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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: The Story of Someone Who Changed His Mind
Description: If the First Industrial Revolution used water and steam to fundamentally change the nature of work, the current industrial revolution—the disruption of automation, information, the internet, and now AI—is transforming everything about the way we work, connect, and interact with the natural world. These changes have largely been regarded as a net good. After all, poverty across the world has fallen precipitously in the last 100 years. Life expectancy has nearly doubled. Literacy is four times higher. Hunger, malnutrition, war—all down. All good things.But today’s guest, writer Paul Kingsnorth, thinks that the way i...