Ezra Klein

And there were disruptions like 9-11 and the financial crisis. They weren't small, and slowly they broke that entire system. But I think one of the things people sort of miss, sort of feel about the way history has accelerated is that things have just all gotten faster and less predictable. And they really have, I think, gotten faster and less predictable.

And there were disruptions like 9-11 and the financial crisis. They weren't small, and slowly they broke that entire system. But I think one of the things people sort of miss, sort of feel about the way history has accelerated is that things have just all gotten faster and less predictable. And they really have, I think, gotten faster and less predictable.

And there were disruptions like 9-11 and the financial crisis. They weren't small, and slowly they broke that entire system. But I think one of the things people sort of miss, sort of feel about the way history has accelerated is that things have just all gotten faster and less predictable. And they really have, I think, gotten faster and less predictable.

We're in an age, it seems to me, more like the early 20th century, late 19th century than... than like the 1990s. And that means the possibilities range very widely, right?

We're in an age, it seems to me, more like the early 20th century, late 19th century than... than like the 1990s. And that means the possibilities range very widely, right?

We're in an age, it seems to me, more like the early 20th century, late 19th century than... than like the 1990s. And that means the possibilities range very widely, right?

When you think about AI, when you think about biotech advances, when you think about energetic advances, when you think about the sort of shifting nature of global alliances, of the technological and political systems, we are in the most high variance period that I think has happened in a very, very, very long time. And that carries tremendous peril.

When you think about AI, when you think about biotech advances, when you think about energetic advances, when you think about the sort of shifting nature of global alliances, of the technological and political systems, we are in the most high variance period that I think has happened in a very, very, very long time. And that carries tremendous peril.

When you think about AI, when you think about biotech advances, when you think about energetic advances, when you think about the sort of shifting nature of global alliances, of the technological and political systems, we are in the most high variance period that I think has happened in a very, very, very long time. And that carries tremendous peril.

things could go terribly and it carries tremendous possibility, right? What if AI is an incredible boon for humanity?

things could go terribly and it carries tremendous possibility, right? What if AI is an incredible boon for humanity?

things could go terribly and it carries tremendous possibility, right? What if AI is an incredible boon for humanity?

What if we do invent and deploy the clean energy technologies that deliver energy abundance, not just a kind of answer to the worst of climate change, but genuine energy abundance, unlocking new things like mass desalination and, you know, like what if we do, like I'm an animal suffering person, I'm a vegetarian, I care a lot about animal suffering. What if we did figure out

What if we do invent and deploy the clean energy technologies that deliver energy abundance, not just a kind of answer to the worst of climate change, but genuine energy abundance, unlocking new things like mass desalination and, you know, like what if we do, like I'm an animal suffering person, I'm a vegetarian, I care a lot about animal suffering. What if we did figure out

What if we do invent and deploy the clean energy technologies that deliver energy abundance, not just a kind of answer to the worst of climate change, but genuine energy abundance, unlocking new things like mass desalination and, you know, like what if we do, like I'm an animal suffering person, I'm a vegetarian, I care a lot about animal suffering. What if we did figure out

cultivated meat, right? That we grow in breweries and on scaffolds, and we don't have to kill tens of billions of animals that we've raised in unimaginable suffering every single year, right? Like, you know, what if we do figure out how to make government better and more responsive, right? What if that thesis, antithesis, synthesis thing does work out? But it's not hope.

cultivated meat, right? That we grow in breweries and on scaffolds, and we don't have to kill tens of billions of animals that we've raised in unimaginable suffering every single year, right? Like, you know, what if we do figure out how to make government better and more responsive, right? What if that thesis, antithesis, synthesis thing does work out? But it's not hope.

cultivated meat, right? That we grow in breweries and on scaffolds, and we don't have to kill tens of billions of animals that we've raised in unimaginable suffering every single year, right? Like, you know, what if we do figure out how to make government better and more responsive, right? What if that thesis, antithesis, synthesis thing does work out? But it's not hope.

It's like, that's a future you have to create, right? a future you have to call into being, a future you'll have to fight for.

It's like, that's a future you have to create, right? a future you have to call into being, a future you'll have to fight for.