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Jim talks with Rufus Pollock—entrepreneur, activist, Zen practitioner, founder of Life Itself and the Open Knowledge Foundation, and author of Open Revolution—about the metacrisis, the wisdom gap, and what a Second Renaissance might look like. They discuss Jim’s own early belief that accessible information would produce a renaissance of democracy, the realization th...
The conversation between Jim and Rufus Pollock presents a compelling diagnosis of modernity’s epistemic and cultural crises, framing them as symptoms of a deeper "metacrisis" that demands a Second Renaissance. At its strongest, the narrative steelmans the idea that open knowledge alone cannot produce open minds—a critical corrective to techno-optimist assumptions. Pollock’s integration of historical parallels (e.g., the printing press, the Reformation) with contemporary challenges (AI, trust in ...