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Michael Garfield

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Don’t “Optimize” Your Life

You cannot optimize your life. Not really. Stop before you hurt yourself.

Sep 26, 2019

Don’t “Optimize” Your Life

Sep 26, 2019

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An Oral History of The End of “Reality”

My first work of fiction, handwritten in August-September 2017 after years of reading and talking about the past and future evolution of…

Feb 17, 2020

An Oral History of The End of “Reality”

Feb 17, 2020

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The Future Is Noisy

Thriving in the age of distractions is hearing the music inside the noise.

Jan 16

The Future Is Noisy

Jan 16

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Improvising Out of Algorithmic Isolation

These miraculous machines! Do we shape them Or do they shape us? Or reshape us from our decent, far designs?

Mar 25, 2021

Improvising Out of Algorithmic Isolation

Mar 25, 2021

The Psychedelic Transhumanists: A Virtual Round Table Between Legends Living & Dead

Legends of psychedelic philosophy join across time & dimension in a simulated discussion about the intersection of tech & consciousness!

Dec 11, 2023

The Psychedelic Transhumanists: A Virtual Round Table Between Legends Living & Dead

Dec 11, 2023

Best Seat in the House: You’re Virtually There

Mixed reality and biometrics will transform the experience of and marketplace for live entertainment.

Apr 11, 2023

Best Seat in the House: You’re Virtually There

Apr 11, 2023

Exaptation of the Guitar

On Evolution, Improvisation, Music, and Art

Dec 14, 2022

Exaptation of the Guitar

Dec 14, 2022

Conversation with The Machine: MG meets GPT-3 (c/o Oscar Sharp)

…in which I prompt prospective Future Fossils Podcast guest GPT-3 via my delightfully weird friend, visionary film-maker Oscar Sharp, who…

Sep 1, 2022

Conversation with The Machine: MG meets GPT-3 (c/o Oscar Sharp)

Sep 1, 2022

In Defense of Star Trek: Picard & Discovery

My response to disparaging comments made by several of my friends, including this one about how Starfleet and The Federation of Planets no…

Jun 5, 2022

In Defense of Star Trek: Picard & Discovery

Jun 5, 2022

The Fullness of Emptiness: Riffing on Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt’s minimalist soundscapes are a major feature of the Twentieth Century’s musical terrain; his is a particularly windblown and…

Sep 13, 2021

The Fullness of Emptiness: Riffing on Arvo Pärt

Sep 13, 2021

Michael Garfield

Michael Garfield

Here to help you navigate the accelerating weirdness! Biologist turned philosopher, host of #FutureFossils & #ComplexityPodcast, ex @sfiscience ex @longnow.

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