Podcast: The Ben & Marc Show
Episode: Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Leviathan
Buy on Amazon"Like nature really has it out for you, um, and if you're unprotected in a state of nature like it, you know, the old, the old thing is you know life and state of nature is, is is is what is it nasty, brutish and short, poor, solitary, nasty, brutish and short, Hobbes, yeah, exactly. And so so look technology, you know, it's of the flip side of the question is technology is now buffering us against, you know, sources of mass death, um, that used to be, you know, far far far more common."