Gary Shteyngart

If they do, it's one kid.

I say this is also with someone with one kid, but...

You know, nobody's replicating themselves in those societies.

Tell me what you see when you're there from that perspective, because low fertility rate is happening in the background there of super sad.

And it's been something you've thought about for a while.

So when you go to South Korea, which is a society that is now, if trends continue, it will shrink geometrically.

Yes.

Shrink very, very, very fast.

Yes.

What's it like?

It's amazing because, well, first of all, if you're into technology, even if you like a dystopian version of that, it's all technology all the time.

There's a wastebasket that says it's honored to accept your waste.

I mean, it just never ends.

Everything's the internet of things.

I remember I did a piece for Smithsonian where

I went to visit, you know, Korea.

One of the ways they advance is that the government decides, oh, now we're going to do this.

So, oh, now we're going to do flat screen televisions.

This is decades ago.

So they became, you know, LG, Samsung took over the market in that.