Zack Kass
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2,920 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jul
Zack Kass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's an honest, very reasonable concern and something that we have to acknowledge as we talk about the world that is going to get better.
Yeah, I guess we still, I guess I still am.
Yeah, I have a degree in history and computer science from Berkeley.
Yeah.
You didn't have to, but I appreciate you doing that.
That's right.
So you've read the chapter.
The chapter is called Welcome to the Late Middle Ages, and it's kind of tongue-in-cheek.
Like, I don't actually propose that we are in the late Middle Ages.
What I propose is that if you had lived during the late Middle Ages, you would have had every right to think that the world was ending.
Half of the human population was decimated.
Mm-hmm.
by disease and some more during the late middle ages, we basically stagnated on a technological progress standpoint because we started to observe the average life expectancy decline for a couple hundred years.
So people stopped inventing things because they didn't have time to actually invent stuff and they had to simply survive.
And a lot of the people who were inventing things died while they were inventing them.
So progress was halted for a couple generations.
And
At the end of the late Middle Ages, you have Gutenberg's printing press.
So you have this invention that actually then sparks the Renaissance.
Now, I...
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