The Ripple Effect Podcast #183 (Rebecca D. Costa | Technology & Human Nature)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

6, Bryan, Callen, Dave, Carlin, Bill, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 603 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 95 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rebecca D. Costa is an author, sociobiologist & futurist. She is the preeminent global expert on the subject of "fast adaptation" and recipient of the prestigious Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Award. Her career spans four decades of working with founders, executives and leading venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Costa's work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian, and other leading publications. She presently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Lifeboat Foundation along with futurist Ray Kurzweil and Nobel Laureates Daniel Kahneman, Eric S. Maskin, Richard J. Roberts and Wole Soyinka.

Rebecca is also the author of On The Verge, The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse, and The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	believe in the ripple fact.
0:25.6	The ripple fact. I'm a I'm I'm
0:38.3	I'm
0:39.3	I'm
0:40.3	I'm your host,
1:13.0	Ricardo Vrendes, also known as Ricky Vrandens. Today we got a great episode for you.
1:17.6	The mixer was working. I got a new mixer. And it's been giving me some issues the last couple
1:22.2	episodes. I wasn't sure if it was me or if it was the mixer, what was going on. I think I was
1:27.2	incorrectly using it. And now it sounds good. It sounds clear. And I don't sure if it was me or if it was the mixer what was going on. I think I was incorrectly using it and now it sounds good, it sounds clear,
1:31.3	and I don't have that distraction of having a random hum or hiss or whatnot in the middle of me talking,
1:36.3	which only makes me have an even harder time not ranting and trying to gather my thoughts and getting off topic
1:43.3	and all those little
1:44.5	quirks I have that you guys have probably or and hopefully come to love.
1:49.9	So, but today we have a great guest for you.
1:52.5	Rebecca Costa, she's a scientist, she's a futurist, she's an author.
1:57.0	We talk about civilization.
1:59.1	We talk about human nature.
2:00.4	We talk about happiness. We talk about happiness we talk about
2:02.8	technology the pros and cons of it uh how we can it can make our lives better how it can
2:09.6	possibly make our lives worse and uh and all those things and so many other things so it was a
2:14.4	really really fun conversation sometimes mean, just like you guys
2:17.7	listening, we have real lives. I mean, unfortunately, this isn't my full-time job with,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ricky Varandas, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ricky Varandas and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.