BiPiSci – Keeping Humans in the Loop: Martin Rees / Technical Optimism

by Gary Niederhoff on February 12, 2019

Big Picture Science – Technical Optimism
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Click above to listen to part 1 of Keeping Humans in the Loop, featuring Martin Rees, cosmologist, astrophysicist, Great Britain’s Astronomer Royal, and author of On the Future: Prospects for Humanity. He discusses what it means to be a technical optimist and a political pessimist.

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