The Extreme Present: An Evening of Self-Help for Planet Earth
b"Shumon Basar, writer, thinker and cultural critic, Douglas Coupland, the renowned author of 'Generation X', and Hans Ulrich Obrist, one of the world\\u2019s best-known curators, joined forces for a special event with Intelligence Squared to explore the challenges that the planet faces in the Extreme Present. Ours is an era so unfamiliar that in their book, 'The Age of Earthquakes' \\u2013 their 21st-century update of Marshall McLuhan\\u2019s seminal 1967 book 'The Medium Is the Massage' \\u2013 Basar, Coupland and Obrist have developed a new \\u2018Glossarium\\u2019 to describe the unsettling experiences of the always-on, networked age.\\n\\nDo you suffer from \\u2018monophobia\\u2019 (the fear of feeling like an individual) or from \\u2018connectopathy\\u2019 (a range of irregular behaviours triggered by the rewiring of our brains)? Do you spend more and more of your time \\u2018deselfing\\u2019 (willingly diluting your sense of self by plastering the internet with as much information as possible) or, as technology makes you ever smarter yet leaves you feeling ever more stupid... Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.\\n \\n\\xa0See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices"