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35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus

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Just the Spanish Flue

The economy of 20 20 is more vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse or a solar storm than the economy of 18 57 or 19 18, right? Despite all our advancements, we're more vulnerable along that axis of an electromagnet pulse. To materialize a crowd in one location will be considered a show of strength. It's considered a society so confident and so advanced that it feels like it's just wiped out the disease.

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