material, guides us into these depths.

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57:04

Visionaries - 03.05.17

Visionaries ·

2018/03/05

Lois Farfel Stark, author of “The Telling Image.” In her magnificently illustrated new book, award-winning documentary filmmaker Lois Farfel Stark reveals the human drama as a journey from the “webs” of round-thatched huts and stone circles, to the “urban ladders” of pyramids and skyscrapers organized by hierarchy and measurements, to today's world of “interconnected networks.” In “The Telling Image” Stark shows us how buildings, behaviors, and beliefs reflect humans’ search for pattern and

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56:15

Visionaries - 02.12.17

Visionaries ·

2018/02/15

“A Reading List: Part 4.” Today Lobell continues with his list of audiobooks and chats about each one. “The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future” by Steve Case. Steve Case was founder and CEO of AOL. When AOL merged with Time Warner, they were in a position to take over the Internet, but instead they self-destructed. How and Why? Case gives us part of the story. “Jack: Straight from the Gut” by Jack Welch. Jack Welch was considered the greatest CEO of modern times (until Steve Jobs

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51:47

Visionaries - 02.05.17

Visionaries ·

2018/02/05

Visionaries - 02.05.18 February 5, 2018 “Rita McMahon of the Wild Bird Fund.” If you find an injured bird in New York City, there is a place you can bring it where it will be cared for — the Wild Bird Fund. Find them at https://www.wildbirdfund.org. My wife, Alissa Grimaldi (http://alissagrimaldi.com) joins me in interviewing Rita McMahon, co-founder of the Wild Bird Fund. We hear stories of bird rescues, how you can help support her efforts, and how we are all enriched by the presences of birds,

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57:09

Visionaries - 01.29.17

Visionaries ·

2018/01/29

Visionaries - 01.29.18 January 29, 2018 “A Reading List: Part 3.” Today Lobell continues with his list of audiobooks chats about each one. Today we briefly mention books I am just starting: - The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence by Amir Husain - 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson - Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson - Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age by Leslie Berlin - The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political

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59:14

Visionaries - 01.22.17

Visionaries ·

2018/01/29

“TV Shows, Movies and Philosophical Zombies.” Today Lobell was supposed to continue with his book recommendations, but he got distracted by artificial intelligence, TV shows, and philosophical zombies. He discusses the new TV series, “Counterpart” about parallel universe intelligence agencies, and also creatures with no inner life.

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57:03

Visionaries - 01.15.17

Visionaries ·

2018/01/15

“A Reading List: Part 2.” Today Lobell continues through his list of audiobooks chats about each one. In this show we cover: :How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines,” by Thomas C. Foster. “Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives, by Alvin and Heidi Toffler. “A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age,” by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni. “American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the

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59:43

Visionaries - 01.09.17

Visionaries ·

2018/01/09

“A Reading List: Part 1.” Today Lobell goes through his list of audiobooks chats about each one. In this show we cover: “The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball” by Noam Cohen, “Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality” by Jaron Lanier, “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life” by Daniel C. Dennett, “The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality” by

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49:02

Visionaries - 12.19.17

Visionaries ·

2017/12/19

“Extreme Life Extension: Part 2.” Last week we talked about extreme life extension—what if we could live for hundreds of years. Today we talk about what we might do with such long lives. (Oh, and check out http://timeship.org a project on which I work. More on Timeship in a future show.)

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57:04

Visionaries - 12.11.17

Visionaries ·

2017/12/11

“Extreme Life Extension.” The past 200 years has see (roughly) a doubling of the average life span. But 80 years seems to be a common limit, and perhaps 125 is the absolute limit. But what if we could live for hundreds, even thousands of years. That is the goal of some researchers today who assume that in perhaps 50 years we will be able to stop aging all together. And for those who won’t make it through the next 50 years, there is cryonics. Today’s show looks at some of the issues surrounding

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59:24

Visionaries - 11.20.17

Visionaries ·

2017/11/20

“Enemies of Creativity.” We think of creativity as a positive thing, but not everyone is always happy about it — with creation comes destruction. Think of Uber — the yellow taxi industry is not too happy about it. More generally, creativity is a celebration of individuality — long on the hit list of many groups. Today we look at some of the enemies of creativity.

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59:06

Visionaries - 11.13.17

Visionaries ·

2017/11/13

“Michael Silver.” Once again we check in with Mike to see what is up in consciousness, A.I., and stuff like that. Mike is an architect, cultural commentator, professor, student of consciousness and principal of Critical Systems Lab. He works in robotics among other fields. Today we discuss Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, and the mind/body problem. That should cover it.

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56:25

Visionaries - 11.06.17

Visionaries ·

2017/11/06

“Christopher Vogler:” Chris is a Hollywood development executive known for his 2007 book “The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers,” a guide for screenwriters. The book grew out of his now legendary 7 page memo, “A Practical Guide to Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces.” Chris’s approach not only reveals the mythic patterns underlying our movies, but also underlying ourselves — thus becoming a psychology.

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58:44

Visionaries - 10.30.17

Visionaries ·

2017/10/30

“Inside Education.” We use the term “inside baseball” and “deep in the weeds” when political talk gets wonkish. We can also get wonkish about design education, and in doing so, address a lot of today’s issues. Like what will be the impact of the digital industrial revolution on every aspect of our lives.

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57:57

Visionaries - 10.23.17

Visionaries ·

2017/10/23

“Meandering Thoughts on One, Two, Three Cultures.” In 1959 C. P. Snow published “The Two Cultures” observing that a split had grown between the sciences and the humanities. More recently John Brockman, the empresario of science as the new culture, published “The Third Culture,” suggesting that science as philosophy had become a third (and the real) culture. Today we ruminate about all of this.

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