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Niall Ferguson: Writing History with Data

"World of DaaS"

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The Illuminati and the Square in the Tower

If you and I were going to conspire together and start a secret society like how should we do it, definitely not with a podcast. That would be that would be rule number one. If the real story is fascinating we can actually reconstruct it now was a group of South German enlightenment radicals who really wanted to bring about a quite drastic change. And so this is such a revolutionary and indeed dangerous thing to do. The biggest problem for any group of people who want to change the world is that they're taking on vested interests,. It's very important, therefore, to avoid being infiltrated or having a double agent or something like that.

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