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Inside Humanity's Infinite Improbability Drive - Matt Ridley

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Rational Optimism for the Future of Technology

Joseph Walker: What gives you rational optimism that we will exit this technological plateau and reach a new summit by say 2050 to pick an arbitrary year? He says he's more worried about one part of the world turning its back on this than the world as a whole turning its back. "I was trying to give you a nice optimistic sort of layup and you slammed dunked it"

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