Why focus on the question of humanity’s future in a technological age this season? For two reasons: Technology is pervasive and disruptive. We are going to set up the season

In the year 2000, the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen announced at an international scientific meeting that planet Earth had entered a new geological epoch, the epoch he dubbed

Question #1: What is the climate crisis? The Climate Crisis: The Earth is becoming increasingly dangerous and inhospitable to human and non-human life. Main culprit: the Earth is heating up.

How did we arrive at this cultural moment? According to the philosopher of information Luciano Floridi we are in the midst of a fourth scientific revolution, and it is this

What is transhumanism? Prior to the technological age, there were two guiding assumptions about humans.[1] First, there was a widespread consensus that humans, especially the human body, can’t change. Second,