My name is Michael Garfield and I'm a paleontologist-futurist, helping midwife the new myths that we will use to guide ourselves through a new era in which evolution has become technology. I am the host of Future Fossils Podcast, the pioneer of cyberacoustic guitar, a veteran live performance painter, and the author of the science-mystic essay series How to Live in the Future – an open book-in-progress on the intersection of tech, evolution, art, and consciousness.

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I'm not here to "make profit" but to create value – facilitating conversations, telling stories, and creating art to nourish us and future generations. The monthly income from your Patreon support makes projects like these possible:

Podcasts
Future Fossils Podcast (at iTunes & Stitcher Radio) is a digital museum of provocative, profound discussions with a growing list of awesome guests. Explore time, and our species' place in it, through banter of the geeky, unconventional, free-roaming, fun, irreverent, and thoughtful kind – an auditory psychedelic to prepare you for a wilder future than we can imagine.

Writing
I write frequently to connect ideas and catalyze emergent insights. Current projects include short works of experimental sci-fi and my first book, How To Live in the Future, in which I view the future through the lens of evolutionary history. What insights do a study of the past reveal about our destiny on Earth? What are the opportunities in all this transformation?

Music
Pursuing new musical modalities that reimagine the guitar to suit our electronic age, I write and improvise ecstatic, tender, intricate, emotive tunes that fuse the instrument, performer, audience, and venue into something greater than the sum of their parts. I've been at this for almost 20 years, and I'm always inching closer to expressing that transcendent Sound-Beyond-The-Sound...

Paintings
Beginning with four years in natural history illustration, I got into painting live at festivals and concerts, and have created nearly 400 paintings, over ten years and countless musical collaborators. This work has brought me everywhere from Burning Man to NASA to Australia, to render visions of a future in which nature and technology have merged in peace...

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