The Secret History and Unwritten Future of Psychedelics and Technology

Here’s an excerpt from a panel I was on a couple of weeks ago about technology and psychedelics, with Team Human friends Dr. Julie Holland, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and Ken Jordan, editorial director of Lucid News, which this panel was meant to support and promote.

Lucid News is an interesting journal about the state of psychedelics, consciousness technologies, and the future of wellness. It’s one of the only places I know of doing genuinely responsible psychedelic journalism. And this matters — as we discuss on the panel — because there’s a pretty intense competition going on for who is going to establish the “set and setting” for the psychedelic future.

They let me name the panel, so I called it, The Secret History and Unwritten Future of Psychedelics and Technology, hoping we could get into both the psychedelic origins of the internet, as well as the way that tech bros now want to monopolize psychedelics as an industry. What can the burgeoning psychedelics industry learn from the mistakes of the internet?