{"id":239397,"date":"2026-06-21T12:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/david-brin-whats-important-isnt-me-and-it-isnt-you-its-us"},"modified":"2026-06-21T12:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T17:06:13","slug":"david-brin-whats-important-isnt-me-and-it-isnt-you-its-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/david-brin-whats-important-isnt-me-and-it-isnt-you-its-us","title":{"rendered":"David Brin: What\u2019s Important Isn\u2019t Me. And It Isn\u2019t You. It\u2019s Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/david-brin-whats-important-isnt-me-and-it-isnt-you-its-us.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/197437294-singularity1on1-david-brin.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>David Brin warned us. In 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Global warming. Cyberwarfare. The World Wide Web, named in a novel before most people had ever heard of it.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded this conversation with him 14 years ago. Astrophysicist. Hugo and Nebula winner. The mind behind the Uplift novels and Existence.<\/p>\n<p>We dug into the most powerful form of science fiction. Not the prophecy that comes true. The prophecy that prevents itself. Orwell\u2019s 1984 is the classic case. The warning so loud the future course-corrects.<\/p>\n<p>We also went straight at #transparency. His book asks a question that hits harder now than it did then: will technology force us to choose between #privacy and freedom? Fourteen years on, with AI watching everything, that question is no longer hypothetical.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is the line from David that I have never been able to shake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/david-brin-whats-important-isnt-me-and-it-isnt-you-its-us\">Continue reading \u201cDavid Brin: What\u2019s Important Isn\u2019t Me. And It Isn\u2019t You. It\u2019s Us!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brin warned us. In 1989. Global warming. Cyberwarfare. The World Wide Web, named in a novel before most people had ever heard of it. I recorded this conversation with him 14 years ago. Astrophysicist. Hugo and Nebula winner. The mind behind the Uplift novels and Existence. We dug into the most powerful form of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,64,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}