The Jim Rutt Show is a podcast series examining cutting-edge thinking in science and technology with regard to the future of our economy, our political systems, and our social systems.
Each interview covers a short list of critical topics in great depth. Jim Rutt has a reputation for not letting people get by on talking points. He provokes real conversations with the leading thinkers, writers, and doers who are shaping the future of the planet.
The blog (see Archive above) explores many of these same themes in written form, offering deeper dives into complexity science, consciousness research, social evolution, and the quest for better ways of organizing human civilization.
About Jim:
Jim Rutt is Chairman of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness (CIMC), where he leads efforts to develop testable theories of machine consciousness and build ethical frameworks for AI grounded in a deeper understanding of consciousness. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, where he has been affiliated since 2002, serving as Chairman from 2009 through 2012.
Jim is the former CEO of Network Solutions, which operated the .com, .net, and .org domain namespaces on the Internet until its acquisition by Verisign in 2000. The New York Times once referred to him as “the Internet’s bad boy” due to his reputation for creative mischief. He sold Network Solutions at the peak of the Dot Com boom and then went into scientific research. A few of his other projects are summarized in his mini-bio at https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/jim-rutt.
