🔮⛺ Biometric surveillance, automating care, objective science, near-death experience & ketamine++ #224

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Azeem Azhar’s Weekly Wondermissive: Future, Tech & Society 

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Many of you may have read the detailed interview with Vladimir Putin in the Financial Times where he dispenses with liberalism and makes his stand for national populism. This authoritarian turn is becoming more commonplace around the world. What drives it? 

We’re going to try and explain it with Karen Stenner, political psychologist and behavioural economist, who’s been researching ‘far right’ candidates and politics for two decades. July 12 at 7am New York, 12pm London, 7pm Beijing—REGISTER HERE

I strongly recommend that EV members who want to understand these fundamental dynamics altering our politics attend this briefing. I know the time is tough for those in the US, so even if you miss out live, we’ll have notes available afterwards.

This weekend I am away on my annual camping trip with my elder daughter, so I have asked my friend, Dr Stephanie Hare, to…