S5E9 Techumanpurpose • Human Dimension- Combo Lock 4 – The Bads, Crime, Security, Violence , War and Order
Technology and the Human Purpose
Release Date: 04/10/2025
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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S6E5 Techumanpurpose For those coming in late or those a bit baffled by what I am doing
Technology and the Human Purpose
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
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
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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S6E2 Techumanpurpose •• The (Almost) Everywhere Revolution
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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S6E1 Techumanpurpose •• Introduction - Almost everywhere everything all at once revolution
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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
Technology and the Human Purpose
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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S5E8 Techumanpurpose • Human Dimension – Global Development
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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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S5E7 - Techumanpurpose • human dimensions - Jobs Clothing Food Housing
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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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S5E6 techumanpurpose • December and Christmas Break
Technology and the Human Purpose
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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Questions or comments to techumanpurpose@gmail.com
Anthropology and economics: Undeceptions by John Dickson https://undeceptions.com/podcast/the-anthropologists/
Amnesty International – gun violence
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/arms-control/gun-violence
Statistics Canada. Table 35-10-0059-01 Police services expenditures, by detailed expenditures (x 1,000) DOI: https://doi.org/10.25318/3510005901-eng
National Geographic ancient copper fraud
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ea-nasir-copper-merchant-ur
BBC news – Kobe Steel.
http://ww.bbc.com/news/business-41607008
The Economist
Scam Inc.
(article and podcast both behind paywall)
https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc
Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c04nx1vnw17o
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 Justice System: A Review. JOURNAL OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 6
Lautensach, A., & Lautensach, S. (Eds.) 2020 Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities (2nd edition) chapter 13. Transnational Crime John Wilson
The US econ in 2025 is est. to be about 30.3 trillion $
The Chinese Econ 19.5 trillion
Germany 5 Trillion
The 2017 Global Financial Integrity report suggested that just for transnational crime
https://gfintegrity.org/report/transnational-crime-and-the-developing-world/
| Transnational Crime | Estimated Annual Value (US$) |
| Counterfeiting | $923 billion to $1.13 trillion |
| Drug Trafficking | $426 billion to $652 billion |
| Illegal Logging | $52 billion to $157 billion |
| Human Trafficking | $150.2 billion |
| Illegal Mining | $12 billion to $48 billion |
| IUU Fishing | $15.5 billion to $36.4 billion |
| Illegal Wildlife Trade | $5 billion to $23 billion |
| Crude Oil Theft | $5.2 billion to $11.9 billion |
| Small Arms & Light Weapons Trafficking | $1.7 billion to $3.5 billion |
| Organ Trafficking | $840 million to $1.7 billion |
| Total | $1.6 trillion to $2.2 trillion |
That was 2017.
Now there was one missing from that list.
Bloomberg reported in 2024 that cyber crime alone was probably worth 9.5 Trillion making it the 3rd largest economy on the planet.
Facebook and scam ads - Andrew Forrest
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