Technology makes us live longer, ubut it punishes us by making us sicker. The problem we've had in history with medicine is the problem of rationalism. We don't quite understand the human body. Mother nature has done better than biologists at understanding thehuman body. And even to day I suspect we have a very bad record of medicine.
Nassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest thoughts on robustness, fragility, debt, insurance, uncertainty, exercise, moral hazard, knowledge, and the challenges of fame and fortune.