One of the Best Prevail Speeches Ever
One of the most remarkable memes for The Prevail Project recently is expressed in, of all sources, The Good Place — the widely acclaimed, award-winning American television series broadcast by […]
Joel Garreau
Joel Garreau is the director of The Prevail Project. He is the author of “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — And What It Means to Be Human” (Doubleday), and the Professor of Law, Culture and Values at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. He has long-time served as a member of the pioneering scenario-planning firm Global Business Network, and a reporter and editor at The Washington Post. For more, check out:
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The new ‘Story Wars’: In this campaign, the Pessimists Party is battling the Optimists over the American self-concept
By Joel Garreau Optimism and pessimism about the future is the new political divide. It is the defining political conflict of the 21st century. Optimists and pessimists about the future […]
Lessons Learned in How Not to Build an AI
Microsoft recently built a proto-AI “teen girl” bot, TayandYou, who became a horrific racist monster in hours, as you may know. The astounding thing is this multi-zillion-dollar company let it […]
“The Resistance”
A rag-tag but growing collection of Prevailists are beginning to fight back against a technological revolution that they see as having gone astray, according to this article in The Washington […]
The Institute for Ethical Magic
When the idea for creating The Prevail Project first formed, I wondered if I could get away with calling it “The Institute for Ethical Magic.” As my daughters were growing […]
From Hot to Shot in Four Years
Talk about time compression. The Flip video camera went from being a red-shot start-up in 2007, to a best-selling item, to a half-billion-dollar acquisition target, to defunct, in only four years. […]
In A World of Rapid Change, What Kind of Critter Do You Want to Be?
There are two kinds of critters on this planet. One produces zillions of offspring, then pays scant attention to them, playing the odds that some will survive. The other produces […]