The Catacombs

Ryan McLaughlin & Jon Dengler
  • 5.0 (3)
  • Philosophy

There are new challenges emerging for ethics, philosophy, and religion as we face the dawn of Web3. What will emerging tech like VR, blockchain, and AI mean for the future of humanity? Join Ryan McLaughlin & Jon Dengler as they descend, like the early church in the catacombs, into the Web3 rabbit hole to put the Future and the Ancient in dialogue. While we don't claim to have the answers, we are fully in the grip of the questions.

Episodes

  1. 08/08/2022

    Ep 4 | After Life After Death

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  2. 07/01/2022

    Ep. 3 | Blockchain, Decentralization, & The Powers

    This episode zeros in on blockchain. Ryan opens by asking Jon about the crashing cryptocurrency prices and the conversation just unfolds from there. They cover some of the basics of what a blockchain even is before delving into all that it might mean for the future of how humans organize, govern, transact, and more.

  3. 06/07/2022

    Ep. 2 |Sex, Drugs, & Rock n' Roll

    In this Episode Ryan and Jon turn their attention toward questions emerging around avatars and bodies. The conversation challenges all of us to recognize many of the interpretive lenses that we have inherited. Lenses that substantially effect our views of what is considered "Real."  How are we to make sense of the emerging questions?  The conversation tackles questions about sex with avatars, digital baptism, hallucinogenics and VR, and so many other seeming absurdities that we find ourselves needing to take seriously here at the dawn of Web3.

  4. 05/26/2022

    Ep. 1 | The Descent

    The Catacombs is a new podcast from the strange minds of Ryan McLaughlin and Jon Dengler that tackles religion, morality, and meaning at the dawn of the Web3 era. We believe that VR, Blockchain, AI, and other innovations will pose challenges to the human condition unlike anything we've seen before... but also offer some unprecedented opportunities to do good and act virtuously. We don't have any answers, but we want to get you all thinking long and hard about the questions. The early Christians frequently celebrated their Masses in the catacombs of the Roman Empire, often on top of the very crypts of their saints and martyrs. In this brave new technological world we live in, we want to invite you to climb back down into the catacombs with us. We want to let our thoughts and conversations dwell for a while in this place of luminous darkness, where Life and Death embrace like old friends, where this Reality bleeds over into the next, and where apophaticism is the order of the day. Let's talk.

  • 4 Episodes

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
3 Ratings

About

There are new challenges emerging for ethics, philosophy, and religion as we face the dawn of Web3. What will emerging tech like VR, blockchain, and AI mean for the future of humanity? Join Ryan McLaughlin & Jon Dengler as they descend, like the early church in the catacombs, into the Web3 rabbit hole to put the Future and the Ancient in dialogue. While we don't claim to have the answers, we are fully in the grip of the questions.

Information

  • Creator
    Ryan McLaughlin & Jon Dengler
  • Years Active
    2022
  • Episodes
    4
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Ryan McLaughlin & Jon Dengler