Jamie Suskind is a barrister, a past Fellow of Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet an Society and author of the book, Future Politics; Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech. We discuss how tech is transforming the way we see, think, and approach politics.

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Jamie Suskind is a barrister, a past Fellow of Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet an Society and author of the book, Future Politics; Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

In his acknowledgements, he thanks former prime ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair for reading the entire book, as well as Howard Gardner, the visionary creator of multiple intelligences theory.

Tell us your Gladstone Faraday story and your self driving car example, Henry Ford and Faster horses, and after that tell us about the purpose of your book.

We need to re-imagine the meanings of freedom and equality,  power and democracy and how technology will affect them.  Governments and big corporations will have a huge role and great power, pertaining to these.

You refer, at the end of your book, to politics being about the collective life of human beingshow we order and bind it

Designing and building the future.

Much of your concern involves a privatization, supplementation and digitization of our top down , pre-frontal cortex brain functioning

Political theorists tend to study the past and ignore the future.

AI and superintelligencewhat other tech developments will force us to more deeply and thoroughly consider future politics?

Privatization of freedoms and control of life options and choices

Two fundamentals of politics: communication and information.

Dmitry Itskov Immortality through tech

https://www.opednews.com/articles/Immortality-Technologist-E-by-Rob-Kall-130528-65.html

Challenge is, engineers are not asked to consider the  systemic implications of their work. They do a small partlike atoms in a molecule

Four dimensions: and their future

Power: code, force, scrutiny, perception-control, public and private power.

Liberty: freedom

Democracy

Social Justice: algorithms, unemployment, wealth

Idea of systems designed to protect us.  Anathema to libertarians.

Digital libertarianism

Digital liberalism

Digital confederalismlots of subsets

Digital moralism

Digital Paternalism

Digital authoritarianism

Digital moralsvirtual sex

Need a framework for grappling with the possibilities and potentials of digital technological development.

Facial recognition and toilet paper

Politically persuasive bots

Direct Democracy

Data democracy

AI Democracy

Transparency and Open Source

Algorithms

Some technologies are inherently political

Mark Zuckerberg is already as powerful as a president

If you work in technology you already work in politics

Tim Berners Lee idea of Philosophical engineers

Are there new metaphors that are shaping the way we think?

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

He is the co-founder of the Arc of Justice Alliance a platform designed to help organizations and individuals working for justice and a better world to discover each other and share resources and strategies, with the hopes that this will build their power.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune 500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

Rob Kall Wikipedia Page

Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel

Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel

Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..

To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.

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