Why Support Team Human?

It doesn't have to be this way.

Autonomous technologies, runaway markets and weaponized media seem to have overturned civil society, paralyzing our ability to think constructively, connect meaningfully, or act purposefully. It feels as if civilization itself were on the brink, and that we lack the collective willpower and coordination necessary to address issues of vital importance to the very survival of our species.

Team Human is a podcast striving to amplify human connection. Each week we are engaging in real-time, no-holds-barred discussions with people who are hacking the machine to make it more compatible with human life, and helping redefine what it means to stay human in a digital age. Members of Team Human include debt activists Astra Taylor and Tom Gokey, Yes-man Andy Bichlbaum, co-op organizer Esteban Kelly, DNA artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Fairphone founder Bas Van Abel, Tony winning playwright JT Rogers, and counterculture pioneer R.U. Sirius and so many more, including, hopefully, you.

Listen to this "pilot episode" in which Douglas explains the inspiration and purpose of this podcast.

Join Team Human as a Patron.

Each episode is the product of hours of on-location audio recording, VoIP recording, arrangement, editing and mixing, research, scheduling, web design, photography, feed maintenance, music composition, and inevitably, technical problem solving when devices fail or recordings don’t go as planned. Your subscription to Team Human not only supports the material costs of hosting the podcast (including web hosting, feeds, storage, software, and technology overhead) but more significantly, sustains the hours of human labor that go into producing each show. Listener support also keeps us advertisement free.

Member Benefits:

Check out our Team Human membership levels on this page for special rewards for monthly subscribers. More exclusives to come!

Thank you for being on Team Human.