{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Baratunde Thurston, Writer, Comedian, and Earthling","description":"The future isn\u2019t something that simply happens to us. It\u2019s something we help create through the stories we tell, the technologies we use, and the choices we make about how to live together. Baratunde Thurston has spent his career exploring what that responsibility looks like across comedy, media, civic life, and nature. Again and again, his work returns to a deeply human question: how do we embrace change without surrendering our agency? His latest award-winning project Life with Machines turns this question on technology, exploring how new tech shapes our lives\u2014and how we might shape it in return. In this episode, Baratunde reflects on what it means to treat \u2018citizen\u2019 as a verb, why conversations about AI demand more nuance, and how we can all take a more active role in shaping our collective future. --- LINKS Life With Machines: https:\/\/www.lifewithmachines.media\/ How to Citizen: https:\/\/www.howtocitizen.com\/ American Indigenous Democracy: A Call for Interdependence: https:\/\/americanindigenousdemocracy.com\/ ","author_name":"Arts Unscripted with Monica Holt","author_url":"http:\/\/www.capacityinteractive.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/42934367\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/206366342"}