Michael Garfield

Michael Garfield is an evolutionary biologist turned economically-illegible author, artist, and musician who has spent the last twenty years studying and developing better frameworks for understanding the intersection of technology, ecology, and consciousness. Along the way, he has worked as a vertebrate paleontologist, scientific illustrator, touring performance philosopher, innovation researcher, nondual philosophy zine editor, art director, and complexity science communicator, with stints at The Santa Fe Institute, Mozilla, and The Long Now Foundation. Dig into his writing and podcasts at Humans On The Loop and learn more about his latest group project—a new federation for the development of commons-based collective intelligence infrastructure—at Atlas Research.