He is a historian of California counterculture. And Erik Davis is a guy who takes the weird quite seriously. now, which is obviously going to be a major topic of this conversation with Erik Davis.Īnd to take California seriously and to understand what makes it special, and what makes it frustrating, and why what happens here happens here, I think you have to take the weird quite seriously. And all that has created the technology industry. Something about Northern California culture, in particular, is it is this very strange braiding of technology and engineering and capitalism and mysticism and openness - a radical kind of openness. And this is more about the culture of it, and the culture of its weirdness, and what emerges if you’re willing to take that seriously. And it’s all about the politics of California and the politics of the Bay Area. So this is the second in a little California twofer series. Are We Ready? Erik Davis discusses the “high weirdness” that has shaped California and the development of A.I. Transcript The Future Is Going to Be Weird.
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