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Technology and the Human Purpose

Release Date: 11/07/2024

S6E6 Techumanpurpose •• AEEAAO Everything (nearly) - Industries - Agriculture, Mining & Manufacturing show art S6E6 Techumanpurpose •• AEEAAO Everything (nearly) - Industries - Agriculture, Mining & Manufacturing

Technology and the Human Purpose

This is the second season of my roll of the dice series. This episode really is about everything. Well almost. The technological developments occurring across agriculture, mining and manufacturing are breath taking. This is just a little snapshot of the last few years of developments.  Normally, I like to add a bunch of references. This episode has too many, and I have accumulated this knowledge over decades of watching and doing analysis in this field. However, wikipedia has been really valuable in checking some of the specifics of ships sizes. Here is a link to the aerospace company...

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If you are wondering how I think about building the arc of story telling through this podcast and multiples seasons, this little podcast may help.

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S6E4 Techumanpurpose •• AEEAAO – Everything (Well Almost) AI The Backoffice of the Economy show art S6E4 Techumanpurpose •• AEEAAO – Everything (Well Almost) AI The Backoffice of the Economy

Technology and the Human Purpose

Well we finally get there. I get around to talking about AI. Because of its widespread use and various applications I thought it best to do a bit of a big survey of many the ways we currently use AI.      Here are some story notes. The Economist - The World Ahead 2026 How are people using AI technology now (well 2023)  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. CBC Nov 2025 - The human labour to improve AI answers.  Deloitte in Australia partly wrote a government policy brief using AI and it was wrong. CBC white coat black arts. Chatbots. The human face of 'AI psychosis' ...

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S6E3 Techumanpurpose •• (A)EEAAO The (Almost) Everything Revolution - the periodic and bio table of our economy.mp3 show art S6E3 Techumanpurpose •• (A)EEAAO The (Almost) Everything Revolution - the periodic and bio table of our economy.mp3

Technology and the Human Purpose

The episode is all about how we use stuff and how much we use. From growing almonds to cooling data centres to our global probably unsustainable use of sand.  Just a few of the resources used to make this podcast. Australian social media ban for under 16s  Almonds production.  2012 PNAS. The water footprint of humanity Arjen Y. Hoekstra and Mesfin M. Mekonnen   Water and Data centres  Data Centres AI Power and Water Usage (Goodyear Data Centre).   Really excellent...

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Technology and the Human Purpose

The season is all about the (almost) everywhere everything all at once revolution we are living through at the present moment. Today, its about the almost everywhere nature of change.  We live in a fast changing world it seems.  While the world tech hubs are still the mountain peaks of the global technosphere, the 21st technologies are mostly quickly beginning to spread. Everything is changing it seems but how far do the changes go.  Notes News  Reuters.   . Pay Wall but the first para is readable.  LLM and Roomba.   Go listen to Holy Post 696:...

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Notes  The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at Futureviille  Jesse Nickel. A Revolutionary Jesus: Violence and Peacemaking in the Kingdom of God  CPX Centre for Public Christianity  Douglas Adams  

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S5E9 Techumanpurpose • Human Dimension- Combo Lock 4 – The Bads, Crime, Security, Violence , War and Order show art S5E9 Techumanpurpose • Human Dimension- Combo Lock 4 – The Bads, Crime, Security, Violence , War and Order

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  Notes Questions or comments to  Anthropology and economics: Undeceptions by John Dickson Amnesty International – gun violence Pew Research . Statistics Canada.  DOI:  National Geographic ancient copper fraud BBC news – Kobe Steel. The Economist Scam Inc. (article and podcast both behind paywall)   Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams Jerrod Brown, Jeffrey Long-McGie, Judge Anthony Wartnik, Pamela Oberoi, Janina Wresh, Erv Weinkauf, Gennae Falconer, & Alyse Kerr Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in the Criminal...

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Notes.  If you want to get in touch  For a brilliant book to read about the human scale of helping the poor then read this. Rhythms of Poverty: Reconsidering our affluent approach to the poor Paperback – Aug. 16 2013 by  (Author)    Holy Post with David French - A Unified Theory of Trump The Economist World Bank Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report 2024 World Development Report 2024 LSE on development Deirdre McCloskey The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce. Vol. 1 of 3 of the trilogy “The Bourgeois Era,”, University of Chicago...

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  Some reference material. Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West Andrew Wilson. A millennium of macroeconomic data – stretching back to 1086.  Peter Mathias The First Industrial Nation David Tomson. Child and infant mortality  Edwin Judge   John Dickson Podcast Undeceptions Episode 76 - 5 minute Jesus - hospitals Fabiola of Rome  Jobs.New Frontiers: The Origins And Content Of New Work, 1940–2018 in The Quarterly Journal of Economics. Listen also to Freakonomics Radio podcast 605 on what do people do all day. Here is a video of...

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Just a note about what happened to the promised episode on jobs, clothing, food and shelter. + of course Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2025.  

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