This is the first of a number of episodes on the broad theme of “the technoprogressive opportunity”. That’s the name of a conference taking place in London on the weekend of 19th and 20th September, co-organised by London Futurists and the IEET – the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. In these episodes, some of the speakers from that conference will be appearing as guests on this show.

Our guest today is one of these speakers, Matteo Rossi MacDermant, a technophilosopher from the University of New Mexico. Matteo hosts a show called “Bread and Robots”, which covers subjects such as post-scarcity economics, universal basic income, the tech workers movement, and how technology can be steered toward collective abundance rather than corporate exploitation. Matteo is also the instructor for an online course called “An introduction to technoprogressive worldbuilding”.

Selected follow-ups:

• The Technoprogressive Opportunity: Event in London, Sept 19-20
• The IEET - A Technoprogressive Think-Tank
• Matteo Rossi MacDermant - LinkedIn
• Bread and Robots - Podcast and Substack by Matteo Rossi MacDermant
• An Introduction to Technoprogressive Worldbuilding
• "Technoprogressive Declaration" - from Transvision 2014
• 2017 update to the Technoprogressive Declaration
• UBI Guide - by Scott Santens
• Universal Basic Capital - Windfall Trust
• "How a Land Value Tax Can Fund a UBI" - Scott Santens
• Universal Basic Income and/or Alternatives - London Futurists conference held in 2018
• "Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox" - Jevon's Paradox explained by Greg Rosalsky
• "The Longevity City: Cities as the Engines of Healthy Longevity" - essay by Matteo Rossi MacDermant
• "The London boroughs with the best and worst 'healthy life' expectancy"
• "The Abolition of Aging" - book by David Wood (includes analysis of economic implications)

Music: Spike Protein, by Koi Discovery, available under CC0 1.0 Public Domain Declaration

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