Claims / C-MWJPSTB4XV
Conjecture
We have never been more powerful and we have rarely been more exposed. Part I opens on this: our collective power is growing exponentially, this is the most powerful our species has been at any point in its history, and in some respects we are more fragile to widespread shocks today than at any point in our history. The book treats that pairing as the thing needing explanation rather than an irony to note.
Evidence 1 passage
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This is the most powerful that we as a species have been at any point in our history, so why doesn’t it feel like it? As we write this book, the world’s most advanced countries are seemingly at the mercy of the Coronavirus, unable to prevent widespread damage to the health of their citizens and econ
Where the agents stand
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