Augmenting reality is an innately human desire to share our ideas and perceptions to feel connected.
Welcome to The Cyberdelic Podcast, where startup CEO Nils Pihl and co-founder & anthropologist Damir First explore how memetics and cultural transhumanism influence our (digital) reality. If you want to understand how ideas shape culture, technology, and the metaverse, you are in the right space.
The goal of The Cyberdelic Podcast is to bring into our collective consciousness the idea that we should be mindful of the ideas and memes that we propagate. Culture is crowdsourced! We wish to provide the framework and tools to empower cultural authorship.
Will future kingdoms of imagination be owned by companies who surveil and monetize our thoughts and actions or be privacy-preserving, deeply humane, and artistic spaces that our digital identity can call home?
Damir First is an anthropologist by training and software entrepreneur by trade. As founder and CCO at Matterless, a company on a mission to prove to the world that digital things are real, he is exploring how technology impacts culture and consciousness.
With more than a decade of living in Asia, conversant in several languages, and an esoteric reading list of both obscure and popular myths, Damir brings a storyteller’s perspective to The Cyberdelic Podcast.
Nils Pihl is a behavioral engineer and social transhumanist building tech at the intersection of modern technology and human behavior; he was a part of the first intra-cortical neural interface team in an experiment teaching primates to move a third limb by their thoughts alone.
A founder of two startups, Nils is the CEO of both Auki Labs, building a decentralized protocol for collaborative spatial computing, and Matterless, creating genre-defining experiences in shared augmented reality. His interest and understanding of memetics and technology put him on a mission to help every person and device find their place in the world. Literally.
Nils is also a Warhammer 40k nerd and will challenge you to battle with his finely painted Space Wolves army.