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Could We Someday Live Forever? With Ray Kurzweil

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The American Revolution Was a Revolution of Farmers

The American Revolution was a revolution of farmers. Today that's 2%. We're producing more food on less land with fewer people than ever before. So we survive an era where our physical labor and that of our pack animals is replaced by machines. And it wasn't the end of civilization. People found other jobs, other industries rose up in spite of whatever 30 years they had at the time.

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