28 Aug 2026
WE ARE AS GODS with NYT Bestselling Author Steven Kotler
Where we explore what it means to stay human in a world where technology has granted us godlike power.
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WE ARE AS GODS with NYT Bestselling Author Steven Kotler
Change is accelerating at an exponential pace – and our world is being transformed
by “Exponential Technologies.” You are likely feeling the effect of this accelerating, disorienting, exponential change?
Julie Ann explores with her ConsciousSHIFT Show guest Steven Kotler, author of a new book with Peter Diamandis - WE ARE AS GODS: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance – the world currently emerging before our eyes where life-altering breakthroughs & disruptive technologies once thought impossible now occur daily - and which bring with them a new class of challenges no civilization has ever faced.
Today we’re going to talk with Steven about the technologies, the abundance, the challenges – and the strategies to navigate this exponential world.
Steven Kotler is a New York Times–bestselling author & award-winning journalist, recognized by The New York Times as “one of the world’s leading experts in ultimate human performance.” He is founder and executive director of the Flow Research Collective, one of the world’s leading research and training organizations dedicated to peak performance and human potential & named in 2021 by Forbes as one of the fastest growing companies in America. Steven is author of 17 books, including 13 bestsellers, Steven’s work has earned 3 Pulitzer Prize nominations - & his books are considered foundational texts in applied performance neuroscience – which encompasses the neuroscience of flow, intuition, creativity, and human performance.
In 1968 opening sentence to the Whole Earth Catalog, Stewart Brand declared: “We are as gods — and we might as well get good at it.”
Exponential technologies give us the power to cure disease, extend lifespan, amplify intelligence, and reshape society itself. It examines the psychological, ethical, and civilizational pressure that comes with those capabilities, and shows how individuals and leaders can orient themselves in a world where tools once reserved for myth carry both extraordinary possibility and equally unprecedented consequences.
We can rewrite genes, edit embryos, build artificial minds, extend life, and terraform worlds. The old miracles—omniscience, omnipresence, even resurrection—are becoming standard operating procedure. But the real question isn’t whether humanity can play god. It’s whether we can do it wisely.
Join Julie Ann and Steven to explore how exponential technologies are reshaping what it means to be human—and what it will take to thrive in an age of abundance. To thrive in a world of everything, everywhere, all the time, we must learn to wield our godlike powers with humility, wisdom, creativity, and flow. The question is, will we get good at it?
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