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114 - Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity with Simon Johnson

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How to Get Away From Blind Techno-Optimism

Simon Tisdall: We need to get away from blind techno optimists. He says we're deploying technology in an adversarial world and there's going to be adversaries that deploy technologies against us or just the status quo can sometimes lead to people siding in too bad outcomes. "We wrote the big book to try and really provoke debate and argument," he says.

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