Technology · 21 min
Transcendence
By Gaia Vince
This episode reveals how human culture acts as a unique, rapidly evolving operating system, enabling our species to collectively learn, cooperate, and reshape the world in ways no other life form can.
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Technology
Duration
21 min
What it is about
Cultural evolution, human uniqueness, collective intelligence
Who it is for
If you've ever felt a quiet awe at human ingenuity, or puzzled over our unique capacity for both creation and destruction, this will sharpen your understanding of our collective journey, and this will help you see what to do next.
The author
Gaia Vince, an award-winning science journalist, synthesizes anthropology, biology, and history to reveal the often-overlooked cultural engine driving human evolution and our planet-altering impact.
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