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Bread and Robots is a technoprogressive worldbuilding podcast and publication, hosted by writer and technophilosopher Matteo Rossi MacDermant, exploring futures at the intersections of technology, labor, culture, and systems design.
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Technoprogressive Worldbuilding (opens the original)
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I recently sat down with London Futurists as part of their run-up to The Technoprogressive Opportunity, which a conference happening in London on September 19–20, co-organized by London Futurists and the (Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies). This is the first in a series of episodes featuring speakers from that conference.We covered a lot of ground: post-scarcity economics, univers
Building a Post-Scarcity Platform (opens the original)
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Brandon walks through his evolving legislative platform The Space and Time Agenda — a multi-decade roadmap running from 2028 through the 2050s aimed at abolishing taxation, rebuilding public infrastructure, and transitioning toward a post-scarcity economy. The conversation moves from accountability legislation for the Trump era, through a historical framing of the American right (the 1933 Business Plot, the John Birch Society, the Powell Memo, the end of the Fairness Doctrine), into a detailed d
Against Deathism (opens the original)
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James and Matteo discuss deathism — the idea that death is good, inevitable, and something we should embrace. We make the technoprogressive case for treating aging as a solvable, technoscientific problem rather than a metaphysical inevitability. The conversation covers Bryan Johnson and the billionaire life-extension backlash, the concept of health span vs. lifespan, the “compression of morbidity,” ageism in bioethics (Daniel Callahan’s Setting Limits), the clinical trial regime vs. right-to-try
Transhumanism and Marxism (opens the original)
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In this episode, I talk with James Steinhoff, a lecturer at University College Dublin, about the overlooked connection between Marxism and transhumanism. We trace left transhumanism back to early 20th-century socialists like Alexander Bogdanov, JBS Haldane. We confront transhumanism's association with eugenics and figures like Peter Thiel. We discuss China's more pragmatic, sector-specific approach to AI versus Silicon Valley's pursuit of “godbuilding.” We ask whether industrialization (and capi
The View From the Peak (opens the original)
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