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Richard Rhodes - Making of Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes

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The Importance of Forecasting the Future of Science

Some scientists, physicists are not very interested in history or in the future. They'd have to devote quite a bit of energy to projecting into the future. So it takes a certain mentality to do that. And maybe scientists aren't the best ones to do it. I was actually impressed, I forget who, but a few of them got it down to the year where they're like, you know, by this time we'll have built the atomic bomb.

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