Henry Adams Curve

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Sally Kohn: I really appreciated how much, as a lover of syphi myself, how much of the book sort of comes from you did this with a very thorough analysis. The list of forty prodictions were from people in the fifties and sixties. We went from having an oversized box kite that does 15 miles an hour in the air to seven, 20, sevens,. And that's 50 times faster than it was 60 years ago. She says i hope we can take some small steps, you know, between us and everybody listening to tillwe get back on the henry adams curve.

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