i was worried about this problem back when i wrote the square in the tower, whhich is really, in many ways, a book about that. The argument i made there was that it was extremely dangerous for the public sphere to be dominated by a handful of companies who had achieved tremendous star power. I don't think anti trust is the answer. We'll waste a great deal of time on that a. The answer is not trust busting. It involves increasing their legal liability, because right now they have virtually none thanks to thethe operation of section two 30. So i'll keep my answers short, but that's solution. It's been my solution for the loss ol three years
Disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises, and wars, are not normally distributed; there is no cycle of history to help us anticipate the next catastrophe. In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with one of the world’s most renowned historians, Niall Ferguson, who explains why our ever more bureaucratic and complex systems are making us worse, not better, at handling disasters.