00:00:30 How Alexander and his co-author Jan have managed to produce such an enormous (and prophetic) body of written work over the last 20 years00:04:43 What Alexander thinks about postmodernism?00:09:01 What are 'Netocrats'? How is the world changing due to the Internet? Who is ready for the digital future and who is not?00:14:01 What is the future of (representative) democracy and politics in general? What is a 'sensocracy'?00:19:30 How should a 'world government' work? How much subsidiarity will it allow? What role will 'charter cities' play?00:24:15 Will we be able to switch between city state benevolent dictatorships (i.e. will countries/ cities be run like companies) as part of our life?00:27:01 Why was Jesus Christ actually killed & the surprising utility of 'empires'.00:30:42 How our future laws are already emerging throughout Internet.00:34:31 Is competition increasing for companies? Should we react with more collaboration to improve our competitiveness?00:42:31 What role do Internet platforms play? Do they actually have a monopoly?00:45:21 Is marketing as a whole evil? How has it changed over the years and how it is connected to 'attentionalism'? We will abolish advertising soon to protect our 'sacred space'?00:51:01 Why is productivity growth so low? Are we not daring enough? Is the focus on marketing ('useless products') to blame?00:58:43 Why wars (as terrible as they are) are good measures of productivity and ideology.00:59:55 After the 'Death of God' and the 'Death of the Individual' how are we now orient ourselves?01:07:32 Why 'native tribes' don't see a crisis of meaning or depression currently? Why some religions are more static than others.01:11:23 What is our best bet for a future religion? Is it likely to emerge or will we have to live with many parallel truths? Will we see 'weird activism' instead?01:18:11 Why the world will look more like India and Singapore soon?01:24:12 What surprised Alexander the most (compared to his predictions) the within the last 20 years?01:26:58 What will happen in 2038? Will AGI actually emerge by itself?01:31:01 Are we (co-)created by an alien intelligence? Is the multiverse theory useful? Should we investigate spacetime more thoroughly? You may watch this episode on Youtube - #96 Alexander Bard (The philosophy of everything). Alexander Bard is a musician, author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, political activist and philosopher. Alexander is co-author of a number of books incl. Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age, The Futurica Trilogy and Digital Libido. Big Thanks to our Sponsors! ExpressVPN – Claim back your Internet privacy for less than $10 a month! Mighty Travels Premium – incredible airfare and hotel deals – so everyone can afford to fly Business Class and book 5 Star Hotels! Sign up for free! Divvy – get business credit without a personal guarantee and 21st century spend management plus earn 7x rewards on restaurants & more. Get started for free! Brex – get a business account, a credit card, spend management & convertible rewards for every dollar you spend. Plus now earn $250 just for signing up (Terms & Conditions apply). Torsten Jacobi: Alexander, welcome to The Judgment Call broadcast. Thanks for coming. Really appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time. I know you're busy. Alexander Bard: Well, thank you for having me. Torsten Jacobi: Absolutely. Hey, so you are a 21st century philosopher, and I feel after reading two of your books, you wrote a couple of those over the last decades. I actually read Fruturica Trilogy and The Digital Lividone. I started with Sintiism. I feel they're very, very accessible. It's a philosophy that's relatively easy to read, which is, you know, not easy to find. And I feel like you've seen the future, and now you just write about it. So how did that happen? How did you make yourself so aware of the future? Alexander Bard: Well, I should first of all honor my co writer, Jan Söderkvist. He's very experienced and extremely learned. And we're the same age. We met about a year before we started writing together, but I would say the accessibility in our work, and I'm glad if they're accessible. We do our utmost to make velocities as accessible as it possibly can be without losing any of the quality. We don't compromise on the quality. And I think Jan is the guy who really does a lot of the work in making the text in Swedish and German language as accessible as possible. But we don't compromise on the quality. And these are, of course, this is philosophy. I mean, the philosopher is the guy who tries to observe the world at the furthest possible distance. But if somebody's even further behind the philosopher trying to see the bigger picture, that's the philosopher. So the philosopher is always the guy who tries to look at the world with the biggest possible picture. And of course, then also the biggest time scale. And that's what we try to do as philosopher. And of ...
