Searching For The Question Live #35: “Judo Moves to Preserve Humanity” with David Brin
Channel: David Orban
Date: 2020-04-24

How can we preserve and further build on the enlightenment project, which gave billions of people choices and opportunities that we could only dream of in previous eras of our civilization? Can we make our society more robust and resilient? What is the role of science fiction in allowing us to create desirable futures?

David Brin is an American scientist and author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards. His novel The Postman was adapted as a feature film and starred Kevin Costner in 1997. David’s nonfiction book The Transparent Society won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association and the McGannon Communication Award.

He is a 2010 fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He helped establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (UCSD). He serves on the advisory board of NASA's Innovative and Advanced Concepts group and frequently does futurist consulting for corporations and government agencies.

David consults and speaks for a wide variety of groups interested in the future, ranging from Defense Department agencies and the CIA to Procter & Gamble, SAP, Google and other major corporations. He has also been a participant in discussions at the Philanthropy Roundtable and other groups seeking innovative problem solving approaches.

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You can buy David Brin’s books on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/David-Brin/e/B000APAXV6%3F

Read more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1607-frederick-douglass-eulogy-for-abraham-lincoln
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles%27_Funeral_Oration
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/david_brin_949240
http://www.davidbrin.com/nonfiction/advice.html
https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/qa-what-is-a-positive-sum-game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
https://www.eff.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32qWdOWrTo
https://www.davidbrin.com/fiction/givingplague.html
https://books.google.it/books/about/Who_Goes_Here_And_The_Gioconda_Caper.html

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