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Episode 05: Ian Mortimer

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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Lewis Lapham talks to Ian Mortimer about how civilization has changed over a thousand years. He says we underestimate the degree to which technology has simply allowed people to live. Technology in this sense is why 40% of the planet is able to survive, he adds.

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