Societal / Political
Dancing with the Internet and Other Human Embedded Technologies
This is the first in a series of recorded interviews concerning the impact of emergent technologies on the way in which we think, feel and take actions. William Bergquist, Ph.D. conducted this interview with Karin Bustmante, Psy.D., a distinguished psychotherapist and professor living in Boulder Colorado.
Memory and the Internet
We are ready to introduce a new character into this dance that we are choreographing regarding memory. This new character is the Internet. This new character has a major impact on the way we assimilate and accommodate, on the way in which we engage procedural and declarative memory, and on the way in which we remember and forget. Let’s first consider assimilation and accommodation.
From Learned Helplessness to Hope: A Case Study
For the LGBTQ+ youth, it is not enough to examine hope on the individual level. It should be linked into a broader context of family, community, and nation.
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF INNOVATIVE COLLABORATION: THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY AND HUMANITY
The moonshot in this article is to find allies for the radical transformation needed to assure senior leaders bring character and inquiry to governance. This is for the sake of Democracy and Humanity. The test is in honoring their word, competence, moral principles, honesty, courage, loyalty, fortitude, and doing the right thing.
Creating What People Want in Dayton, Ohio, But Don’t Think They Can Have
“Re-Imagining America” is a response to a widespread experience that somehow “America has left itself behind” and is building a platform precisely to take on this Awful Truth, which has recently further been laid bare by the police killings of George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and others.
The Control Illusion
Focus on “being in control” is an illusion that feeds the ego at the cost of well-being and effectiveness. Although it is a big jump, it seems this illusion is seminal in the psyche of the Human species and permeates current attempts by those with authority to resolve the big issues facing our world today.
THE FUTURE A Short Guide to Getting There in One Piece
We are already in a world where everybody is able to come up with ideas. We inform the intelligent operation of our likes and dislikes in the data that we send back to it. Imagine if we trust the front line more – we would create more meaningful customer experiences – and quicker.
Is Experiencing the Overview Effect a Human Right?
Since the mid-1980s, I have been conducting research into the experience of astronauts when they view the Earth from space and in space, from Low Earth Orbit or on lunar missions.
The King is Dead….Long Live the King: A Theory Concerning the Current Wave of Authoritarianism
Although we in the 21st Century have given ourselves permission to rule ourselves, apparently, we don’t feel entirely up to the responsibility. The autocratic rulers of our time aren’t politicians in the real and original sense of the term, they are actually cult leaders.
TRUST AND SELF GOVERNANCE
For the sake of the virtue and history that drives us, I will posit that there is an ideal co-existence and that its possible in our families, our communities, and our world.