Navigating the Techno-Social Dilemma

Navigating the Techno-Social Dilemma: Learning to Live Well with Technology

This course explores how technology and society co-evolve. Through science, philosophy, and lived experience, learners gain frameworks to navigate the tensions of technological life with greater clarity, responsibility, and wisdom.

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Why We Made This Course

We live in a time of unprecedented technological change, constant connection, and accelerating social transformation. Yet despite having access to more information, communication, and opportunity than ever before, many people feel increasingly overwhelmed, distracted, fragmented, or uncertain about how to navigate the world we are creating together.

If you've felt this tension, you're not alone.

This course is designed to help you develop the awareness, language, and perspective needed to better understand the relationship between technology, society, and human well-being. Rather than telling you what to think, it offers frameworks, concepts, and reflections that can help you engage the techno-social world with greater clarity, intention, and agency.

Through six chapters exploring time, space, awareness, action, and the emerging noosphere, you'll gain practical insights into one of the defining challenges—and opportunities—of our time.

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Instructors

Ayeh Kashani

Lead Instructor

Ayeh is a Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where her research focuses on consciousness, transpersonal psychology, and human transformation. Through her work with Human Energy, she explores how individuals cultivate meaning, self-understanding, and well-being while navigating the challenges and possibilities of a rapidly evolving techno-social world.

Boris Shoshitaishvili

Course Author

Boris is a philosopher and social scientist whose work explores the relationship between technology, Earth systems, and collective human identity. Through his research, he has examined concepts such as the noosphere, Gaia, and the Anthropocene as frameworks for understanding humanity’s role in a rapidly changing world. His interdisciplinary perspective helps illuminate the techno-social forces shaping our shared future.

Human Energy

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Human Energy is an educational nonprofit exploring how humanity can navigate the challenges and opportunities of an increasingly interconnected world. Through courses, media, events, and community-building, Human Energy investigates the relationship between technology, society, consciousness, and the emerging noosphere, the evolving network of human communication, culture, and shared awareness. Its mission is to help catalyze the forms of collective intelligence, wisdom, and participation needed to meet the complexities of the 21st century.

Course curriculum

1. Lesson 1: How Time has Deepened
2. Lesson 2: Living in Accelerated Time
3. Lesson 3: The Split Experience of Time
4. Lesson 4: Storytelling as a Bridge Through Time
5. Chapter 2 Reflection: Your Relationship with Time
6. Chapter 2 Practice: Sharing Time Together
1. Lesson 1: Where Change Happens – From the Built World to the Information World
2. Lesson 2: The Power to Move – How Technology Contracts Space
3. Lesson 3: When Space Disappears – Digital Technology and the Hiding of Distance
4. Lesson 4: Recovering Presence – Offsetting the Hiding of Space
5. Chapter 3 Reflection: Your Relationship with Space
6. Chapter 3 Practice: Rebalancing Your Relationship with Space
1. Lesson 1: Dawning Awareness: Attention, Light, and the Technosocial Dilemma
2. Lesson 2: When Technology and Progress Come Apart
3. Lesson 3: When Choice Stops Feeling Like Freedom
4. Lesson 4: When the Future Brings the Past With It
5. Chapter 4 Reflection: Your Relationship with Awareness
6. Chapter 4 Practice: Shaping Your Field of Awareness
1. Lesson 1: Awareness and Action
2. Lesson 2: Penelope and the Experience of Time
3. Lesson 3: Noah and the Experience of Space
4. Lesson 4: Jeanine and the Experience of Awareness
5. Chapter 5 Reflection: From Awareness to Action
6. Chapter 5 Practice: Bringing Awareness into Action
1. Closing: Carrying the Experience Forward

About this course

$39.00
36 lessons
3 hours of video content

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