Edge City

Dec 13 2024 3 ep. 67 mins 2
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Welcome to the Edge City Podcast, where we explore ideas and projects pushing the boundaries of tech, science, and culture. You'll hear about experimental communities, scientific breakthroughs, and social experiments. By the end of each episode, you'll have a clear understanding of an important idea that's set to shape our future. Edge City creates popup villages that bring together people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and society across the globe. These serve as living labs for experimentation and innovation, all dedicated to accelerating human flourishing.

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Brink Lindsey: Human Flourishing, the Triple Crisis, and Societal Experiments

Dec 13 2024 69 mins  
What does it mean to lead a flourishing life, and how can we create a flourishing society? In this episode, Brink Lindsey dives deep into these fundamental questions, exploring the intersection of individual well-being and societal health. We discuss the "triple crisis" of inclusion, dynamism, and political dysfunction and its impact on progress. Brink unpacks the tension between m

Matt Prewitt: Social Technology, Community Currencies, and RadicalxChange

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Devon Zuegel & Janine Leger: Building Edge Esmeralda, popup villages, and new towns

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In this inaugural episode of the Edge City Podcast, host Timour Kosters sits down with Devon Zuegel and Janine Leger to explore Edge Esmeralda, a pop-up village experiment they organized in June 2024 that brought together 1,300 people who believe the future can be better and are actively working to make it happen. Devon is an accomplished writer and thinker with a background in sof