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In this video lecture, neuroscientist and fiction writer David Eagleman speaks for two hours about how the Internet, and how humans are connected to it, provides six essential steps to avoid the collapse of civilization. The steps are pretty obvious in retrospect:
- Try not to cough on one another
- Don’t lose things
- Tell each other faster
- Mitigate tyranny
- Get more brains involved in solving problems
- Try not to run out of energy
It’s well presented, reminiscent of James Burke’s Connections and The Day The Universe Changed. Well worth the nearly 2 hours of the lecture.
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