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Daniel Schmachtenberger

Daniel Schmachtenberger is a social philosopher whose central focus is civilization design: Developing new capacities for sense-making and choice-making, individually and collectively, to support conscious sustainable evolution. He shares on[…]

Does our society incentivize disinformation?

Is anything clear in the age of disinformation?

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Daniel Schmachtenberger

You can learn more from Daniel Schmactenberger at civilizationemerging.com.

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